vase
Object NameVase
Maker
Émile Gallé
(French, 1846 - 1904)
Made FromGlass
Date1885-1900
Place MadeFrance, Nancy
Techniquefree-blown, cased, acid-etched, intaglio carved
SizeH: 17 cm, D (rim): 11.5-12.7 cm
Accession Number54.3.38
Credit LineBequest of Ellen D. Sharpe
Curatorial Area(s)
Not On View
Physical DescriptionThick transparent light blue and yellowish-green glass with few bubbles and "blowing spirals"; wear marks; free-blown, cased, acid-etched, and intaglio carved. Flat trefoil base with ground pontil mark, trefoil body slightly increasing in diameter towards rim with three indentations marking the trefoil; the light blue glass is encased in green glass except for the base, it is speckled with red, blue and yellow spots which are partly encased; acid-etched floral motifs partly showing the blue glass, on lower part of body the signature: "Galle".Provenance
Source
Ellen D. Sharpe
- 1954
about 1250-1300
900-1099
1600-1699
about 1880-1900
800-999
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