Émile Gallé Furniture
French, 1846-1904
“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.
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Creator: Émile Gallé
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. Rendere...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Furniture
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Art Glass
Émile Gallé Marquetry "Mayfly and Ferns" Coffret
By Émile Gallé
Located in New York, NY
The motifs on this coffret by Émile Gallé depict a mayfly flitting among a bed of ferns. Hatching in summer and living only a few hours before mating and dying, the mayfly has long s...
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Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Émile Gallé Furniture
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Fruitwood
Emile Galle Butterfly Mushroom Table Lamo
By Émile Gallé
Located in Dallas, TX
Emile Galle Art Nouveau Table Lamp. A French art nouveau art glass lamp decorated with Butterflies and Flowers in a deep amber red. 100% ori...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Furniture
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Art Glass
Pichet Saint Clément canard en majolique Française, design Art Nouveau 19ième
By Saint-Clément, Émile Gallé
Located in London, England
Le pichet canard de Saint Clément, en faïence barbotine, modèle 7492, est un véritable chef-d'œuvre qui illustre l'élégance et le savoir-faire des artistes Émile et Charles Gallé. Ce...
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Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Émile Gallé Furniture
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Ceramic
French Art nouveau hall tree / coat rack by Emile galle 1905 marquetry hallway
By Émile Gallé
Located in Ijzendijke, NL
Enhance your hallway decor with the elegant and functional Emile Gallé hallway tree coat rack.
Featuring exquisite craftsmanship and a timeless design. the coat rack comes with its ...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Furniture
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Brass, Bronze
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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1890s French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Furniture
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Art Glass
Art Deco Émile Gallé Cameo Glass w/ Amber and Yellow Naturalist Detailing Vase
By Émile Gallé
Located in New York, NY
This equisential detailed Art Deco Émile Gallé Cameo Glass Vase in Amber and Yellow W/Naturalist Detailing originates from France, Circa 1900. Features a golden base color with amber...
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Early 1900s French Art Deco Antique Émile Gallé Furniture
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Glass
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...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Furniture
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Glass
Emile Galle. An Art Nouveau Walnut writing desk with exceptional inlaid scenery
By Émile Gallé
Located in London, GB
An exhibition-quality Art Nouveau Walnut writing desk with an exceptional scene depicting moored boats on a river overlooked by a large tree on the river bank inlaid to the upper cup...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Furniture
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Walnut
Original French Art Nouveau Marquetry Table ''Japonisme'' by Emile Galle 1900
By Émile Gallé
Located in Ijzendijke, NL
Very rare original Emile Galle ''plate 66 Japonisme'' side table in Art Nouveau style.
This beautiful side table was created by Emile Galle in 1900, during the art nouveau period. It features exquisite marquetry woodwork that is inspired by the Japonisme movement, which was influenced by Japanese art and design. The side table is decorated with breathtaking Magnolia flowers & a romantic couple of butterflies. Made from various types of wood, creating a unique scenery almost like a painting.
The table showcases intricate details, such as delicate foliage and organic forms, that are hallmarks of art nouveau style. Galle was renowned for his innovative techniques and attention to detail, and this piece is a testament to his mastery of the craft. It is a stunning example of the art nouveau movement and a true work of art.
Literature: ''Galle furniture by Alastair Duncan and Georges de Bartha 2012 Page 153. Plate 66.
This Emile Galle table...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Furniture
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Walnut
French Art Nouveau Table Lamp by Emile Galle ''Vosges Paysage'' Cameo Glass 1900
By Émile Gallé
Located in Ijzendijke, NL
Breathtaking French Art Nouveau table lamp by Emile Gallé early 1900 model: ''Vosges Paysage'' simply exquisite.
Multilayer glass lamp with engraved decoration in brilliant reserve of a blue and green Vosges landscape, on the foot, and on the hat of eagles in flight, on an opaque yellow background. Gilded bronze mount with three claws and two lights. Signed "Gallé" in reserve, on both elements.
Looks amazing when lit, museum worthy Art Nouveau piece and a must have for any collector
This original Emile Galle lamp...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Furniture
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Bronze
Exceptional French Art Nouveau Marbled Emile Galle Cameo Glass Vase -Orchids
By Émile Gallé
Located in Worcester Park, GB
An exceptionally elegant and vibrant orange and brown Emile Galle cameo orchid vase predominantly in orange and brown layers but with a very rare mottled 'marbled' layer -giving the ...
