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
Art Nouveau French Glass Decanter Set by Emile Galle
By Gallé, Émile Gallé, Galle Art Glass
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 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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Glass
$2,157 Sale Price
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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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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 Glass
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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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Émile Gallé Art Nouveau Cameo Vase With Silver Mounting, Nancy, France 1904
By Émile Gallé
Located in Vienna, AT
Bulbous shoulder vase on a flush stand, short neck piece with silver mount as a ring in a smooth, slightly flared design, on the outside opposite two fully sculptural branch and cone bundles, colourless glass with white powder meltings, overlay in blue-violet and green, meadow flower decoration etched in various stages, matt etched inside and outside.
Cameo signature 'Gallé' with star on the wall between the plants.
Silver mount hallmarked 'Minerve casquée' for 950 silver, France, and master's mark.
Hand-made Cameo Glass:
Glass overlaid with several layers, with high-cut worked out motifs. Since the middle of the 19th century, the design has also been done by etching. Cameo glass vessels were already being made in antiquity; at the end of the 19th century, Émile Gallé further developed this glass art, created Art Nouveau designs and employed a large factory in Nancy...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Glass
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French Art Nouveau Green/Pink Emile Galle Cameo Glass Vase with Hazelnut Catkins
By Paul Nicolas, Émile Gallé
Located in Worcester Park, GB
Rare green and brown over pink cameo vase depicting 'Chatons du Noisetier', i.e. hazelnut catkins; a pattern designed 1906 (Design is mention in the 1906 new list...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Glass
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Art Glass
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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Galle cameo glass aquatic vase C1908
By Émile Gallé
Located in Devon, GB
Galle cameo glass aquatic vase with lily pads, water lilies bullrushes and aquatic grasses
Signed Galle in the cameo C1908
The condition is very good with no damage or faults
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Glass
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Glass
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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Art Glass
Gallé Mushroom Glass Lamp Shade with Butterfly, Art Nouveau, 1904
By Émile Gallé
Located in Lisbon, PT
Emile Gallé glass lamp shade in mushroom form, featuring acid-etched cameo decoration with a butterfly motif on a soft yellow opaque ground.
Crafted circa 1904, this exquisite piece...
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20th Century French Art Nouveau Émile Gallé Glass
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Art Glass
$1,762 Sale Price
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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 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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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
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
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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Art Glass
Galle Cameo glass vase brown & peach landscape design C1905
By Émile Gallé
Located in Devon, GB
Emile Galle cameo glass landscape vase C1905
Super quality vase, very realistic design and detail to the trees which fits nicely to the shape.
Engraved Galle toward the base of the ...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Glass
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French Art Nouveau Emile Galle Cameo Glass Misty Morning Landscape Vase c1910
By Émile Gallé
Located in Worcester Park, GB
Fine Art Nouveau Emile Galle Cameo landscape vase, depicting a very early morning scene, with bright yellow sky and green brown trees in the round mostly behind a gently rolling and reflecting green river. This is a very unusual and effective colourway. It is executed in one of Galle's classic shapes a squat vase with a round collar making it a perfect cabinet vase for any collector. It is signed raised in cameo -see pic 6 (the signature is Provost Mk III -see chart in final image -this signature date the vase to around 1910 and amongst the first Galle landscapes...
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1910s French Art Nouveau Vintage Émile Gallé 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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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 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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French Art Nouveau Emile Galle Cameo Glass Vervain Blossom Jardinière c1908
By Émile Gallé
Located in Worcester Park, GB
Stunning large Emile Galle cameo Jardinière in dramatic purple and dark green over clear - depicting branches of flowering Vervain, (an unusual and very effective colourway) signed ...
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Early 1900s Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Glass
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Art Glass
Monumental Galle Ruby Red Cameo Glass Vase
By Émile Gallé
Located in New York, NY
Monumental ruby red cameo glass vase by Email Galle (1846-1904) measuring 30 inches tall and 9 3/4 inches in diameter.
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Late 19th Century French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Glass
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Art Glass
French Art Nouveau Signed Red Anemone Emile Gallé Cameo Glass Vase circa, 1925
By Émile Gallé
Located in Worcester Park, GB
French Art Nouveau Emile Gallé cameo vase depicting multiple Flowering Anemones in Reds over orange-yellow, with fine internal polishing to highlight the red in the flowers -A good s...
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1920s French Art Nouveau Vintage Émile Gallé Glass
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Art Glass
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 Glass
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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 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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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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French Art Nouveau Signed Emile Gallé Cameo Glass Vase with Cornflower circa1920
By Émile Gallé
Located in Worcester Park, GB
Fine French Art Nouveau Emile Gallé mid sized cameo vase depicting blooming Cornflowers in fine purple and blue over orange/yellow, with detailed internal polishing to highlight the ...
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1920s French Art Nouveau Vintage Émile Gallé Glass
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Art Glass
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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Art Glass
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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Art Glass
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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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 Glass
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Art Glass
Rare French Art Deco Galle Cameo Glass Vase -Winter Hydrangea -c1925
By Émile Gallé
Located in Worcester Park, GB
Fabulous late Galle Cameo vase in brown over yellow cleverly and finely depicting naturalistic winter hydrangea and lightly fire polished- This large and exceptional cameo vase is fr...
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1920s French Art Deco Vintage Émile Gallé Glass
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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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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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Art Glass
French Art Nouveau Brown & Pink Signed Emile Gallé Iris Cameo Glass Vase c1910
By Paul Nicolas, Émile Gallé
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 Glass
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Early French Art Nouveau Emile Galle Mould Blown Botanical Cameo Vase -c1900
By Émile Gallé
Located in Worcester Park, GB
Unusual and early two colour Emile Galle cameo botanical vase in browns over orange. A Ball and shaft shape with fine ridges in the shaft/stem and a botanical pattern for the lower part. It depicts brown berries and leaves on trailing branches. Very unusually, the vase is an early Galle...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Émile Gallé Glass
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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
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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 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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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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French Art Nouveau Emile Galle Cameo Glass Blue Mountain Night Light c1920
By Émile Gallé
Located in Worcester Park, GB
Very rare late Art Nouveau Emile Galle Cameo glass 'blue mountain' landscape vase, depicting black trees against blue/green mountains and a lake tinted with pink. An exceptional im...
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1920s French Art Nouveau Vintage Émile Gallé Glass
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Art Glass
French Art Deco Emile Galle Cameo Glass Amber Sailing ship Vase, circa 1920
By Émile Gallé
Located in Worcester Park, GB
Fabulous and rare Emile Galle cameo vase with sailing ships on the sea in the very rare colourway brown over orange over yellow, signed (image 3) Provo...
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1920s French Art Deco Vintage 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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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 Glass
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Blown Glass
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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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 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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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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