Jean Daum
Early 20th Century French School More Art
Glass
Early 20th Century French School More Art
Glass
Early 1900s Art Nouveau More Art
Glass
Late 20th Century French Table Lamps
Crystal
Vintage 1920s French Art Deco Table Lamps
Wrought Iron
Vintage 1920s Art Deco Table Lamps
Wrought Iron
1990s French Figurative Sculptures
Glass
20th Century French Art Deco Chandeliers and Pendants
Glass, Art Glass, Blown Glass
Vintage 1920s French Art Deco Table Lamps
Bronze
Vintage 1910s French Art Nouveau Chandeliers and Pendants
Bronze
Vintage 1920s French Art Deco Chandeliers and Pendants
Bronze
20th Century French Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Glass, Art Glass, Blown Glass
Mid-20th Century French Art Deco Vases
Glass
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Glass
Glass
Vintage 1960s French Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Crystal
19th Century Art Nouveau Abstract Sculptures
Glass
Antique Mid-19th Century French Art Deco Vases
Art Glass
Vintage 1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vases
Crystal
Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Vases
Glass
Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Vases
Glass
Antique Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Vases
Glass
1990s French Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Bronze
Vintage 1920s French Art Deco Decorative Bowls
Glass
Antique Late 19th Century French Art Nouveau Vases
Glass
Vintage 1920s French Art Deco Vases
Wrought Iron
Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Vases
Art Glass
Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Bottles
Art Glass, Blown Glass
Antique Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Vases
Glass
Vintage 1970s European Animal Sculptures
Art Glass
Vintage 1970s French Brutalist Table Lamps
Crystal
Early 20th Century Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Bronze
1970s Surrealist Abstract Sculptures
Glass
1970s Surrealist Figurative Sculptures
Blown Glass
1970s Surrealist Mixed Media
Plate Glass
Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Cabinets
Rosewood, Amboyna
20th Century French Aesthetic Movement Animal Sculptures
Crystal
20th Century French Aesthetic Movement Animal Sculptures
Crystal
Vintage 1910s Vases
Art Glass
Vintage 1910s Vases
Art Glass
Antique Early 1900s Vases
Art Glass
Vintage 1910s Vases
Art Glass
Vintage 1930s French Streamlined Moderne Vases
Glass, Art Glass
20th Century French Art Nouveau Vases
Glass
2010s French Decorative Bowls
Glass
Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Vases
Art Glass, Blown Glass
2010s French Crystal Serveware
Crystal
Vintage 1910s Vases
Mid-20th Century French Art Deco Vases
Glass
Vintage 1970s French Art Nouveau Vases
Glass
Vintage 1970s French Art Nouveau Vases
Glass
Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Vases
Art Glass, Blown Glass
Vintage 1920s Art Nouveau Glass
Art Glass
Antique Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Table Lamps
Art Glass
21st Century and Contemporary French Animal Sculptures
Art Glass
21st Century and Contemporary French Animal Sculptures
Art Glass
Vintage 1960s French Mid-Century Modern Decorative Dishes and Vide-Poche
Blown Glass
Vintage 1950s French Mid-Century Modern Animal Sculptures
Glass
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Jean Daum For Sale on 1stDibs
How Much is a Jean Daum?
Daum for sale on 1stDibs
For collectors, Daum is a name in the first rank of the French makers of art glass, along with those of Émile Gallé and René Lalique. Led in its early decades by the brothers Auguste (1853–1909) and Antonin Daum (1864–1931), the company, based in the city of Nancy, established its reputation in the Art Nouveau period, and later successfully adopted the Art Deco style.
In 1878, lawyer Jean Daum took over the ownership of a glassworks as payment for a debt and installed his sons as proprietors. Initially, Daum made glass for everyday purposes such as windows, watches and tableware, but the success that Gallé enjoyed at the 1889 Universal Exposition in Paris — the international showcase for which the Eiffel Tower was built — inspired the Daum brothers to begin making art-glass pieces. They produced popular works of cameo glass, a decorative technique in which an outer layer of glass is acid-etched or carved off to reveal the layer below, but Daum became best known for vessels and sculptures in pâte de verre — a painstaking method in which finely ground colored glass is mixed with a binder, placed in a mold and then fired in a kiln.
Though early Daum glass was never signed by individual artists, the firm employed some of the masters of the naturalistic, asymmetrical Art Nouveau style, including Jacques Grüber, Henri Bergé and Amalric Walter (whose first name is frequently misspelled). Daum also collaborated with furniture and metalware designer Louis Majorelle, who created wrought-iron and brass mounts for vases and table lamps. In the 1960s, Daum commissioned fine artists, most notably Salvador Dalí and sculptor César Baldaccini, to design glass pieces. As you see from the works offered on 1stDibs, Daum has been home to an astonishingly rich roster of creative spirits and is today a state-owned enterprise making pâte de verre figurines.






