Émile Gallé Vases
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
Emile Galle Cameo Glass Forest Lake Landscape Vase, France circa 1904
By Émile Gallé
Located in Bochum, NRW
Impressive Emile Gallé, vase with meadow landscape, Nancy 1904-06
Large cameo vase of colorless glass, partially backed in yellow and ochre, overlay in violet-brown, glossy etched de...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Vases
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Emile Galle Authentic Trilobe Vase with Wysteria Decor
By Émile Gallé
Located in Bochum, NRW
Authentic vase by Émile Gallé in tones of purple, pink and opaque white glass.
Cased glass three cornered drow in.
Beautiful Wisterya decoration typical of Art Nouveau.
Polylobed nec...
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Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Émile Gallé Vases
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Cameo Glass Vase with Crocus Decor, by Emile Galle circa 1904
By Émile Gallé
Located in Bochum, NRW
A Rare Art Nouveau Cameo Glass Vase with Crocus Decor, by Emile Galle circa 1904.
A rare vase by Emile Galle with a decor of Crocus (Colchicum autumnale).
A student of botany and an...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Vases
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Rare French Art Nouveau Cameo Glass Vase by Emile Galle, Cyclamens Decor
By Gallé, Émile Gallé
Located in Bochum, NRW
Emile Gallé Solifleur Vase
A rare shaped vase by Emile Galle dating from 1904, with a decor of branches with cyclamens flowers and leaves. Double gourde vase made of cameo glass with...
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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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Émile Gallé “Ours Polaires” Cameo Glass Vase
By Émile Gallé
Located in New York, NY
This exquisite Émile Gallé “Ours Polaires” cameo vase showcases three polar bears navigating ice floes in an Arctic landscape, framed by distant icebergs rendered in stunning shades ...
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Early 20th Century Art Nouveau Émile Gallé Vases
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Émile Gallé, Art Nouveau Glass Paste Vase, Decor With A Grasshopper
By Émile Gallé
Located in Bilzen, BE
VERY BEAUTIFUL VASE IN 3 COLORS OF GLASS PASTE - VERY BEAUTIFUL ACID DECORATION OF A GRASSHOUSE SIGNATURE GALLE AS A CAMEO IN THE DECOR – ART NOUVEAU PERIOD
Perfect condition
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Émile Gallé long neck Cameo vase, Art Nouveau, 1904-1906
By Émile Gallé
Located in Delft, NL
Émile Gallé long neck Cameo vase, Art Nouveau, 1904-1906
Émile Gallé (Nancy, 1846 –1904) was a French glassmaker and furniture designer
Émile Gallé 30 cm high long neck Cameo vase m...
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Emile Galle Blown Out Clematis Vase
By Émile Gallé
Located in Dallas, TX
Emile Galle Mold Blown Blue Clematis Glase Vase.
Circa: 1910
Nancy, France
A fine Galle blown-out glass vase, Clematis pattern, in strong blue colors. Signed in cameo, Galle.
Heigh...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Vases
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A Rare Art Nouveau Cameo Glass Vase with Clematis Decor, by Émile Gallé Nancy
By Émile Gallé
Located in Bochum, NRW
A Rare Art Nouveau Cameo Glass Vase with Clematis Decor, by Émile Gallé Nancy
Emile Gallé Cameo glass vase, richly decorated with branches with flowe...
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Émile Gallé small Cameo vase, Art Nouveau, ca 1900
By Émile Gallé
Located in Delft, NL
Émile Gallé small Cameo vase, Art Nouveau, ca 1900
Émile Gallé (Nancy, 1846 –1904) was a French glassmaker and furniture designer
Émile Gallé 20 cm hig...
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Cameo Glass Banjo Vase, by Emile Galle Décor Begonias, France, circa 1900
By Émile Gallé
Located in Bochum, NRW
An excellent French Art Nouveau Vase in a classic banjo shape, with a deep red flowering landscape etched and acid cut against a yellow background, with fine color and detail. Rare ...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Vases
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Cameo Glass Vase with Orchids, by Emile Gallé, Nancy, end 1900s
By Émile Gallé
Located in Bochum, NRW
A Rare Art Nouveau Cameo Glass Vase with Orchids (the decoration of Orchid Oncidium),
by Emile Gallé, Nancy, end 1900s (between 1894-1904).
