This is a piece of American art glass history. It demonstrates the high degree of skill of the glassmaker, Victor Durand 1870-1931. He was a 4th generation French glassmaker. He began working at age 12. He trained in France at Baccarat before moving to the United States in 1884. He designed for Tiffany, NY and then Quezel before opening Vineland Flint Glassworks with his father in 1897.

He established Durand Art Glass 1924-1931 with highly skilled glass workers, many from Quezel.

Victor Durand Invented the threaded glass application shown in this vase. He received an American Art Glass Medal of Honor from the International Glass Exposition in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1926 for this technique.

Durand produced very high quality art glass. His direct competitors were Tiffany’s Favrile glass and Steuben Aurene line. Victor died in a tragic automobile accident in 1931. Both the Vineland Flint Glassworks and Durand Art Glass closed that same year leaving only 6 years of this work.

One of his designs is on display as an example of American Art Glass at the Met Art Museum, Fifth Ave. New York Gallery 774.