Galle Cameo Multilayer Landscape Vase circ 1900
By Émile Gallé
Located in Sarasota, FL
Galle multilayer cameo glass landscape vase, Depicts Alpine view.
Antique Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Vases
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Galle Cameo Multilayer Landscape Vase circ 1900
By Émile Gallé
Located in Sarasota, FL
Galle multilayer cameo glass landscape vase, Depicts Alpine view.
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1900s Art Nouveau Art Glass Vase with Scenic Landscape by Émile Gallé, France
By Émile Gallé
Located in North Miami, FL
1900s Art Nouveau Art Glass vase with scenic landscape decoration by Émile Gallé, France By: Émile Gallé Material: glass, art glass Technique: cast, pressed, etched Dimensions: 3 in...
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Late 19th Century Art Nouveau French Cameo Glass "Landscape Vase" by Emile Gallé
By Émile Gallé
Located in London, GB
A stunning late 19th-century French Art Nouveau cylindrical glass vase, depicting a tree set against a multi-coloured landscape.
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Set Of 4 Art Nouveau Glass Vases By Gallé, 20th Century
By Émile Gallé
Located in Lisbon, PT
- Impressive Art Nouveau Emile Galle Cameo landscape vase, in a yellow background and brown inlaid details aquatic vegetation and autumn tonality.
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Galle Alpine Landscape Cameo Vase
By Émile Gallé
Located in Sarasota, FL
Galle cameo Alpine landscape vase in frosted pink glass, decorated with a green intercalaire tree scene over a blue mountain range.
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Émile Gallé Art Nouveau Cameo Glass Landscape Vase, circa 1900
Located in Autonomous City Buenos Aires, CABA
Émile Gallé Art Nouveau Cameo Glass Landscape Vase, circa 1900 Elegant French Art Nouveau cameo glass vase attributed to Émile Gallé, circa 1900.
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Pair of French Art Nouveau Cameo Glass Vases with Landscape Motifs, by Gallé
Located in Autonomous City Buenos Aires, CABA
Pair of French Art Nouveau Cameo Glass Vases with Landscape Motifs, by Gallé An exceptional and harmonious pair of French Art Nouveau cameo glass vases by Établissements Gallé, Nancy...
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French Art Nouveau Emile Galle Cameo Glass Blue Mountain Landscape Vase c1920
By Émile Gallé
Located in Worcester Park, GB
Exceptional Art Nouveau Emile Galle Cameo 'blue mountain' landscape vase, in the classic shape of an eye bath topped moon flask.
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French Art Nouveau Emile Galle Cameo Glass Misty Morning Landscape Vase c1910
By Émile Gallé
Located in Worcester Park, GB
Fine Art Nouveau Emile Galle Cameo landscape vase, depicting a very early morning scene, with bright yellow sky and green brown trees in the round mostly behind a gently rolling and ...
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Large French Emile Galle Cameo Glass Blue Mountain and Lake Landscape Vase c1925
By Émile Gallé
Located in Worcester Park, GB
Exceptional large Art Nouveau Emile Galle Cameo 'blue mountain' landscape vase. The tall vase is in browns and pale purple over peach -an very unusual colourway.
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French Art Nouveau Emile Galle Cameo Glass Green and Brown Landscape Vase c1920
By Émile Gallé
Located in Worcester Park, GB
Fabulous Art Nouveau Emile Galle Cameo misty landscape vase, depicting a classic landscape scene with large highly detailed trees to the front and behind a running stream and the cla...
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French Art Nouveau Emile Galle Cameo Glass Man on Bridge Landscape Vase c1920
By Émile Gallé
Located in Worcester Park, GB
The first Galle landscapes were made c 1908 and depicted many images swiftly banned by Galle's widow including any human features.
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Large Émile Gallé Art Nouveau Vase with Pond Landscape Decor, France, 1904/06
By Émile Gallé
Located in Vienna, AT
Vase with a three-pass floor plan, widening upwards, dented at the upper edge between the segment arches, outer edge ground at the top.
