Émile Gallé

For a similar model:

Philippe Garner, Emile Gallé, London, 1990, p. 130

Valérie Thomas and al., Verreries d'Emile Gallé : De l'oeuvre unique à la série, Paris, 2004, n. 64, p. 80

Valérie Thomas and al., Emile Gallé et le verre : La Collection du Musée de l'Ecole de Nancy, Nancy, 2004, n. 314, p. 35 and 178

This vase, with its white drips evoking sea foam on a seaweed-decorated background, is similar in technique to the La soude vase in the Musée de l'École de Nancy. Indeed, it was after the Solvay company commissioned the La soude vase that Émile Gallé developed other pieces using this technique of whitish drops stretching across the surface of the vase. 

 The Écume de mer vase is a striking example of the artist's extraordinary ability to bring matter to life and transfigure the beauties of nature. Designed in 1903, it is one of Gallé's last exceptional works.

A similar model is in the Musée de l'École de Nancy collections, Nancy (inv. HV 12).