Le Parthènon Vase
Daum Frères, Nancy, France
French, established 1875
c. 1900
A slender, tapered painted glass vase by Daum Frères that uses a mottled green-and-brown surface and an incised signature to suggest an object weathered by time and nature.
Its tall, conical silhouette is immediately striking, but your eye lingers on the soft, mosslike layers of color—subtle greens, ochres, and darker patinas—that make the glass read like aged stone, with the faint scratched “Daum Nancy” mark grounding the piece in human craft.
Made around 1900 in Nancy, this vase exemplifies Art Nouveau’s fusion of art and craft, when Daum’s experimental glass treatments turned functional vessels into textured, sculptural works that expanded possibilities for decorative design.
Medium
Painted glass
Dimensions
15 3/16 × 3 1/4 × 3 1/2" (38.6 × 8.3 × 8.9 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Phyllis B. Lambert Fund
Accession
170.1958
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