A Daum frères vase "aux scarabées" - image-1
A Daum frères vase "aux scarabées" - image-2
A Daum frères vase "aux scarabées" - image-1A Daum frères vase "aux scarabées" - image-2

Lot 328 Dα

A Daum frères vase "aux scarabées"

Auction 1159 - overview Cologne
12.11.2020, 19:00 - Modern Decorative Arts
Estimate: 8.000 € - 10.000 €

A Daum frères vase "aux scarabées"

Matte etched glass with red and green powder inclusions decorated with grapevines, three beetles and two faceted cabochons backed with metal foil. With engraved "DAVM NANCY" signature with cross of Lorraine to the base. H 65.5 cm.
Nancy, Daum frères, c. 1905.

Provenance

Villa Clara Schumann, Frankfurt.

Literature

For similar "Vigne et escargots" model vases from 1904 with design sketch, cf.: L´ecole de Nancy, 1889 - 1909, Paris 1999, p. 248 f.
Another of these vases housed in the collection of Gerda Koepff, in: Ricke/Schmitt (ed.), Glas des Art Nouveau, Munich-New York 1998, no. 105.