Émile Gallé
Les Veilleuses or Colchiques vase, circa 1897-1898
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10,000 - 15,000 EUR
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Émile Gallé
Les Veilleuses or Colchiques vase, circa 1897-1898
Multi-layered filigree glass
Marqueterie-sur-verre and wheel-carved decoration, silver foil inclusions and applied glass
Engraved signature Gallé on the flank
Height : 44 cm ; 17 ¼ in.
Mr Helmut Meissner collection, Dresden
Then seized by the East German secret service in 1982 and installed in the collections of the Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin
Restituted to the heirs of Mr Helmut Meissner in 2007
Sotheby's London, 27 September 2007, lot 410
Catalogue des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, dessin, gravure, architecture et objets d'art exposés au Champs-de-Mars le 1er mai 1898, Evreux, 1898, referenced under n° 316 p. 288
Ray and Lee Grover, Carved & Decorated European art glass, Rutland, 1970, p. 191
Alastair Duncan and Georges de Bartha, Glass by Gallé, London, 1984, p. 33, 92 and 95
Tim Newark, Emile Gallé, Courbevoie, 1990, p. 33
Alastair Duncan, The Paris Salons 1895-1914, Volume 4, Ceramics and glass, Woodbrige, Suffolk, 1998, p. 204
François Le Tacon, L'Oeuvre de Verre d'Emile Gallé, Paris, 1998, p. 118
Valérie Thomas, Françoise Sylvestre et al., Émile Gallé et le Verre: la collection du Musée de L'École de Nancy, Nancy, 2004, referenced under n°222 p. 137
François Le Tacon, Emile Gallé : l'Amour de l'Art, Paris, 2008, p. 173
Bernd Hakenjos, Emile Gallé : Keramik, Glas und Möbel des Art Nouveau, volume 2, Munich, 2012, p. 100
A similar model is in the collections of the Musée des l'Ecole de Nancy, Nancy (inv. 375) and in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (inv. 1984.553)
