Suite of Six Gilt Crystal Champagne Flutes Signed VAN LITH

A suite of six champagne flutes in partially gilt crystal with flat ribs, the base decorated with a gadrooned knop, each signed Jean-Paul VAN LITH.

An indispensable creator, Jean-Paul van Lith is a contemporary artist born in 1940, living and working in Biot in the south of France, present in some thirty French and foreign museums. A former student of the École des Arts Appliqués à l'Industrie in Paris, he has been in turn painter, tinsmith, ceramicist, glassmaker, writer, designer... From 1979 to 1981 he collaborated with the glassmaker Jean-Claude Novaro. In 1982 he was approached by the Portieux crystalworks in the Vosges. In 1984 he created with Monica Damian and Matei Negreanu the Studio Art at the Portieux crystalworks. He is a designer for the Hartzviller crystalworks.