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Vase

ca. 1900 (made)
Artist/Maker
Cristallerie De Gallé (manufacturer)
Gallé, Emile (designer)
Place of origin
Nancy (made)

Vase, France, Lorraine (Nancy), designed by Emile Gallé, for Gallé glassworks, 1895-1900

Object details

Categories
ELISE
Glass
Containers
Object type
Vase
Materials and techniques
Cased, wheel-cut glass
Brief description
Vase, France, Lorraine (Nancy), designed by Emile Gallé, for Gallé glassworks, 1895-1900
Dimensions
  • Height: 21.6cm
  • Maximum width: 17.1cm
Style
19TH CONT
Marks and inscriptions
'Gallé' incised (Makers's mark)
Gallery label
This vase is said to have been bought by Henry Florence from Gallé's widow, Henriette Grimm-Gallé, after Gallé's death in 1904. The glass type is a late development in Gallé's wide range of colours and textures imitating agates and various effects found in Nature. Here it has been carved with decoration of a flowering magnolia branch. Like many of his contemporaries, Gallé, the botanist, was much influenced by Japanese art and drew on plants found in Japanese design for inspiration
Credit line
Bequeathed by Henry Louis Florence, Esq.
Other number
9448 - Glass gallery number
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
C.1249-1917

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Record createdDecember 13, 1997
Record URL
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