Live Auction 742320th Century Decorative Art and Design and French Glass of the Fin De Siècle
EMILE GALLÉ
Lot 64

EMILE GALLÉ

LIBELLULES VASE, CIRCA 1895

Closed3 October 2007

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GBP 5,250

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EMILE GALLÉ
LIBELLULES VASE, CIRCA 1895
possibly executed at Studio Burgun, Schverer & Co., Meisenthal, glass, acid-etched and enamelled, on later applied gilt-bronze plinth
6¾ in. (17 cm.) high
engraved mark Gallé., the bronze engraved ESCALIER DE CRISTAL

Specialist note

The motif of two dragonflies in this configuration was employed on an example of faience by Gallé that featured at the 1889 Paris Exposition Universelle.