Lot 12
  • 12

A Gallé cameo glass vase circa 1900

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Description

  • (later) engraved mark 'Gallé'
  • height 19 cm
colourless glass with an opaque opalescent green layer, overlaid in amber and etched with columbines against a dark iridescent layer, the iridescence partly carved open to reveal the internal green layer, partly fire-polished and with martelé base 

Literature

C.f. Exhib. cat. Glas des Art Nouveau, Sammlung Gerda Koepff, p. 169, no. 72

Catalogue Note

A vase of similar model and decoration technique executed by Désiré Christian is in the Düsseldorf Gerda Koepff collection. It is possible that the vase here offered for sale was also executed by Christian but was later marked for Gallé.