Nancy France

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Nancy France – French Glass jug with silver, Early 20th century. Signed by the factory. Dimensions: 24.0 X 14.0 X 12.0 cm.

Nancy (École de Nancy), or the Nancy School, was a group of Art Nouveau artisans and designers working in Nancy, France between 1890 and 1914. Major figures included the furniture designer Louis Majorelle, ebenist and glass artist Jacques Grüber, the glass and furniture designer Émile Gallé, and the crystal manufactory of Daum. Their work was largely inspired by floral and vegetal forms found in the region. The goal of the group was to produce in series ordinary objects, such as furniture, glassware, and pottery, with fine craftsmanship and in original forms, making art objects available for people’s homes.

The Nancy School emerged from dramatic events in the history of Lorraine, which had become a province of France in 1776.

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Nancy France – French Glass jug with silver, Early 20th century is an excellent and collectible item.

Glassware and crystal Nancy:

Glassware and crystal were arts for which Nancy became particularly known. The glassmaker Jean Daum emigrated to France in 1878 and started his own studio, Daum Glass, which was inherited by his two sons, Antonin Daum and his brother Auguste Daum.

They guided the company into the Art Nouveau. The Daum brothers expressed their goal at the end of the 1880s: “to apply in an industrial way the true principles of decorative art.”

Their method was to produce objects in series, as well as one-of-a-kind items, and they adapted well to the new technology of electric light bulbs. The vases and lamps usually had very simple designs taken from plants or vegetables, with monochrome or richly varied colors of many different layers of glass within the lamp.

Nancy France – French Glass jug with silver, Early 20th century It is an old and very beautiful item.

The other major figure in glass art in Nancy was Émile Gallé.

The work of Gallé was greatly varied, with a rich assortment of colors, designs, and materials, including glass, ceramics, crystal, porcelain, and faience.

He experimented with different materials and a technique known as glass marqueterie, introducing into the hot glass pieces of different colored glass, powdered glass, metal, or gold. He was also very interested in Japanese art, borrowing techniques which he used to accomplish his own goals.

The critic Henri Franz wrote of Gallé in 1897, that while he used Japanese techniques, “nothing is farther from Japanese art. He only borrowed the expressions of Japanese art and remade them with skill and taste. Nature offered him an inexhaustible source of inspiration… When Gallé represented a plant, his immense artistic sensibility reduced it to its essence.”

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