Daum Nancy Cameo Glass

French Enamel Glass Vase

Enamel Cameo

French Vases Nancy France

Brown Cameo

Cameo 1900

Daum Lorraine

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Glass

Daum Nancy Cameo Glass Vase, Art Nouveau, Acid-Etched, USA, 4.75" H

$6,400

Daum Nancy Cameo Glass Vase, Art Nouveau, Acid-Etched, USA, 4.75" H

Located in Astoria, NY

Daum Nancy Landscape Scene Cameo Glass Vase, acid-etched and hand-enameled, marked "Daum Nancy" with La Croix de Lorraine mark and signed "TH" to underside. 4.75" H x 3.25" Diameter.

Category

Early 20th Century American Art Nouveau Vases

Materials

Enamel

$15,000

Daum Nancy French Art Nouveau Cameo Glass Vase

By Daum

Located in New York, NY

A French Art Nouveau wheel-carved cameo glass vase by Daum, featuring a decoration of blue flowers and light blue and grey stems and leaves on an opaque, mottled white and yellow gro...

Category

Vintage 1910s French Art Nouveau Vases

Materials

Art Glass

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Daum Nancy Cameo Glass Powder Box

Unavailable

H 6 in Dm 11 in

Daum Nancy Cameo Glass Powder Box

By Daum

Located in Kent, GB

A beautiful piece of luxury of Art Nouveau cameo glass for the dressing table: a Cameo Glass Powder Box with lid by Daum Nancy, circa 1900.

Sold

H 6.3 in Dm 2.7 in

Daum Nancy Cameo and Enamel Glass Vase

By Daum

Located in West Palm Beach, FL

Daum Nancy cameo and enamel glass vase, France, circa 1910 decorated with yellow leaves, tall trees on an opalescent ground signed Daum Nancy with Lorraine cross Dimensions: Wid...

Category

Vintage 1910s Vases

Materials

Materials

Art Glass

$74,500

H 65.25 in W 41 in D 5.63 in

Meissen Porcelain Mirror

By Meissen Porcelain

Located in New Orleans, LA

Lavish Meissen porcelain serves as the extraordinary frame for this mirror. Exquisitely hand-painted in polychrome with gilt accents, the bountiful frame is adorned with all manner o...

Category

Antique 19th Century German Rococo Wall Mirrors

Materials

Porcelain, Mirror

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Daum Nancy Cameo Glass For Sale on 1stDibs

With a vast inventory of beautiful furniture at 1stDibs, we’ve got just the piece of daum nancy cameo glass you’re looking for. An item from our selection of daum nancy cameo glass — often made from glass, art glass and metal — can elevate any home. Whether you’re looking for newer or older items, there are earlier versions available from the 19th Century and newer variations made as recently as the 20th Century. A choice in our collection of daum nancy cameo glass, designed in the Art Nouveau, Art Deco or modern style, is generally a popular piece of furniture. You’ll likely find more than one object in our assortment of daum nancy cameo glass that is appealing in its simplicity, but Daum, Louis Majorelle and Cristal, Nancy produced versions that are worth a look.

How Much is a Daum Nancy Cameo Glass?

A piece of daum nancy cameo glass can differ in price owing to various characteristics — the average selling price 1stDibs is $4,444, while the lowest priced sells for $770 and the highest can go for as much as $80,000.

Daum for sale on 1stDibs

For collectors, Daum is a name in the first rank of the French makers of art glass, along with those of Émile Gallé and René Lalique. Led in its early decades by the brothers Auguste (1853–1909) and Antonin Daum (1864–1931), the company, based in the city of Nancy, established its reputation in the Art Nouveau period, and later successfully adopted the Art Deco style.

In 1878, lawyer Jean Daum took over the ownership of a glassworks as payment for a debt and installed his sons as proprietors. Initially, Daum made glass for everyday purposes such as windows, watches and tableware, but the success that Gallé enjoyed at the 1889 Universal Exposition in Paris — the international showcase for which the Eiffel Tower was built — inspired the Daum brothers to begin making art-glass pieces. They produced popular works of cameo glass, a decorative technique in which an outer layer of glass is acid-etched or carved off to reveal the layer below, but Daum became best known for vessels and sculptures in pâte de verre — a painstaking method in which finely ground colored glass is mixed with a binder, placed in a mold and then fired in a kiln.

Though early Daum glass was never signed by individual artists, the firm employed some of the masters of the naturalistic, asymmetrical Art Nouveau style, including Jacques Grüber, Henri Bergé and Amalric Walter (whose first name is frequently misspelled). Daum also collaborated with furniture and metalware designer Louis Majorelle, who created wrought-iron and brass mounts for vases and table lamps. In the 1960s, Daum commissioned fine artists, most notably Salvador Dalí and sculptor César Baldaccini, to design glass pieces. As you see from the works offered on 1stDibs, Daum has been home to an astonishingly rich roster of creative spirits and is today a state-owned enterprise making pâte de verre figurines.

Finding the Right Vases for You

Whether it’s a Chinese Han dynasty glazed ceramic wine vessel, a work of Murano glass or a hand-painted Scandinavian modern stoneware piece, a fine vase brings a piece of history into your space as much as it adds a sophisticated dynamic.

Like sculptures or paintings, antique and vintage vases are considered works of fine art. Once offered as tributes to ancient rulers, vases continue to be gifted to heads of state today. Over time, decorative porcelain vases have become family heirlooms to be displayed prominently in our homes — loved pieces treasured from generation to generation.

The functional value of vases is well known. They were traditionally utilized as vessels for carrying dry goods or liquids, so some have handles and feature an opening at the top (where they flare back out). While artists have explored wildly sculptural alternatives over time, the most conventional vase shape is characterized by a bulbous base and a body with shoulders where the form curves inward.

Owing to their intrinsic functionality, vases are quite possibly versatile in ways few other art forms can match. They’re typically taller than they are wide. Some have a neck that offers height and is ideal for the stems of cut flowers. To pair with your mid-century modern decor, the right vase will be an elegant receptacle for leafy snake plants on your teak dining table, or, in the case of welcoming guests on your doorstep, a large ceramic floor vase for long tree branches or sticks — perhaps one crafted in the Art Nouveau style — works wonders.

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On 1stDibs, you can browse our collection of vases by material, including ceramic, glass, porcelain and more. Sizes range from tiny bud vases to massive statement pieces and every size in between.