Glass
French Art Nouveau Emile Galle Cameo Glass Blue Mountain Night Light c1920
By Émile Gallé
Located in Worcester Park, GB
Very rare late Art Nouveau Emile Galle Cameo glass 'blue mountain' landscape vase, depicting black trees against blue/green mountains and a lake tinted with pink.
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Gallè Art Nouveau Blue and Yellow Glass Vosgi Landscape French Vase
By Gallé
Located in Fiumicino, Rome
Etched and overlay glass vase of spreading form and short cilindrical neck, yellow glass overlaid in tones of blue and etched with tall pine trees in extensive mountain landscape.
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H 10.5 in W 2.5 in D 3.5 in
French Emile Galle Art Nouveau Cameo Glass Landscape Vase 1900
By Émile Gallé
Located in London, GB
Stunning Art Nouveau Emile Galle large cameo soli-fleur vase, depicting a Classic early morning country landscape -with hazy mist still over the water, in browns, greens and pink, si...
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French Emile Galle Art Nouveau Cameo Glass Landscape Vase c1900
By Émile Gallé
Located in London, GB
Wonderful Art Nouveau Emile Galle landscape cameo vase. Brown over opal, over clear, and yellow beneath.
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H 13.78 in Dm 5.52 in
Gallè Art Nouveau Blue and Yellow Glass Vosgi Landscape French Balauster Vase
By Émile Gallé
Located in Fiumicino, Rome
Etched and overlay glass vase of baluster form and quatrefoiled rim, the yellow and white glass overlaid in tones of blue and etched with tall pine trees in extensive Vosgi’s mountai...
Glass
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H 8.67 in Dm 3.15 in
Gallè Art Nouveau Blue, Green, Grey-White Glass Vosgi Landscape Scent Bottle
By Émile Gallé
Located in Fiumicino, Rome
Acid etched scent bottle, tapering cylindrical shape, decorated with blue mountain landscape on a pale green and white ground. Mounted with a metal scent spray. Big size. Still work...
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Galle Cameo glass vase brown & peach landscape design C1905
By Émile Gallé
Located in Devon, GB
Emile Galle cameo glass landscape vase C1905 Super quality vase, very realistic design and detail to the trees which fits nicely to the shape.
Glass
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H 6.7 in Dm 5.52 in
French Art Nouveau Emile Galle Cameo Glass 'Morning Mist' Landscape Vase c1900
By Émile Gallé
Located in London, GB
Exceptional Art Nouveau Emile Galle Cameo landscape vase, depicting a very early morning waterside scene, with outline trees, buildings and shrubs, with swirling mists over a flowing...
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H 11.5 in Dm 3.5 in
French Emile Galle Art Nouveau Cameo Glass Landscape Vase signed circa 1900
By Émile Gallé
Located in London, GB
Wonderful Emile Galle Cameo footed vase. Greeny-brown over yellow/green over clear and orange brown beneath.
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Émile Gallé Landscape Vase
By Émile Gallé
Located in New Orleans, LA
Acid Etched and Cameo Glass Vase Émile Gallé Circa 1910 This exquisite Art Nouveau vase was crafted by the renowned Gallé in Nancy, France.
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Émile Gallé Landscape Glass Vase
By Émile Gallé
Located in New Orleans, LA
This rare sand-polished cameo art glass vase from the famed Art Nouveau master Émile Gallé features an intricate landscape scene.
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Émile Gallé Art Nouveau Cameo Glass "Landscape" Vase
By Émile Gallé
Located in New York, NY
A French Art Nouveau cameo carved glass “landscape” vase by Émile Gallé, depicting a pastoral landscape at sunset.
Galle Cameo Glass Baluster Vase Vosges Landscape, C1900
By Émile Gallé
Located in Forest Row, East Sussex
An Emile Gallé Cameo Glass Baluster vase depicting a Vosges landscape made c1900 in Nancy, France.
