Legras Vase

Art Nouveau, a tubular vase in enameled glass decorated with a bouquet of flowers signed Legras, slightly faded. Period: around 1900. Height 28 5 cm. Good condition. François-théodore Legras (1839-1916), French master glassmaker. At the age of 24, he left his native Vosges and worked at the glassworks in Plaine Saint-Denis (near Paris). Three years later, he became director of the glassworks and had a new modern factory built, and a workers' housing estate, which would become an industrial complex of nearly 20,000 square meters. François-théodore Legras will be chairman and CEO of Legras et cie, then of the Saint-Denis glassworks and crystalworks, for around forty years. Responsible for the glass and crystal section of the 1900 Universal Exhibition in Paris. In 1909, he handed over the management of his company to his nephew Charles Legras who would ensure production until 1928.