Important Design

Important Design

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Bernard Laurent collection

Émile Gallé

Perfume burner

Live auction begins on:

May 20, 12:30 PM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 20,000 EUR

Lot Details

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Description

Émile Gallé


Perfume burner


Circa 1905

Double-layered glass with powder inclusions, partially acid-etched decoration and heat-formed collar

Later patinated wrought iron mounting

With a Cristallerie Émile Gallé label inside the perfume burner

45 x 28 x 27 cm ; 17 ¾ x 11 x 10 ⅝ in.

Bernard Laurent collection, Villefranche-sur-Mer

Thence by descent to the present owner

For a similar model :

L'Art décoratif, n°78, March 1905, p. 127

Alastair Duncan, Georges de Bartha, Gallé Le Verre, 1984, Woodbridge, p. 167

Alastair Duncan, The Paris Salon 1895-1914, volume IV : ceramics and glass, Woodbridge, 1998, p.234

Alastair Duncan, Georges de Bartha, Gallé Lamps, Woodbridge, 2013, p. 67

A similar model was exhibited at the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1905