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Art Nouveau Cameo Glass “Landscape” Vase by Émile Gallé
By Émile Gallé
Located in New York, NY
A French Art Nouveau cameo glass landscape vase by Émile Gallé featuring lakeside views of trees and mountains, circa 1900s.
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H 6.25 in W 2.75 in D 2.75 in
Antique French Galle Cut-Back Art Glass Vase, Mountainous Landscape, C1900’s
By Gallé
Located in Big Flats, NY
An antique French Galle vase offers cameo art glass construction with cut-back mountainous river landscape scene signed as photographed, c1900 Measures - 6.25''H x 2.75''W x 2.75''D.
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H 8.27 in Dm 2.56 in
Soliflore "Landscape" Acid-Etched Glass Vase by E. Gallé, France, circa 1900
By Émile Gallé
Located in PARIS, FR
Signed Gallé. Elegant soliflore vase in multilayer acid-etched glass, in orange-green tones and decorated with wooded landscape.
Glass
French Emile Galle Art Nouveau Cameo Glass Landscape Vase, circa 1910
By Émile Gallé, Louis Hestaux
Located in Worcester Park, GB
Impressive Art Nouveau Emile Galle Cameo landscape vase, 7 1/2 inches tall, in a variety browns and yellows with a hint of opal, signed in cameo, produced circa 1910 (Provost Mk III ...
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Gallé vase with aquatic landscape
By Émile Gallé
Located in Autonomous City Buenos Aires, CABA
EMILE GALLÉ. Vase, Art Nouveau, France, overhang in shades of green against a pink background, etched decoration of a river landscape.
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H 11.03 in Dm 4.73 in
Emile Gallé, France, Art Nouveau glass vase with landscape motif in brown shades
Located in København, Copenhagen
Emile Gallé, France. Art Nouveau glass vase with landscape motif in brown shades.
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H 6.7 in Dm 2.37 in
French Art Nouveau Emile Galle Cameo Glass Early Morning Landscape Vase c1920
By Émile Gallé
Located in Worcester Park, GB
Exceptional Art Nouveau Emile Galle Cameo landscape vase, depicting a very early morning scene, with bright pink sky and orange brown trees trees behind a gently rolling and reflecte...
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Emile Gallé French Art Nouveau 'Vosges' Landscape Cameo Glass Vase
By Émile Gallé
Located in Cincinnati, OH
This vase features a landscape scene from the Les Vosges region, a mountainous area in Eastern France near Nancy loved by Gallé and known for the distinctive blue coloration of the m...
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Emile Galle Cameo Glass Forest Lake Landscape Vase, France circa 1904
By Émile Gallé
Located in Bochum, NRW
Impressive Emile Gallé, vase with meadow landscape, Nancy 1904-06 Large cameo vase of colorless glass, partially backed in yellow and ochre, overlay in violet-brown, glossy etched de...
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Emile Galle Fisherman Pillow Vase
By Émile Gallé
Located in Dallas, TX
A large and exquisite Emile Gallé French overlay glass fishing landscape vase, circa 1900.
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Galle Cameo Glass Landscape Boat Shaped Vase
By Émile Gallé
Located in Sarasota, FL
Boat shaped cameo scenic landscape vase ("Paysage de Verre" ) in colors of green, pink and dark green, circa 1900. Marked in cameo. Nicely polished pontil.
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H 7.25 in W 3 in D 2.5 in
French Art Nouveau Emile Galle Cameo Peach Early Morning Landscape Vase c1908
By Émile Gallé
Located in Worcester Park, GB
Fabulous Art Nouveau Emile Galle Cameo early landscape vase, depicting a classic landscape scene with large trees leaning over a quiet pond in the early eerie morning light.
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H 6.7 in Dm 5.52 in
French Art Nouveau Emile Galle Cameo Glass 'Morning Mist' Landscape Vase c1900
By Louis Hestaux, Émile Gallé
Located in Worcester Park, GB
Exceptional Art Nouveau Emile Galle Cameo landscape vase, depicting a very early morning waterside scene, with outline trees, buildings and shrubs, with swirling mists over a flowing...
