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Lot 16
EMILE GALLÉ
L'ORGE INTERCALAIRE PARLANTE VASE, 1900
Closed3 October 2007
Price Realised
GBP 31,700
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Specialist note
The juxtaposition of the young budding barley with the dry, withered barley, together with Victor Hugo's verse on the subject of loss and alienation reflects Gallé's interest in the power of symbolism, nature and the themes of life and death, vitality and decay.
20th Century Decorative Art & Design, 4th May 2007, lot 80, for an example of the design without engraved verse which sold in these rooms for 16,800.
20th Century Decorative Art & Design, 4th May 2007, lot 80, for an example of the design without engraved verse which sold in these rooms for 16,800.