French Art Nouveau Emile Gallé Orchids Va...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Vases
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French Emile Galle Art Nouveau Cameo Glass Landscape Vase, circa 1910
By Émile Gallé, Louis Hestaux
Located in Worcester Park, GB
Impressive Art Nouveau Emile Galle Cameo landscape vase, 7 1/2 inches tall, in a variety browns and yellows with a hint of opal, signed in came...
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1910s French Art Nouveau Vintage Émile Gallé Vases
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Émile Gallé (1846-1904) French Art Nouveau Glass Vase « Roses » circa 1910
By Émile Gallé
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Émile Gallé (1846-1904)
French Art Nouveau Caméo Glass Vase «Pavots » circa 1910
Multi-layered glass
Triple overlay, green, red and yellow glass
Acid-etched cameo decoration of poppi...
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Emile Galle, A Rare & Important Ormolu-Mounted Double Carp Fish Pink-Glass Vase
By Émile Gallé
Located in Queens, NY
A rare and important French "Japonsime" Emile Galle Ormolu-Mounted Double Carp Fish Pink-Glass vase, circa 1879, retailed by L'Escalier De Cristal, Paris
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19th Century French Japonisme Antique Émile Gallé Vases
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Enamel, Ormolu
Émile Gallé (1846-1904) French Art Nouveau Glass Vase « Pavots » circa 1910
By Émile Gallé
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Émile Gallé (1846-1904)
French Art Nouveau Caméo Glass Vase «Pavots » circa 1910
Multi-layered glass
Triple overlay, green, red and yellow glass
Acid-etched cameo decoration of poppi...
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1910s French Art Nouveau Vintage Émile Gallé Vases
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Art Glass
E.Gallé (1846-1904) "Fleurs de Pommier "Soufflé Glass Vase circa 1910
By Émile Gallé
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Émile Gallé (1846-1904)
French Art Nouveau Cameo Mold Blown Glass Vase « Fleurs de Pommier » circa 1910
Beautiful and very rare Art Nouveau molded-blowned g...
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Emile Galle Red Cameo Vase
By Émile Gallé
Located in Dallas, TX
Emile Gallé Art Nouveau Acid etched and cameo three color glass vase. Rose flowers are window pained and let delicate lights waves through in a translucent effect, This is a rather l...
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Early 1900s Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Vases
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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 Vases
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Early 20th Century French Cameo Glass Vase "Slender Floral Vase" by Emile Galle
By Émile Gallé
Located in London, GB
A very attractive early 20th Century French cameo glass slender shaped vase decroated with deep burgundy and red flowers against a vibrant yellow field, signed Gallé.
ADDITIONAL INF...
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Gallé Cameo Glass Anemone Vase, circa 1900
By Émile Gallé
Located in Dallas, TX
Galle Cameo Glass Anemone Vase, circa 1900 Art Nouveau
Marks: Gallé
Height: 9.5 inches (24.1 cm)
Diameter: 4.5
Condition: Vase features red and pink anemones over a white to yellow...
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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 Vases
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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 Vases
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E Gallé, Large Vase With Comumbines, Art Nouveau
By Émile Gallé
Located in MARSEILLE, FR
Large multi-layered glass vase, with acid-etched decoration, of comumbines in flowers and buds
Japanese-style Gallé signature
Good condition, no cracks or chips
Early 20th century...
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Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Émile Gallé Vases
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Monumental 24’ Emile Galle Four Color Cameo Vase
By Émile Gallé
Located in Dallas, TX
Large and finely carved Four color Gallé Cameo glass floral floor vase, circa 1910, art Nouveau.
Marks: Gallé
Measures: Height: 24.35 inches (62 cm)
Diameter: 9.75 inches
Condition: Very good with no damage or repairs.
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Early 20th Century Cameo Vase Entitled "Moon Vase" by Emile Gallé
By Émile Gallé
Located in London, GB
A beautiful early 20th Century cameo glass vase acid cut and etched with a deep red floral decoration against a yellow background. With a crescent moon at the openning of the vase. E...
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Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Émile Gallé Vases
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Pichet Saint Clément Coq en majolique Française, design Art Nouveau 19ième
By Saint-Clément, Émile Gallé
Located in London, England
Le pichet en barbotine de Saint Clément, conçu par les talentueux Émile et Charles Gallé, représente une pièce maîtresse de l'art nouveau. Avec son décor inspiré de la faune et de la...
