Emile Gallé French Art Nouveau Glass and Wood Footed Bowl

A French Art Nouveau games table by Emile Galle´, featuring inlaid fruitwood marquetry depicting thistles and card suit symbols. The table's apron has a series of carved card suit sy...

A French carved and fruitwood marquetry inlaid Ombelliféres vitrine by Emile Gallé. The vitrine has marquetry ombelle flowers in its interior and on the panel below the bottom shelf....

A French Art Nouveau two-tiered square pedestal with carved and marquetry decoration by Emile Gallé. The pedestal has two marquetry shelves depicting leaves. Its four sinuous legs ar...

A French Art Nouveau marquetry commode by Émile Gallé. With original key. Circa 1890. The syncretic influence of Japanese art is keenly felt in Gallé's commode. The beginning of Galle's fascination with Japanese art can be traced back to his friendship with Hokkai Takashima (1850-1931), a fellow botanist and member of the École de Nancy. Their botanical dialogue was facilitated by the Shokobutsu mei-i, a book of Japanese names for botanical species. It is from Hokkai that Gallé gained a spiritual and symbolic understanding of nature. Along with other École de Nancy artists, Hokkai and Gallé exhibited together in the display window of René Wiener's papeterie. The store served as the office of Wiener's arts journal, the Nancy artiste, which regularly featured on its covers contemporary examples of Gansai (Japanese watercolor), Byōbu (folding screens) from the Rinpa school, Sumi-e (ink painting), and Ukiyo-e (woodblock prints). As a show of gratitude, Hokkai bequeathed a vast art book collection to Wiener. It is from this record that we know with certainty of which Japanese artists Gallé had knowledge. One of the books in Hokkai's collection was Hokusai's Les cent paysages du Fuji (Fugaku hyakkei.) This 1835 expansion of Hokusai's 36 views of Mount Fuji...

A French Art Nouveau selette by Émile Gallé. Gallé made very few selettes of this quality and design during his career, and even fewer of those with curved lower pieces that reunite ...

A French "Crabe", pâte de verre vide-poche by Amalric Walter. The reddish-brown crab has spots of dark green, red and yellow on the top portion of its shell. It sits on a green wave ...

Emile Galle Art Deco bowl; signed Galle.

Emile Gallé, France. Antique bowl in mouth-blown art glass with hand-painted flower decorations in gold, 1870s-1880s. Measures: 24 x 5 cm. In good condition with minor wear in the ...

A beautiful Art Nouveau style green glass dish.

A supremely elegant Art Nouveau piece, this beautiful decorative bowl was masterfully crafted in France at the turn of the last century. Ornate bronze doré adorns two sides, handle a...

Beautiful mid-20th century Italian murano Venetian hand blown art glass footed bowl Fabulous bowl in jade color with red rim. Beautiful decorative piece for any table or shelf, very delicate decorative bowl with bright modern colors. Hand blown murano glass bowl with magnificent jade light...

Art Nouveau sterling silver bowl. Made by Georg Jensen in Copenhagen. Round and tapering with flared rim set in open tendril support on round and stepped foot. Hand hammered with nic...