Daum Vases

Vase A by Cesar Baldaccini for Daum, France, 1970s, is a magnificent work of art that seamlessly combines form and function. Designed by renowned French sculptor Cesar Baldaccini, this multi-faceted vase is a stunning example of his mastery of sculptural forms. Made by renowned French glassmaker Daum, this vase features a highly polished, multi-faceted surface that reflects and refracts light in fascinating ways. The veneers are perfectly aligned and flawlessly executed, creating a breathtaking sense of depth and texture. The vase is signed "Daum France", which adds a touch of authenticity and provenance to the piece. This is a true collector's item, sought after by art lovers and collectors around the world. Functional, the Argos vase is ideal for presenting flowers or other decorative objects. Its sculptural form and multi-faceted surface create a dynamic backdrop that enhances the beauty of any arrangement. Overall, the Argos vase by Cesar Baldaccini for Daum, France, 1970s, is a masterpiece of design and craftsmanship. Its striking form, impeccable craftsmanship and exceptional provenance make it a highly coveted piece that is sure to impress and enchant anyone who sees it. Cesar Badaccini (1921-1998) His parents, Omer and Lelia Baldaccini, Italians of Tuscan origin, ran a bar in Marseille where César was born, with his twin sister Amandine, in 1921 in the popular district of Belle-de-Mai, at 71 rue Loubon, in the 3rd arrondissement1. "I am basically an absolute self-taught," he will say2. At the time, he designed and tinkered with carts for his little brother with cans. Nevertheless, after first working for his father (he also helped a butcher neighbor for a meager salary after leaving school at the age of twelve), he followed the courses of the École supérieure des beaux-arts de Marseille from 1935 to 1939; in 1937, he obtained three prizes, in engraving, drawing and architecture3. Not mobilized during the war (he also escaped the STO), he lived on scams before settling in Paris to be admitted, in 1943, to the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts with Michel Guino, Albert Féraud, Daniel David, Eugène Dodeigne and Philippe Hiquily, like him in the workshop of Marcel Gimond. In 1945, he returned to Marseille to marry Maria Astruc, with whom he set up a business (they divorced in 1959). He returned to Paris in 1946 where he occupied a studio in an old brothel at 21 rue de l'Échaudé, whose rooms, following the Marthe Richard law, had been assigned to students4. There he met Émilenne Deschamps, who would later become one of his muses. Faced with the impossibility for him to work the stone, because of its cost, he turned to other materials3. From 1947, he worked on plaster and iron. In 1949, he was introduced to arc welding in an industrial carpentry in Trans-en-Provence and used lead in pushed sheets and welded iron wires. In 1951, he visited Pompeii and remained marked by the casts of the bodies of the inhabitants caught in the lava3. In 1952, he used inexpensive recovered materials and made his first sculptures in welded scrap metal: his means were then still modest. Thus, for lack of money and to afford marble, César will recover in the scrap dumps the materials of his first sculptures: tubes, bolts, screws that become insects or end up in the powerful curves of the Venus de Villetaneuse (1962). In 1954, he exhibited at the Lucien Durand gallery in Paris and obtained the "collabo" prize for a sculpture entitled Le Poisson5, made in Villetaneuse, a city where he worked for a dozen years thanks to the help of a local industrialist, Léon Jacques6. He gained fame when his work was bought for 100,000 francs in 1955 by the State for the National Museum of Modern Art7. The same year, he exhibited at the Salon de Mai. The following year, the MNAM bought Chauve-souris from 1954 and the museum of modern art in the city of Paris Le scorpion from 1955. From 1954 (Torse, MOMA), he also made sculptures in welded metal, then in partially polished bronze, of busty women (Ginette, 1958, Victoire de Villetaneuse, 1965). In 1956, he participated in the Venice Biennale then in the São Paulo Biennale and in the Documenta II in 1959. In 1958, he signed a contract with the Parisian gallery Claude Bernard3. In 1961, he approached Marino di Teana and joined the group of Nouveaux réalistes, a movement founded by art critic Pierre Restany8, including Arman, Jean Tinguely, Niki de Saint Phalle and Gérard Deschamps. When he could afford a workshop in 1957, rue Campagne-Première in Paris, he married Rosine Groult-Baldaccini (met at the Beaux-Arts in 1948) with whom he had a daughter, Anna, a year later. He also begins to frequent the world of the In 1968, he created at the National Manufacture of Sèvres a porcelain Ashtray published in fifty copies. Made of porcelain with a semi-matt pearly cover, it represents a plaster mold used for the production of the pieces, and was produced from an original aluminum model. In 1971, during a premiere at the Lido, he found more media than him: Salvador Dalí, the master of extravagance. He debates the same year in Italiques with François Truffaut, Lucien Bodard and Asher Ben...

