EMILE GALLE – “PAVOT” VASE, CIRCA 1900
“PAVOT” VASE, CIRCA 1900
Flattened baluster vase, milky white glass overlaid in purple, decorated with poppies acid-etched and fire-polished
Signed
20 cm. high; 13.5 cm in diameter
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EMILE GALLE – VASE, CIRCA 1900
VASE, CIRCA 1900
Small pear-shaped vase, clear glass overlaid with black and with platinum foil, acid-etched and entirely wheel-carved, hammered body
Signed in wheel-carved cameo
8.5 cm. high
Provenance
Formerly in the collection of Henri Flammarion
LUCIEN GAILLARD – “POURPRE D’AUTOMNE” PERFUME BOTTLE, CIRCA 1900
“POURPRE D’AUTOMNE” PERFUME BOTTLE, CIRCA 1900
Decorated with leaves and fruits from red chestnut trees
Enameled stopper
Titled on each side
Comes with its splendid marbled box, with a round label showing the same pattern as on the bottle, garnished with satin (slightly stained)
Executed for Volnay (Veolay), “Veolay” being the phonetic transcription of “Volnay” found on the bottles intended for the American market.
11,6 cm. high (very rare in this size)
Bibliography
Christie Mayer Lefkowith, L’Art du Parfum, éditions Celiv, 1994, ill. p. 137
LUCIEN GAILLARD – “SAUVAGEONE CLAMY” PERFUME BOTTLE, 1913
“SAUVAGEONNE CLAMY” PERFUME BOTTLE, 1913
Moulded glass, square section, the stopper and the four faces decorated with poppy flowers
Signed and titled sauvageonne clamy on one of the flowers
6.3 cm. high
LUCIEN GAILLARD – “PERVERS DE CLAMY” PERFUME BOTTLE, 1913
“PERVERS DE CLAMY” PERFUME BOTTLE, 1913
Moulded glass, pyramidal shape, the stopper decorated with a snake
Titled Pervers and Clamy
5.5 cm. high
MULLER FRERES – PITCHER, CIRCA 1900
PITCHER, CIRCA 1900
Multilayered pitcher, overlaid, acid etched and wheel carved, enameled design in the “fluogravure” technique, applied handle, gold highlights
Signed
20 cm. high
Exhibition
Sunderland Museum & Art Gallery, The Art of Glass – Art Nouveau to Art Deco, 17 July – 27 October 1996
Verrerie Art Nouveau, l'Exemple des Frères Muller, Musée de l'Ecole de Nancy, 6 October 2007 – 7 January 2008, ill. p. 85, n. 16 in the exhibition catalogue
Bibliography
Victor Arwas, The Art of Glass, Andreas Papadakis publisher, 1996, p. 32, n. 42.
Provenance
Dr Henry Blount, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
HENRY CROS – PLATE “THE NYMPH GALATEA”, CIRCA 1900
PLATE “THE NYMPH GALATEA”, CIRCA 1900
Exceptional medallion in pâte de verre figuring Galatea asleep being watched by a beast, in shades of pink, yellow brown and orange on a blue background
Signed
Diameter: 27 cm
A similar piece is in the collections of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, inventory n° 19647, acquired at the sale of the Roger Marx collection in 1914
Exhibition
Chefs d'oeuvre de la verrerie et de la cristallerie française au Musée des Arts Décoratifs, 1800-1990, Suntory Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan, 1991, p. 32, n. 25, in the exhibition catalogue
EMILE GALLE – “ANEMONE” VASE, CIRCA 1897-1900
“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
EMILE GALLE – “MEDUSE” VASE, CIRCA 1900
“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
EMILE GALLE – CONICAL VASE, 1898
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
EMILE GALLE – LIQUEUR SET, CIRCA 1900
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
JACQUES GRUBER – TRAY, CIRCA 1900
TRAY, CIRCA 1900
Sculpted wood and carved glass
The woodworking executed by Etablissements Vallin or Ferez
39.5 x 70 cm. high
FRANCOIS-EUGENE ROUSSEAU – VASE, CIRCA 1900
VASE, CIRCA 1900
Thick tubular freely blown and shaped glass vase with side protrusions. Multilayered, opalescent glass overlaid in brick red and caramel, intaglio and wheel cut with a design of flowers and stylized foliage and a butterfly in flight
Unsigned. Numbered 532
16.5 cm. high
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
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
ALBERT DAMMOUSE – IMPORTANT BOWL, CIRCA 1900
IMPORTANT BOWL, CIRCA 1900
Pâte d’émail with a design of roses and foliage
13.5 cm. high
12 cm. diameter
Exhibition
Victor Arwas, Art Nouveau: The French Aesthetic, Andreas Papadakis Publisher, London, 2002, ill. p. 513
JULES HABERT DYS – VASE, CIRCA 1910
VASE, CIRCA 1910
Glass and metal, multilayered yellow orange glass with metal inclusions
Bearing the monogram of the artist JHD
Height: 41.5 cm.
