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GLASS, FURNITURE, CERAMICS
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“AUX LIBELLULES ET PAPILLONS” CONSOLE, CIRCA 1900
Sculpted walnut and exotic wood marquetry, mother-of-pearl inlay and bronze
Signed
138 cm. high; 74 cm. wide; 46 cm. deep
Only one variant of the design is recorded
Bibliography
A. Duncan and G. de Bartha, Gallé Furniture, Antique Collector's Club, 2012, a variant ill. p. 272, pl. 4
Provenance
Private collection, France
CONICAL VASE, 1898
Multilayered and wheel-carved conical vase with faceted corners in amber, purplish-blue and red marquetry glass, internally decorated with columbines on a background with silver foil inclusions, acid-etched, the original bronze base in the shape of leaves and spurs
Signed and dated 1898
26.1 cm. high
Exhibition
Société Nationale des Beaux Arts, 1898
Wood One Museum of Art, Hiroshima, Japan, 2005, n.33, ill. p. 36 in the exhibition catalogue
Emile Gallé – Nature and Symbol / Le Langage des Fleurs et des Choses Muettes, 16 January – 10 April 2016, Tokyo Metropolitan
Teien Art Museum; 24 April – 5 June 2016, Utsunomiya Museum of Art, n. 069, ill. p. 90
Bibliography
Revue des Arts Décoratifs, 1898, ill. p. 148
Renate Ulmer, Art Nouveau Symbolismus und Jugendstil in Frankreich, Arnoldsche, 1999, ill. p. 319, n. 318
Emile Gallé et le verre, la collection du musée de l'Ecole de Nancy, Ed. Somogy, Paris, 2004, similar example ill. p. 164, n. 280
Provenance
Daimaru Museum, Japan
Other examples of this design are owned by important museums worldwide:
Kitazawa Museum of Art, Japan
Kunstmuseum, Dusseldorf (Collection Gerda Koepf), Germany
Suntory Museum, Japan
Musée de l'Ecole de Nancy, Nancy, France
Budapest Museum of Applied Arts, inv. n. 55.284, Hungary
“IRIS” VASE, CIRCA 1900
Multilayered glass vase decorated with blooming water iris in glass marquetry,
some elements wheel-cut, with six vertical hot-applied elements
Signed with a double line
Exhibition
The model was exhibited at the 1900 Paris Universal Exposition,
displayed in the Les Granges showcase
Our vase was shown at the Fine Arts Exhibition in Mulhouse in 1911, no. 14, p. 90
It was also included in the Gallé exhibition at the Musée du Luxembourg in Paris from 29 November 1985 to 2 February 1986
Bibliography
Émile Nicolas, M. Émile Gallé at the 1900 Exposition, in La Lorraine, 18th year, no. 11,
December 1900, p. 164, for a similar example with a dragonfly
Roger Marx, La décoration et les Industries d’Art à l’Exposition de 1900, 1901, p. 107
La Revue Lorraine Illustrée, no. 3, 1906, p. 106
Bulletin de la Société Industrielle de Mulhouse, 1911, p. 4
A similar example was sold at Christie’s Geneva on 16 November 1981 under lot no. 228 (sold for 230,000 Swiss francs plus fees to Andrée Vyncke)
Georges de Bartha, Gallé, le verre, Bibliothèque des arts, Paris, 1985, p. 105, for a similar model
Françoise Thérèse Charpentier, Philippe Thiébaut, Gallé, exhibition catalogue, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, 29 November 1985 – 2 February 1986, Ministry of Culture, Éditions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, Paris, 1985, p. 212
“EPIS DE BLE” VITRINE, CIRCA 1900
Sculpted walnut, the shelves decorated with wheat stalks in exotic wood marquetry
Signed
185 x 84 x 54 cm
Another example of this design is part of the collections of the Musée d’Orsay, Paris
“ANEMONE” VASE, CIRCA 1897-1900
Conical multilayered vase, internally decorated and engraved
Signed
21.5 cm. high
Exhibition
Emile Gallé, Exhibition in six Japanese museums, 2000-2001, n. 45 in the exhibition catalogue, ill. pp. 90 and 91 (example at the Juken museum)
Bibliography
A similar 27 cm. high vase in the collections of Juken Museum of Art, Yoshiwa, prefecture of Hiroshima, Japan
Another, 28,2 cm. high, is in the collection of Her Royal Highness Margrethe II, the Queen of Denmark
“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
VASE, CIRCA 1900
Engraved marquetry with a design of ray and aquatic flora
Powder inclusions and inclusion of shattered gold foils, hammered with small facets
Silver gilt mount with French Minerva mark
Vertically engraved signature
17 cm. high
No similar example known to exist
Bibliography
For the same shape of the mounted vase: Tsuneo Yoshimizu, The Glass Arts of Emile Gallé, Gakken 1985, n.144; without the mount n. 143 and 184
Georges de Bartha, Glass by Gallé, Thames & Hudson Ltd, 1984, p. 59, n. 61 (EU 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
AIGUIERE AUX IRIS, 1893
Multilayered glass, partly hammered with small irregular facets and wheel-carved decor of iris flowers
Height: 22 cm.
Most likely blown and engraved in Meisenthal then wheel-carved in Nancy
Designed to be mounted in silver, an example was acquired directly from Emile Gallé in 1893 by the Union Centrale des Arts Décoratifs, the current Musée des Arts décoratifs, inventory number 7775. The mount is by Joseph Joindy, chased by Francis Peureux who was the main silver chaser at the Maison Boucheron. Our example is the unmounted one that remained in Emile Gallé’s family and no other example known to exist.
