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

Vase

Manufacturer Daum Frères (French, founded 1878)

CultureFrench

Dateca. 1925-1930

MediumBlown glass

DimensionsOverall: 11 3/8 in. (28.9 cm)
Overall, Rim: 8 3/4 in. (22.2 cm)
Base: 5 3/4 in. (14.6 cm)

InscribedIncised top edge foot: "Daum [mark -- see card] Nancy"

Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.

Object number71.7176

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DescriptionGoblet shaped vase of blown colorless glass. Cluthra-like blues and foot and stem darker blue & four patches of metallic flecks around bowl part. A screw seems to be wedged inside.

Label TextDaum Freres Nancy, France Vase, ca. 1925-30 Blown cased glass Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 71.7176Exhibition History"Clearly Inspired: Contemporary Glass and its Origins," Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida, March 28 - June 6, 1999; Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, Indiana, September 11 - November 7, 1999. Published ReferencesKaren S. Chambers and Tina Oldknow, CLEARLY INSPIRED CONTEMPORARY GLASS AND ITS ORIGINS, Tampa Museum of Art, (San Francisco: Pomegranate Communications Inc., 1999), p. 113. Nancy O. Merrill, A CONCISE HISTORY OF GLASS (Norfolk, VA: The Chrysler Museum, 1989), No. 86, 196; Color ill. No. 86, p. 66. Clotilde Bacri, DAUM (Paris: Michel Aveline Editeur, 1992), Color ill. p. 180.