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Emile Gallé Art Nouveau Lake Landscape Decoration Glass Vase, 1910s
By Émile Gallé
Located in Mondovì cn, Italia
Glass vase with decoration of the lake landscape in the colors of green and brown signed Same form is published on art signed "Gallé" Tiny Esveld p. 163.
Glass
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H 16.93 in W 6.3 in D 7.88 in
Emile Gallé Art Nouveau Lake Landscape Decoration Glass Vase, 1910s
By Émile Gallé
Located in Mondovì cn, Italia
Glass vase with decoration of the lake landscape in the colors of green and brown signed.
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Blue Landscape Vase
By Émile Gallé
Located in London, GB
A beautiful and dramatic late 19th century cameo glass vase with excellent blue, deep purple and green landscape decoration acid cut and etched against a blue and white field, a wond...
Emile Galle Art Nouveau Cameo Matterhorn Vase, Signed, circa 1900
By Émile Gallé
Located in London, GB
Special Emile Galle Art Nouveau cameo landscape vase, in browns, blues, purples and yellow, depicting the famous Matterhorn Mountain -in near twilight, signed (The signature is diffi...
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Legras Style Enameled and Hand-Painted Decoration Glass Vase, 1930s
By Verrerie Legras
Located in Verviers, BE
Legras Style Enameled and Hand-Painted Decoration Glass Vase, 1930s Period: Early 20th century Origin: St. Denis, France Color: Enameled with magenta crimson hues on a peach ground ...
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French Art Nouveau Emile Galle Cameo Glass Moonlit Vase c1910
By Émile Gallé
Located in Worcester Park, GB
Rare Art Nouveau Emile Galle Cameo botanical vase, depicting flowers, in purple over blue and yellow. The flowers are set mostly against a dark blue background giving the illusion of...
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Art Nouveau Bohemian Glass Vase, Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Art Nouveau bohemian iridescent orange vase, realized in the early 20th Century. Excellent condition.
Glass
$4,824
H 12.6 in Dm 3.55 in
Early 20th Century French Cameo Glass Vase "Slender Floral Vase" by Emile Galle
By Émile Gallé
Located in London, GB
A very attractive early 20th Century French cameo glass slender shaped vase decroated with deep burgundy and red flowers against a vibrant yellow field, signed Gallé. ADDITIONAL INF...
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Galle Cameo Glass Monumental Allium Vase, circa 1900s
By Émile Gallé
Located in Sarasota, FL
Galle cameo glass allium vase, circa early 1900s. The cameo glass is present in a least three colors over the light background. The vase signed in cameo, and was made in 1900s. It is...
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Emile Galle Art Glass Cameo Vase
By Émile Gallé
Located in Guaynabo, PR
This is an Emile Galle Art Glass Cameo Vase. It is an elongated ovoid shaped vase. It has a frosted orange glass at the upper top highlighted by different shades of this color. The o...
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French Art Nouveau Signed Botanical Emile Gallé Cameo Glass Vase circa, 1920
By Émile Gallé
Located in Worcester Park, GB
French Art Nouveau Emile Gallé small cameo vase depicting blossoming flowers in purple and blue over orange/yellow, with fine internal polishing to highlight the blue in the flowers ...
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Early 20th Century Cameo Vase Entitled "Moon Vase" by Emile Gallé
By Émile Gallé
Located in London, GB
A beautiful early 20th Century cameo glass vase acid cut and etched with a deep red floral decoration against a yellow background. With a crescent moon at the openning of the vase. E...
Glass
$2,446
H 7 in W 3.5 in D 1.5 in
French Art Nouveau Emile Galle Cameo Glass Four Colour Banjo Vase, circa 1900
By Émile Gallé
Located in Worcester Park, GB
Classic Art Nouveau four colour Emile Galle 'Banjo' vase, depicting blooms in dark green, purple, opaque white and, internally, pink - signed in cameo (see picture 4 -Provost Mark II...
