EMILE GALLE – RARE AND IMPORTANT “NYMPHEAS” VASE, CIRCA 1889

RARE AND IMPORTANT “NYMPHEAS” VASE, CIRCA 1889
Baluster “cristallerie” glass, polychrome enamels, gold gilding decorated with water lilies and a butterfly
Engraved signature E. Gallé Nancy and E. G. Nancy with the cross of Lorraine in a gilt beetle
Bearing the original label Faïences et verreries d’art Emile Gallé Nancy Paris n. 17646 and the inscription Je suis messager de bonheur at the back and Bonheur au nymphéa blanc on its side

Exhibition
Bernard Hakenjos, Emile Gallé, Keramik, Glas und Möbel des Art Nouveau, Münich, 2012, vol. II,
p. 61, n. 113