DAUM FRÈRES - ARTISTIC GLASSWORKS OF NANCY Les Blés sauvages - Hommage à Claude Monet, circa 1905, the only known example of this model, artistic glassware probably made at the time for an exhibition. Exceptional tapering shell vase on pedestal. Produced in multi-layered glass, the rotating title decoration features bearded ears of corn rendered in large applications of orange-tinted glass, modeled and hot-glued on a background treated in the style of an Impressionist painting, simulating a grassy field with possible poppies, and executed in intercalary colorations - the upper part evoking a clear sky. The base of the vase's body also features applications forming barley stems and leaves. The pedestal is decorated with marmoreal clouds. A few hairs on the beard of the originally interrupted ears of barley. Signed DAUM Nancy with the Cross of Lorraine, in intaglio towards the base of the vase body. Height: 33.5cm Archives and related work: Musée d'Orsay, Paris - A variant of our work, with an applied butterfly, reproduced and referenced in the documentary file devoted to the Daum Nancy firm, kept in the conservation documentation of this institution. Bibliography and related work: Noël Daum - Daum maîtres verriers - Éditions Édita/Denoël, Lausanne, 1980. A variant of our work, with an applied butterfly, is reproduced on page 79.