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Emile Gallé French Art Nouveau Cameo Glass Vase
By Émile Gallé
Located in Antwerp, BE
Emille Galle (1846-1904). Émile Gallé was a French glass maker and furniture designer, who had his home in his native Nancy. His favourite topic, which he frequently used in his wor...
Glass
$977 / set
H 10.63 in Dm 3.94 in
Art Nouveau Frosted Glass Vases with Fine Gilded and Enamelled Floral Décor
By Saint Louis
Located in Bochum, NRW
Pair of Art Nouveau Crystal Vases with Gilded Floral Incrustations. Attributed to Saint‑Louis, 27 cm, Perfect Condition A refined pair of Art Nouveau clear‑crystal vases, attribute...
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French Ceramist, Antique Vase in Glazed Ceramics, Early 20th C
Located in København, Copenhagen
French ceramist. Antique vase in glazed ceramics. Beautiful luster glaze. Early 20th century. Measures: 37.5 x 14 cm. In excellent condition. Signed.
Ceramic
$18,500
H 14.57 in Dm 9.45 in
Émile Gallé (1846-1904), Rare Cameo Glass Vase 'Basilique Saint-Nicolas-de-Port'
By Émile Gallé
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Émile Gallé (1846-1904) Rare and Important Galle French Cameo Glass Vase Cased glass, opalescent, colorless, yellow and blue, acid-etched design with the Basilica of St Nicolas de P...
Art Glass
$6,138
H 10.83 in Dm 4.53 in
Art Nouveau Cameo Vase, Hiver, Winter Landscape, Daum Nancy, France, Circa 1900
By Daum
Located in Vienna, AT
Baluster vase on a stepped round base, bulbous and tapered, with a rim that widens upwards from a slight constriction at the neck; colourless glass with flocculent orange and yellowi...
Glass
Large Art Nouveau Cameo Vase, After Émile Gallé
By Émile Gallé
Located in North Palm Beach, FL
This exquisite cameo vase after Émile Gallé displays a rich amber hue displaying high relief design of leaves and flowers. The intricate details and subtle color variations exemplify...
Art Glass
$2,989
H 9.45 in W 5.52 in D 3.94 in
French Art Nouveau Emile Galle Cameo Glass Vase -wild flowers C1899
By Émile Gallé
Located in Worcester Park, GB
Super early Emile Galle three colour cameo vase in the unusual combination of orange and yellow and pink featuring unusual wild flowers in bloom with a great early signature circa 18...
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Art Nouveau Table Lamp in the Style of Hector Guimard
By Sofar
Located in Rebais, FR
Art Nouveau Bronze and glasses lamp with nickel painted finish.
Bronze
Tiffany Studios Poinsettia Table Lamp, Leaded Glass, Circa 1910
By Tiffany Studios
Located in Dallas, TX
Tiffany Studios "Poinsettia" Table Lamp circa 1910 leaded glass, patinated bronze shade impressed "Tiffany Studios, New York, 1558-6" base impressed "Tiffany Studios, New York, 370"...
Bronze
Tiffany Studios Eighteen-Light "Lily" Table Lamp
By Tiffany & Co.
Located in London, GB
Tiffany Studios Eighteen-Light "Lily" Table Lamp Tiffany Studios (American, 1902–1932) American, circa 1910 Height 51.5cm, width 49cm, depth 49cm This table lamp is constructed in p...
Bronze
Gilded Peacock Sculpture in Porcelain and Crystal
Located in Paris, FR
Sculpture gilded peacock handmade in precious porcelain one by one, feather by feather. Each feather is unique. Made with shiny porcelain, hand-painted with 24-karat gold and preciou...
Crystal, Gold Plate, Brass
$368,000Sale Price|20% Off
H 104 in W 45 in D 6 in
104" Historic Tiffany Window "Crusader", a Warrior Knight, after Mantegna c1890
By Tiffany Studios
Located in Big Flats, NY
Magnificent historic Tiffany Studios framed window, "Crusader", a Warrior Knight, after the 1460 work by Italian Renaissance painter Andrea Mantegna (1431-1506). Incorporating a harm...