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1920s French Art Nouveau Vintage Émile Gallé Furniture
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Art Glass
Galle cameo glass Hydrangea banjo vase C1905
By Émile Gallé
Located in Devon, GB
Galle Hydrangea 3 layer cameo glass banjo shaped vase
C1905 signed Galle in the cameo
The condition is perfect, no damage or faults
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Furniture
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Glass
$1,198 Sale Price
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French Art Nouveau Orange-White Emile Galle Cameo Glass Vase Tea -Ceremony Shape
By Émile Gallé
Located in Worcester Park, GB
Classic orange over opaque white and clear Emile Galle cameo vase in a classic shape depicting branches and grapes or berries. -the shape is often called 'Tea Ceremony' by Japanese ...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Furniture
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Art Glass
Moon ceramic by Émile Gallé. Decor painted after Joseph Vernet
By Émile Gallé
Located in Paris, FR
Émile Gallé (1846–1904),
Rare ceramic dish in the shape of a moon, decorated with a painting after Joseph Vernet.
France, 1870s.
Signed on the back.
Diameter: 35 cm x Height: 5 cm
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Late 19th Century Antique Émile Gallé Furniture
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Ceramic
Émile Gallé "Grenouilles" Fruitwood Cabinet
By Émile Gallé
Located in New York, NY
This French Art Nouveau "Grenouilles" carved fruitwood cabinet by Émile Gallé features detailed and masterful marquetry depicting dragonflies and mushrooms in a lush, leafy landscape...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Furniture
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Beech, Fruitwood
French Art Nouveau Emile Galle Small Cameo Glass Vase with Wild Flowers
By Émile Gallé
Located in Worcester Park, GB
Particularly pretty small Emile Galle Cameo glass vase in a tall thin cone shape with flared lip - Orange over yellow and partly fire polished depicting quite striking flowering wild...
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1920s French Art Nouveau Vintage Émile Gallé Furniture
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Art Glass
A Large French Signed Emille Galle Souffle "Sunset Flower" Vase
By Émile Gallé
Located in New York, NY
This sand-polished cameo art glass vase from the famed Art Nouveau master Émile Gallé consists of a gorgeous array of souffle technique flowers, leaves, and branches in sunset shades...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Furniture
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Art Glass
Émile Gallé “Fleur de l’Eau” Three-tiered Table
By Émile Gallé
Located in New York, NY
This exquisite three-tiered table by Émile Gallé presents a stunning vignette of water flowers, each tier depicting a different flower. The top tier features intricate marquetry depi...
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Late 19th Century Antique Émile Gallé Furniture
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Fruitwood, Walnut
Emile Galle Paysage Vosges Table Lamp With Eagles
By Émile Gallé
Located in Dallas, TX
Emile Galle
A Rare Paysage Vosges table lamp with eagles
France, c. 1910
Acid-etched cameo glass
Dimensions: 23 Inches High x 11.25 diameter
Signed in cameo to base and shade 'Gal...
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1910s French Art Nouveau Vintage Émile Gallé Furniture
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Art Glass
Rhododendron Blown Out Cameo Glass Lamp by Émile Gallé
By Émile Gallé
Located in New Orleans, LA
Rhododendron Blown Out Cameo Glass Lamp
Émile Gallé
Circa 1900
Impressive in both size and artistry, this exceptionally rare mold-blown cameo glass lamp is the work of the famed Art...
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19th Century French Antique Émile Gallé Furniture
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Glass
French Art Nouveau Signed Fuchsia Emile Gallé Cameo Low Glass Vase circa, 1920
By Émile Gallé
Located in Worcester Park, GB
French Art Nouveau Emile Gallé cameo vase depicting Flowering Fuchsia in purple and blue over orange/yellow, with fine internal polishing to highlight the blue in the flowers -where ...
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1920s French Art Nouveau Vintage Émile Gallé Furniture
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Art Glass
Emile Galle Marquetry Three Tier Dragonfy and Botanical Table
By Émile Gallé
Located in Dallas, TX
Emile Galle (1846-1904) Three-Tiered Table
Circa 1900
This three tiered, four legged French walnut table with "Libellules," or "Dragonflies," fruitwood marquetry decoration, by Émil...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Furniture
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Fruitwood, Oak
Impressive Extra Large Vintage Émile Gallé Cameo Glass Vase
By Émile Gallé
Located in Stratford, CT
Extra large Galle Cameo vase overlaid with different layers of glass with amber and burgundy red colors, fused together by heat. The vase features high-cut acid-etched flowers. B...
