Francois-Emile Decorchement French Art Deco “Bleu” pâte-de-crystal vase 1926

FRANÇOIS-EMILE DECORCHEMENT  (1880-1971)  France

“Bleu” pâte-de-crystal vase   c. 1926

Cobalt blue pâte-de-crystal (lost wax cast crystal) with mauve inclusions, two low-relief friezes of varying abstract vine motifs
Impressed:  DECORCHEMENT  in a lunette seal, numbered A 865

For more information on Decorchement see: Art Deco, Victor Arwas (New York: Harry N. Abrams,1980) pp. 268-69, 298.

H: 4 1/2″ x Dia: 4 3/4″

Decorchement, Francois Emile. (1880-1970) He set up a glass house in Conches in 1902 producing exquisite pate-de-verre, statuettes, bowls and vases. He extended this range to encompass a rougher hewn surface with motifs of flowers and sometimes insects. His designs became increasingly abstract during the 1930s toward the outbreak of the Second World War; these were often executed in pate-de-cristal. Later the production continued although in a more restrained manner with softer semi-opaque and translucent colors.