Émile Gallé, Rare vase

circa 1884
Wheel-carved, overlaid, and acid-etched glass with inclusions of coloured powders.
8.2 cm (3 1/4 in.) high, 7.9 cm (3 1/8 in.) diameter
Engraved gallé.

Provenance

Private collection, Paris
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2005

Literature

Philippe Garner, Émile Gallé, London, 1976, p. 117 for a similar example
Alastair Duncan and Georges de Bartha, Glass by Gallé, London, 1984, p. 61 for a similar example
Tim Newark, The Art of Émile Gallé, London, 1995, p. 92 for a similar example
Bernd Hakenjos, Émile Gallé: Keramik, Glas und Möbel des Art Nouveau, Munich, 2012, pp. 55-56 for similar examples, p. 187 for a drawing
Émile Gallé: Nature and Symbol, exh. cat., Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, Tokyo, 2016, p. 134 for a similar example