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Beautiful art deco vase in transparent yellow glass. Circa 1930. Signed under the base P.D'AVESN MADE IN FRANCE.
Postage to France: €20
Real name Pierre Girre.
Pierre d'Avesn was a student of François Décorchemont at the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs. He was hired by Lalique, where he stayed for 10 years. He worked at Daum between 1930 and 1936, where he developed the production of molded pressed glass in the Lorrain Nancy department. Lorrain Nancy.
He joined Verlys in 1937 in the Holophane glass department at the Andelys glassworks. After 1945, he joined the Cristallerie de Choisy le Roi, where he reissued old models and created new ones. He remained there until his retirement in 1984. Considered one of the last elite glassmakers of the Art Deco period, he died in Paris at the age of 90.
Source: https://vases-art-deco.fr/pierre-d-avesn.html#:~:text=Pierre d'Avesn was one of Lorrain Nancy's signature products.
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