Miniature Vase
Daum Frères, Nancy, France
French, established 1875
c. 1900
A miniature hand-painted sculptured glass vase by Daum Frères with a dramatically elongated neck and a rounded base, made around 1900 to explore organic form and surface color in the Art Nouveau idiom.
What strikes you is the improbable verticality—the thin, tapering neck rising from a squat, almost pebble-like base mottled in dark brown and mossy green so it reads like a tiny standing landscape or seed pod.
The piece showcases Daum’s turn-of-the-century innovations—melding sculptural glassmaking, painterly surface treatments, and natural motifs—to push glass beyond pure utility and into expressive, Art Nouveau design.
Medium
Hand-painted sculptured glass
Dimensions
6 × 2 × 2" (15.2 × 5.1 × 5.1 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Phyllis B. Lambert Fund
Accession
174.1958
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