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ERNEST LEVEILLE – VASE, CIRCA 1900

Robert Zehil Gallery — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:11:22 +0000

VASE, CIRCA 1900
Blown and crackled glass with red glass powder inclusions
Height: 17.5 cm
Unsigned. Probably a design by Eugène Rousseau

Provenance
Stern family
Then by descent

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ERNEST LEVEILLE – “A TETE DE CHIMERE” VASE, CIRCA 1885

Robert Zehil Gallery — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:10:08 +0000

"A TETE DE CHIMERE" VASE, CIRCA 1885
Crackled glass with glass powder inclusions, with applied side motifs depicting chimeras
Height: 20.5 cm.

Unsigned. This model was originally created by Eugène Rousseau, who did not always sign his works. It also exists in a 26 cm version with engraved chimeras and rabbit. (L'Art du verre en France, p. 35)

Bibliography
B. Klesse et H. Mayr, Glas vom Jugendstil bis heute, Sammlung Gertrud und Dr. Karl Funke-Kaiser, Cologne, 1981, p. 333, n. 243
G. Cappa, L'Europe de l'art verrier, des précurseurs de l'art nouveau à l'art actuel, 1850-1990, Liège, 1991, p. 393, n. 702

Provenance
Stern family
Then by descent

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ERNEST LEVEILLE – APPERT FRÈRES – VASE, CIRCA 1900

Robert Zehil Gallery — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:00:02 +0000

VASE, CIRCA 1900
Roller vase in thick, partially opalescent amber glass, decorated with fish and
seaweed deeply wheel-engraved
Signed E. Léveillé and located on the reverse
Height: 10.5 cm.

Bibliography
Vases with similar decoration and technique:
Janine Bloch-Dermant, L'Art du Verre en France, Lausanne, 1974, p. 30
Glas des Art Nouveau - Die Sammlung Gerda Koepf, Prestel 1998, page 81, ill. 4

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RENE LALIQUE – “MONNAIE DU PAPE” CHALICE, 1904

Robert Zehil Gallery — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 09:12:26 +0000

"MONNAIE DU PAPE" CHALICE, 1904

Lost-wax cast glass
Signed on the base in intaglio: R. Lalique and dated 1904
Unique piece
Height: 19 cm

A model of the same shape, decorated with a design of anemones, is in the collection of the Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, inventory no. 1264

This piece was not referenced in the first three editions of the Catalogue Raisonné by Félix Marcilhac. It was subsequently listed under CP2bis (with the description published under CP3quater wrongly attributed to a third party)

Provenance
Formerly in the collection of one of René Lalique's collaborators

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AUGUSTE JEAN – DIABOLO VASE, CIRCA 1900

Robert Zehil Gallery — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 10:47:39 +0000

DIABOLO VASE, CIRCA 1900
Glass, with four applied feet. Enamel decoration of daisies and four medallions featuring fantastical birds
Unsigned
One foot restored
Height: 32.5 cm

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EMILE GALLE – DECORATIVE VASE, CIRCA 1878-1884

Robert Zehil Gallery — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 10:29:11 +0000

DECORATIVE VASE, CIRCA 1878-1884
Smoked glass, decorated with an historicising design engraved in intaglio and highlighted with gilding, the two rings decorated with polychrome opaque enamels
Bearing two inscriptions engraved around the rim: T Weilvaren” and “Van de Negoothie
Unsigned
Height: 23.5 cm – Diameter: 11 cm.
The subject chosen by Gallé is Mercury and Neptune watching over the fate of a rich ship, while the inscriptions may be translated as “twelve years of trade”
A related model is currently held in the collections of the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris (inv. no. OAO 999)

Bibliography
Françoise Thérèse Charpentier & Philippe Thiébaut, Gallé, exhibition catalogue, Musée du Luxembourg, 29 November 1985 to 2 February 1986, Éditions RMN, 1985; a similar model is ill. p. 162

SOLD

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EMILE GALLE – FAN SHAPED VIDE-POCHE DISH, 1874

Robert Zehil Gallery — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:35:31 +0000

FAN SHAPED VIDE-POCHE DISH, 1874
In smoked glass, enamelled with a painted decoration in blackish-brown and polychrome enamels, with intertwined foliage and a central hunting scene depicting hunters, a dog and game
Signed E. Gallé and dated 1874
30 × 33.5 cm.

SOLD

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DAUM NANCY – RARE VASE, CIRCA 1892-1895

Robert Zehil Gallery — Sun, 24 May 2026 09:25:29 +0000

RARE VASE, CIRCA 1892-1895
Double acid-etched glass with a design of grasshoppers, flowers, insects, and an enameled butterfly, highlighted with gold
Signed
Height: 29 cm.

Exhibition
Similar model at the Kitazawa museum

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EMILE GALLE – CONICAL VASE, 1898

Robert Zehil Gallery — Tue, 05 May 2026 09:19:43 +0000

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

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EMILE GALLE – “IRIS” VASE, CIRCA 1900

Robert Zehil Gallery — Tue, 05 May 2026 05:18:09 +0000

"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

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