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 Brown & Pink Signed Emile Gallé Iris Cameo Glass Vase c1910
By Émile Gallé, Paul Nicolas
Located in Worcester Park, GB
French Art Nouveau Emile Gallé tall cameo vase depicting blooming Irises in brown and green over pink with a flared high collar. The spectacular irises depicted on the vase relate cl...
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1910s French Art Nouveau Vintage Émile Gallé Furniture
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Art Glass
Rare French Art Nouveau Emile Galle Cameo Glass Vase Seaweed -Wartime Production
By Émile Gallé
Located in Worcester Park, GB
Exceptionally rare war time production Emile Galle cameo vase -in brown over orange. Depicting seaweed. Signed Provost Mk III see last picture for dating chart.
In 1914 War broke ou...
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1910s French Art Nouveau Vintage Émile Gallé Furniture
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Art Glass
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. The vase is very dark purple ...
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1920s French Art Nouveau Vintage Émile Gallé Furniture
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Art Glass
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
Emile Galle Tall Cameo Art Nouveau Vase 1904
By Émile Gallé
Located in Dallas, TX
A stunning four color wheel carved and acid etched fat vase with pink, yellow, green and white on a cream background. The coloring is strong and the workmanship excellent. A truly ex...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Furniture
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Art Glass
Fabulous Triangular Emile Galle in blue and brown cameo vase with fircones c1925
By Émile Gallé
Located in Worcester Park, GB
Fabulous Emile Galle deeply cut cameo vase in an unusual almost triangular form, with a wide flared opened mouth. Coloured in deep browns and mid browns over pale blue. It is decorat...
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1920s French Art Deco Vintage Émile Gallé Furniture
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Art Glass
French Art Nouveau Signed Clematis Emile Gallé Cameo Glass Vase circa, 1920
By Émile Gallé
Located in Worcester Park, GB
French Art Nouveau Emile Gallé cameo vase depicting a flowering double clematis in purple and blue over orange/yellow, with fine internal polishing to highlight the blue in the spect...
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1920s French Art Nouveau Vintage Émile Gallé Furniture
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Art Glass
Emile Galle-The Bretton Fishing Fleet-Exceptionally Rare Cameo glass signed vase
By Émile Gallé
Located in Worcester Park, GB
One of the rarest Galle images the Bretton Fishing Fleet cameo vase -depicting a flotilla of manned fishing boats of many sizes and designs and incredible detail many with sails up and many with just rigging. Signed, intaglio cut, Provost MkVI c1925-36 -see 4th image and chart at end for dating. This an absolute tour-de-force of the cameo technique -partly done by acid cut back, but most of the fine outline work (rigging etc) is done by fine wheel cutting. Very few other examples of this vase are known and they mostly reside in museums. Galle vases featuring sailing ship vases...
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1920s French Art Deco Vintage Émile Gallé Furniture
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Art Glass
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
$3,188 Sale Price
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Emile Galle French Art Nouveau Lift Top Marquetry Floral Inlaid Wooden Table
By Émile Gallé
Located in Queens, NY
French Art Nouveau occasional / dressing table with an elaborate inlaid floral and pastoral design that lifts on two brass hinges to reveal an interior mirror and inlaid floral desig...
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20th Century French Art Nouveau Émile Gallé Furniture
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Metal, Brass
VERY RARE EMILE GALLE ROMANTIC SPECiMEN WOOD TABLE "WHEN I SING, LOVE WILL END"
By Émile Gallé
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
Royal House Antiques
Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this exceptionally rare Emile Galle signed occasional table with sample wood top depicting a Rooster and a q...
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Early 20th Century French Edwardian Émile Gallé Furniture
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Walnut
$5,454 Sale Price
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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
Antique collector Emile Gallé Asparagus plate
By Émile Gallé
Located in ASNIÈRES-SUR-SEINE, FR
Extremely rare Emile Gallé majolica plate.
For lovers of majolica, or of Gallé, it's a true find.
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1890s French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Furniture
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Majolica
Galle Cameo Art Glass Landscape Vase
By Émile Gallé
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This antique signed Galle vase was made in France in approximately 1900 in the period Art Nouveau style. The vase in done in multiple layers of color...
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Early 20th Century European Art Nouveau Émile Gallé Furniture
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Glass
EMILE GALLÉ (1846-1904) "Jar". French Art Nouveau Signed
By Émile Gallé
Located in Madrid, ES
EMILE GALLÉ (1846-1904)
"Jar". French Art Nouveau, Signed
in glass paste.
Embossed decoration in shades of pink, yellow and brown with flowers.
Application in silver.
Signed.
He...
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Late 19th Century French Art Deco Antique Émile Gallé Furniture
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Silver
$3,051 Sale Price
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Early 20th Century Glass Vase Entitled "Blue Flower Vase" by Emile Gallé
By Émile Gallé
Located in London, GB
"Blue flower vase" by Emile Gallé
A beautiful early 20th Century cameo glass vase acid cut and etched with a blue and purple floral decoration against a yellow field. Exhibiting ve...
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Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Émile Gallé Furniture
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Glass
Emile Galle Potery Art nouveau
By Émile Gallé
Located in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Emile Galle Potery Art nouveau
Plate and cup in artistic ceramic
Rare set to see
Art nouveau style
Circa 1900 Origin France
Decorated with leaves, flowers and insects, it also has wr...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Furniture
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Ceramic
Emile Galle signed Sailing ships cameo glass vase c1920
By Émile Gallé
Located in Worcester Park, GB
Fabulous and very rare, medium large, Emile Galle cameo vase with sailing ships in predominantly blue, orange and purple (appearing as brown ove...
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1920s French Art Nouveau Vintage Émile Gallé Furniture
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Art Glass
Antique French Asparagus Plate by Emile Galle c1880's
By Émile Gallé
Located in Chicago, IL
Antique Earthenware asparagus plate, made by Emile Galle, French, about 1883
signed Emile Galle, Nancy, Depose.
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19th Century French Antique Émile Gallé Furniture
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Earthenware
$750 Sale Price
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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
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
Art Nouveau Cameo Vase by Émile Gallé
By Émile Gallé
Located in Watford, GB
A cameo glass waterlillies and dragonfly vase, of gourd-shaped form, overlaid and acid-etched with a pond landscape scene in tones of amber, signed 'Gal...
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Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Émile Gallé Furniture
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Glass
Emile Gallé, France, Antique Bowl in Mouth-Blown Art Glass, 1870s-1880s
By Émile Gallé
Located in København, Copenhagen
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
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
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
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
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, 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
$7,500
IMPORTANT EMPIRE TABLE CLOCK 19th Century Émile Gallé
By Émile Gallé
Located in Madrid, ES
IMPORTANT EMPIRE TABLE CLOCK 19th Century Émile Gallé
19th century French.
in gilded bronze, surmounted by birds.
Profusely enamelled circular dial with Roman numerals.
Relief d...
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19th Century French Empire Antique Émile Gallé Furniture
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Bronze
$6,245 Sale Price
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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
$7,231 Sale Price
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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
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
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
$2,940 / set
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
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
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
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
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
Rare Art Nouveau Nesting Tables with Botanical Marquetry by Émile Gallé
By Émile Gallé
Located in San Francisco, CA
Rare set of nesting tables by Émile Gallé, a leading figure of the French Art Nouveau movement. Each table features detailed botanical marquetry, with inlaid signatures at the top. T...
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Early 1900s French Modern Antique Émile Gallé Furniture
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Wood
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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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