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Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Émile Gallé Furniture
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Glass
French Art Nouveau Lamp by Emile Galle Cameo Cut Glass in Red Sunset Colors
By Émile Gallé
Located in New York, NY
A Magnificent and Rare Antique French Galle Signed Cut-Cameo Lamp with Original Signed Galle Cut-Cameo Shade, in Red and Yellow Sunset Colors. This floral motif Galle lamp is made in the art nouveau style with two-toned deep red flowers on a base and shade. The sharp edges of the floral design, which is all hand-carved, complement the smooth round mushroom-shaped shade and base. The rounded shape and delicate hand-carved glass of multiple colors and hues is a signature of Galle lamps. They typically form a cap-like shade over the thin tourine base. Another important feature of the lamp is the rounded finish on the rim, the glass is smooth at the rim—a sign that the lamp is authentic. This lamp exudes the soft romanticism of Art Nouveau. Gallé was a prominent glassblower and one of the most influential figures in the French Art Nouveau movement. Specializing in floral glassware...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Furniture
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Crystal, Bronze
Gallé Cameo Elephant Vase
By Émile Gallé
Located in New Orleans, LA
Cameo Glass Elephant Vase
Émile Gallé
Circa 1925
This monumental Art Nouveau vase is one of the finest achievements of Émile Gallé’s iconic glassmaking firm. Showcasing Gallé’s mast...
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20th Century French Art Nouveau Émile Gallé Furniture
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Glass
$98,500
Gallé Cameo Glass Lamp
By Émile Gallé
Located in New Orleans, LA
Cameo Glass Lamp
Émile Gallé
Circa 1900
This stunning cameo glass lamp displays the unparalleled artistry of the famed Art Nouveau master Émile Gallé, one of the most highly regarde...
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20th Century French Art Nouveau Émile Gallé Furniture
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Glass
$49,850
Perrier-jouët Art Nouveau French Hand Painted Floral Champagne Flutes, Set 4
By Émile Gallé
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
A set of four Perrier-Jouët hand-painted champagne flutes. This set features 4 vintage glasses each hand-painted with a Japanese anemone design of pink, white, and gold. The original...
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20th Century French Art Nouveau Émile Gallé Furniture
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Glass, Paint
$440 Sale Price / set
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Émile Gallé Art Nouveau Cameo Vase With Annual Honesty Decor, France 1925/31
By Émile Gallé
Located in Vienna, AT
Vase in the form of a baluster: Flush foot, high, bulbous body with set off, short neck on gently sloping shoulders. Colorless glass with light blue color powder inclusions, burgundy...
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1920s French Art Nouveau Vintage Émile Gallé Furniture
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Glass
French Art Nouveau Signed Thin Fuchsia Emile Gallé Cameo Glass Vase circa, 1920
By Émile Gallé
Located in Worcester Park, GB
French Art Nouveau Emile Gallé cameo vase depicting Flowering Fuchsia in purple and blue over orange/yellow, with fine internal polishing to highlight the blue in the flowers -where ...
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1920s French Art Nouveau Vintage Émile Gallé Furniture
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Art Glass
Original Art Nouveau Pedestal by Emile Galle 1890 French Antique Inlaid Table
By Émile Gallé
Located in Ijzendijke, NL
Breathtaking & Most rare! This French Art Nouveau Pedestal by famous designer Emile Galle with early signature circa 1890.
Exquisite Art ...
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1890s French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Furniture
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Wood
$16,074 Sale Price
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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 reflected pink river. This is a very unusual and effective colourway. It is executed in one of Galle's classic shapes a slightly tapering chimney making it a perfect cabinet vase for any collector. It is signed raised in cameo -see pic 2 (the signature is Provost Mk V...
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1920s French Art Nouveau Vintage Émile Gallé Furniture
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Art Glass
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...
