1930s French Acid-Etched Amethyst Vase • Schneider

Here's a very unusual 1930s Art Deco amethyst colored glass vase made in France by the Schneider company. The traditional "vase" shape of this piece is transformed into art with two protruding curvilinear glass segments that also serve to frame the tactile acid-etched lower portion of the vase. This hefty, interesting glass vessel is certainly striking with or without flowers. It is signed on the base - "Schneider".

About Scheider:
Charles Schneider was an important contributor to the 1925 Exposition des Arts Decoratifs Modernes and was awarded the French Legion of Honour in 1926. With his brother Ernest and sister Ernestine he managed one of the largest art glass factories in France during the Art Deco period. The works from the Charles Schneider glass factory used all of the glass making techniques that were developed during the 1920s.