Large Art Nouveau Style Cameo Vase with Colombian Decor from Daum Nancy, France, 1910s

Large baluster vase on a flush stand, base set off by polished fillets, wall slightly curved upwards and widening towards the opening, colorless glass with flaky white and yellowish powder inclusions in the base area with dark brown-violet inclusions, with etched columbine decor painted in colored enamel, satined surface in the background, base and bottom smoothly polished, relief signature ‘DAUM NANCY FRANCE’ 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 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: 1910 – 1915 Dimensions: Height: 32.3 cm / 12.71 in Diameter: 11.7 cm / 4.60 in Bibliographie: Carolus Hartmann, Glasmarken-Lexikon / Encyclopedia of Glass Marks, Stuttgart / Germany 1997, Signature number 2989 on page 148. Condition: very good.