Collection Francis Meyer - L'Âme du Verre

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Émile Gallé

Angélique or Heracleum or Grande berce, circa 1900

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October 8, 02:29 PM GMT

Estimate

60,000 - 80,000 EUR

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Description

ÉMILE GALLÉ


Angélique or Heracleum or Grande berce, circa 1900


Double-layered filigree glass

Marqueterie-sur-verre and acid-etched cameo decoration, applied glass

Engraved signature Gallé on the flank

H. : 47 cm ; 18 ½ in.

For the model :

Emile Nicolas, « M. Emile Gallé à l'Expostion de 1900 La Verrerie », La Lorraine, n. 11, 15 December 1900, p. 167

Gallé, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Musée du Luxembourg, 29 November 1985 - 2 February 1986, p. 142, p 214

Christian Debize, Emile Gallé & l'école de Nancy, Metz, 1998, p. 32

François Le Tacon, L’oeuvre de verre d’Émile Gallé, Paris, 1998, p. 125

Alastair Duncan, The Paris Salons : 1895-1914, Volume IV : Cermacis & Glass, Woodbridge Suffolk, 1998, p. 209 and 213-214

Valérie Thomas and al., Emile Gallé et le verre : La Collection du Musée de l'Ecole de Nancy, Nancy, 2004, n. 267, p. 160

L’École de Nancy face aux questions politiques et sociales de son temps, exhibition catalogue, Nancy, Musée des Beaux-Arts, 9 October 2015 - 25 January 2016, p. 156, n.97

This vase model, which Émile Gallé calls Angélique, Grande berce or Heracleum in his notes, has been subject to different variations with different colors, decorations and quotations.


One example appeared in the Repos dans la solitude showcase at the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris. Two examples are now in museums: one in the Museum of Decorative Arts in Berlin, the other in the Musée de l'École de Nancy. A third example was sold by Sotheby's in New York on June 11, 1992.