GEORGES DESPRET – YVONNES SERRUYS – VASE, CIRCA 1905
VASE, CIRCA 1905
Multilayered glass with powder inclusions imitating hard stones
Signed, bearing the monogram of Yvonne Serruys and numbered 606
33 cm. high
Bibliography
“Le maître verrier Despret a eu l’heureuse idée de demander à un sculpteur de talent, Mlle Serruys, les belles formes robustes de ses coupes ; pour leur robe, d’une sourde splendeur, il semble avoir eu la collaboration de la terre et des siècles.” L’Art Décoratif, 1906, p. 182
DAUM NANCY – VASE “VIGNE ET ESCARGOTS”, MODEL N. 2434, 1904
VASE “VIGNE ET ESCARGOTS”, MODEL N. 2434, 1904
Conical shape with circular foot, clear glass with colored powders inclusions, overlaid and cut with foliage and vines, two applied snails
Signed
32.5 cm. high
Bibliography
The Daum firm has the original drawing for this and other vessels with the same decoration.
GEORGES DESPRET – YVONNE SERRUYS – “THE THREE GRACES”, CIRCA 1906
“THE THREE GRACES”, CIRCA 1906
Monumental pâte de verre pedestal dish after a model by Yvonne Serruys representing the Three Graces holdind up a sea shell with green and orange highlights imitating mother-of-pearl, with the
base showing children blowing conch shells
Signed and numbered 940
40 cm. high
The shell: 31 cm. long
Exhibition
Sunderland Museum & Art Gallery, The Art of Glass: Art Nouveau to Art Deco, 17 July-27 October 1996
Bibliography
Gustave Kahn, Le goût moderne, November 1926, pp. 8-11: “Ainsi Mme Yvonne Serruys a donné le modèle d’une coupe haute, à large vasque étendue, exécutée dans les tons blancs du marbre ou la nacrure du coquillage, soutenue par les épaules
de porteurs nus, dont les pieds s’agrippent à un rocher mouvementé, et le verrier a obtenu des épreuves de colorations diverses, distinctes et toutes bien venues”
Victor Arwas, The Art of Glass, Andreas Papadakis, publisher, 1996, full page ill. p. 56
DAUM NANCY – VASE, CIRCA 1900
VASE, CIRCA 1900
Acid-etched, wheel-carved and hammered glass, decorated with dahlias
Engraved signature
18 cm. high
JULES HABERT DYS – TWO VASES, CIRCA 1910
TWO VASES, CIRCA 1910
Multilayered glass with powder and silver inclusions
Each signed underneath
21.5 cm. high
16.5 cm. high
EUGENE MICHEL – VASE, CIRCA 1900
VASE, CIRCA 1900
Clear glass, etched to simulate the movement of the waves, partly frosted, overlaid with enamel
and wheel-carved with a decor of fishes and aquatic flora
17 cm. high
Exhibition
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. 20, 21
Provenance
Leo Kaplan, New York, acquired in 2000
FRANCOIS-EMILE DECORCHEMONT – BOWL “SIX OLIVES”, MODEL 77/79A, 1915
BOWL “SIX OLIVES”, MODEL 77/79A, 1915
Pâte de verre multicolored
Impressed with the artist’s seal and numbered
6 x 12.5 cm.
Bibliography
Véronique Ayrolles, François Décorchemont Maître de la pâte de verre, Editions Norma, Paris, 2006, ill. p. 95, p. 242