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

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.