Daum Frères
‘AU HIBOU’: A RARE LAMP AND SHADE
cameo glass in two layers, mottled yellow and dark red ground finely etched, the conical shade with an owl sitting on a pine tree surrounded by pine cones and partially martelé, the bronze mount with owl faces in high relief above a baluster base with pine cones, the martelé foot with pine needles
base signed in cameo ‘DAUM NANCY’ and with cross of Lorraine
89cm. high by 41.5cm. diameter;
2ft 11in., 1ft 4¼in.
circa 1900
Sold for 61,250 GBP at Sothebys in 2008