Noverdy (Nouvelle Verrerie de Dijon) | Pate-de-verre Ceiling Light | France c.1930 | SOLD
Product Code: LG155A Jean Noverdy bronzed-metal and coloured glass “pate-de-verre” three branch electrolier; one lampshade with acid-stencilled signature “Noverdy”. France, c.1900.
Ht.79cm/31ins; w.76/30.
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.