Émile Gallé Glass
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 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 Glass
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French Art Nouveau Emile Galle Cameo Aquatic Glass Vase -With Pond Scene c1920
By Émile Gallé
Located in Worcester Park, GB
Fabulous and cute small three colour Emile Galle cameo aquatic vase in purple and orange over an unusual opal layer depicting a pond scene with budding and flowering Nénuphars (water...
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1920s French Art Nouveau Vintage Émile Gallé Glass
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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 Glass
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French Art Nouveau Emile Galle Cameo Glass Botanical Banjo Vase, circa 1900
By Émile Gallé
Located in Worcester Park, GB
Classic Art Nouveau Emile Galle 'Banjo' vase, depicting blooms in fire polished green over pink, signed in cameo (see picture 3) -Provost Mark I -see chart -last picture. Emile Galle...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Glass
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Exceptional French Art Nouveau Marbled Emile Galle Cameo Glass Vase -Fircones
By Émile Gallé
Located in Worcester Park, GB
An exceptional two handled Emile Galle cameo fircone moon vase in orange over a blue marbled layer, Depicting fircones and needle of a fir tree. Marbled layered Galle cameos are lit...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Glass
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Cameo Glass Vase With Florals Signed Galle
By Émile Gallé
Located in Norwood, NJ
Floral Art Nouveau cameo glass style vase signed Galle. Lavender color art glass vase.
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1890s French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Glass
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Art Glass
Large Émile Gallé Art Nouveau Vase with Pond Landscape Decor, France, 1904/06
By Émile Gallé
Located in Vienna, AT
Vase with a three-pass floor plan, widening upwards, dented at the upper edge between the segment arches, outer edge ground at the top. Colorless glass with yellow-orange color powde...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Glass
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Large Émile Gallé Art Nouveau Cameo Vase With Daffodil Decor, France, Ca 1904
By Émile Gallé
Located in Vienna, AT
Baluster-shaped vase body on a slightly flared, flush base with a bulbous, upwardly widening wall, on gently sloping shoulders a constriction to form a short neck piece with a slight...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Glass
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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 Glass
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French Art Nouveau Emile Galle Cameo Glass Vervain Blossom Vase c1908
By Émile Gallé
Located in Worcester Park, GB
Stunning large Emile Galle cameo 'stick' vase in dramatic purple and dark green over bright blue - depicting branches of flowering Vervain, (an unusual and very effective colourway) ...
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Early 1900s Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Glass
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French Early Art Nouveau Emile Galle First Period Enamel Vase, circa 1890
By Émile Gallé
Located in Worcester Park, GB
A very rare Emile Galle, signed, 1st Period vase - enamelled in bold poster colours; Red, Yellow, Blue and Black. The design represents stylised foliage and flowers. Signed 'E Galle...
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1890s French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Glass
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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 Glass
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Glass, Paint
Rare red optically blown art nouveau wine glass by Emile Gallé, Nancy, ca. 1903
By Émile Gallé
Located in Aachen, DE
This design was exhibited at the 1903 l'École de Nancy Exposition at pavillon de Marsan in the palais du Louvre, following an initiative by l'Union centrale des arts décoratifs. Sho...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Glass
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Glass, Art Glass, Blown Glass, Optical Glass, Uranium Glass
Large Galle cameo glass Fern vase c1920
By Émile Gallé
Located in Devon, GB
Large Galle cameo glass fern vase c1920. Profusely decorated vase covered in fern fronds in dark and lighter red against a lemon ground. Signed in the cameo with an elaborate Galle s...
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1920s French Art Deco Vintage Émile Gallé Glass
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Émile Gallé Art Nouveau Single Flower Vase With Poppy Decor, France, Circa 1890
By Émile Gallé
Located in Vienna, AT
Solitary vase in the shape of a drop: bulbous body on a round, stepped base, narrowing as it rises and widening again to a bulging expansion to form a long, slender neck, widening ag...
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1890s French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Glass
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Art Nouveau Cameo Vase with Wisteria Decor, Émile Gallé, France 1903/04
By Émile Gallé
Located in Vienna, AT
Vase in the form of a baluster: oval stand, wall widening towards the top, forming shoulders and converging into a short, narrow neck. Colorless glass with yellow-orange color powder...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Glass
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Large Émile Gallé Art Nouveau Cameo Vase, Ash-Maple Decor, France, Circa 1910
By Émile Gallé
Located in Vienna, AT
Large vase on a round stand, widening like a bulge and then narrowing to a slightly conical, long, wide neck, opening with slightly flared mouth rim, colourless glass with orange-bro...
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Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Émile Gallé Glass
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Émile Gallé Art Nouveau Cameo Vase, Seascape Decor, France, circa 1904
By Émile Gallé
Located in Vienna, AT
Baluster-shaped vase body on a wide, round base, conical wall that widens upwards, on slightly sloping shoulders a short, narrow neck with a slightly flared mouth edge, colorless gla...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Glass
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Glass
Tall Galle floral cameo glass vase C1910
By Émile Gallé
Located in Devon, GB
Tall and slender floral Galle cameo glass vase
Multi layered vase signed Galle in the cameo
The condition is very good with no damage or faults
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1910s French Art Nouveau Vintage Émile Gallé Glass
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Émile Gallé (1846-1904) French Enameled Ring Tree Cristallerie circa 1885
By Émile Gallé
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Émile Gallé (1846-1904)
Extremely Rare Baguier shaped tree trunk blue “light blue moon” (Clair de Lune) glass enameled designed with two grasshoppers, an ant and a fly.