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Mid-20th Century European Art Nouveau Émile Gallé Vases
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Émile Gallé (1846-1904), Large Cameo Glass Vase "Gladioli" circa 1900
By Émile Gallé
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Émile Gallé (1846-1904), Art Nouveau Cameo Glass Vase « Gladioli Flowers »
Large piriform vase on heel with long collar in dark blue and blue multi-layered glass
Cased glass, opales...
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$9,552 Sale Price
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Glass Vase by Émile Gallé
By Émile Gallé
Located in LU
An exquisite early twentieth-century Art Nouveau vase by renowned French artist Émile Gallé. This stunning piece, crafted from sand-polished glass, showcases Gallé’s signature revere...
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$31,429 Sale Price
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Emile Galle Art Glass Cameo Vase
By Émile Gallé
Located in Guaynabo, PR
This is an Emile Galle Art Glass Cameo Vase. It is an elongated ovoid shaped vase. It has a frosted orange glass at the upper top highlighted by differ...
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Émile Gallé (1846-1904) French Art Nouveau Glass Vase « Magnolias» circa 1900
By Émile Gallé
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Émile Gallé (1846-1904)
French Art Nouveau Caméo Glass Vase «Magnolias » circa 1900
A multilayer deep red and yellow glass vase with acid-etched and wheel-engraved decoration.
Desig...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Vases
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$5,970 Sale Price
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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 Vases
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$98,500
Émile Gallé Cameo Glass Vase with Flowering Branches
By Émile Gallé
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Émile Gallé Cameo Glass Vase with Flowering Branches, France, circa 1900
A beautifully executed French Art Nouveau cameo glass vase by Émile Gallé, featuring delicate pink blossoms ...
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Emile Gallé French Art Nouveau Cameo Glass Vase
By Émile Gallé
Located in Antwerp, BE
Emille Galle (1846-1904).
Émile Gallé was a French glass maker and furniture designer, who had his home in his native Nancy. His favourite topic, which he frequently used in his wor...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Vases
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$1,719 Sale Price
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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 Vases
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Art Glass
$2,560 Sale Price
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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 Vases
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Art Glass
$4,828 Sale Price
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Emile Galle Early Cameo Glass Vase
By Émile Gallé
Located in Sarasota, FL
Early cameo glass vase by Emile Galle.. Beautiful work, unsual execution of the 1890-1900. Signed in cameo.
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Late 19th Century French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Vases
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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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Rare Soliflore French Art Nouveau Cameo Glass Vase, Berries Decor by Emile Galle
By Émile Gallé
Located in Bochum, NRW
Delicate soliflore vase with berries and leaves decor.
Multi-layered glass, with a decor intricately cleared with acid through vivid crimson red against a deep yellow glass ground.
T...
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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 Vases
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Glass
$98,500
Fine Galle Cameo Glass Cabinet Vase
By Émile Gallé
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Fine Galle Cameo glass cabinet vase, with lavender cameo floral decoration, signed in the glass. Measure: The opening is 1.75" diameter.
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$716 Sale Price
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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 Vases
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Galle cameo glass Hydrangea vase
By Émile Gallé
Located in Devon, GB
Galle cameo glass Hydrangea vase C1905. Unusual shaped pedestal vase decorated with stylised hydrangeas.The vase is built up with five layers of glass a...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Vases
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$1,819 Sale Price
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Gallé Art Nouveau Vase
By Émile Gallé
Located in New Orleans, LA
This remarkable acid-etched vase is the work of the famed Art Nouveau master Émile Gallé, one of the most highly regarded names in French glassmaking. The artist's love of nature is ...
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19th Century French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Vases
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$15,850
Early 20th Century Art Nouveau Vase entitled "Large Floral Vase" by Emile Galle
By Émile Gallé
Located in London, GB
An attractive late 19th Century French cameo glass vase decorated with deep red and burgundy flowers against a variegating yellow field. Exhibiting excellent detail and colour, signe...
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Enameled, Decorated Cameo Glass Vase by Emile Gallé, Signed
By Émile Gallé
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Emile Gallé, French (1846-1904)
An enameled, decorated cameo glass vase, circa 1895
Measure: 4.75 in. (12 cm.) high
signed Gallé.
