designed 1902; made 1903
French
Gilded bronze, wheel-carved cameo glass
Overall: 33 × 10 1/4 × 8 1/4 in. (83.82 × 26.04 × 20.96 cm)
2015.309
Inscribed (each shade): DAUM/NANCY with Cross of Lorraine; (base): L. Majorelle/Nancy
Sydney and Frances Lewis Endowment Fund
(similar example) (first example) Exposition de l'Ecole de Nancy, Pavillon de Marsan, Paris, 1903;

(similar example)(first example) Exposition de l'Ecole de Nancy, Nancy, France, 1904
Exposition Lorraine. L'Ecole de Nancy au usee de l'Union centrale des Arts Decoratifs, Pavillon de Marsan, a Paris, 2e Serie: Objets d'art, Armand Guerinet, Paris, no date, pl. 7;

Alastair Duncan, Louis Majorelle, Master of Art Nouveau Design, Thames & Hudson, Loondon, 1991, p. 132 and back cover, pp. 149,168-169, 173, 214;

Roselyne Bouvier, Musee de l'Ecole de Nancy, Reunion des Musees Nationaux, Paris, 2001, p. 51;



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