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1910s French Art Nouveau Vintage Émile Gallé Furniture
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Art Glass
Emile Galle Leaves And Pods Art Nouveau Tall Vase
By Émile Gallé
Located in Dallas, TX
Emile Gallé Cameo Glass Leaves and Pods Vase, circa 1900
Marks: Gallé
Height: 15.25 inches (38.7 cm)
Width: 6.5 Inches Depth: 5 Inches
Condition: Tall vase of colorless glass overlaid in peach, chartreuse and green acid-etched with cascading branches of maple leaves and seed pods. In overall very good condition.
Émile Gallé (8 May 1846 in Nancy – 23 September 1904 in Nancy) was a French artist and designer who worked in glass, and is considered to be one of the major innovators in the French Art Nouveau movement. He was noted for his designs of Art Nouveau glass art and Art Nouveau furniture, and was a founder of the École de Nancy or Nancy School, a movement of design in the city of Nancy, France.
Gallé born on 4 March 1846 in the city of Nancy, France. His father, Charles Gallé...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Furniture
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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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1920s French Art Nouveau Vintage Émile Gallé Furniture
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Art Glass
Extremely Rare Nest of Emile Galle circa 1900 Specimen Wood Tables Art Nouveau
By Émile Gallé
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer for sale this exceptionally rare Emile Galle nest of three sample wood tables
If you are looking at this listing then the chance ...
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19th Century French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Furniture
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Satinwood
French Art Nouveau Emile Galle Small Cameo Glass Vase with Hazelnut Catkins
By Paul Nicolas, Émile Gallé
Located in Worcester Park, GB
Rare green and brown over orange cameo vase depicting 'Chatons du Noisetier', i.e. hazelnut catkins; a pattern designed 1906 (The design is mention in the 1906 new list ref: Provost...
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1920s French Art Nouveau Vintage Émile Gallé Furniture
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Art Glass
Art Nouveau Table by Émille Gallé
By Émile Gallé
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
Art Nouveau table, made in marquetry, by Émile Gallé (1846-1904). Signed Galle
France, CIRCA 1910.
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1910s French Art Nouveau Vintage Émile Gallé Furniture
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Wood
French Art Nouveau Signed Blue Anemone Emile Gallé Cameo Glass Vase circa, 1920
By Émile Gallé
Located in Worcester Park, GB
French Art Nouveau Emile Gallé footed cameo vase depicting Flowering Anemone in purple and blue over orange/yellow, with fine internal polishing to highlight the blue in the flowers ...
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1920s French Art Nouveau Vintage Émile Gallé Furniture
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Art Glass
Two yellow ceramic cats, Emile Gallé (1846-1904)
By Émile Gallé
Located in Paris, FR
Emile Gallé (1846-1904) was one of the greatest French glassmakers and ceramists of the 20th century. The son of a master glassmaker, he came into contact with the art world at an ea...
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1880s French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Furniture
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Ceramic, Glass
$20,575 / set
French Art Nouveau Green + Orange Emile Galle Cameo Glass Vase with Honeysuckle
By Émile Gallé
Located in Worcester Park, GB
Stunning and dramatic, large and very early Emile Galle cameo vase in vibrant orange and dark brown over pale green -a baluster shaped vase depicting dramatically flowering large hon...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Furniture
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Art Glass
Émile Gallé "Ombelle" Side Chair
By Émile Gallé
Located in New York, NY
Gallé first designed the Ombelle chairs to great critical acclaim at the 1900 Exposition Universelle. The chairs were inspired by the umbellifer family. The species in this family, i...
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Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Émile Gallé Furniture
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Cane, Walnut
French Art Nouveau Emile Galle Cameo Glass Tall Botanical Banjo Vase, circa 1908
By Émile Gallé
Located in Worcester Park, GB
Rare Art Nouveau Emile Galle Extra Large 'Banjo' vase, depicting a sticky fly catcher type plant in purple over green, signed in cameo (see picture 5 Provost Mk III see last picture ...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Furniture
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Art Glass
French Art Nouveau Emile Galle Cameo Glass Man on Bridge Landscape Vase c1920
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. The first Galle landscapes...
