How do I identify Gallé glass?

To identify Gallé glass, turn the piece upside down. If the base is too smooth and flat, it may not be authentic. Gallé glass features vibrantly colored and gracefully executed decoration, sometimes raised, and it often comes in complex shapes with protrusions. Find a selection of Gallè glass from top sellers on 1stDibs.

What is a cameo vase?

A cameo vase is a decorative glass vase that features a design in raised relief achieved by engraving, etching and carving. The earliest examples date back to ancient Roman times, and the decorative objects experienced a revival during the Art Nouveau and Neo-Grec periods. On 1stDibs, find a range of cameo vases.

What is a Galle vase?

French artist Emile Galle was well known for his glasswork, especially his Galle vases. These vases featured swirling colors with flowers or leaves as an accent. Galle was born in 1846 and died in 1904, and his works are considered to be a significant influence in the Art Nouveau movement. On 1stDibs, find a variety of original artwork from top artists.

Galle Cameo Glass Vase

Art Nouveau Emile Galle

Art Nouveau Blue Glass Vase

Galle Signed

French Art Glass Flower Vase

Galle Cameo Glass Vase

$7,500

H 8.38 in Dm 4.88 in

Galle Cameo Glass Vase

By Émile Gallé

Located in West Palm Beach, FL

Émile Gallé (1846-1904) Galle Cameo Glass Vase France, circa 1910 Cameo signature Gallé Height 8 3/8 in., Width 4 7/8 in., Depth 2 3/4 in.

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Vintage 1910s French Vases

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Art Glass

$20,000

H 7 in Dm 4 in

Emile Galle Cameo Glass Vase, Signed Gallé Modé Le Décor Déposés

By Émile Gallé

Located in West Palm Beach, FL

Emile Gallé, FRENCH (1846-1904) A early enameled and gilt-decorated Cameo glass vase, circa 1895 Measures: 7 in. (17.7 cm.) high signed Gallé Modé Le Décor Déposés Provenance E...

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Art Nouveau Cameo Glass Cabinet Vase by Gallé, France, circa 1900

$1,000

H 4.34 in Dm 2.37 in

Art Nouveau Cameo Glass Cabinet Vase by Gallé, France, circa 1900

By Galle Art Glass

Located in Autonomous City Buenos Aires, CABA

Art Nouveau Cameo Glass Cabinet Vase by Gallé, France, circa 1900 An elegant Art Nouveau cabinet vase by Gallé, France, from the early 20th century.

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20th Century French Art Nouveau Vases

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Art Glass

Unavailable

H 13.5 in W 6 in D 6 in

French Gallé Vase, Art Deco Nouveau Cameo Style, 20th Century

Located in London, GB

A French Gallé vase, Art Deco Nouveau Cameo style, 20th century. A stunning enabled vase with floral pattern in a Royal, Yale and sapphire blue.

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20th Century French Vases

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Art Glass

$125,000

H 24.81 in W 17.72 in D 9.85 in

Purple Amethyst “Harp" phantom White calcites Decorative object Sculpture

Located in London, GB

This museum-quality Amethyst “harp” from Artigas, Uruguay, is a natural sculpture of exceptional beauty and rarity. The piece features a harmonious arrangement of high-quality Amethy...

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Antique 15th Century and Earlier Uruguayan Organic Modern Natural Specimens

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Amethyst, Quartz

"TRACCIA" Bird Leg Table, Meret Oppenheim, Simone Intl, Original Production 1975

$8,500

H 26 in W 26.75 in D 25.25 in

"TRACCIA" Bird Leg Table, Meret Oppenheim, Simone Intl, Original Production 1975

By Meret Oppenheim

Located in Tinton Falls, NJ

* Please Note: This Table Offered Is From The Original SIMON International Production (1975-1980) / It is the True VINTAGE Version, not the contemporary reproduction!! Actua...

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Vintage 1930s Italian Organic Modern Side Tables

Materials

Bronze, Gold Leaf

Jacques-Francois Delyen A Magnificent Pair of French Royal Paintings "Aurora and Diana" "Night and Day", 1752

$347,200

H 68 in W 55 in

A Magnificent Pair of French Royal Paintings "Aurora and Diana" "Night and Day"

Located in Queens, NY

Jacques-Francois Delyen (1684-1761), Court Painter of King Louis XV. A Magnificent Pair of Palatial "French Royal" Allegorical Paintings "Aurora and Diana" "Night and Day" A truly ...

Category

18th Century Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

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Galle Cameo Glass Vase For Sale on 1stDibs

With a vast inventory of beautiful furniture at 1stDibs, we’ve got just the galle cameo glass vase you’re looking for. A galle cameo glass vase — often made from glass, art glass and blown glass — can elevate any home. Whether you’re looking for an older or newer galle cameo glass vase, there are earlier versions available from the 19th Century and newer variations made as recently as the 20th Century. When you’re browsing for the right galle cameo glass vase, those designed in Art Nouveau, Art Deco and Regency styles are of considerable interest. Émile Gallé, Gallé and Galle Art Glass each produced at least one beautiful galle cameo glass vase that is worth considering.

How Much is a Galle Cameo Glass Vase?

Prices for a galle cameo glass vase start at $330 and top out at $380,000 with the average selling for $3,562.

Émile Gallé for sale on 1stDibs

“Art for art’s sake” was a belief strongly espoused by the celebrated French designer and glassworker Émile Gallé. Through his ethereal glass vases, other vessels and lamps, which he adorned with botanical and religious motifs, Gallé advanced the Art Nouveau ideology and led the modern renaissance of French glass.

Gallé was the son of successful faience and furniture maker Charles Gallé but studied philosophy and botany before coming to glassmaking later in life. The young Gallé’s expertise in botany, however, would inform his design style and become his signature for generations to come.

After learning the art of glassmaking, Gallé went to work at his father’s factory in Nancy. He initially created clear glass objects but later began to experiment with layering deeply colored glass.

While glassmakers on Murano had applied layers of glass and color on decorative objects before Gallé had, he was ever-venturesome in his northeastern France, taking advantage of defects that materialized during his processes and etching in natural forms like insects such as dragonflies, marine life, the sun, vines, fruits and flowers modeled from local specimens.

Gallé is also credited with reviving cameo glass, a glassware style that originated in Rome. He used cabochons, which were applied raised-glass decorations colored with metallic oxides and made to resemble rich jeweling. Gallé's cameo glass vases and vessels were widely popular at the Paris Exhibition of 1878, cementing his position as a talented designer and pioneer.

During the late 19th century, Gallé led breakthroughs in mass production and employed hundreds of artisans in his workshop.

Botany and nature remained great sources of inspiration for the artist's glassmaking — just as they had for other Art Nouveau designers. From approximately 1890 to 1910, the movement’s talented designers produced furniture, glass and architecture in the form of — or adorned with — gently intertwining trees, flowers and vines. But Gallé had many interests, such as Eastern art and ceramics. The Japanese collection he visited at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London (then the South Kensington Museum) during the 1870s had made an impression too.

Breaking free from the rigid Victorian traditions, Gallé infused new life and spirit into the art and design of his time through exquisitely crafted glass vessels and pioneering new glassworking techniques.

Find a collection of Émile Gallé vases and other furniture and decorative objects on 1stDibs.

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.