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 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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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Furniture
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Art Glass
Tall Emile Galle Floral Cameo Glass Vase c1910
By Émile Gallé
Located in Tunbridge Wells, GB
Heading : Large Emile Galle cameo glass vase
Date : c1910
Origin : Nancy, France
Bowl Features : Pale graduating to burnt orange over lime green graduating to nearly clear cameo glas...
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1910s French Art Nouveau Vintage Émile Gallé Furniture
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Art Glass
Emile Galle Art Glass Landscape Cameo Vase
By Émile Gallé
Located in Guaynabo, PR
This is an Emile Galle small urn shaped landscape cameo vase. It has a frosted yellow glass background highlighted by different shades of brown color. The brown color get darker at the round base and covers it completely. The landscape cameo depicts a countryside scenery with trees, a lake and a small barn fence. Some of the trees are reflected in the lake. The glass vase is signed Galle. The urn vase comes with a round wood pedestal.
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Late 19th Century French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Furniture
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Art Glass
Antique Emile Gallé Vase Art Nouveau Period in Orange Glass
By Émile Gallé
Located in Tilburg, NL
Small French Emile Gallé vase in orange glass. Signed Galle’.
Produced in circa 1910.
Émile Gallé
Émile Gallé (Nancy, 4 May 1846 - there, 23 September 1...
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1890s French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Furniture
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Art Glass, Blown Glass
Émile Gallé Cameo Glass Cabinet Vase, Cameo Signature Gallé
By Émile Gallé
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Émile Gallé (1846-1904)
A Small and Fine Galle Cameo Glass Cabinet Vase
France, circa 1900
Cameo signature Gallé
Measures: Height 4 in. (101.6 m...
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Early 1900s Antique Émile Gallé Furniture
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Art Glass
French Art Nouveau Orange-White Emile Galle Cameo Glass Vase With Nasturtium
By Émile Gallé
Located in Worcester Park, GB
Classic orange over clear Emile Galle cameo vase in a classic squat shape decorated with wild Nasturtiums with distinctive flowers and leaves -It is signed in orange with The Provost...
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1910s French Art Nouveau Vintage Émile Gallé Furniture
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Art Glass
Emile Galle Overlaid and Etched Glass Vase, circa 1900
By Émile Gallé
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An Emile Galle overlaid and etched glass vase, circa 1900.
The frosted white, yellow and blue ground overlaid and etched to depict a tree lined mountainous lake scene. Measures: 11 ...
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Early 1900s Antique Émile Gallé Furniture
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Art Glass
Galle Fire Polished Cameo Glass and Silver Cased Bowl
By Émile Gallé
Located in Sarasota, FL
Emile Galle fire polished cameo glass floral bowl with period silver mounts. Signed in cameo with early Japanese style signature. The larger top mo...
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Late 19th Century French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Furniture
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Art Glass
Rare Emile Gallé Crocus Marqueterie-Sur-Verre Glass Vase
By Émile Gallé
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Rare Emile Gallé Crocus Marqueterie-Sur-Verre glass vase, circa 1900, incised Gallé in script on the vessel, the bottle-green tapering vessel with an undu...
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Early 1900s Antique Émile Gallé Furniture
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Glass
Pair of Antique Ceramic Lions Candle Holders By Emile Gallé
By Émile Gallé
Located in Lisbon, PT
This captivating pair of 19th-century French faience lion candleholders, crafted by the renowned Emile Gallé in 1880, embodies the artistry of the...
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19th Century French Rococo Revival Antique Émile Gallé Furniture
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Ceramic
Sunflowers, by Emile Gallé, Signed, Provenance Sotheby's New York
By Émile Gallé
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Emile Gallé, French (1846-1904).
A very fine internally decorated fire-polished cameo glass vase with applied decoration, 'Sunflowers', circa 1900.
Measures: 13.75 in. (34.9 cm.) h...
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Early 1900s Antique Émile Gallé Furniture
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Art Glass
Galle Etched Sunflower Vase
By Émile Gallé
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Emile Galle Etched, carved, fire-polished and applied cameo glass "sunflower" vase
Circa 1900. Signed in cameo GALLE.
Measure: Height 4 3/4 inches.
Provenance: A Long Island Coll...
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Early 1900s Antique Émile Gallé Furniture
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Glass
Very Rare Emile Galle Romantic Specimen Wood Table Un Peu Beaucoup Passionnement
By Émile Gallé
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer for sale this exceptionally rare Emile Galle signed occasional table with gold Giltwood Rams head base and sample wood floral ...
