'Le Lys', a Gallé carved and applied glass Pitcher, the gray/green body internally streaked with white and coloured on the interior with milky yellow/green, applied and carved with sprays and branches of wheat, the body carved in intaglio with small flowerheads and applied with a carved pink scarab over silver foil and a beetle in opaque blue/green, elaborately carved mark on the handle Gallé,

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'Le Lys', a Gallé carved and applied glass Pitcher, the gray/green body internally streaked with white and coloured on the interior with milky yellow/green, applied and carved with sprays and branches of wheat, the body carved in intaglio with small flowerheads and applied with a carved pink scarab over silver foil and a beetle in opaque blue/green, elaborately carved mark on the handle Gallé,
c. 1905
23cm. height

Lot Essay

A similar piece was exhibited in the Salon national de Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1905
Cf. Alistair Duncan & George de Bartha, Glass by Gallé, Thames and Hudson, London, 1984, p.82, pl.111

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