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EMILLE GALLE FRENCH(1846-1904)
$ 26400
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Description
Property of a Palm Beach GentlemanEMILE GALLÉ, FRENCH (1846-1904)
A Fine and Rare applied and wheel-carved, with martele ground Marqueterie-Sur-Verre Vase, circa 1900
8 in. (20.3 cm.) high
signed Gallé
and with A LA PAIX, Paris retail label under base
Provenance
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. 8 1/4" H.
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’