Daum Vases and Vessels

Baluster shaped vase on a detached, profiled stand, converging towards the narrow neck and rim of the mouth, colorless glass with flaky white and yellow, in the stand area with dark ...

A very large French Art Deco glass and handwrought iron vase by Daum Verreries d'Art Lorrain, 1920s. The vase of very substantial size and having a mottled orange and cream glass vas...

Cylindrical vase, colorless glass with flaky yellow and white, in the stand area with blackberry-colored powder melts, satined, structured surface with etched sea buckthorn decoratio...

Daum Nancy Art Deco butterfly vase, circa 1920.

Daum Amber leaded art glass crystal tulip vase, large. MSRP 17,200 USD. Made at the Daum Studio in Nancy, France. No longer in production. Daum was founded by Jean Daum in 1878 and became the epitome of the Art Nouveau aesthetic in glasswork. During the Universal Exhibition of 1900, Jean Daum was awarded a ‘Grand Prix’ medal. Daum studio glass became more, more elaborate at the dawn of the 20th century. Acid etching (by Jacques Grüber) was often combined with carving, enamelling, and engraving on a single piece of glass to produce creative glass masterpieces. The most complicated creations also featured applied glass elements, such as handles and ornamental motifs in naturalistic forms. Jean Daum (no relation to Jean Claude Van Damme, btw) passed on his business to his sons, Auguste and Antonin and the brothers soon became a major force in the Art Nouveau movement, seriously rivaling Gallé, so much so that when Émile Gallé died in 1904 they became the leaders in the field of decorative glass. Perhaps the most monumental moment in Daum studio history came in 1906, when the brothers revived the Pâte de Verre (glass paste), an ancient Egyptian method of glass casting (described below) and developed the method to such an extent that by the 1930's, whole window panels and large vessels were crafted using the ancient method instead of leaded or painted glass (which had become the most popular method of colored glass production in 19th century Northern Europe). Pâte de verre is a form of kiln casting and literally translated means glass paste. In the Pâte de verre process, finely crushed glass (or crystal, in Pâte de cristal) is mixed with a binding material, such as a mixture of gum Arabic and water, and often with enamels. The resultant paste is applied to the inner surface of a negative mould forming a coating. After the coated mould is fired at the appropriate temperature the glass is fused creating a hollow object that can have thick or thin walls depending on the thickness of the pate de verre layers. The monumental crystal vase...

Art Deco vase by Daum is clear glass with a heavy orange overlay that has an etched pattern of leaves and blooms, circa 1925. Etched signature near lower outer edge of base reads: Da...