Lot n° 159
Estimation :
1000 - 2000
EUR
CHARLES SCHNEIDER (1881-1953) - Lot 159
CHARLES SCHNEIDER (1881-1953)
"Laves" also called "Scoria", series initiated around [1913-1914], about ten proofs (all different) known to this day
Rare and important baluster vase with an annular neck and a narrowed base then overflowing.
Proof in yellow-tinted multi-layer glass with pale blue-green streaks at the neck and red shades towards the base.
The base and the shoulder are decorated with abstract pictorial decoration in important irregular relief, evoking a distant vegetation, treated with polychrome powders and probably of glass fragments applied in heaps of surface then fired in the furnace causing a fusion with the bottom.
Signed SCHNEIDER at the amphora, in intaglio towards the base.
Height : 62 cm
Important and related work :
Applied Arts from 1880 - Sale Sotheby's, London, June 4, 1993. A vase of the series "Laves" presented during this sale under the n° 17 of the catalog and reproduced on the cover of the catalog. This is the only public sale of a work from this series that we have been able to find. The work presented at this auction is currently kept in a museum in Japan.
Bibliography :
- Helmut Ricke - Schneider France - Glas des Art Deco - Editions Kunst & Antiquitäten, Hannover, 1981. Four vases of this series "Laves" described and reproduced page 86 and 87.
- Édith Mannoni - Schneider - Massin éditeur, Paris, 1992. A chapter devoted to this series "Laves" page 68 and a piece of the series reproduced page 69.
- Collective - Schneider, une verrerie au XXe siècle - Catalogue of the exhibition organized from June 27 to September 29, 2003 at the Musée des Beaux-arts de Nancy, editions RMN, 2003. A cup from the "Laves" series reproduced on page 56 (n° 44 of the catalog).
Acknowledgements:
We would like to express our sincere thanks to Mrs. Marie-Christine Joulin-Maier, a recognized specialist in the work of Charles Schneider and author of several books on the artist, for having provided us with a great deal of valuable information on this "Laves" series.
Expert: Emmanuel EYRAUD
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