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1920s French Art Nouveau Vintage Émile Gallé Furniture
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Art Glass
Galle cameo glass aquatic vase C1908
By Émile Gallé
Located in Devon, GB
Galle cameo glass aquatic vase with lily pads, water lilies bullrushes and aquatic grasses
Signed Galle in the cameo C1908
The condition is very good with no damage or faults
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Furniture
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Glass
$975 Sale Price
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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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Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Émile Gallé Furniture
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Art Glass
Large Emile Galle Scenic Cameo Vase
By Émile Gallé
Located in Dallas, TX
Emile Galle scenic wheel carved and acid etched cameo vase.
A beautiful and tall cameo vase by Galle. The 18 - 1/2” tall vase has a background of muted yellow glass near the base, which progresses to blue/gray at mid-vase, and then peach towards the top. Brown, cameo cut trees are generously displayed across the body of the vase, with the addition of a boat in the lake.
Signed "Galle".
Dimensions: 18 - 1/2” x 10” x 8”.
Condition: Very good
Émile Gallé (8 May 1846 in Nancy – 23 September 1904 in Nancy) was a French artist and designer who worked in glass, and is considered to be one of the major innovators in the French Art Nouveau movement. He was noted for his designs of Art Nouveau glass art and Art Nouveau furniture, and was a founder of the École de Nancy or Nancy School, a movement of design in the city of Nancy, France.
Gallé born on 4 March 1846 in the city of Nancy, France. His father, Charles Gallé, was a merchant of glassware and ceramics who had settled in Nancy in 1844, and his father-in-law owned a factory in Nancy which manufactured mirrors. His father took over the direction of his mother's family business, and began to manufacture glassware with a floral design. He also took over a struggling faience factory and began manufacturing new products.
The young Gallé studied philosophy and natural science at the Lycée Imperial in Nancy. At the age of sixteen he went to work for the family business as an assistant to his father, making floral designs and emblems for both faience and glass. In his spare time he became an accomplished botanist, studying with D.A. Godron, the director of the Botanical Gardens of Nancy and author of the leading textbooks on French flora. He collected plants from the region and from as far away as Italy and Switzerland. He also took courses in painting and drawing, and made numerous drawings of plants, flowers, animals and insects, which became subjects of decoration.
At the age of sixteen he finished the Lycée in Nancy and went to Weimar in Germany from 1862–1866 to continue his studies in philosophy, botany, sculpture and drawing. In 1866, to prepare himself to inherit the family business, he went to work as an apprentice at the glass factory of Burgun and Schwerer in Meisenthal, and made a serious study of the chemistry of glass production. Some of his early glass and faience works for the family factory at Saint-Clémont were displayed at the 1867 Paris Universal Exposition. In early 1870 he designed a complete set of dishware with a rustic animal designs for the family enterprise. During this time he became acquainted with the painter, sculptor and engraver Victor Prouvé, an artist of the romantic "troubadour" style, who became his future collaborator in the Nancy School.
He enlisted for military service in the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, then was demobilised after the disastrous French defeat in 1871 and the French loss to Germany of much of the province of Lorraine, including Meisenthal where he had done his apprenticeship. Thereafter the Cross of Lorraine, the patriotic symbol of the region, became part of his signature on many of his works of art.
After his demobilization Gallé went to London, where he represented his father at an exhibition of the arts of France, then to Paris, where he remained for several months, visiting the Louvre and Cluny Museum, studying examples of ancient Egyptian art, Roman glassware and ceramics, and especially early Islamic enamelled...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Furniture
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Art Glass
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 reflecting green river. This is a very unusual and effective colourway. It is executed in one of Galle's classic shapes a squat vase with a round collar making it a perfect cabinet vase for any collector. It is signed raised in cameo -see pic 6 (the signature is Provost Mk III -see chart in final image -this signature date the vase to around 1910 and amongst the first Galle landscapes...
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1910s French Art Nouveau Vintage Émile Gallé Furniture
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Art Glass
Émile Gallé Marquetry "Mayfly and Ferns" Coffret
By Émile Gallé
Located in New York, NY
The motifs on this coffret by Émile Gallé depict a mayfly flitting among a bed of ferns. Hatching in summer and living only a few hours before mating and dying, the mayfly has long s...
