Live Auction 197920th Century Decorative Art & Design including a Private Collection of European Arts & Crafts
EMILE GALLE (1846-1904)
Lot 214

EMILE GALLE (1846-1904)

A WHEEL-CARVED CAMEO GLASS 'VASE DE TRISTESSE', 1889

Closed26 March 2008

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EMILE GALLE (1846-1904)
A Wheel-Carved Cameo Glass 'Vase de Tristesse', 1889
5 1/8 in. (13 cm.) high
signed in intaglio Emile Gallé Nancy Fecit Exposition 1889

Specialist note

cf. F. Le Tacon, Emile Gallé ou le Mariage de l'Art et de la Science, Paris, 1995, p. 128 for an illustration of probably the identical vase to the one offered.

Gallé presented this vase at the 1889 Exposition Universelle in Paris.