A stunning vibrant cameo glass vase etched and enamelled with brightly colored trees in the foreground against a hilly background and deep sky blue horizon, exhibiting excellent colo...

This antique acid etched art glass vase was done by the renowned French maker Daum & Nancy and made in circa 1925 in the period Art Deco style. The vase h...

This cameo glass "Ombelle" vase by French Art Nouveau masters, Daum Nancy, features a rounded body of smooth, light candy pink glass decorated by two delicate umbel blooms in green c...

Etched and enameled glass vase, France, circa 1905. etched signature to side: Daum Nancy with the cross of Lorraine. Provenance: Private collection

This large vase exudes timeless elegance and sophistication, showcasing Daum Nancy's legacy of exceptional craftsmanship and artistic mastery. The vase features a mesmerizing purple...

A museum piece of French Art Nouveau glass art: Lamp with baluster-shaped foot on a stepped, flat, round stand raised in the centre, hemispherical shade, slightly heat-stretched and pressed upwards on four sides, made of multi-layered glass with coloured powder fusions, predominantly in yellow-orange, red, brown, green and blue-violet tones, with highly etched vine leaves and grapevine decoration, two fully sculpted snails on the foot as a special accent, Cameo signature ‘DAUM NANCY’ with Lorraine cross on the foot in the lower area, and on the shade, which rests on a patinated metal mount, which also carries the threads for the light sources, one at the top and one inside the foot. Technique: Handmade cameo glass Glass overlaid with several layers, with high-cut worked out motifs. Since the middle of the 19th century, the design has also been done by etching. Cameo glass vessels were already being made in antiquity; cameo glass vessels were already being made in ancient times, and at the end of the 19th century this glass art was further developed, especially in Nancy. Manufactory: Daum Frères / Nancy, Lorraine, France Dating: Circa 1905 Dimensions: Height: 53,5 cm / 21.06 in Diameter: 32,0 cm / 12.59 in Bibliography: Carolus Hartmann, Glasmarken-Lexikon / Encyclopedia of Glass Marks, Stuttgart / Germany 1997, Signature number 2984 on page 148, and page 561: Daum Frères & Cie, Verreries de Nancy Condition: Very good The electrification is functional, but should be renewed for safety reasons. About the design: The development of Art Nouveau glass art coincides with a revolution in lighting, the significance of which we can no longer fully appreciate today in the 21st century. Around 1880-1890, oil lamps and paraffin lamps were still almost unrivalled in every household. It was not until the beginning of the 20th century that the ‘electricity fairy’ emerged as a remarkable advance and gradually found its way into the daily lives of all social classes. The glassmakers at the Ecole de Nancy were true pioneers and eagerly seized the opportunity to use electricity to illuminate the colours applied to the glass. Colour was one of the main concerns of the master glassmakers at the Ecole de Nancy. Emile and Antonin Daum returned to the colours that had made the stained glass of the Middle Ages so splendid and extended the palette of colours in the glass mass as they needed it for the floral motifs and exact representations of nature. But the modulation of the colours, their arrangement in juxtaposed patches, the technique that the Impressionist painters practised on their canvases at the same time, was difficult to achieve due to the nature of the glass melted in a large mass. To achieve this richness of expression, around 1900 Daum developed ‘the process of applying glass powder and enamel to the outside of the vases to create coloured backgrounds or decorative spots’, according to the report of the jury of the 1900 World Exhibition. The field of naturalistic, contrasting and shimmering colours was one in which Antonin Daum excelled. This new technical process made it possible to create the symphonies of colour that we find on the ‘Vignes et escargots’ lamp...

A Daum Art Deco green glass vase, thick heavy glass with broad inverted rim, deeply etched with stylized trees and plant life, signed on base...

