Bud Vase
Daum Frères, Nancy, France
French, established 1875
c. 1910
A small blown and painted glass bud vase by Daum Frères, Nancy (c. 1910), made to turn a humble flowerholder into a painterly, tactile object for the home.
A squat green bulb with a long tapering neck immediately reads as a single organic silhouette, the neck’s dark surface splashed with vivid orange streaks like flickering flame and a matte, pitted finish bearing the ghostly ‘Daum Nancy’ signature.
Made at the height of Art Nouveau, this vase exemplifies Daum’s experiments in layered color, surface texture, and painterly decoration that helped elevate glass from functional craft to expressive modern decorative art.
Medium
Blown painted glass
Dimensions
6 × 2 × 2" (15.2 × 5.1 × 5.1 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Joseph H. Heil Bequest
Accession
320.1977
Palette
Art Terms
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