Vase fuselé à décor rayonnant (Vase with a curved decor)

Vase fuselé à décor rayonnant (Vase with a curved decor)

Michel-Aristide Colotte
1929
Works
Art Deco Glassware

Aristide Colotte sculpts crystal vases using wheel and chisel cutting techniques.

Aristide Colotte

Michel-Aristide Colotte (Baccarat 1885 - Paris 1959)

Tapered vase with radiant decoration

1929

Insc. COLOTTE NANCY / VASE MEDAILLE AU SALON PARIS 1929

Colorless blown-molded crystal, cut with a wheel and chisel

H. 24; D. 17 cm

Inv. MV 2015.1.1. Don Barlach Heuer

 

After an apprenticeship as a glass cutter and engraver, then a few years of work at the Cristalleries de Baccarat, Colotte left the famous factory in 1909 to develop a business as a metal chaser in Nancy. With this experience, he returned to his initial training in 1919 by setting up a new metal and glass engraving workshop, where he gradually devoted himself to cold working crystal using a wheel and burin cutting technique, for which he filed a patent in 1929. That same year, he was awarded a bronze medal by the Société des Artistes Français for his exceptional tapered vase with radiant decoration. Beautifully sculpted with a geometric decoration appearing in a diagonal band that wraps around the volume of the curved sides of the piece, this vase, from the former collection of Mireille Mazet, author of the only monograph devoted to the artist in 1994, was donated to the museum by the glass art lover Barlach Heuer.

EXHIBITIONS

1929 - Salon des Artistes français, Paris.

1994 - Exposition de vente publique Me Teitgen, Nancy (April 10l 1994).

PUBLICATIONS

MAZET Mireille, A. Colotte, sculpteur sur verre et sur cristal. Les éditions de l'Amateur, 1994. p.55 et p. 167.