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Verlys France Gannets Diving for Fish Glass Bowl

Currency:USD Category:American Indian Art Start Price:10.00 USD Estimated At:75.00 - 125.00 USD
Verlys France Gannets Diving for Fish Glass Bowl
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Very nice bowl. Made by Verlys. 13" diameter. Art Glass made by Verlys whose parent company name was Halophane Glass Works. The shape is a Centerpiece Bowl and the pattern is "Gannets Diving for Fish". You can clearly see that this is a Rene Lalique inspired design. The Bowl depicts three open wing birds in flight with 2 Fish swimming below. These birds are similar in appearance to Gannets or DFiving Birds. These Birds are great divers but very clumsy landers . The outside of the bowl has a frosted acid etching with some of the high relief areas having a hand polished finish to clear to give it a three dimensional effect. The Birds and Fish are all done in raised relief along with some swirl marks to give the piece simulated movement in the design. The three birds bellies serve as feet to this lovely bowl as they are the high points. These are set on a Clear base color. The inside of the bowl has a clear smooth finish with the exterior having the frosted effect. In 1920, the Societe Holophane Français was set up as a subsidiary of the USA Holophane Company in a glass-works near Rouen in Northern France to make vehicle headlights. By 1925, they had expanded into making art glass vases and bowls. They created a separate department for these products, and named it "Verlys". Initially the pieces were blown vessels with several layers of glass, smooth on the outside with internal decoration. From 1933 onward, Verlys focused on high quality press-mould glass. They produced clear, frosted, opalescent and colored items with designs typical of Lalique-style glass of the 1930s. In 1935, they established "Verlys of America" in Newark, Ohio. Moulds were supplied from France for the Ohio works. Many of the same items were simultaneously made in France and the USA. Production in both France and the USA declined during WWII, as the company increasingly focused on industrial products. The Verlys art glass was progressively abandoned in both countries from 1940 until it ceased altogether circa 1951-52.