Vase
Daum Frères, Nancy, France
French, established 1875
c. 1900
A hand-painted sculptured glass vase that transforms a bulbous base and an impossibly slender neck into a decorative, plant-like sculpture.
What strikes you is the extreme verticality and balance: a soft, matte yellow-green bulb anchors the piece while a long, tapering stalk rises like a living stem, giving the object a poised, organic presence.
Made by Daum Frères around 1900, this is a key example of Art Nouveau glassmaking that elevated functional vessels into sculptural artworks through surface decoration and biomorphic form.
Medium
Hand-painted sculptured glass
Dimensions
25 × 6 1/2 × 6 1/2" (63.5 × 16.5 × 16.5 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Phyllis B. Lambert Fund
Accession
168.1958
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