Daum vase. France, 1920s

DAUM. France, 1920s.
Art Deco "Ispahan" vase.
Smoked glass with mottled and polished sparkles, deep acid etched.
Signed.
Bibliography: Tiny Esveld, "Daum Art Deco Glass- a private collection", Publication rights Mr Esterkin, similar models reproduced pages 46-47.
Measurements: 35 x 25 cm.

Ovoid vase on circular base and neck edged in smoked glass with hollow acid-etched geometric decoration.

The Daum manufacture was founded in the late nineteenth century by Augustin Daum (1853-1909), from a small family glassworks in Nancy. He would be joined by his brother Antonin (1864-1931), and Daum's workshops would soon after become a meeting and training place 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. During the Art Nouveau period, most of Daum's pieces were made of acid-etched cameo glass, but with the new Art Deco style, new techniques and decorative styles were investigated.