Stained Glass
Art Deco Dressing Table Chest Period 1925 Maple
Located in Potters Bar, GB
An unusual Art Deco dressing table veneered in beautifully figured bird’s-eye maple Circa 1925 - period art deco antique The timber’s swirling grain gives the piece a rich, lustrous ...
Maple
Tiffany Studios New York "Spider" Leaded Glass Table Lamp
By Louis Comfort Tiffany, Tiffany Studios
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This Tiffany Studios geometric leaded glass and bronze table lamp features the iconic Spider shade and its original complementary Mushroom bronze base. The unique form of the spider ...
Bronze
Tall Tiffany Studios Geometric 20” Vine Border Table Lamp
By Tiffany Studios
Located in Dallas, TX
Tiffany Studios New York "Vine Border" Shade and Library Base Table Lamp In perfect original condition which is extremely rare for a 115 yr old lamp. The glass is diachronic and lig...
Bronze
$62,500
H 1.5 in W 3 in D 2 in
Rare Indian Mughal-Style White Jade Gold Diamond Ruby Emerald Jeweled Casket
Located in Long Island City, NY, NY
An exceptional and richly jeweled Indian Mughal-style carved white jade casket, dating to the late nineteenth century / early 20th century circa 1890–1920. This remarkable jewel box ...
Jade, Gold
$36,944
H 9.06 in W 7.09 in D 0.04 in
1925 René Lalique Statuette Suzanne Opalescent Butterscotch Glass
By René Lalique
Located in Boulogne Billancourt, FR
Statuette "Suzanne" made in deep butterscotch glass by René Lalique in 1925. Molded signature. Perfect condition. Exceptional and extremely rare color. height : 23 cm width : 18 ...
Blown Glass
Loetz Silberiris Candia Iridescent Twin Handled Glass Vase
By Loetz Glass
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
Stylish Bohemian Silberiris Candia iridescent glass vase with brown handles by Johann Loetz Witwe and dating from around 1900. The simply shaped vase ref PN 85/5151 in the Loetz cata...
Blown Glass
On Hold|$25,576
H 8.47 in Dm 0.04 in
1925 René Lalique - Art Deco Statuette Thais Suzanne Opalescent Glass
By Lalique, René Lalique
Located in Boulogne Billancourt, FR
Statuette "Thais" made in opalescent glass by René Lalique in 1925. Engraved signature. Perfect condition. Wonderful model. Beautiful opalescence. height: 21.5 cm Félix Marcilhac,...
Blown Glass
Art Nouveau Style Vianne Table Lamp Blue Glass, France
By Baccarat
Located in Rijssen, NL
This is a Vianne table lamp, made around the 1970s in France. The lamp features a brass base and 3 arms with blue and clear glass shades with a floral pattern on it. Illuminates be...
Opaline Glass
Exceptional French 18K Gold-Mounted Opal Matrix Snuff Box, circa 1800
Located in Long Island City, NY, NY
An exceptional French 18-karat gold-mounted opal matrix snuff box, circa 1800, formerly in the distinguished Hartman Collection. Of elegant rectangular form with chamfered corners, ...
Opal, Gold
Muller Frères Landscape Cameo Glass Table Lamp
By Muller Frères
Located in New Orleans, LA
Landscape Cameo Glass Table Lamp Muller Frères Circa 1920 Richly colored cameo glass brings this remarkable table lamp by Muller Frères to life. The overlaid and acid-etched glass c...
Art Glass
Antique Tiffany Studios New York Ten-Light "Lily" Favrile Glass Table Lamp
By Tiffany Studios
Located in Tarry Town, NY
An exceptional and highly sought-after Tiffany Studios New York Ten-Light "Lily" table lamp, created circa 1910 during the golden age of American Art Nouveau design. This magnificent...
Bronze
“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.
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.
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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.