Collection Francis Meyer - L'Âme du Verre
Collection Francis Meyer - L'Âme du Verre
Émile Gallé
Hippocampe or Chevaux de mer or Ciselures de la mer vase, 1902 – 1903
Estimate
24,000 - 36,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
ÉMILE GALLÉ
Hippocampe or Chevaux de mer or Ciselures de la mer vase, 1902 – 1903
Multi-layered glass, internally decorated
Wheel-carved cameo decoration, applied-glass, applied foot, hammered background
Engraved signature Gallé on the flank
H. : 32,5 cm ; 12 ¾ in.
For a similar model:
Emile Hinzelin, « Emile Gallé », La Lorraine, May 1905, p. 19
Alastair Duncan, The Paris Salons : 1895-1914, Volume IV : Cermacis & Glass, Woodbridge Suffolk, 1998, p. 224
Alastair Duncan and Georges de Bartha, Glass by Gallé, New York, 1984, n. 109, p. 82
Atsushi Takeda and Tomoko Nakamaya, Wood One Museum of Art : Ouvrages sélectionnés dans la collection de verrerie Art Nouveau, Hatsukaichi, 2005, n. 65, p. 66
A similar model of vase was presented at the Ecole de Nancy exhibition organized by the Union centrale des arts décoratifs, at the Pavillon de Marsan, from March 1 to April 1, 1903, in Paris.
A similar model of vase is in the Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique collections, Brussels, (inv. GC 010).
