Beschreibung:

A Rare French Silver-Gilt Mounted Cased Glass "Art Nouveau" Claret Jug, the Glass Daum, Nancy, the Mounts Signed Deschamps, Marked Launay & Petit, Paris, Circa 1898-1900
the ovoid glass body with acid textured white ground, overlaid in scarlet and dark brown glass with wind-blown poppies, signed on base Daum Nancy with Cross of Lorraine, and with incised initials TD or FD, the mounts chased to match with poppies and foliage, openwork around the top of the glass body, hinged cover with bud finial, on spume background and with rococo handle wrapped in flowers, engraved on foot rim "Cixier Deschamps Paris," marked either side of handle, on cover, and on foot, numbered 378
Height 12 1/4 in.31 cmCondition reportGlass with small flaw or ding to one poppy petal, otherwise good. Silver crisp. Anice continuity of design between glass and metal.
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Launay & Petit, jewelers, had a boutique at 1 Boulevard de la Madeleine in Paris, in the fashionable shopping neighborhood just behind the Ritz Hotel. They registered their mark in October 1897, and were recorded at the same address in a 1902 guide. The "Deschamps" who signed the piece may be Léon Julien Deschamps, described as a sculptor and designer. In 1895 he created a model of silver grape shears for the jeweler Tesson which was presented at the Société National des Beaux-Arts; he does not appear to have ever registered his own mark (Remi Verlet, Dictionnaire des Joailliers, Bijoutiers et Orfèvres, Gallimard, 2022, p. 715)