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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 Vases
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Art Nouveau Cameo Glass Vase With Flowers, Gallé, 1900s
By Émile Gallé
Located in Lisbon, PT
This exquisite Art Nouveau vase by Émile Gallé features acid-etched clematis flowers and leaves in warm brown and amber tones over a yellow ground. The design is meticulously carved ...
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Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Émile Gallé Vases
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$3,673 Sale Price
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French Art Nouveau Emile Galle 'Intaglio' Cameo Glass Vase
By Émile Gallé
Located in Worcester Park, GB
Rare and interesting early Emile Galle cameo vase, c14 inches tall, decorated with 1908 chrysanthemum series probably the "sur café au lait" version,...
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Fine Double over Laid Galle Cameo Glass Vase Signed Émile Gallé
By Émile Gallé
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Émile Gallé (1846-1904)
A fine double over laid Galle cameo glass vase
France, circa 1900
Cameo signature Gallé
Measures: Height 5 1/4 in. (133.35 mm.)
Width 4 1/2 in. (114.3 mm...
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Emile Gallé, Vase Glycines Wisteria Purple Cameo Acid Etched Glass
By Émile Gallé
Located in Boulogne Billancourt, FR
Vase "Glycines" (Wisteria) made in multilayer purple and white cameo acid-etched glass.
Molded signature.
Perfect condition.
height : 33 cm
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Vases
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Emile Galle Vase Paysage De Verre Gallé Nancy Art Nouveau, France, circa 1919
By Émile Gallé
Located in Vienna, AT
Gallé Nancy Art Nouveau finest vase made in France (Nancy, Lorraine)
made circa 1919-1920
Specifications:
Stunningly manufactured casing glass (colorless glass with various lay...
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1910s French Art Nouveau Vintage Émile Gallé Vases
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Tall Emile Galle Art Nouveau Botanical Carved Cameo Vase
By Émile Gallé
Located in Dallas, TX
Tall Emile Galle Art Nouveau Botanical Carved Cameo Vase
Carved and acid etched multilayered glass
Circa 1900 Art Nouveau
Signed: “Galle”
Height: 15.75 Inches
Diameter: 3.75 Inches
C...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Vases
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Emile Gallé Glass Vase "Aristocrat" Signed Galle
By Émile Gallé
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Émile Gallé (1846-1904)
"Aristocrat"
A rare and extremely fine Emile Gallé glass vase with applied and enameled decoration, France, circa 1890
sign...
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Early 20th Century French Cameo Glass "Dragonfly Banjo Vase" by Emile Gallé
By Émile Gallé
Located in London, GB
A stunning late 19th Century French cameo glass banjo shaped vase decorated with a vibrant dragonfly hovering over a lilypad covered lake with excellent deep orange and yellow colour...
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Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Émile Gallé Vases
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Emile Galle Large Cameo Glass Vase
By Émile Gallé
Located in Dallas, TX
Emile Galle Tall vase with maple branches
France, c. 1907-1907
Wheel carved and Acid-etched Cameo Glass Vase
Height: 21.5 Inches X 8 Inch diameter (55 × 20 cm)
Condition: Very Good...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Vases
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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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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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Émile Gallé Alpine Glass Vase
By Émile Gallé
Located in New Orleans, LA
Exceptional in both size and artistry, this sand-polished cameo art glass vase from the famed Art Nouveau master Émile Gallé features an exceedingly rare alpine scene. The artist's l...
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Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Émile Gallé Vases
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Art Glass
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Emile Gallé vases 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 vases, although brown editions of this piece are particularly popular. Many of the original vases 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 vases by Clement Massier, Muller Frères, and Edmond Lachenal. Prices for Emile Gallé vases can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — on 1stDibs, these items begin at $440 and can go as high as $145,000, while a piece like these, on average, fetch $4,783.
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- What is a cameo vase?1 Answer1stDibs ExpertMarch 22, 2022A cameo vase is a decorative glass vase that features a design in raised relief achieved by engraving, etching and carving. The earliest examples date back to ancient Roman times, and the decorative objects experienced a revival during the Art Nouveau and Neo-Grec periods. On 1stDibs, find a range of cameo vases.
- What is a Galle vase?1 Answer1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022French artist Emile Galle was well known for his glasswork, especially his Galle vases. These vases featured swirling colors with flowers or leaves as an accent. Galle was born in 1846 and died in 1904, and his works are considered to be a significant influence in the Art Nouveau movement. On 1stDibs, find a variety of original artwork from top artists.
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