Daum Nancy enamel glass Art deco style (flowers) Origin France Circa 1920 Acid carving and enamelling technique Excellent condition Orange predominates Si...

Circa 1920s, by Daum, Nancy, France. This important Art Deco vase by Daum Nancy has fabulous visual presence. The spectacular Deco artwork is underscored by its vibrant purple color,...

Large crystal hexagonal shaped vase (signed: DAUM France)

Beautiful Daum Nancy Art Deco Vase Cameo glass vase Made in France Monumental landscape with lake decoration on a yellow and green background, sig...

Artistic acid etched glass vase, "biscuit" format. Made by Daum Nancy, model “Fleurs Stysees''. Clotilde Bacri (1992), "DAUM" . P-200/201. France, CIRCA 1920.

Daum Nancy Cameo glass vase, France, circa 1910 decorated with birds and trees on an opalescent ground Cameo mark Daum Nancy with Lorraine...

A magnificent early 20th Century Art Nouveau cameo glass vase etched and enamelled with flowering Datura in a vibrant landscape. The design heightened with gilded design on the surfa...

Just a lovely sample of acid french work by Daum Nancy and with Cross of Lorraine. on the side.

Daum Nancy, 'Bleuets' vase,1901 Overlaid glass, colorless, yellow and purple powder inclusions. Acid-Etched and enameled design, motif with blooming...

Porta Stampi Boboli pâte de verre bowl by Enzo Mari for Daum, circa 2003. Numbered 65/125.

Large baluster vase on a separate foot, colorless glass with flaky white, yellow-green and brown colored powder inclusions, overlay in yellow, orange-red, green and brown, rosehip decoration etched in several stages, satin-finished surface in the background and on the inside, large cameo signature 'Daum Nancy' with Cross of Lorraine midway between the plants. Technique: Handmade cameo glass Glass overlaid with several layers, with high-cut worked out motifs. Since the middle of the 19th century, the design has also been done by etching. Cameo glass vessels...

French Art Deco vase by the Daum Brothers in Nancy, France. Made of clear acid etched glass with traces of gilding. Signed at the base.

Daum nancy enamel art nouveau art nouveau style motif: orchid flowers green and orange colors glass vase with flowers and leaves around Signed with the cros...

Large funnel vase with three-sided wall on a round stand offset by a nodus, colourless glass with white and thread-like yellow powder meltings and meadow-green meltings in the lower ...

Stunning vase made of transparent Miurano glass in the 1950s designed by the French designer Nancy Daum. The vase has a flattened oval-shaped body, at the base the effect of water s...

Vaso arancione in vetro soffiato multistrato effetto marmorizzato, decorato con scarabeo in vetro applicato. L’insetto è realizzato incidendo sia l’applicazione vitrea, sia il corpo ...

Excellent baluster-shaped vase in trumpet form on a round, offset stand, widening conically and then bulbously in the upper third, with a slightly inward-curving mouth rim, colorless...

Daum Nancy Cameo and enamel glass vase, France, circa 1910 decorated with red and pink flowers on a light opalescent ground signed in gi...

This Daum Nancy French art glass vase has been made in the form of a diamond shaped tumbler with a mottled pink color and gilt accents. The exterior of the piece features detailed wh...

Acid-etched glass vase, in warm tones representing a snowy winter landscape. Signed Daun Nancy France, CIRCA 1900.

Large enameled glass columbine flower pedestaled vase by Daum nancy. Variegated yellow glass with enameled red flowers, circa 1900. Signed in cameo ...

Daum Nancy enameled and internally decorated glass vase, France, circa 1900-1910 decorated with yellow flowers and green leaves on a mottled pink, white and brown ground. signed ...

This beautiful large Daum Nancy vase is in mint condition. The coloration is citrus and the size is 12 1/2"h x 13"w. The vase was created in the 1930's and is inscribed “Daum Nancy, France.” It’s a wonderful find and an excellent example of Daum acid...

Daum Nancy wheel carved cameo vase, circa 1900.

This French Art Nouveau enameled and etched glass vase by Daum Nancy is a bright scene is dominated by two planes of mottled glass, golden yellow on top of deep purple, which togethe...

Vase Art-Deco with handles made in amber orange glass with acid-etched geometric design created by Daum in 1930s. Engraved signature. Perfect condition. Gorgeous tint. Very rare mod...

