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Vase

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, 1900

Object details

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 createdDecember 13, 1997
Record URL
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