Art Deco

The Art Deco movement was a groundswell of ultimately worldwide design innovation which spread from its epicentre in France across Europe and North America in the years following 1910. It was an artistic melange of styles across multiple media and disciplines, all with the common underlying impetus of modernity and innovation.


The essence of the style is now perceived as having embraced the use of bold geometric shapes – often centred around a recurring geometric pattern. While this in itself hinted at the art deco designers being conscious of their pieces being suitable for mass production, the movement encompassed all the decorative arts and architecture. Interior designers, furniture designers and even those fitting out ocean liners were all in thrall to what was to become an iconic movement.


Initially known as “style moderne” the Art Deco name was coined after the 1925 Paris Exposition des Arts Decoratifs et Industrial Moderne, although with regard specifically to glassware it was the wider European community which embraced the Art Deco ethos to more notable effect than home-grown craftsmen. Lalique, Daum, Marinot and Henri Navarre all exhibited undeniable influences from the Art Deco oeuvre, but their work was sufficiently wide ranging as to preclude being pigeonholed just under this one label.

 
Rather surprisingly given the usual narrative of insularity and isolationism, it was across the channel in Britain that Art Deco glassware became a more readily identifiable movement. Existing manufactories such as George Davidson’s Flint Glass Works began to produce the colourful whorls and convolutions of cloud glass – and later opalescent jade glass in its distinctive green shade. Sowerby’s Gateshead Glassworks, already renowned for the production of milk glass, started to use colour with more creative flair in their Carnival glass range, and the nearby Wear Flintworks moved away from their signature clear crystal work and drew heavily on Lalique’s designs for inspiration. Even the bluff, usually uncomplicated workmen of Bagley & Wild’s Knottingly Works in Yorkshire were sufficiently enthused to create figurines, lamps and vases incorporating geometric linear fan patterns in partly iridescent finishes which gave rise to some iconic Art Deco forms.
 
Further afield, the same story of production facilities taking on board Art Deco influences would be repeated. The Stolze company – extant since 1805, and with premises across central Europe – dedicated a facility at Heřmanova Huť in what is now the Czech Republic for the creation of pieces suiting the new style, almost entirely replacing its former pattern books of pressed glass specialities.
 
Walther & Sohne’s Dresden (Germany) factory followed a similar route, moving from pressed glass production to output with a style approximating Davidson’s cloud glass material, alongside more conventional table centrepieces, bowls and vases in whole-coloured opalescent finishes. The nearby Brockwitz factory turned out a form of carnival glass between the wars, with a predilection for clear, pink or amber wares that were a little more ornate than other contemporary pieces.
 
Other Czech and Yugoslavian concerns (Libochovice, Schweig & Muller, Nemšová, Abel) would also help to further spread the influence of Art Deco patterns and forms, and even the Cambridge (Ohio) Glass Company were to fall under the remit of the movement with their signature amber, uranium green and marbled blue figurines and candlesticks signalling the spread of ideas to the other side of the Atlantic and the true globalisation of the movement. 

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Signed Legras Art Deco Glass Vase c1930

Signed Legras Art Deco Glass Vase c1930

Signed Legras Art Deco Glass Vase c1930

£525.00

Mid 20th Century Press Moulded Art Deco Coupe

Mid 20th Century Press Moulded Art Deco Coupe

A very fine mid 20th century press moulded Art Deco bowl. For more Art Deco glass, including a wide range of Art Deco vases, please visit Scottish Antiques online store.

£225.00

Art Deco Press Moulded Bowl Mid 20th Century

Art Deco Press Moulded Bowl Mid 20th Century

A very fine Art Deco press moulded bowl from c1940 in excellent condition. For more Art Deco glass, including a wide range of Art Deco vases, please visit Scottish Antiques online store.

£230.00

Mottled Gray-Stan Glass Vase c1930

Mottled Gray-Stan Glass Vase c1930

A very fine mottled Gray-Stan glass vase from c1930 in excellent condition. For more British art glass, including a wide range of Art Deco vases, please visit Scottish Antiques online store.

£220.00

Mottled Purple Gray-Stan Vase c1930

Mottled Purple Gray-Stan Vase c1930

A very fine mottled Gray-Stan vase from c1930 in excellent condition. For more British art glass, including a wide range of Art Deco vases, please visit Scottish Antiques online store.

£235.00

A Joseph Simon Design Vase Val Saint Lambert c1930

A Joseph Simon Design Vase Val Saint Lambert c1930

A Joseph Simon Design Vase Val Saint Lambert c1930

£875.00

Very Large Verrerie D'Andelys Glass Coupe c1935

Very Large Verrerie D'Andelys Glass Coupe c1935

Very Large Verrerie D'Andelys Glass Coupe c1935

£225.00

Very Large Verrerie D'Andelys Glass Coupe c1935

Very Large Verrerie D'Andelys Glass Coupe c1935

A very fine and large Verrerie D'Andelys glass coupe freom c1935 in excellent condition. For more French art glass, including a wide range of vintage Lalique glass, please visit Scottish Antiques online store.

