Art Nouveau & Art Déco - Gallery in Monaco
Showing all 22 results
“AUX LIBELLULES”, A RARE VITRINE, CIRCA 1900
Carved walnut, rosewood, burr elm, ash,
pearwood, atapa and other marquetry inlay, bronze, carved with dragonflies and butterfly mounts
Inlaid signature
231 cm. high
127 cm. wide
“LES OMBELLIFERES”, CIRCA 1900
Sculpted walnut and exotic wood marquetery, mother-of-pearl inlay, chased and patinated bronze
Two doors in the upper part, two shelves
Signed in marquetry on the lower shelf Gallé
Incribed in marquetry on the right door L’Instant / est si beau de/ Lumière / au Fond / de nous dans notre coeur / Verhaeren
Incribed in marquetry on the back Le chardon bleu des sables. Victor Hugo (extract of a poem of Victor Hugo PAROLES SUR LA DUNE, from
Les Contemplations, L’ETE RIT, ET L’ON VOIT SUR LE BORD DE LA MER FLEURIR LE CHARDON BLEU DES SABLES)
153 x 67 x 47 cm.
Exhibition
Exposition Universelle, 1900
Pavillon de Marsan, Programme de l’Ecole de Nancy, 1903, ill. p. 10
Gallé, Paris, Musée du Luxembourg, 29 November 1985-2 February 1986, ill. p. 272
Bibliography
Charles Gennuys, Exposition Universelle de 1900. Les essais d’art moderne dans la décoration
intérieure, Revue des Arts Décoratifs, September 1900, ill. p. 289
Lucien Magne, Le mobilier moderne à l’Exposition de 1900, Revue des Arts Décoratifs, January 1901,
p. 11: “Les ombelles et le chardon ont donné tout le décor de deux meubles, une étagère et un dressoir, qui sont parmi les plus remarquables
qu’ait créés M. Gallé. Les tiges nerveuses supportent les tablettes alternées, tandis que les fleurs épanouies couronnent les supports isolés, garnissent
les angles entre les tablettes et le pied, ou forment le couronnement ajouré le plus délicat. Un décor de marqueterie enrichit les fonds
du meuble par une série de tableaux très harmonieux”.
Emile Nicolas, Meubles de M. Emile Gallé, La Lorraine artiste, 15 March 1901, p. 113
Louis de Fourcaud, Emile Gallé, Paris, 1903, p. 81
Art et Décoration, February 1911, ill. p. 246. See Roger Marx’s article which describe this piece as a masterpiece by Emile Gallé.
L’Art appliqué aux métiers / Meubles et Sièges, Henri-Marcel Magne, Paris, Librairie Renouard, H. Laurens, editor, 1928, ill. p. 43, fig. 23
L’Art des origines à nos jours, tome II,
p. 229. Edition Larousse
Philippe Garner, Gallé, Flammarion, 1976, ill. p. 72
Victor Arwas, Art Nouveau The French Aesthetic, Andreas Papadakis publisher, 2002, ill. p. 296
A PAIR OF ENAMELLED CREAM JARS, CIRCA 1900
Acid-etched and enamelled glass with foil inclusions; original stoppers
Wheel engraved signature
8.5 cm. high
A PAIR OF VASES, CIRCA 1900
Multilayered glass overlaid in white, orange and black, depicting a sunset scene in the manner of Japanese Art
The decor is acid-etched and carved
Incised signature
Multilayered glass overlaid in white, orange and black, depicting a nocturnal landscape and a flight of four bats
The decor is acid-etched and carved
Incised signature
BOTTLE, CIRCA 1900
Blown, moulded internally decorated and wheel-carved marquetry glass; original stopper
Signed
12 cm. high
BOWL, CIRCA 1900
Decorated with lotus leaves and fishes
Signed
39 cm. diameter
Multilayered glass overlaid in white, green, amber
The decor in marquetry, the flowers and the leaves are chased and wheel carved
Incised signature
GUERIDON “AUX OMBELLES”, CIRCA 1900
Sculpted, walnut and exotic wood marquetry
Signed
76 cm. high
The top shelf: 47 x 81 cm.
GUERIDON, CIRCA 1900
Walnut, the top inlaid
Signed
73 cm. high
LIQUEUR SET, CIRCA 1900
Enameled smoked glass decorated with thistles and the Cross of Lorraine
Including two jugs and their stoppers, 12 small glasses and a tray
Signed
MIRROR, CIRCA 1900
Sculpted wood and marquetry
Signed
74 cm. high
55.5 cm. wide
SELLETTE, CIRCA 1900
Sculpted walnut and exotic wood marquetry
Signed
104 cm. high
SMALL POT, CIRCA 1900
Clear glass with inclusions; with two applied
handles, the decor in marquetry
and chased
Wheel-carved signature
9 cm. high
16 cm. long
UMBRELLA STAND “AUX GRENOUILLES”, CIRCA 1900
Carved wood and exotic wood marquetry, decorated with flowers and mushrooms
With its inner case
Signed
70.5 x 46 x 24 cm.
Bibliography
Art Nouveau Belgium-France, Institute for the Arts, Rice University, 1976,
p. 224, n. 341
VASE, CIRCA 1889
Polychrome “cristallerie” glass decorated with enamelled water lilies, aquatic flowers, stems,
and three dragonflies; original bronze base decorated with four snails
Enamelled signature in Japanese style
17 cm. high
VASE, CIRCA 1900
Multilayered and hammered glass, internally decorated with platinum foil, acid-etched, wheel-carved
Signed
8.5 cm. high
VASE, CIRCA 1900
Multilayered glass vase; imitating Japanese brush-holder and decorated with orchids
and buttercups in inlaid and carved marquetry
Wheel cut signature
18 cm. high
VASES, CIRCA 1895
Honey coloured glass with polychrome and gilt enamel, decorated with flowers and insects
Bibliography:
Victor Arwas, Glass Art Nouveau to Art Deco, Academy Editions, Great Britain, 1987, p. 137 for an illustration of the tallest vase
Smoked-glass with an enamelled and polychrome decor of a
dragonfly and foliage
Signed
VITRINE, CIRCA 1900
Mahogany with a marquetry decoration of apple blossoms
150 x 40 x 30 cm.
VITRINE, CIRCA 1900
Decorated with marquetry panels and sculptures
of snails, bats, peacock moth and acanthus leaves,
the base entirely sculpted with bats
Signed
191 x 93 x 50 cm.
Another example
The Yamazaki Mazak Museum of Art, Japon, inv. n° ANF-360901
Bibliography
The Yamazaki Mazak Museum of Art, Glass, Ceramic and Furniture, Japon, 2010, ill. p. 114 & 115
Georges de Bartha & al, Gallé furniture, Antique collectors club, 2012, ill. p. 299
Internally decorated thick smoked glass, decorated with acid-etched and carved flowers
and leaves on a hammered background
The chased silver mount in vermeil with the same decor
Signed Emile Gallé / ft. underneath