EMILE GALLE – VASE, CIRCA 1900
VASE, CIRCA 1900
Acid-etched glass decorated with leaves and flowers and heightened with translucent enamels
Engraved signature
22.7 cm. high
GALLE Emile (1846-1904)
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EMILE GALLE – “LA GIROFLEE DE MURAILLE”, CIRCA 1900
“LA GIROFLEE DE MURAILLE”, CIRCA 1900
Multilayered glass with four applied and wheel-carved flowers, gold leaf inclusions, partly hammered
Engraved signature
21 cm. high
Only one other example is known to exist
Provenance
According to previous owners, this vase was acquired at auction in Versailles around 1970 as therefore could be part of a group of vases sold by Emile Gallé’s descendants
EMILE GALLE – VASE, CIRCA 1889
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
EMILE GALLE – LOUIS HESTAUX – “CHAUVE-SOURIS ET PAVOTS” BOTTLE, CIRCA 1890-1892
“CHAUVE-SOURIS ET PAVOTS” BOTTLE, CIRCA 1890-1892
After a design by Louis Hestaux
Multilayered and parly hammered glass, acid-etched and wheel-carved decor of a bat and poppies
Signed underneath: Emile Gallé fecit.
24.5 cm. high
Exhibition
Exposition Emile Gallé et Toulouse-Lautrec / Lumières et couleurs de la Belle Epoque, 1995, Suntory Museum of Art, Tokyo, p. 30 et 31 in the exhibition catalogue, n. 16
Exhibition on Emile Gallé in five museums in Japan between April 2000 and March 2001, ill. p. 57, 58 and 59, n. 19 in the catalogue.
Gallé et le Japonisme, 2008, Tokyo-Osaka, n. 62 in the exhibition catalogue
Emile Gallé / Nature & Symbolisme / Influences du Japon, Musée Départemental
Georges de la Tour, Vic-sur-Seille, 5 May-30 August 2009, ill. p. 135, n.114
Bestiaire de verre, de la fin du XIXe siècle à nos jours, Musée du verre, Conches en Ouche, 9 March-24 November 2019, ill. pp. 16, 17
Bibliography
Janine Bloch-Dermant, L’Art du verre en France 1860-1914, Edita Denoël, 1974, ill. p. 63
EMILE GALLE – SMALL POT, CIRCA 1900
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
EMILE GALLE – “LA NIGELLE DES PRES”, AN IMPORTANT FOOTED VASE, CIRCA 1900
“LA NIGELLE DES PRES”, AN IMPORTANT FOOTED VASE, CIRCA 1900
Marquetry and finely wheel-carved glass, the pink surface overlaid with white
and blue flowers and an applied motif of brown branches
Engraved Gallé
20.5 cm. high
No other example of this design is known to exist
Exhibition
Exposition Universelle, 1900, Paris
Bibliography
Gallé, exhibition catalogue, musée du Luxembourg, 29 November-2 February 1986,
éditions de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux, ill. p. 54 in the “Les granges” vitrine
EMILE GALLE – VASE “LOTUS”, CIRCA 1900
VASE “LOTUS”, CIRCA 1900
Fine wheel-cut and fire-polished cameo glass
Signed in cameo, the underside marked Gesch & depose
35 cm. high
EMILE GALLE – VASE “CYCLAMENS”, 1898-1900
VASE “CYCLAMENS”, 1898-1900
Flattened glass with intercalary inclusions, decor in marquetry finely wheel carved
Signed
22 cm. high
Bibliography
Richard Dennis, The Glass of Emile Gallé, Antiques International, London 1967, p. 189, pl. 17
EMILE GALLE – COLOQUINTE VASE, CIRCA 1900
COLOQUINTE VASE, CIRCA 1900
Multilayered glass with inclusions, decoration of waterlilies in marquetry and chased
Signed
25 cm. high
EMILE GALLE – “LES OMBELLIFERES”, CABINET, CIRCA 1900
“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
EMILE GALLE – SELLETTE, CIRCA 1900
SELLETTE, CIRCA 1900
Sculpted walnut and exotic wood marquetry
Signed
104 cm. high
EMILE GALLE – A PAIR OF ENAMELLED CREAM JARS, CIRCA 1900
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
EMILE GALLE – VITRINE, CIRCA 1900
VITRINE, CIRCA 1900
Mahogany with a marquetry decoration of apple blossoms
150 x 40 x 30 cm.
EMILE GALLE – UMBRELLA STAND “AUX GRENOUILLES”, CIRCA 1900
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
EMILE GALLE – GUERIDON “AUX OMBELLES”, CIRCA 1900
GUERIDON “AUX OMBELLES”, CIRCA 1900
Sculpted, walnut and exotic wood marquetry
Signed
76 cm. high
The top shelf: 47 x 81 cm.
EMILE GALLE – VITRINE, CIRCA 1900
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
EMILE GALLE – “AUX LIBELLULES”, A RARE VITRINE, CIRCA 1900
“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
EMILE GALLE – GUERIDON, CIRCA 1900
GUERIDON, CIRCA 1900
Walnut, the top inlaid
Signed
73 cm. high
EMILE GALLE – MIRROR, CIRCA 1900
MIRROR, CIRCA 1900
Sculpted wood and marquetry
Signed
74 cm. high
55.5 cm. wide
EMILE GALLE – BOTTLE, CIRCA 1900
BOTTLE, CIRCA 1900
Blown, moulded internally decorated and wheel-carved marquetry glass; original stopper
Signed
12 cm. high