New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.

Vase

Manufacturer Daum Frères (French, founded 1878)

CultureFrench

Dateca. 1894

MediumMold blown glass

DimensionsOverall: 10 3/4 in. (27.3 cm)
Overall, Rim: 2 1/8 in. (5.4 cm)

InscribedMarked in gilt across polished pontil: "DAUM/(=with a / thru it)/NANCY", rather worn.

Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.

Object number71.6672

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 220

DescriptionEnameled and cameo vase with an oval bottom on a round foot and with a short round neck. Heavily enameled in mauve and somber shades. Decorated with an armored knight on horseback on one side and the castle with a long flowing pendant on the other. Knight is Rene II, duc de Lorraine, who defeated Charles le Temeraire. Background is pale amber. Acid etched linial design on the side.

Label Text"RENE II, DUKE OF LORRAINE" VASE Daum Freres, Nancy, France Ca. 1894 Blown glass; acid-etched, enameled, gilded. Mark: in gilt on bottom DAUM/NANCY Gift: Jean Outland Chrysler Collection 71.6672Published ReferencesDuplicate of this: R & L Grover, CARVED AND DECORATED EUROPEAN ART GLASS, pg. 105, pl. 151. In the Lecufer Collection, Brussels. N. Daum, DAUM: MAITRES VERRIERS, pg. 6.