The Clichy vases

In the 19th century, the most fashionable glassworks and crystal factories were those around Paris. These colorful vases dating from the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century are called “ Vases de Clichy ”.
But wrongly, because these vases do not come from the Clichy crystal factory but from the collections of the glassmaker Legras.

François Théodore Legras is a 19th century French master glassmaker. Artist of the Art Nouveau genre, he became the director of the glassworks/crystalworks of Saint-Denis, as well as of his own glassworks Legras et Cie. He is one of the four master glassmakers at the founding of Art Nouveau with Gallé, Daum and Lalique.