EMILE GALLE (1846-1904)

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

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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

Lot Essay

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.

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