Lot Essay
This cabinet was made for M. Boucher, owner of the glassworks in Cognac.
BY EMILE GALLE, CIRCA 1900
Details
A marquetry inlaid and carved cabinet
By Emile Galle, circa 1900
The upper shelf above small central cabinet with asymmetric doors, the smaller door with pierced decorative divisions on the inside and metal strip finely chased with flowers and a stag-beetle, the flush hinge fittings for each door also finely chased with foliate patterns, the whole supported on pierced brackets carved with ombellifers, the upper gallery similarly carved and detailed, the lower portion with single frieze drawer and lower shelf pierced with ombellifers and with a gallery behind carved with five frogs, the legs fully carved with leaves and stems, the whole in locust wood and robinia inlaid with various fruitwoods with sprays of ombellifers and flowers, part ebonised
33½in. (85cm.) wide; 62 5/8in. (159cm.) high; 32in. (81.2cm.) deep
Inlaid signature Gallé in elaborate script
By Emile Galle, circa 1900
The upper shelf above small central cabinet with asymmetric doors, the smaller door with pierced decorative divisions on the inside and metal strip finely chased with flowers and a stag-beetle, the flush hinge fittings for each door also finely chased with foliate patterns, the whole supported on pierced brackets carved with ombellifers, the upper gallery similarly carved and detailed, the lower portion with single frieze drawer and lower shelf pierced with ombellifers and with a gallery behind carved with five frogs, the legs fully carved with leaves and stems, the whole in locust wood and robinia inlaid with various fruitwoods with sprays of ombellifers and flowers, part ebonised
33½in. (85cm.) wide; 62 5/8in. (159cm.) high; 32in. (81.2cm.) deep
Inlaid signature Gallé in elaborate script
Literature
Alastair Duncan, Paris Salons 1985-1914, Vol. III, Suffolk, 1996, p. 227.
Exhibited
Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1900.