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EMILLE GALLE(1846-1904) OVERLAID AND ETCHED CAMEO GLASS
$ 52800
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Description
Property of a Palm Beach GentlemanEMILE GALLÉ, FRENCH (1846-1904)
A Rare and Important Crocus Marqueterie-Sur-Verre Vase, circa 1900, applied and wheel-carved, with martele ground.
13.75 in. (34.9 cm.) high
signed Gallé
Provenance
Christie's
May 4, 2007, lot 83
Galerie des Arts Decoratifs, Lausanne, 1972
Lotar and Vera Neumann Collection; The Neumann Foundation, Lausanne
Exhibited: Musee Bellerive, Emile Galle, Zurich, 28th May-17th August, 1980.
Foundantion Neumann and Musee de I'Ecole de Nancy, Verreries d'Emile Galle de l'Oeuvre Unique a la Serie, 2004, p.91, no.78
Literature: Musee Bellerive, Emile Galle, 1980, no.87 Georges de Bartha, L'Art 1900, Lausanne, 1993, p.66 Foundation Neumann & Musee de l'Ecole de Nancy. Verreries d'Emile Galle de l'Oeuvre Unique a la Serie, 2004 p.91, no.78
Emile Gallé was a master craftsman who skillfully interpreted the natural world using different shapes and shades of glass and crystal. His pioneering techniques are said to have ‘inscribed in matter the emotion of life’.