L'ORGE INTERCALAIRE PARLANTE VASE, 1900

Details

EMILE GALLÉ
L'ORGE INTERCALAIRE PARLANTE VASE, 1900
glass, overlaid and wheel-carved with silver foil inclusions, the stem engraved Semé dans un Sillon de miser et de peine Victor Hugo
13¼ in. (34 cm.) high
engraved mark Gallé 1900

Literature

Georges de Bartha, L'Art 1900 - La Collection Neumann, Lausanne, 1994, p. 79 (example without parlante engraving illustrated)

Alastair Duncan, Georges de Bartha, Gallé Le Verre, London, 1984, p. 63, ill. no. 74a

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 15% on the buyer's premium

Lot Essay

The juxtaposition of the young budding barley with the dry, withered barley, together with Victor Hugo's verse on the subject of loss and alienation reflects Gallé's interest in the power of symbolism, nature and the themes of life and death, vitality and decay.

20th Century Decorative Art & Design, 4th May 2007, lot 80, for an example of the design without engraved verse which sold in these rooms for 16,800.

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