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Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Émile Gallé Furniture
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Fruitwood
Large Round Émile Gallé Art Nouveau Cameo Vase with Seascape Decor, France 1905
By Émile Gallé
Located in Vienna, AT
Vase in the shape of a drum on an oval, short base, slightly tapering towards the top in depth, at the top as an opening an arcuate cutout with a slight beaded edge. Colorless glass ...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Furniture
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Glass
French Art Nouveau Emile Galle Cameo Glass Limited Edition Vase, circa 1900
By Émile Gallé
Located in Worcester Park, GB
Rare and early Art Nouveau Emile Galle limited edition cameo glass vase, depicting spiky dahlia like blossoms in orange over frosted clear, signed in cameo (see picture 5) with the additional super rare limited edition number 13 -raised in cameo (just visible in the picture centre below the Galle) The only Galle documentation about limited editions, like this, consist of a letter where Emile complains about the difficulty of doing them. It is not known who the editions were made for, or how many...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Furniture
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Art Glass
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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1910s French Art Nouveau Vintage Émile Gallé Furniture
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Art Glass
Art Nouveau Gallé Cameo Green Glass Vase, 20th Century
By Émile Gallé
Located in Lisbon, PT
This Art Nouveau glass vase by Émile Gallé showcases botanical motifs, crafted in layered cameo glass.
The vase features a gradient from deep, inky green at the base to a delicate li...
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Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Émile Gallé Furniture
Materials
Art Glass
$4,947 Sale Price
20% Off
Galle Dining Room Chairs
By Émile Gallé
Located in Bridgewater, CT
6 Emile Galle dining room chairs, signed.
Measures: Depth 17" x Width 17" x Height 38" x Seat Height 18"
Caning need to be redone.
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Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Émile Gallé Furniture
Materials
Wood
$24,000
Rare Galle cameo glass aquatic butterfly vase C1900
By Émile Gallé
Located in Devon, GB
Lovely little Emile Galle multi layered cameo glass vase decorated with an aquatic scene around the bottom section of the vase with pond lilies and reeds. The tops section interestin...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Furniture
Materials
Glass
$3,215 Sale Price
20% Off
French Art Nouveau Blue On Yellow Signed Emile Gallé Floral Cameo Glass Vase
By Émile Gallé
Located in Worcester Park, GB
French Art Nouveau Emile Gallé good sized bowl-vase depicting flowering pansy like flowers in blues and purple over yellow with a turned in top. It has fine internal polishing to hig...
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1920s French Art Nouveau Vintage Émile Gallé Furniture
Materials
Art Glass
Gallé Art Nouveau French Cameo Glass Vase
By Émile Gallé
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Beautiful Galle French cameo vase with trailing leaves and flowers.
The vase features a mauve floral design on a golden umber background.
Signed "...
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Early 20th Century French Émile Gallé Furniture
Materials
Glass
Gallé Polar Bear Vase
By Émile Gallé
Located in New Orleans, LA
Cameo Glass Polar Bear Vase
Émile Gallé
Circa 1927
This towering Art Nouveau vase stands as one of the finest achievements of Émile Gallé’s iconic gla...
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20th Century French Art Nouveau Émile Gallé Furniture
Materials
Glass
$98,500
French Art Nouveau Emile Galle Pink And Green Cameo Glass Vase C1900
By Émile Gallé
Located in Worcester Park, GB
Super early Emile Galle green over pink cameo vase featuring a dramatic wild flowers with large blooms, branches and big leaves. The vase is a classic early Galle shape with a slight...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Furniture
Materials
Art Glass
French Art Nouveau Emile Galle Small Cameo Glass Vase with Blue Wild Flowers
By Émile Gallé
Located in Worcester Park, GB
A particularly pretty small Emile Galle Cameo glass vase in a slightly tapered cone shape with larger flared lip - It is In a striking colourway of purple over blue over yellow-orang...
Category
1920s French Art Nouveau Vintage Émile Gallé Furniture
Materials
Art Glass
Emile Gallé furniture for sale on 1stDibs.
Emile Gallé furniture are available for sale on 1stDibs. These distinctive items are frequently made of glass and are designed with extraordinary care. There are many options to choose from in our collection of Emile Gallé furniture, although brown editions of this piece are particularly popular. Many of the original furniture by Emile Gallé were created in the Art Nouveau style in europe during the 20th century. If you’re looking for additional options, many customers also consider furniture by Georges De Feure, Clement Massier, and Jerome Massier. Prices for Emile Gallé furniture can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — on 1stDibs, these items begin at $355 and can go as high as $145,000, while a piece like these, on average, fetch $4,890.
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