Galle Signatures

Hydrangea Vase

Galle Cameo Glass Vase

Art Nouveau Emile Galle

Large Cameo

Large Glass French Vase

Galle Signed

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Glass

Table Jugendstil, Art Nouveau, Liberty , Year: 1900, Signature: Galle

$45,000

H 29.53 in W 34.65 in D 21.66 in

Table Jugendstil, Art Nouveau, Liberty , Year: 1900, Signature: Galle

Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C

Logistics and International Shipping We provide a comprehensive export service so that your only concern is enjoying your acquisition. • Door-to-Door Service: Pieces located in our A...

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Antique Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Center Tables

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Wood

Art Nouveau Pendant Light, 22-Karat Gold Finish Galle Type Glass Shade

$210

H 31 in Dm 9 in

Art Nouveau Pendant Light, 22-Karat Gold Finish Galle Type Glass Shade

Located in Los Angeles, CA

The Gold is worth more than this now . Has a Galle' style shade showing a signature, not old.

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Antique 1890s French Art Nouveau Chandeliers and Pendants

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Galle' Cameo Vase

Unavailable

H 8.63 in Dm 3.25 in

Galle' Cameo Vase

Located in Bronx, NY

The tall tapering form has a flared out base and is masterfully decorated with a raised detailed blossoming vine decoration that surrounds its body. The vase bears the signature Gall...

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Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Vases

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Glass

Elegant Cameo 12.5 Inch Galle Vase

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H 12.5 in Dm 4 in

Elegant Cameo 12.5 Inch Galle Vase

By Émile Gallé

Located in Dallas, TX

A soft peach pink pastel base contrasting wild thistles or the Chardon emblematic of the Lorraine region of France. Engraved Gallé signature with star dating the piece to around 1905.

Art Nouveau Burnt Amber Lotus Etched Glass Cameo Vase signed by Galle

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H 5.75 in Dm 3.5 in

Art Nouveau Burnt Amber Lotus Etched Glass Cameo Vase signed by Galle

By Émile Gallé

Located in New York, NY

Cameo signature Gallé. Excellent condition. Circa 1910.

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20th Century French Art Nouveau Glass

Blown Glass

$3,761

H 31.89 in W 17.33 in D 13.78 in

Gallé Émile French Art Nouveau Nightstand

By Émile Gallé

Located in Prato, Tuscany

We kindly ask that you read the entire description, as we strive to provide detailed technical and historical information to guarantee the authenticity of our items. This exquisite n...

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Antique Late 19th Century French Art Nouveau Night Stands

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Maple, Walnut

$3,600

H 14 in Dm 5 in

Tiffany Studios Rare Iridescent Favrile Large Vase

By Louis Comfort Tiffany

Located in Dallas, TX

Tiffany Studios by Louis Comfort Tiffany Large Red and Gold Iridescent Floriform Glass Vase. This is a rare form and red color that will be a must addition to the discerning Tiffany ...

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Antique Early 1900s American Art Nouveau Vases

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Art Glass

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Galle Signatures For Sale on 1stDibs

An assortment of galle signatures is available at 1stDibs. Each of these unique galle signatures was constructed with extraordinary care, often using glass, art glass and metal. Galle signatures have long been popular, with older editions for sale from the 19th Century and newer versions made as recently as the 20th Century. Art Nouveau, Art Deco and mid-century modern galle signatures are consistently popular styles. Many galle signatures are appealing in their simplicity, but Emile Gallé, Charles Schneider and Daum produced popular galle signatures that are worth a look.

How Much are Galle Signatures?

The average selling price for at 1stDibs is $4,400, while they’re typically $175 on the low end and $90,000 highest priced.

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.