Daum vase, Nancy, ca. 1910

DAUM vase. Nancy, France, ca. 1910.
Bent and applied glass.
Signed.
Measurements: 11 x 31 x 15 cm.

Vase of hot bent glass of the manufacture of Daum Nancy, in the form of floral tulip, with sinuous petals, decorated with chromatic ranges that vary from black in the center of the pistil to light yellow in the profile of the corolla. It has applications of colored glass simulating insects.

The Daum manufacture was founded at the end of the 19th century by Augustin Daum (1853-1909), from a small family glassworks in Nancy. He was joined by his brother Antonin (1864-1931), and Daum's workshops soon became a meeting place and training for many young artists, who promoted the Art Nouveau style in Nancy. At first they made ordinary glass, but in 1891 they decided to open a decorative workshop and undertake artistic production, probably as a result of the success of Émile Gallé (1846-1904) at the 1889 Exhibition. Eventually, Daum will have a factory with more than three hundred employees and an artistic production of great variety. During World War I, the factory closed, but resumed production after the war, adapting to the change of aesthetics and leaving behind the modernism of its first period.