Collection Francis Meyer - L'Âme du Verre
Collection Francis Meyer - L'Âme du Verre
Émile Gallé
Le seigneur fera germer la justice vase, 1889
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October 8, 02:29 PM GMT
Estimate
28,000 - 36,000 EUR
Lot Details
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ÉMILE GALLÉ
Le seigneur fera germer la justice vase, 1889
Multi-layered glass
Wheel-carved decoration, partially hammered background
Two wheel-carved inscriptions Le seigneur fera germer la Justice et l’Honneur dans toutes les nations. Is. XL.20. et Heureux les simples. Heureux les cœurs purs. Heureux les pacifistes. Heureux ceux qui pleurent. Heureux les miséricordieux. Heureux ceux qui ont soif de justice, enhanced with gilding on the flank
Engraved and gilt signature Gallé, dated IX Sept. 1899. Exposit. 1900 on the flank, with three old labels on the underside
H. : 18,5 cm ; 7 ¼ in.
André Foulon de Vaulx collection, Paris
Beaussant-Lefèvre, Paris, 10 February 1990, lot 53
Nakamoto Collection, Japan
Christie's, The Nakamoto collection, New York, 13 December 2018, lot 169
For the model :
Gallé, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Musée du Luxembourg, 29 November 1985 - 2 February 1986, p. 54
Atsushi Takeda and Tomoko Nakamaya, Wood One Museum of Art : Ouvrages sélectionnés dans la collection de verrerie Art Nouveau, Hatsukaichi, 2005, n. 40, p. 43 and 100
Yves Delaborde and al., Le verre, Art & design XIXe-XXIe siècles, Volume 2 Notices biographiques et lexique illustrés, Courbevoie, 2011, p. 122
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. 74
Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1900, in the showcase Les Granges exhibited by Émile Gallé
Émile Gallé, a fervent defender of the values of justice and peace, dedicated a number of verreries parlantes to the affair of Captain Alfred Dreyfus. This vase, with its title and quotations, illustrates both his political commitment and the man of faith he was.
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