Vase from Daum, Nancy
Etched cased glass with a winter landscape of bare trees in snow, Daum’s best-known motif.
Daum began making art glass in the 1890s and won a gold medal at the 1900 Exposition. The winter landscapes and forest scenes became the firm’s signature. Vases are in the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Nancy and the Musée d’Orsay.
Materials: Cased glass, etched and enamelled
Manufacture: Several coloured layers were etched away with hydrofluoric acid to leave the trees; snow and sky painted in enamel.
The landscape round the whole vase – trees in front, a lighter sky behind.
The signature Daum Nancy with the Cross of Lorraine under the foot.