Andrey Signed French Denanderie Mixed Metal Vase Large

Andrey Signed French Denanderie Mixed Metal Vase Large. Art Deco Dinanderie employs an inventive use of mixed metals with mixed techniques to achieve its unique array of colors and patinas. This piece has a depth of texture with a brown/red/black cloudy background offset by bright triangles stepped sizes in gold color.

This is an exceptionally large size, 12″ tall x 10.5″ W, and depth. The top opening is round which helps to give this piece an unusual shape for a vase of this type. It is signed by the artist Andrey on the side and is also signed by Jouvenia France on the bottom. Art Deco dinanderie vase in brass with silver metal incrustation. there was indeedre the gold design will be laid into the sections and then subjected to heat to fuse the metals. The term dinanderie comes from the Flemish town Dinant where brassware objects were made from the Middle Ages on

You may think these were done “mid-century” in the 40s-60s and it is true that there was a great revival of this technique at that time. But in fact, it began much earlier, in the 1920s with artists like Jean Dunand in France whose work is especially prized, and with pieces from Paul Haustein in Germany who may have designed this vase in the 1930s.