A stylish art deco moulded and polished glass plafonnier designed with stylised leaves and berries, moulded maker’s mark “Noverdy, France, Depose”. France c.1930. Displayed with replacement bronze  fitments for suspension but available to buy in alternative brass or chrome finishes.

Ht.(as displayed)46cm/18in, Diam.36/14

Noverdy (Nouvelle Verrerie de Dijon) 1920-40

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Verrerie des Vosges : René & Jean Drouhot

• Noverdy was the commercial brand for the Nouvelle Verrerie de Dijon, a glassworks founded by the Drouhot family in Dijon, France in the 1920’s
• Jean Drouhot was a student of the artist Henri Dubret and is believed to have worked at the Muller Frères factory in Lunéville before establishing his own enterprise.
• Using the same techniques of Daum Frères, André Delatte and Muller Frères he created acid-etched vases and shades in the style of the school of Nancy.
• In 1924 the family purchased Verrerie des Vosges. A glass factory in the Moselle based villages of Hoffmuhl and Lutzelbourg.
• In 1925 Jean and René also took over the société anonyme des Verreries de Dijon. Which was a glass factory founded in 1893 producing tableware. They renamed it Nouvelle Verrerie de Dijon.
• Between 1926 and 1928 Jean is present at the Salon de la Société des Artistes Français in Paris under the pseudonym of Jean Noverdy.