Emile Gallé (1846 - 1904)

glass, the dichroic ground internally decorated with vertical, horizontal and undulating striations, decorated with a flowering bough, engraved to the neck and body 'Dans des tulles en fleurs' and 'Le jour naissant s'infuse Rodenbach'

Paris, Exposition Universelle 1900, located in the cabinet 'Repos dans la Solitude'

This vase is illustrated in situ at the Exposition Universelle in 1900, see Gallé, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, 1985, p. 55, reproduced below

 

There are some miniscule adhesions of glass close to the rim, these are 1mm. wide and are not at all distracting. One internal bubble to widest part of shoulder, between two boughs, approximately 2mm diam.; again not distracting. An exceptional and rare exhibition piece with good contrasting decoration and finely carved details.
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A vase with comparable motif and technique but with bronze mounts was sold Sotheby's Monaco, Arts Décoratifs du XXe Siècle, 17 March 1985, lot 31.

The Belgian author Georges Rodenbach (1855 - 1898) wrote atmospheric novels and spent the last ten years of his life in Paris.