Galle Cameo Glass

Cameo Vase

Signed Galle Vase

Cameo Signed

Art Nouveau Emile Galle

Brown Cameo

Cameo 1900

Materials

Art Glass

By Émile Gallé

Located in Worcester Park, GB

Exceptionally rare Emile Galle cameo vase in greens and browns over yellow depicting a man crossing a metal and stone bridge -one of the rarest images.

Category

Vintage 1920s French Art Nouveau Glass

Materials

Materials

Glass

H 2.96 in Dm 2.17 in

Emile Gallé Art Nouveau Period Cameo or Pâte De Verre Vase, circa 1900

By Émile Gallé

Located in Werkendam, NL

Emile Gallé Art Nouveau period glass cameo vase, circa 1900.

Category

Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Vases

Materials

Materials

Art Glass

$10,341

H 9.65 in W 4.34 in D 3.75 in

Large Emile Galle Art Nouveau Vase, Orchidees & Abeille, Nancy, France, Ca 1890

By Émile Gallé

Located in Vienna, AT

Excellent early Art Nouveau cup-shaped vase: Conical body pressed into an oval cross-section on a bell-shaped, curved round base, colorless thick-walled glass with milky white opale...

Category

Antique 1890s French Art Nouveau Glass

Materials

Glass

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Galle Cameo Glass For Sale on 1stDibs

At 1stDibs, there are many versions of the ideal piece of galle cameo glass for your home. An item from our selection of galle cameo glass — often made from glass, art glass and metal — can elevate any home. Your living room may not be complete without a choice in our collection of galle cameo glass — find older editions for sale from the 19th Century and newer versions made as recently as the 20th Century. An object in our assortment of galle cameo glass, designed in the Art Nouveau or Art Deco style, is generally a popular piece of furniture. You’ll likely find more than one option in this array of galle cameo glass that is appealing in its simplicity, but Emile Gallé, Galle Art Glass and Claude Galle produced versions that are worth a look.

How Much is a Galle Cameo Glass?

Prices for a piece of galle cameo glass start at $450 and top out at $63,855 with the average selling for $3,717.

A Close Look at Art-nouveau Furniture

In its sinuous lines and flamboyant curves inspired by the natural world, antique Art Nouveau furniture reflects a desire for freedom from the stuffy social and artistic strictures of the Victorian era. The Art Nouveau movement developed in the decorative arts in France and Britain in the early 1880s and quickly became a dominant aesthetic style in Western Europe and the United States.

ORIGINS OF ART NOUVEAU FURNITURE DESIGN

Emerged during the late 19th century
Popularity of this modernizing style declined in the early 20th century
Originated in France and Britain but variants materialized elsewhere
Informed by Rococo, Pre-Raphaelite art, Japanese art (and Japonisme), Arts and Crafts; influenced modernism, Bauhaus

CHARACTERISTICS OF ART NOUVEAU FURNITURE DESIGN

Sinuous, organic and flowing lines
Forms that mimic flowers and plant life
Decorative inlays and ornate carvings of natural-world motifs such as insects and animals
Use of hardwoods such as oak, mahogany and rosewood

ART NOUVEAU FURNITURE DESIGNERS TO KNOW

ANTIQUE ART NOUVEAU FURNITURE ON 1STDIBS

Art Nouveau — which spanned furniture, architecture, jewelry and graphic design — can be easily identified by its lush, flowing forms suggested by flowers and plants, as well as the lissome tendrils of sea life. Although Art Deco and Art Nouveau were both in the forefront of turn-of-the-20th-century design, they are very different styles — Art Deco is marked by bold, geometric shapes while Art Nouveau incorporates dreamlike, floral motifs. The latter’s signature motif is the "whiplash" curve — a deep, narrow, dynamic parabola that appears as an element in everything from chair arms to cabinetry and mirror frames.

The visual vocabulary of Art Nouveau was particularly influenced by the soft colors and abstract images of nature seen in Japanese art prints, which arrived in large numbers in the West after open trade was forced upon Japan in the 1860s. Impressionist artists were moved by the artistic tradition of Japanese woodblock printmaking, and Japonisme — a term used to describe the appetite for Japanese art and culture in Europe at the time — greatly informed Art Nouveau.

The Art Nouveau style quickly reached a wide audience in Europe via advertising posters, book covers, illustrations and other work by such artists as Aubrey Beardsley, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Alphonse Mucha. While all Art Nouveau designs share common formal elements, different countries and regions produced their own variants.

In Scotland, the architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh developed a singular, restrained look based on scale rather than ornament; a style best known from his narrow chairs with exceedingly tall backs, designed for Glasgow tea rooms. Meanwhile in France, Hector Guimard — whose iconic 1896 entry arches for the Paris Metro are still in use — and Louis Majorelle produced chairs, desks, bed frames and cabinets with sweeping lines and rich veneers.

The Art Nouveau movement was known as Jugendstil ("Youth Style") in Germany, and in Austria the designers of the Vienna Secession group — notably Koloman Moser, Josef Hoffmann and Joseph Maria Olbrich — produced a relatively austere iteration of the Art Nouveau style, which mixed curving and geometric elements.

Art Nouveau revitalized all of the applied arts. Ceramists such as Ernest Chaplet and Edmond Lachenal created new forms covered in novel and rediscovered glazes that produced thick, foam-like finishes. Bold vases, bowls and lighting designs in acid-etched and marquetry cameo glass by Émile Gallé and the Daum Freres appeared in France, while in New York the glass workshop-cum-laboratory of Louis Comfort Tiffany — the core of what eventually became a multimedia decorative-arts manufactory called Tiffany Studios — brought out buoyant pieces in opalescent favrile glass.

Jewelry design was revolutionized, as settings, for the first time, were emphasized as much as, or more than, gemstones. A favorite Art Nouveau jewelry motif was insects (think of Tiffany, in his famed Dragonflies glass lampshade).

Like a mayfly, Art Nouveau was short-lived. The sensuous, languorous style fell out of favor early in the 20th century, deemed perhaps too light and insubstantial for European tastes in the aftermath of World War I. But as the designs on 1stDibs demonstrate, Art Nouveau retains its power to fascinate and seduce.

There are ways to tastefully integrate a touch of Art Nouveau into even the most modern interior — browse an extraordinary collection of original antique Art Nouveau furniture on 1stDibs, which includes decorative objects, seating, tables, garden elements and more.