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19th Century French Neoclassical Antique Émile Gallé Furniture
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Wood
Large Émile Gallé Art Nouveau Cameo Vase, Umbellifers Decor, France, circa 1904
By Émile Gallé
Located in Vienna, AT
Large baluster-shaped vase with a large, round base, conically narrowing to a tubular vase body with a wide beaded ring just below the narrow opening with...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Furniture
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Glass
Émile GALLÉ, Jardiniere with a design inspired by the nature of Pharaonic Egypt
By Émile Gallé
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
This ceramic jardinière, with a design inspired by the natural world of ancient Egypt, was created by Émile Gallé in the late 19th century.
Considered the founding father of Art Nou...
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Late 19th Century French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Furniture
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Ceramic
Émile Gallé "Aux Grenouilles" Umbrella Stand
By Émile Gallé
Located in New York, NY
French Art Nouveau marquetry "Aux Grenouilles" umbrella stand, by Emile Gallé. This stand for umbrellas and walking sticks incorporates frog (Grenouille) handles and feet in cast bro...
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Early 20th Century Émile Gallé Furniture
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Bronze, Tin
Gallé Art Nouveau Early Vase Galle Fire Polished France Nancy Made, circa 1890
By Émile Gallé
Located in Vienna, AT
Art Nouveau rare fire polished bellied vase by Gallé
Manufactory: Émile Gallé / France, Nancy, Lorraine, made circa 1890
Technique of manufacture: Fire polished glass & etched ...
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1890s French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Furniture
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Glass
Émile GALLÉ, Precious Egyptian Ship, a rare earthenware piece
By Émile Gallé
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Taking Mediterranean Antiquity as his theme, Emile Gallé created this rare and original piece.
A ceramist and glassmaker, Gallé was one of the greatest names in the Art Nouveau move...
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Late 19th Century French Egyptian Revival Antique Émile Gallé Furniture
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Earthenware
Pair of 19th Century Galle Faience Lion Candleholder with Silver Candelabra
By Émile Gallé
Located in Essex, MA
Pair of signed Emile Galle (French, 1846-1904) rampant lion faience candleholders
Heraldic lion holding a castle tower in rampart also holding silvered bronze candelabra
Signed...
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Late 19th Century French Aesthetic Movement Antique Émile Gallé Furniture
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Bronze
Émile Gallé Miniature Cameo Vase, Art Nouveau, Ca 1900
By Émile Gallé
Located in Delft, NL
Émile Gallé miniature Cameo vase, Art Nouveau, ca 1900
Émile Gallé (Nancy, 1846 –1904) was a French glassmaker and furniture designer
Émile Gallé 7...
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Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Émile Gallé Furniture
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Glass
Enameled Cameo Glass Vase by Emile Gallé, Signed
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...
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1890s Antique Émile Gallé Furniture
c1892 French Huge Heraldic Roaring Lion Candelabra Porcelain Sig. Emile Galle
By Émile Gallé
Located in Opa Locka, FL
Unbelievable Piece Here! Huge Antique French Porcelain Heraldic Roaring Lion Candelabra/ Table Lamp. 1890.s. Signed and signed. Very good investment grade Table Lamp. Now in its orig...
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1890s Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Furniture
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Porcelain
Emile Galle Nancy ceramic / Faience plate Enamel/ paint Decorative Art Nouveau
By Émile Gallé
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Beautiful painted ceramic by the well known Art Nouveau artist/ designer Emile Galle, also known for cameo glass etched and furniture .
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Late 19th Century French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Furniture
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Ceramic, Faience
French Art Deco Emile Galle Cameo Glass Cicada Banjo Vase, circa 1923
By Émile Gallé
Located in Worcester Park, GB
An ultra rare Art Deco Emile Galle 'Banjo' vase, depicting a Cicada resting on a fruiting olive branch in brown and green over yellow/orange, signed in cameo (see picture 3) -Provost...
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1920s French Art Deco Vintage Émile Gallé Furniture
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Art Glass
'Dahlia' Fire-Polished Cameo Glass Vase, Signed by Emile Gallé, circa 1900
By Émile Gallé
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Emile Gallé, French (1846-1904)
A very fine internally decorated fire-polished cameo glass vase with applied decoration, 'Dahlia', circa 1900
13.25 in. (33.6 cm.) high
signed Gall...