£195.00

A Fine Art Deco Vase by Daum c1935

A Fine Art Deco Vase by Daum c1935

A Fine Art Deco Vase by Daum c1935

£425.00

Loetz Art Deco Gold Iridescent Tapered Series III Vase c1930

Loetz Art Deco Gold Iridescent Tapered Series III Vase c1930

A very fine Loetz vase from c1930 in excellent condition. For more Art Deco glass, including a wide range of French Art Deco vases, please visit Scottish Antiques online store.

£625.00

A Very Fine Tall Moser Vase With Classical Frieze c1920

A Very Fine Tall Moser Vase With Classical Frieze c1920

A Very Fine Tall Moser Vase With Classical Frieze c1920

£675.00

A Val Saint Lambert Cut Crystal Vase

A Val Saint Lambert Cut Crystal Vase

A Val Saint Lambert Cut Crystal Vase

£475.00

A Pair of Czech Tango Glass Vases With Hallmarked Silver Rims 1923

A Pair of Czech Tango Glass Vases With Hallmarked Silver Rims 1923

A Pair of Czech Tango Glass Vases With Hallmerked Silver Rims 1923

£150.00

A Mottled Gray-Stan Glass Vase c1930

A Mottled Gray-Stan Glass Vase c1930

A Mottled Gray-Stan Glass Vase c1930

£280.00

A Tall Muller Freres Vase c1925

A Tall Muller Freres Vase c1925

The body is matt, it has been finished with acid. The acid stencil mark looks polished but the etching is simply more intense. This vase is cased, the colour is sandwiched between the two transparent layers of glass, The outer surfacr then being acid etch

£325.00

Set of Six Rene Lalique Wingen Pattern Champagne Glasses - Designed 1926

Set of Six Rene Lalique Wingen Pattern Champagne Glasses - Designed 1926

Set of Six Rene Lalique Wingen Pattern Champagne Glasses - Designed 1926

£725.00

Set of Six Rene Lalique Wingen Pattern Bordeaux Glasses - Marcilhac 5110

Set of Six Rene Lalique Wingen Pattern Bordeaux Glasses - Marcilhac 5110

Set of Six Rene Lalique Wingen Pattern Bordeaux Glasses - Marcilhac 5110

£540.00

Set of Six Rene Lalique Wingen Pattern Liqueur Glasses  Designed 1926- Marcilhac 5113
A Tall Daum Nancy Art Deco Glass  Vase c1930

A Tall Daum Nancy Art Deco Glass Vase c1930

Daum signatures themselves can provide good dating evidence. Early signatures are not all capitalised and will be on two lines. This signature is linear and all capitalised. This was not used until 1910. The final word in the signature "France"

£580.00

Signed Clyne Farquarson Leaf Pattern Biscuit Barrel for John Walsh

Signed Clyne Farquarson Leaf Pattern Biscuit Barrel for John Walsh

Signed Clyne Farquarson Leaf Pattern Biscuit Barrel for John Walsh

£450.00

WMF Art Deco Ikora Glass Bowl c1930

WMF Art Deco Ikora Glass Bowl c1930

WMF Art Deco Ikora Glass Bowl c1930

£100.00

A Signed Moser Amethyst Footed Bowl with Oroplastique Decorative Frieze c1920

A Signed Moser Amethyst Footed Bowl with Oroplastique Decorative Frieze c1920

A Signed Moser Amethyst Footed Bowl with Oroplastique Decorative Frieze c1920

£400.00

Very Tall Legras Art Deco Vase c1925

Very Tall Legras Art Deco Vase c1925

Legras operated two glassworks in the Paris suburbs at both Pantin and St Denis. This post war vase emulates acid etched cameo. The outer layer is clear glass over mottled brown. The decorative band is cut into the clear casing and it has been stained in

£250.00

Clyne Farqharson Kendal Cut Lemonade Set for John Walsh 1937

Clyne Farqharson Kendal Cut Lemonade Set for John Walsh 1937

A Clyne Farqharson signed Walsh Walsh Kendal pattern lemonade set. Available from Scottish Antiques online store.

£300.00

A Legras Cubism Inspired Vase c1930

A Legras Cubism Inspired Vase c1930

If Georges Braque had used glass a his medium then this would have been the result. Art deco glass

£300.00

A Steinschoneau Perfume Atomiser c1930

A Steinschoneau Perfume Atomiser c1930

A very fine art deco perfume atomiser

£120.00

A Barolac Opalescent Glass Charger c1935

A Barolac Opalescent Glass Charger c1935

A magnificent Barolac opalescent palm tree charger from c1930. Available from Scottish Antiques online store.

£200.00

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