Daum Nancy vase, circa 1900.

Polychrome 'pâté de verre' soliflore-style vase in blue, orange and purple glass with a ball clustered at the bottom and a thin neck. Piece signed with Nancy's «Lorraine» acid. Glas...

Daum Nancy miniature Technique: Enameled and acid-etched glass Origin: France Circa 1910 Excellent condition and unrestored Motif: Winter landscap...

Daum Nancy "Suspiro" Fine Glass Vase This small Daum Nancy glass vase, called "Suspiro", is a charming piece of French Art Nouveau. Its design, with curved lines inspired by nature, ...

A large Daum Nancy vase, circa 1900.

A beautiful acid etched vase signed Daum Nancy, france on it's black base circa 1930's Founded in 1878 by Jean Daum (1825–1885) in Nancy, France, Daum repres...

Small baluster vase, flush round stand, bulbous body with attached funnel-shaped neck, colorless glass with color powder enamels in yellow-orange and red, with highly etched and painted with color enamel strawberry plant decor...

Vaso in cristallo francese della vetreria Daum France. Piccolo e raffinato vaso di forma esagonale in perfette condizioni. Firmato alla base Daum France. Daum è una famosissima cr...

A French Art Nouveau cameo glass “Snow Drop” vase by Daum, featuring carved light blue flowers on brown stems against a mottled white and blue ground, circa ...

A beautiful, small, and substantial French crystal vase from luxury Maison, Daum, in the modern Minimalist styles, circa 20th century, France. The piece is rectangular in shape with ...

Coppelia model vase produced by Daum France. Refined crystal vase with mauve and pink glass paste floral decoration. Produced in the 1980s' this vase combines the innovation and hi...

Daum Nancy enameled and internally decorated glass vase, France, circa 1900-1910 decorated with trees on an opalescent ground. signed with painted mark Daum Nancy with Lorraine cro...

Superbe acid-etched glass vase by Daum Nancy, France ca. 1925, signed DAUM NANCY FRANCE Very good condition

VASE, DAUM Molded and relief crystal, decorated in acid, signed 'Daum, France'. Dim.: (height) 21 cm. Very good condition conditions

This French Art Nouveau Cameo glass vase by Daum Nancy features leaves with gilded edges and spider web, having a gilded edge of the base and signed in gilt Daum Nancy with Lorraine cross...

Large and fine Daum Nancy internally decorated, enameled and acid etched glass vase decorated with pink flowers on an opalescent ground France, circa 1910 cameo mark Daum Nancy with...

Daum Nancy enamelled and internally decorated glass box and cover, France, circa 1900-1910 decorated with red wild flowers and green leaves on a mottled green and brown ground. s...

Daum cameo glass landscape vase with sailing boats C1910. Quite dramatic and moody landscape / seascape vase depicting sunset with red and yellow skies. Signed in the cameo, Daum Nan...

Large vase with swollen conical sides and long cylindrical neck, Daum Nancy Blue and green marbled glass France, 20th century Signed

Beaker-shaped vase on a stepped, conical base, widening upwards to a square mouth rim, colorless glass with flaky white, yellow and blue, in the base area with green colored powder inclusions, with etched and painted in colored enamel Daphne decor, satin surface in the background, floor smooth polished, relief signature 'DAUM NANCY' with cross of Lorraine on the wall between the plants. Technique: Handmade cameo glass Glass overlaid with several layers, with high-cut worked out motifs. Since the middle of the 19th century, the design has also been done by etching. Cameo glass vessels...

An exceptional Art Nouveau bud vase by Daum, featuring red and blue marmoreal decorations on a softly opalescent ground. The elongated neck enhanc...

A "Vine leaves" double glass vase by Daum - Nancy, with a deeply engraved decor of brown-red leaves with gold highlights, on an acid frosted green background. Neck and base rubbed wi...

Opalescent glass acid-etched with butterflies. Overlaid and carved with flowering stems. Engraved daum Nancy France with the cross of Lorraine.

Daum Nancy enamelled and internally decorated glass vase, France, circa 1900-1910 decorated with trees and flowering branches on a mottled white and blue ground, wheel carved sign...

Applied with scarabs, cherries and handles.

Daum Nancy green acid etched vase, circa 1925.