bowl

Object NameBowl with Flowers

Artist Émile Gallé (French, 1846 - 1904)

Studio Cristallerie d'Émile Gallé

Made FromGlass, Gilding

Dateabout 1885

Place MadeFrance, Nancy

TechniqueBlown, hot-applied decorative elements, enameled, engraved, and gilded

SizeH: 15.1 cm; D (rim): 15.6 cm, (base): 8.6 cm

Accession Number54.3.39

Credit LineBequest of Ellen D. Sharpe

Curatorial Area(s)

Modern

On ViewModern Gallery

Physical DescriptionTransparent colorless glass with amber tint and few bubbles; wear marks; blown, hot-applied decorative elements, enameled, engraved, and gilded. Solid light amber conical foot with ground pontil mark, walls of body outspreading to become vertical at top to form a crimped quintefoil rim, thus giving the bowl a blossom-like appearance; sunflower-like motifs in yellow, brown and lilac with thick blobs in the middle of the blossoms, the remaining parts of the body heavily "frosted" and tinted in lilac through acid-etching, rim and ring around foot gilded, on base the signature in red: "Cristallerie Emile Galle", surrounding a leaf-like motif.
Provenance

Source Ellen D. Sharpe - 1954