French Art Deco
Art Glass & Wrought Iron
Flower Vase
Ca. 1920’s
Dimensions:
Height: 11-3/4 inches Width: 13-3/8 inches Diameter: 10-1/2 inches
Although unsigned, this Art Deco masterpiece in red and white art glass and wrought iron is probably by Charles Schneider.
Charles and Ernest Schneider were a generation younger than Emile Galle and the Daum brothers,
whose glassworks were in the same area of France. The Schneider brothers worked
for Daum from the early 1900s, Ernest as a salesman/commercial manager, and
Charles as a freelance designer.
The brothers left Daum around 1912, and recommissioned an old glassworks under
the name Schneider Freres et Wolff (Schneider Brothers and Wolff), a few miles
north of Paris in 1913. Henri Wolff was an architect friend of Charles
Schneider.
Initially they made high quality cameo vases and lamps, but the war in Europe
(1914-1918) led Charles and Ernest and most of their skilled glassworkers away
to fight in the war. They returned and re-opened their glassworks in 1917 to
make glassware needed for hospitals, and after the war they sold shares in the
company to finance getting back into the art glass market. At that time the
company was called the Societe Anonyme des Verreries Schneider.
Charles Schneider was a brilliant and versatile designer, and the company
produced a wide range of superb designs of vases, ewers, bowls, and lamps. They
were very successful in marketing their glass to major high prestige retail
stores both in Paris and overseas. They bought back their shares and re-named
the company Verrerie Schneider.
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