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Image scanned/or photographed from transparency and color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Floral-Design Cup
Image scanned/or photographed from transparency and color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Image scanned/or photographed from transparency and color corrected by Pat Cagney.

Floral-Design Cup

Artist Jules-Paul Brateau (French, early 20th Century)
CultureFrench
Dateca. 1910-1912
MediumPâte de verre
DimensionsOverall: 2 1/2 in. (6.4 cm)
Overall, Rim: 3 1/4 in. (8.3 cm)
InscribedMarked with a slightly imbedded small round gold paper seal in the center of the flat bottom: "BRATEAU" in a circle with squiggly lines above and below.
Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object number71.6355
On View
Not on view
DescriptionBowl/vase of pate de verre glass. Miniature. Opaque white with four pale lilies with double blossoms of pink-lavender on green stalks and leaves. Carved flat surfaces between. Light, fragile.

Label TextCUP Jules-Paul Brateau, France Ca. 1910-12 Pate de verre. Mark: gold paper seal on bottom Brateau Gift: Joan Foy French Collection 71.6355Exhibition History"Art Nouveau Belgium France," Rice Museum, Houston, Tex., March 26 - June 27, 1976; The Art Institute of Chicago, Ill., August 28, 1976 - October 31, 1976. "Particle Theories: International Pate de Verre and Other Cast Glass Granulations," Museum of American Glass, Wheaton Village, Millville, N.J., April 1 - December 31, 2005. Published ReferencesRay and Lee Grover, _Carved & Decorated European Art Glass_ (Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle, 1970), pl. 123, ill. Noel Daum, _La Pâte de Verre_, (Editions Denoel: Paris, 1984), ill. 163. _Art Nouveau Belgium France_ Catalog, 1976, #212, pg. 162. Susanne K. Frantz, with introductory essay by Jean-Luc Olivié, _Particle Theories: International Pâte de Verre and Other Cast Glass Granulations_, exh. cat., Museum of American Glass at Wheaton Village, Millville, N.J., 2005, 19, fig. 18.
Image scanned/or photographed from transparency and color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Jules-Paul Brateau
ca. 1910
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Daum Frères
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Gabriel Argy-Rousseau
ca. 1927
Scanned from a transparency, then color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Georges Despret
ca. 1906
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Gabriel Argy-Rousseau
ca. 1925
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
François-Émile Décorchemont
ca. 1920
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Gabriel Argy-Rousseau
ca. 1924
Scanned from a transparency, then color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Georges Despret
ca. 1906
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Gabriel Argy-Rousseau
ca. 1931
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Gabriel Argy-Rousseau
ca. 1921
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
François-Émile Décorchemont
ca. 1922
François-Émile Décorchemont
ca. 1924-1925