DAUM NANCY

Stylized branches and berries – orange, black; series of applications, 1920-1922, the decor designed by Émile Wirtz, the realization assured by Eugène Gall

Baluster vase with chimney neck.

Proof in blown and bubbled smoked glass.

The decor made with applications on warm glass.

Signed DAUM Nancy with the Cross of Lorraine engraved near the base.

Height: 28 cm

Public collections:

- Musée des Beaux-arts, Nancy – A vase with similar decor in red is kept in this institution's collections under inventory number 83.1.68.

- Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris – A vase with a similar shape and decor is kept in the collections of this institution under inventory number 36307; another vase with a similar decor, painted blue, is kept under inventory number 36309.

Exhibitions and related works:

- Salon d'Automne – Fifteenth Salon, Grand Palais des Champs-Elysées, Paris, November 1 to December 20, 1922. A vase with a similar shape and decor to our work was exhibited at this event.

- Centenaire de Daum au Japon – Museum of Modern Art, Hokkaido, July 19 to August 24, 1980. A vase with a similar shape and decor, in red, was exhibited at this event.

Bibliography:

- Mobilier et Décoration – No. 1 of November-December 1922. A vase with decor and shape similar to our work is reproduced on page 15, in an article devoted to the Salon d'Automne written by Léon Moussinac.

- Centenaire de Daum au Japon – Catalog of the exhibition organized at the Museum of Modern Art, Hokkaido (July 19–August 24, 1980), Éditions du Musée d'Art Moderne, Hokkaido, 1980. A vase with a similar shape and decor, in red, is referenced under number 78 and reproduced in the catalog.

- Claude Pétry – Daum dans les musées de Nancy – Musée des Beaux-Arts Editions, Nancy, 1989. A vase with a similar shape and decor, in red, referenced under number 113 in the catalog, is reproduced on page 109.

- Clotilde Bacri – Daum – Michel Aveline Editions, Paris, 1992. The decor of our vase is similar to that on the work reproduced on page 162.

- Jean-Luc Olivié and Véronique Ayroles – Verres XXe-XXIesiècles, collection du musée des Arts décoratifs – Arts décoratifs Editions, Paris, 2012. A vase with a decoration and shape similar to our work, kept at the Musée des Arts décoratifs, is reproduced on page 37.