Le Verre Français - Charles Schneider - Vase - 'Cardamines' - Glass - 30.5 cm

Art Deco vase 'Cardamines' by Le Verre Français by Charles Schneider.

Impressive pedestal vase with the decor 'Cardamines' in yellow and orange marbled powdered glass doubled with an etched red-brown decor of stylized flowers from Verreries Schneider in Épinay-sur-Seine, France. This early vase is signed at the bottom Le verre Français. The decor is dated around 1924-27 and is depicted on a similar model on page 133 of the book 'Charles Schneider Le Verre Français – Charder – Schneider by Marie-Christine Joulin and Gerold Maier from 2004.

This vase is 30.5 cm high (widest diameter about 12 cm) and is in excellent condition with minimal signs of use.

Photos are part of the description. It will be carefully packed, insured and shipped to your home with a tracking code. We do not ship outside the EU and to (e)countries with a special customs status.

Ernest and Charles Schneider grew up in Nancy. In 1903 Ernest Schneider was hired by the commercial management of the Daum Frères factory. He had his younger brother Charles, trained in sculpture at the School of Fine Arts in Nancy and then in Paris, propose projects for vases and glass pastes. This collaboration lasted until 1911.

They founded their own company, Verreries Schneider, in Épinay-sur-Seine in 1913. The company’s success was confirmed after the end of hostilities in 1918. By 1925 it employed as many as five hundred staff and sold its creations worldwide.

After 1918, however, Charles Schneider quickly became the sole maker of the pieces. Gradually he left Art Nouveau and developed a very personal genre, characterized by bright, bold, contrasting colors and naturalistic and stylized motifs, which perfectly symbolized the Art Deco style of the interwar period.

The glass market, however, was seriously hit by the Great Depression of 1929 and led in 1938 to the bankruptcy of the Schneider brothers' company.