DAUM NANCY Qui s'y frotte s'y pique - Plus penser que dire - Les fidèles lorrains, 1898, works celebrating the Franco-Russian Alliance initiated in 1892. Rare pair of talking chalice-type vases forming a Champagne cup. Clear glass proofs. The upper parts are decorated, in four reserves, with symbols of Lorraine and Russia (thistle, double-headed eagle, Lorraine cross, crowned eagle) in polychrome enamels, the proverb - Qui s'y frotte s'y pique - acid-etched and enhanced with gold, and Les fidèles lorrains in enamelled ribbons, the other ribbons evoking Cyrillic characters - all on acid-etched backgrounds of geometric motifs. The expression - More thinking than saying - is acid-etched and enhanced with gold on the legs with three bulges, also accompanied by enamelled ribbons. The bases, domed and circular, with motifs of the Cross of Lorraine, an anchor and stars, either enameled or acid-etched and finished with gold. Signed DAUM Nancy with the Lorraine Cross, in red enamel on the reverse. H. 10.5 cm Bibliography - Gustav E. Pazaurek - Modern Gläser - Editions Hermann Seeman Nachgolger, Leipzig, circa 1900. An identical model is reproduced on page 101. - Noël Daum - Daum ; maîtres verriers - Éditions Denoël/Édita, Paris/Lausanne, 1980. Identical model reproduced on page 41.