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Early 1900s Antique Émile Gallé Furniture
Emile Galle Soufflé Vase Gallé Nancy Art Nouveau Wild Rose France c.1925
By Émile Gallé
Located in Vienna, AT
GORGEOUS AS WELL AS MOST REMARKABLE GALLÉ NANCY ART NOUVEAU SOUFFLÉ GLASS VASE : Made in France / Nancy, Lorraine, circa 1925.
DETAILED INFORMATIONS:
A WILD-ROSE MOLD-BLOWN, ...
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Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Émile Gallé Furniture
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Glass
Fine Wheel-Cut and Fire-Polished Cameo Glass Vase, 'Flowers', Signed Gallé
By Émile Gallé
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Emile Gallé, French (1846-1904)
A fine wheel-cut and fire-polished cameo glass vase, 'Flowers', circa 1900
Measures: 6.5 in. (16.5 cm.) diameter
Signed in cameo Gallé
Emile Ga...
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Early 1900s Antique Émile Gallé Furniture
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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
Emile Gallé Internally Decorated Wheel-Carved Glass Vase
By Émile Gallé
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Emile Gallé internally decorated wheel-carved glass vase
Émile Gallé (1846-1904)
An exquisite and rare internally decorated, wheel carved and fire polished Galle Glass Vase, the c...
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Early 1900s Antique Émile Gallé Furniture
Emile Galle French Art Nouveau Floral Marquetry Rotating Top Occasional Table
By Émile Gallé
Located in Queens, NY
French Art Nouveau occasional table with a circular top with shaped edge and floral marquetry inlay that rotates on a central axis, resting on four tapered sabre legs joined by a squ...
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20th Century French Art Nouveau Émile Gallé Furniture
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Wood
Pair of French Porcelain Lions Holding Wrought Iron Candelabras
By Émile Gallé
Located in Queens, NY
Pair of French Victorian (19th Century) large porcelain lion figures holding wrought iron candelabras (signed by EMILE GALLE "Emile a Nancy"/Prov: Estat...
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19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Émile Gallé Furniture
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Wrought Iron
Emile Galle floral plates, c. 1880, set of three
By Émile Gallé
Located in Charlottesville, VA
Extremely rare, beautiful set of three plates by Emile Galle.Faience Botanical Plates, Nancy, France, late 19th century,aesthetic movement --decorated with tulip, columbine, and paph...
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19th Century French Antique Émile Gallé Furniture
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Ceramic
Émile Gallé Art Nouveau Floral Decoration Cameo Bulb Glass Vase, France 1900
By Émile Gallé
Located in Puglia, Puglia
Emile Gallé, arguably the greatest master of Art Nouveau, was born in Nancy, France, on May 4, 1846 to Charles Gallé and Fanny Reinemer.
This bulb-shaped glass vase with cameo floral...
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Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Émile Gallé Furniture
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Art Glass
Emile Gallé - Vase Jardiniere Epis De Ble Wheat Ears Amberred Enameled Glass
By Émile Gallé
Located in Boulogne Billancourt, FR
Vase Jardiniere "Epis de Blé" (Wheat Ears) made in amberred acid-etched glass with enameled design.
Acid-etched signature.
Perfect condition. Very rare and very interesting shape.
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1880s French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Furniture
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Enamel
Emile Gallé, France, Antique Bowl in Mouth-Blown Art Glass, 1870s-1880s
By Émile Gallé
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Emile Gallé, France. Antique bowl in mouth-blown art glass with hand-painted flower decorations in gold, 1870s-1880s.
Measures: 24 x 5 cm.
In good condition with minor wear in the ...
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1870s French Antique Émile Gallé Furniture
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Blown Glass
Art Nouveau Glass Vase With Foliage, Gallé, 1900s
By Émile Gallé
Located in Lisbon, PT
An Art Nouveau glass vase, attributed to Émile Gallé, features a graceful foliage motif in rich amber and brown tones.
The conical shape enhances the naturalistic relief of leaves a...
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Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Émile Gallé Furniture
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Art Glass
Emile Galle, Rare 'Chrysanthemes vase' c 1900, Etched Glass, Signed
By Émile Gallé
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is an early glass vase my the well known French artist Emile Galle, made in the late 19 and early 20th century most like it in Nancy, France. We found an other sample of this wo...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Furniture
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Art Glass
Tavolino di servizio Emile Gallè, fine XIX secolo, Francia
By Émile Gallé
Located in SAN PIETRO MOSEZZO, NO
Tavolino di servizio di Emile Gallé Nancy (1846 – 1904) della seconda metà del XIX secolo.
