Rare vase ''Pluviose'' Henri Bergé (design), Daum Frères, Nancy, 1899 - 1902 Colourless glass, with powder melting in light green and pink. Decorated in relief etched all around and heightened with black flat paint: birch forest in rain and storm. Under the floor in black flat paint inscribed: Daum Nancy with Lorraine cross and painter's monogram ''HF''. H. 12.3 cm. According to the revolutionary calendar, ''pluviosis'' was the rainy month of February. Lit.: H. Ricke/E. Schmitt, Glas des Art Nouveau - Die Sammlung Gerda Koepff, Munich 1998, fig. 90.