In his book L’Oeuvre de verre d’Emile Gallé, copyright 1998 Editions Messene, Paris,
François Le Tacon illustrates a ewer in red and black multilayred glass, that he dates 1893 and which is located in the castle museum of Boulogne-sur-Mer, inventory n. 750, height: 25 cm.; We read: “A l’opposé, une cruche de 1893 (fig.62), sans caractère symbolique, est un objet intrinsèquement décoratif. Soufflée et gravée à Meisenthal à l’acide, puis reprise à la roue à Nancy, elle était destinée à être montée à Paris sur argent doré, comme l’exemplaire du musée des Arts décoratifs. Elle est en cristal triple couche : une interne translucide, une intermédiaire noire foncée et une externe rouge. L’opposition violente entre le noir et le rouge donne à cette pièce un aspect particulier, encore souligné par l’agressivité de la gravure qui s’apparente beaucoup à une taille. La monture en argent ciselé et doré, de style rocaille, avec deux serpents s’enroulant autour de l’anse, plutôt de style Art nouveau, accentue encore les oppositions. La pièce parisienne, à décor d’iris, a été achetée directement à Gallé par le musée; celle de Boulogne, à décor de lys, appartenait à Charles Lebeau”.
BOTTLE AND STOPPER
Bottle and stopper, of flattened shape, in thick frosted glass with powder and gold foil inclusions,
overlaid and entirely chased with a bat on each side on a background featuring a moon crescent and waves.
Original stopper with hammered top and foil inclusions.
Incised signature on the side.
10.5 x 11 x 4.5 cm.
Bibliography
Le Modern Style, page 129
Provenance
Formerly in the collection of Maria de Beyrie, Paris
Private collection, Paris
Acquired from the above
VASE, CIRCA 1900
Footed egg shaped glass marquetry vase with a pinched neck and a design of finely carved water lilies
Similar example at the Kitazawa Art Museum, Suwa, Japon
Height: 19.5 cm.
Exhibition
Emile Gallé – Nature and Symbol / Le Langage des Fleurs et des Choses Muettes,
16 January – 10 April 2016, Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum; 24 April – 5 June 2016, Utsunom
Bibliography
Alastair Duncan, The Paris Salons Volume IV: Ceramics & Glass, ill. on the cover page and p. 40.
“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
“MEDUSE” VASE, CIRCA 1900
Double glazed footed vase modelled as a fish, internally decorated with powder inclusions, partially iridescent, ornamented with an acid-etched and wheel-carved jellyfish on a hammered background echoing the surface of the water
Wheel-carved signature
30 cm. high
“DRAGONFLIES” VASE, CIRCA 1895
Cylindrical vase in clear double layered glass, decorated with acid-etched radiant suns and
inclusions of metal oxides; embellished with two polychromatic enamelled dragonflies
Signed underneath by hand with a diamond point
21.5 cm. high; 11 cm. diameter
PITCHER, CIRCA 1900
Earthenware, with a polychrome poppy decoration highlighted in gold
Restorations
Signed underneath: E (Cross of Lorraine) G / Déposé / Gallé – Nancy
Height: 25 cm.
RARE AND IMPORTANT CABINET, CIRCA 1900
Exotic marquetry inlaid wood, decorated with dragonflies and flowers, the front adorned with a dragonfly in relief
Signed
137 cm. high; 83 cm. wide; 44 cm. deep
Bibliography
Alastar Duncan, Georges de Bartha, Gallé Furniture, Antique Collectors’ club, 2012, ill. p. 292
VASE, CIRCA 1920
Large conical shaped mold blown glass vase, multilayered with powder inclusions, featuring an aquatic
decor with shells, a crab and plants
Signed
Height : 47 cm
GLASS HANGING FIXTURE
Enamelled glass hanging fixture in the style of mosque lamps, spherical shape, neo-Islamic decoration
Height: 24 cm.
Diameter: 21.5 cm
“AUX CAMPANULES” NEST OF FOUR OCCASIONAL TABLES, CIRCA 1900
Graduated in size, sculpted wood, the tops inlaid in various woods, including rosewood, with magnolia, daisies and other flowers and leaves
Each signed Gallé
The largest: 75 cm. high; 70.5 cm. wide; 42 cm. deep
Bibliography
A table with the same sculpted decor is illustrated in: Gallé furniture, Antique collectors club, 2012,
p. 174
“LA FORÊT LORRAINE” DESK, CIRCA 1900
Exotic marquetry inlaid wood
108 cm. high; 72 cm. wide; 50 cm. deep
Bibliography
An identical model is illustrated in the catalogue L’Ecole de Nancy, Art Nouveau et industrie d’Art, Musée de l’Ecole de Nancy, 2018, p. 96
Alastar Duncan, Georges de Bartha, Gallé Furniture, Antique Collectors' club, 2012, ill. p. 239
BOTTLE, CIRCA 1900
Blown, moulded internally decorated and wheel-carved marquetry glass; original stopper
Signed
12 cm. high
VASE, 1889-1900
Faience
After a design by Louis Hestaux
Signed in the mould
Height: 14.3 cm.
FOOTED VASE, CIRCA 1900
Smoky glass, polychrome enameled with a carved and enameled praying mantis and blooming flowers
Unsigned
Height: 22 cm.
Provenance
The artist’s family by descent
VASE, CIRCA 1900
Multi layered glass with powder inclusions, thickly overlaid and carved with a crocus
Signed with a diamond point
Height: 14 cm.
