BY EMILE GALLÉ, CIRCA 1885

Details

A unique gilt, etched, cut and enamelled glass potpourri vase
By Emile Gallé, circa 1885
In Japanese style, of six sectioned elongated melon-shape, the green glass with enamelled decoration of magnolia branches and a butterfly alternated with emblems with birds, fishes and flowers, on a gilt bronze openworked base, the gilt bronze lid with a finial shaped like a mythological lion, the sishi
30cm. high
Engraved and enamelled E G separated by the cross of Lorraine
See illustration

Exhibited

Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, Reflections: Japan and Japonism, 19 May/17 September 2000
Paris, Exposition Universelle, 1889

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Lot Essay

See for the designs of the decorations:
Brigitte Klesse, Auf den künstlerischen Spuren Emile Gallé's, Cologne, 1982, pp. 16-17

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