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On display at V&A South Kensington
Glass, Room 131

Vase

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

Designed by Emile Galle, for the Galle glassworks. It was shown in the international exhibition, Paris, 1900. Like many of his contemporaries Galle was very influenced by Japanese design. He was also a trained botanist and these two interests are combined in the decoration of this vase. Inscribed "Galle Exposition 1900"and "chrysanthemum"in Greek, enamelled.


Object details

Categories
ELISE
Glass
Containers
Vases
SCRAN
Object type
Vase
Materials and techniques
Acid-etched glass, enamelled and gilded
Brief description
Vase, France, Lorraine (Nancy), designed by Emile Gallé, for Gallé glassworks, 1900
Physical description
Designed by Emile Galle, for the Galle glassworks. It was shown in the international exhibition, Paris, 1900. Like many of his contemporaries Galle was very influenced by Japanese design. He was also a trained botanist and these two interests are combined in the decoration of this vase. Inscribed "Galle Exposition 1900"and "chrysanthemum"in Greek, enamelled.
Dimensions
  • Height: 47.0cm
  • Maximum diameter: 27.2cm
Style
19TH CONT
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Gallé Exposition 1900' (Maker's identification; incorporated into decoration; enamelled; enamel)
  • (Decoration; Greek; incorporated into decoration; enamelled; enamel)
    Translation
    'chrysanthemum'
Gallery label
This vase was shown in the international exhibition, Paris, 1900, bought for £13.19.1d from a special but small fund of £111.18.6d put aside for the purpose. Like many of his contemporaries Gallé was very influenced by Japanese design. He was also a trained botanist and these two interests are combined in the decoration of this vase. Gallé's art is particularly characterised by his interest in symbolism especially of the more morbid and introspective type. The chrysanthemums in the decoration here would not have been used lightly, carrying as they do both their Japanese significance as an Imperial flower and their French association with funerals and death. Furthermore, the decoration has been applied on both the inside and outside surfaces, adding to the shimmering, three-dimensional effect.
Subjects depicted
Chrysanthemums
Flowers
Bibliographic references
  • Arwas, Room 8 labels etc; Aslin, E French Exbn Pieces; Dusseldorf, Glas des Jugendstil, etc etc (check); Garner, P.: Emile Gallé, 1976; Emile Gallé: Ecrits pour l'Art, Paris, 1908 (pub. psth.); Rosenthal, L: Gazette des Beaux Arts XV 1927; Wichmann, S: Japonisme, London, 1981; Charpentier, F-T: Gallé. Musée de Luxembourg, 1985-6, Paris
  • Baker, Malcolm, and Brenda Richardson (eds.), A Grand Design: The Art of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London: V&A Publications, 1999.
  • Ruriko, Tsuchida, Mariko, Igaki and Kanako, Seki (eds.) Gallé and Japonisme, Suntory Museum of Art, Osaka, 2008 pp.138-9
  • Coutts, Howard, Emile Gallé and the Origins of Art Nouveau(County Durham, The Bowes Museum, 2007). ISBN 0-9548182-6-7.
  • Bryant, Julius. Art and Design for all: The Victoria and Albert Museum . London: V&A publishing, 2011. p 256. ISBN 978 1 85177 666 5
Other number
9444 - Glass gallery number
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
1622-1900

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Record createdDecember 13, 1997
Record URL
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