A good quality frosted-white art deco plafonnier signed in the glass Noverdy. The glass bowl moulded with an abstract pattern of berries and fronds and hangs pendant with original brass deco bowl-hooks and chain for suspension. France c.1925

Ht.(as displayed)64cm/25in, Diameter.40/16

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.