Vase-charder-french Glassware-art Deco-xxth C.

Charder vase model? , with floral decoration, and circular brass base. This is a typical 20th century Art Deco vase signed Charder. Charder is the contraction of Charles Schneider (1881-1953), French master glassmaker. In 1898, he began his studies in Nancy, at Daum, which is a French Daum crystal company. He created, with his brother, "Le Verre français" or "Verreries Schneider", a company founded in 1913 in Epinay-sur-Seine. Over time, the company grows and has 500 employees in 1925, and begins to sell its works all over the world. It was in 1929, at the start of the Great Depression, that the company became unstable, and fell a few years later. “Charder: French Glass” is their trademark. It will be the largest glassworks in Europe in the years 1920-1930.