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Glass, Room 131

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, 1900

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Categories	ELISE Glass Containers
Object type	Vase
Materials and techniques	Cased, wheel-cut glass, with mount of enamel on copper
Brief description	Vase, France, Lorraine (Nancy), designed by Emile Gallé, for Gallé glassworks, 1900
Dimensions	Height: 13.6cm Maximum width: 8.6cm
Style	19TH CONT
Marks and inscriptions	'Gallé 1900' incised (Makers's mark)
Gallery label	Shown in the international exhibition, Paris, 1900 at which Gallé was awarded a gold medal. In this dark and sombre vase the black glass is overlaid on clear glass. Described by Gallé as 'hyalite', this particularly sooty black glass was a Gallé invention and was used especially in the series known as 'vases de Tristesse'. In his writings he attributed the grey, iridescent glint to carbon deposits in the kiln which 'provoked an incipient reduction of the iron peroxide'. The thistle was the symbol of Lorraine, of which the city of Nancy, Gallé's home, was the centre. It was often used as an expression of defiance during the periods of conflict with Prussia, as was the Cross of Lorraine.
Bibliographic reference	1900 catalogue..; Warmus, W: Dreams in to Glass, Corning, 1984; Garner, P.: Gallé etc
Other number	9446 - Glass gallery number
Collection	Ceramics Collection
Accession number	1625-1900

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Record created	December 13, 1997
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O358/vase-gallé-emile/

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