Signed E.Gall...
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1880s French Japonisme Antique Émile Gallé Glass
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Art Glass
Émile Gallé Art Nouveau Cameo Vase, Umbellifers Decor, France, circa 1906
By Émile Gallé
Located in Vienna, AT
Slender baluster-shaped vase body on a separate base, conically widening upwards and then narrowing again to form a slender neck with a flared rim, colorless glass with blue and green colored powder inclusions, overlay in violet, in various stages highly etched decor with umbelliferous plants, etched matt on the inside and background on the outside, relief polished.
Cameo signature 'Gallé' on the wall in the lower area between the leaves...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Glass
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Art Nouveau French Glass Decanter Set by Emile Galle
By Galle Art Glass, Gallé, Émile Gallé
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
A beautifully delicate French glass decanter set made by Emile Galle in the late 19th century, decorated in enamels with ribbons and flowers in a...
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1860s French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Glass
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Glass, Art Glass
Large Émile Gallé Art Nouveau Cameo Vase, Umbellifers Decor, France, circa 1904
By Émile Gallé
Located in Vienna, AT
Vase with a large, round stand, widening like a bulge and then conically narrowing to a narrow opening with a flared rim, colorless glass with pink and light green colored powder inc...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Glass
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Glass Decanter, Galle, circa 1900
By Émile Gallé
Located in New York, NY
Glass decanter, Galle, circa 1900.
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Early 1900s French Antique Émile Gallé Glass
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Art Glass
Émile Gallé Round Art Nouveau Cameo Handle Vase With Hydrangea Decor France 1905
By Émile Gallé
Located in Vienna, AT
Vase in upright drum shape on an oval, flush stand, short neck piece raised at the top centre with slightly flared, raised rim, two handles fused onto the sides of the outer rim and ...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Glass
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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 Glass
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Art Nouveau Cameo Vase with Sweet Pea Decor, Émile Gallé, Nancy, France, 1903/04
By Émile Gallé
Located in Vienna, AT
Flush foot, raised, widening body with a shoulder-shaped narrowing at the top, with a short, wide neck and flared, rounded mouth rim. Burgundy red overlay on the outside, etched leaf...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Glass
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Glass
Emile Galle 'Cornflowers' Vase circa 1920
By Émile Gallé
Located in Basildon, GB
Emile Galle 'Cornflowers' Vase circa 1920, clear overlaid glass with dense yellow pigment powder inclusions; the exterior overlaid in blue and green; continuous decoration in several...
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1920s French Art Nouveau Vintage Émile Gallé Glass
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Art Glass
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 Glass
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Large Émile Gallé Art Nouveau Cameo Vase Flower and Leaf Decor France circa 1904
By Émile Gallé
Located in Vienna, AT
Tubular vase body with loaf-shaped, flush stand, colorless glass with flaky white and green color powder inclusions, overlay in dark green, in various sta...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Glass
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Large Slender Émile Gallé Art Nouveau Vase with Hydrangea Decor, France, c 1906
By Émile Gallé
Located in Vienna, AT
Tall rod vase with a slender, straight neck with a flat, bulbous body in the flush standing area, colorless glass with yellow and reddish colored powder inclusions, overlay in moss green and violet, in various stages highly etched hydrangea decoration, matt surfaces.
Cameo signature 'Gallé' on the wall in the lower area between the leaves...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Glass
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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 Glass
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Galle Alpine Landscape Cameo Vase
By Émile Gallé
Located in Sarasota, FL
Galle cameo Alpine landscape vase in frosted pink glass, decorated with a green intercalaire tree scene over a blue mountain range. At least 3 glass layers. Signed in cameo with "Gal...
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Late 19th Century French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Glass
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Large Émile Gallé Art Nouveau Cameo Vase 'Helianthe', Nancy, France, circa 1898
By Émile Gallé
Located in Vienna, AT
Excellent, large tubular vase: in the lower area bulbous body on a separate stand, after constriction the neck is raised, slightly narrowing with a flared mouth edge, mould-blown, co...
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1890s French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Glass
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Large Émile Gallé Art Nouveau Cameo Vase, Iris And Lily Pond, France, ca. 1906
By Émile Gallé
Located in Vienna, AT
Slender baluster-shaped vase body on a separate base, widening conically towards the top and then narrowing again to form a slender neck with a flared mouth rim, colorless glass with...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Glass
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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 Glass
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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 Glass
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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 Glass
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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 Glass
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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 Glass
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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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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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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 Glass
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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 Glass
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Blown 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 Glass
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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 Glass
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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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Emile Gallé glass for sale on 1stDibs.
Emile Gallé glass 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 glass, although brown editions of this piece are particularly popular. Many of the original glass by Emile Gallé were created in the Art Nouveau style in france during the 20th century. If you’re looking for additional options, many customers also consider glass by Muller Frères, Le Verre Français, and François-Théodore Legras. Prices for Emile Gallé glass can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — on 1stDibs, these items begin at $550 and can go as high as $22,500, while a piece like these, on average, fetch $2,900.
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