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Object NameLidded Box with Chervil

Artist Émile Gallé (French, 1846 - 1904)

Studio Cristallerie d'Émile Gallé

Made FromGlass, Gilding

Dateabout 1801-1900

TechniqueMold-blown, enameled, gilded, and engraved

Size(a&b) H: 11 cm; (a) H: 7 cm, D (max.)(body): 18.5 cm

Accession Number54.3.74

Credit LineBequest of Ellen D. Sharpe

Curatorial Area(s)

Modern
Early Modern

Place Made

France, Nancy

Physical DescriptionThick transparent pale amber glass with minute impurities; mold-blown, enameled, gilded, and engraved. Solid quadratic foot-ring, bulgy rectangular body with flange on top for rectangular cover with rounded corners and a flat bow- like depression at the center; on body and cover acid-etched, enameled and gilded floral motifs, on base the signature together with floral motifs: "Emile Galle".
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