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

After having been trained as a glass cutter and engraver and having worked for a few years at  Baccarat crystalworks, Aristide Colotte left this famous company in 1909 to work in Nancy as a metal chiseller.  With this experience, in 1919 he returned to his initial training, setting up a new metal and glass engraving studio where he cold-worked crystal with a wheel incising and chisel sculpting technique he had invented and for which he had filed a patent for this technique in 1929. He won an award by the French Society of Artists the same year with a bronze medal for his exceptional sculpted vase with a curved decor. Impressively sculpted with a geometric decor where we see a diagonal band winding itself around the volume of curved sides, this vase, stemming from Mireille Mazet’s former collection, who write the only monograph on the artist in 1994, was donated to the Museum by Barlach Heuer, a glass art connoisseur.