Daum Mini Elephant Pink Crystal Sculpture 05136-1/C | Pâte de Verre | Glass Paste | 5.2cm | Handcrafted Nancy France | Luxury Gift | Brand New

Daum Mini Elephant Pink Crystal Sculpture 05136-1/C | Pâte de Verre | Glass Paste | 5.2cm | Handcrafted Nancy France | Luxury Gift | Brand New

WHY THIS PIECE IS EXTRAORDINARILY SPECIAL

There are small decorative objects. There are luxury gift pieces. And then there are those miniature works — produced by the world's greatest pâte de verre house with the same craft devotion, the same material quality, and the same complete artistic commitment that the house brings to its most monumental and most expensive pieces — that achieve something that their size does not predict and their price does not begin to suggest. Something genuinely beautiful. Something that carries within its compact form the entire weight of a nearly one hundred and fifty year tradition of French crystal artistry. Something that stops people, makes them pick it up, and makes them look at it far more closely than they expected to before setting it down.

The Daum Mini Elephant in Pink — reference 05136-1/C, produced in the house's signature pâte de verre crystal glass paste, handcrafted in Nancy, France — is one of those pieces. And the specific quality that makes it so completely and so consistently compelling is the same quality that makes every piece from the Daum Nancy atelier extraordinary regardless of its scale — the quality of the material itself, the quality of the color, and the quality of the craftspeople who work with both.

Maison Daum was established in Nancy, France in 1878 — at the epicenter of the Art Nouveau movement that transformed the decorative arts of the Western world — and has spent nearly one hundred and fifty years at the absolute frontier of fine art crystal. Daum pieces are held in the permanent collections of the Musée d'Orsay, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Victoria and Albert Museum. The house is recognized globally as the only crystal manufacturer capable of producing pâte de verre at this level of mastery — a distinction that applies as fully to the smallest pieces in the range as to the most monumental and the most expensive.

This is a point worth understanding clearly and completely. The Daum Mini Elephant is not a reduced version of a larger piece. It is not a simplified or a compromised expression of the house's craft. It is the full expression of Daum's pâte de verre mastery applied at the smallest scale at which that mastery is meaningful and beautiful — which turns out to be a scale of just over five centimeters in length. At that scale, the luminosity of the pink pâte de verre, the subtle depth of color, the specific quality of light that pâte de verre possesses and that no other crystal material can replicate — all of these qualities are fully and completely present. The Mini Elephant is not less Daum because it is small. It is completely Daum — in every gram of its 80-gram weight, in every millimeter of its 5.2-centimeter length, in every luminous shade of its soft pink crystal.

The pâte de verre technique — an ancient process dating back to the earliest civilizations of Egypt and Mesopotamia, revived and perfected by Daum across generations of craft research and accumulated expertise — produces a material unlike anything else in the world of decorative art. Crystal ground to a fine powder, blended with mineral pigments, packed by hand into molds, and fired in kilns at carefully controlled temperatures. What emerges possesses inner luminosity, subtle color gradation, and a surface complexity that shifts and rewards examination in every different light condition. In pink — that specific, soft, warm rose color that the pâte de verre medium renders with a depth and a translucency that flat glass or ceramic simply cannot approach — the Mini Elephant glows with the specific quality of light that has made Daum's pink pieces among the most beloved and the most consistently sought after in the house's entire range.

The elephant itself — chosen with the care and the craft intelligence that Daum brings to every subject in its animal collection — is one of the most universally beloved and the most symbolically resonant of all animal subjects. Across every culture that has ever encountered the elephant, the animal has been associated with wisdom, with good fortune, with memory, with the specific quality of gentle, patient, completely assured strength that distinguishes it from every other large animal on earth. In Hindu tradition the elephant is the vehicle of Ganesha — the remover of obstacles, the bringer of prosperity and new beginnings. In African and Asian cultures the elephant is a symbol of royal authority, of ancestral wisdom, and of the kind of slow, deep, completely reliable intelligence that human beings have always admired and always recognized as something beyond the merely clever. In contemporary interior design the elephant is among the most collected and the most loved of all animal decorative subjects — a piece that works in every aesthetic context, that appeals to every taste, and that carries within it the specific warmth and the specific joyful optimism that these extraordinary animals embody.

In Daum's pink pâte de verre, at this miniature scale, the elephant achieves a quality that is simultaneously charming and genuinely beautiful — compact and generous at the same time, small enough to fit in a cupped hand yet possessed of a presence and a luminosity that commands attention far beyond what its dimensions might suggest. The undefined colors of the pink pâte de verre add depth and texture, capturing light and reflecting it in shimmering highlights that make the piece a living, shifting thing in different light conditions — warm and intimate in lamplight, fresh and luminous in natural daylight, deeply beautiful in both.

