Daum Freres, Nancy, Martele table light 'Pissenlits',... Lot n° 97

Daum Freres, Nancy, Martele table light 'Pissenlits', 'Chandelles', 1898-1903, H. 38 cm. Designed by Henri Berge. Cased glass, pink, clear, opalescent, amber and dark green. Etched and engraved pattern. Dandelion, partly withered, pistils engraved and grisaille painted. Ground martele cut. Shade signed: DAUM NANCY, cross of Lorraine (engraved and gilded). Wrought-iron mounting, black. Electrified. , Exhibited at the Paris 1903 'Exposition de l'Ecole de Nancy'. Duncan, The Paris Salons, vol. IV, Woodbridge 1998, p. 131 (historic photograph of the same model).