EMILE GALLE – “IRIS” VASE, CIRCA 1900
“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
