Émile Gallé
Conque à la Libellule cup, circa 1884 – 1889
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October 8, 02:29 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 25,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
ÉMILE GALLÉ
Conque à la Libellule cup, circa 1884 – 1889
Multi-layered glass, internally decorated with powder inclusions
Wheel-carved decoration, enamel applications enhanced with gilding on the foot
Engraved signature E Gallé Fct Nancy, numbered R.293 and n°334 and with an old label Cristallerie d’Art Emile Gallé Nancy Paris on the underside
H. : 21,5 cm ; 8 ½ in. ; L. : 16,3 cm ; 6 ⅜ in.
For a similar model :
E. Bour, « Emile Gallé », La Lorraine, May 1905, p. 12
Alastair Duncan and Georges de Bartha, Glass by Gallé, New York, 1984, p. 58 and 117
Alastair Duncan, The Paris Salons : 1895-1914, Volume IV : Cermacis & Glass, Woodbridge Suffolk, 1998, p. 230
François Le Tacon, L’oeuvre de verre d’Émile Gallé, Paris, 1998, p. 47
Valérie Thomas et al., Emile Gallé et le verre : La Collection du Musée de l'Ecole de Nancy, Nancy, 2004, p. 95 and 98
Philippe Thiébaut, Gallé : Le testament artistique, Paris, 2004, p. 32 and p. 33 for a sketch
A similar model of cup is in the Musée des Arts décoratifs collections, Paris (inv. 4533) and in the Musée de l'Ecole de Nancy collections, Nancy, (inv. HH 16)