Vase; France, c. 1920. Glass with gilt glitter... Lot 50

Vase; France, c. 1920. Glass with gilt glitter and wrought iron. Signed Daum and Majorelle. Presents loss in the mouth. Measurements: 18 x 21 x 25 cm. Vase made of glass with gold glitter mounted on a wrought iron structure. Cabinetmaker and designer member of the School of Nancy, of which he was even vice-president, Louis Majorelle was the son of a designer and manufacturer of furniture installed in the locality of Toul, from which he moved to Nancy with his family. There Majorelle made his first artistic training, then went to Paris in 1877, where he studied for two years at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, where he was taught by Jean-François Millet. However, the death of his father forced him to return to Nancy to run the family china and furniture factory, a task that he would combine with his artistic practice for the rest of his life. In the eighties and until the early nineties, Majorelle manufactured Louis XV style furniture in the family firm, which he took in 1894 to the Exhibition of Decorative and Industrial Arts in Nancy. It presents loss in the mouth.