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Object NameVase
Maker Émile Gallé (French, 1846 - 1904)
Made FromGlass
Date1885-1900
Place MadeFrance, Nancy
Techniquefree-blown, acid-etched, overlay decoration
SizeH: 37.8 cm; D (rim): 4.5 cm, (max. body): 8.1 cm, (foot): 6.2 cm
Accession Number54.3.37
Credit LineBequest of Ellen D. Sharpe
Curatorial Area(s)
Not On View
Physical DescriptionOpaque greyish-colorless and salmon colored glass; wear marks; free-blown and acid-etched, with overlay decoration. Solid ring-like foot with ground pontil mark, pear-shaped body curving to long slender neck with trumpet-like flaring rim, slight bulge at bottom of neck; foot, top of neck and the floral and leaf- pattern on body and neck is salmon colored; signed at bottom: "Galle".
Provenance
Source Ellen D. Sharpe - 1954-06-01
fragment
800-999
flask
1-99
flask
1380-1360 BCE
fragment
(a) 900-1199; (b) 800-999
vase
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