Il piano superiore sagomato è intarsiato, lastronato in legni di diverse essenze con motiv...
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Late 19th Century French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Furniture
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Wood
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
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Glass
Emile Galle (1846-1904) Nnancy Vase Balaustre
By Émile Gallé
Located in Autonomous City Buenos Aires, CABA
Emile Galle (1846-1904) Nnancy Vase Balaustre
In colorless glass with inclusion of sandy glass powder
Cammeowork with floral decor
Cammeo signature
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Mid-19th Century French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Furniture
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Glass, Art Glass
Émile GALLÉ for L'ESCALIER DE CRISTAL, Small Japanese-Style Vase in Amber Glass
By Émile Gallé
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
This vase was created by Émile Gallé for the Escalier de Cristal at the end of the 19th century.
A pioneering figure of Art Nouveau, Émile Gallé was particularly influenced by Far E...
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Late 19th Century French Japonisme Antique Émile Gallé Furniture
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Glass, Art Glass
Émile GALLÉ, Ornamental Dish With A Monkey Climbing Among Flowers
By Émile Gallé
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
This highly original polychrome enamel ceramic dish featuring a monkey on a flowering branch was created by Émile Gallé, based on a model designed around 1878-1880.
Considered the f...
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Late 19th Century French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Furniture
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Ceramic
Emile Gallé circa 1890 "Fleurs exotiques"
By Émile Gallé
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Emile Gallé, circa 1890
"Fleurs exotiques"
etched, enameled and parcel-gilt light amber cameo glass vase
inscribed to underside of base E Gallé with a blossom
Size: 17.75 in. (45...
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20th Century Émile Gallé Furniture
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Glass
Enameled and Gilt Glass Galle Cameo Glass Vase Cameo Signature Gallé
By Émile Gallé
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Émile Gallé (1846-1904)
A large and fine enameled and gilt glass Galle cameo glass vase, France, circa 1890
Measures: Height 18 in. (457.2 mm), width 6 1/4 in. (158.75 mm)
Cameo s...
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1890s Antique Émile Gallé Furniture
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Art Glass
Emile Galle Antique Art Nouveau French Acid Etched Glass Vase.
By Émile Gallé
Located in Tilburg, NL
Emile Galle Art Nouveau period French Glass Vase.
Acid etched cameo glass featuring detailed of a single-flower, stems and leaves on contrasting yellow and purple pale textured o...
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1890s French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Furniture
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Art Glass, Blown Glass
Unusual Emile Galle Enameled Glass Goblet
By Émile Gallé
Located in Los Angeles, CA
An unusual Emile Galle enameled glass goblet
Decorated with enamel decorations throughout
Excellent condition.
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Early 20th Century French Émile Gallé Furniture
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Art Glass
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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1890s Antique Émile Gallé Furniture
Art Nouveau Flacon Shape Vase with Clematis Decor, Émile Gallé, France 1903/04
By Émile Gallé
Located in Vienna, AT
Vase in the form of a flacon: slightly bulged body, tapering towards the top, narrow opening, widening to the flared rim of the mouth. The area close to the floor is completely cover...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Furniture
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Glass
Acid-Etched Enameled and Applied Galle Glass Vase
By Émile Gallé
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Émile Gallé (1846-1904)
An Acid-Etched Enameled and applied Galle Glass Vase,
France, circa 1884-1889
etched mark and text 'Cristallerie de Gallé Nan...
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Early 1900s Antique Émile Gallé Furniture
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Glass
Émile Gallé, circa 1890
By Émile Gallé
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Émile GALLÉ (1846-1904),
circa 1890
The enamel decorated bulbous body with an out-turned rim of translucent to cloudy marine blue, decorated with floral s...
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1890s Antique Émile Gallé Furniture
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Glass
Early Galle Cameo Glass Stemmed Vase
By Émile Gallé
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Émile Gallé (1846-1904)
An early Galle Cameo glass stemmed vase
France, circa 1910
Gilt signature E Gallé Nancy
Measures: Height 5 1/2 in. (13.97 cm.),...
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1910s Vintage Émile Gallé Furniture
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Art Glass
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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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