At 5.2 centimeters long, 4.7 centimeters wide, and 4.3 centimeters tall, weighing just 80 grams of finest French pâte de verre crystal, this is a piece of the most intimate and the most personally satisfying scale — small enough to sit on a dressing table, a bedside surface, a windowsill, or a desk without demanding space or imposing its presence, and beautiful enough to be the most consistently noticed and the most consistently remarked-upon object in any such setting. It arrives in Daum's elegant mini gift box — a presentation as refined and as beautiful as the piece it contains, making this one of the most completely and most immediately impressive small luxury gifts available anywhere in the fine French crystal market.

THE MINI ANIMAL COLLECTION — DAUM AT ITS MOST INTIMATE AND MOST ACCESSIBLE

The Daum mini animal collection represents one of the most beloved and the most consistently popular expressions of the house's nearly one hundred and fifty year tradition — the application of Daum's full craft mastery to subjects of universal appeal at a scale and a price point that makes genuine Daum pâte de verre accessible to the widest possible audience of collectors, gift buyers, and lovers of the finest French crystal art.

The Mini Elephant in Pink sits at the heart of that collection — an animal of universal symbolic appeal rendered in a color of universal charm, in a material of genuine luxury quality, at a scale that makes it simultaneously the perfect gift, the perfect desk companion, and the perfect introduction to the Daum collection for anyone encountering the house for the first time. The pink version is available alongside amber grey and blue colorways — each color bringing a completely different character and a completely different quality of light to the same fundamental form, and each one equally compelling as a standalone piece or as part of a collection of all three.

Product Details

Brand: Daum France

Piece: Mini Elephant — Pink

Reference: 05136-1/C

Material: Pâte de Verre — Crystal Glass Paste

Color: Pink

Packaging: Daum Mini Gift Box with Thermoformed Protection

Origin: Handcrafted in Nancy, France

Price: 235 EUR

Condition: Brand New

Dimensions and Weight

Length: 5.2 cm / 2.0 inches

Width: 4.7 cm / 1.9 inches

Height: 4.3 cm / 1.7 inches

Weight: 0.08 kg / 0.18 lb / 80 grams

Care Instructions

Clean using only a soft dry microfiber cloth without water or any cleaning product. Never use detergents, sponges, or abrasive materials on the pâte de verre surface. Store carefully to protect from impact. Treated with appropriate care this piece will maintain its luminosity and its beauty indefinitely.

The Most Perfect Small Luxury Gift Available

The Daum Mini Elephant in Pink is among the most naturally and the most completely perfect small luxury gifts available in the fine French crystal category — a piece that requires no explanation, no specialist knowledge, and no particular collecting background to be immediately and completely understood as something of genuine beauty and genuine quality.

For a birthday gift — small in scale, large in beauty and in the quality of what it communicates about the care and the taste of the person who chose it. For a new baby gift — the elephant's universal associations of good fortune, wisdom, and gentle strength making it the ideal welcoming gift for a new life. For a Valentine's Day gift — the pink color and the universal charm of the elephant combining in a piece of crystal that says something warm and beautiful without demanding the gravity of a larger or more expensive gesture. For any occasion that calls for a gift of genuine Daum quality at an accessible and completely generous price point — this piece is simply and completely without equal in its category.

It arrives in Daum's elegant mini gift box, ready to present at any moment that deserves something genuinely, beautifully, and completely extraordinary in the finest French crystal tradition.

Who This Piece Is Perfect For

This sculpture is the ideal choice for Daum France collectors building a comprehensive mini animal collection who wish to own the pink elephant in pristine brand new condition, lovers of the elephant as a decorative and symbolic subject who appreciate the specific and extraordinary quality that Daum's pâte de verre brings to this universally beloved animal at the most intimate and the most personal scale, gift buyers of every kind who understand that genuine Daum quality at this scale and this price represents one of the most compelling small luxury gift propositions available in the fine French crystal market, anyone looking for the most beautiful, the most luminous, and the most completely charming pink crystal decorative object available for a dressing table, a windowsill, a desk, or any intimate personal space that deserves the specific quality of light and beauty that pink Daum pâte de verre provides, and anyone encountering Daum for the first time who wishes to begin a collection with a piece that delivers the full quality, the full luminosity, and the full beauty of the Daum tradition at the most accessible and the most completely satisfying entry point in the range.

Condition and Packaging

Brand new. In original Daum mini gift box with thermoformed crystal protection. Reference 05136-1/C. Pink pâte de verre crystal glass paste. Handcrafted in Nancy, France. Professionally packed for safe worldwide shipping.