Art Nouveau Pâte de Verre tray by Amalric Walter

A French Art Nouveau pâte de verre dish by Amalric Walter and Daum Freres, featuring a crab on a red. yellow and amber, wave shaped ground. Walter made a number of dishes with crab motif: see Amalric Walter (1870-1959) by Keith Cummings, Kingswinford (UK): Broadfield House Glass Museum, 2006, pp. 18 (plate 15), 24-26 (plates 27, 30, 32); Carved & Decorated European Art Glass, by Ray and Lee Grover, Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tueele Company, 1970, page 230, plate 418; and La pâte de verre, by Nöel Daum, Paris: Edition Denöel, 1984, page 142, plate 193.