Skip to main content
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 5

French "Crabe" Pâte de Verre Vide Poche by Amalric Walter and Henri Bergé

$19,500
£14,810.73
€17,035.05
CA$27,245.32
A$30,381.62
CHF 15,851.83
MX$372,793.89
NOK 201,768.58
SEK 191,171.34
DKK 127,138.87
Shipping
Retrieving quote...
The 1stDibs Promise:
Authenticity Guarantee,
Money-Back Guarantee,
24-Hour Cancellation

About the Item

This French "Crabe," or "Crab," pâte de verre vide-poche glass dish by Amalric Walter and Henri Bergé, is an elongated green and blueish dish, with murky, swirling hues, mimicking the appearance of a small eddy of a brook, frozen in time and space by the artist. Presiding over this small aquatic universe is a deep, reddish-brown crab with highlights of bright yellow adorning his gnarled back. So intricate and so accurately knobbly are the crabs outstretched limbs that he seems to meld into the beautiful tangle of similarly colored, trailing strands of kelp that emanate in every direction from his formidable perch. Product Details: Item #: P-17777 Artist: Amalric Walter and Henri Bergé Circa: 1920 Dimensions: 2" height, 11.75" width, 5.25" deep Materials: Pâte de verre glass Signed: "A WALTER NANCY" and "hBerge sc" Literature: Similar vide-poche is pictured in Amalric Walter (1870-1959), by Keith Cummings, Kingswinford: Broadfield House Glass Museum, 2006, p. 25, cat. no .30 Macklowe Gallery's Curator's Notes: Pâte de verre material was produced by grinding glass into a fine powder, adding a binder to create a paste, and adding a fluxing medium to facilitate melting. The paste is brushed or tamped into a mold, dried, and fused by firing, meaning this is not only one of the most technically difficult manners in which to create glass objects.

More From This Seller

View All
"Langouste" Pâte De Verre Vide-Poche by Walter and Bergé
By Henri Bergé and Amalric Walter
Located in New York, NY
A French Art Nouveau pâte de verre vide-poche by Amalric Walter and Henri Bergé. This piece features a brown lobster resting on a blue-green shaped dish, circa 1900. A similar vid...
Category

Antique Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Decorative Dishes and Vide-Poche

Amalric Walter and Daum Nancy "Crabe" Pâte de Verre Glass Paperweight
Located in New York, NY
This exquisite “Crabe” pâte de verre glass paperweight, by Amalric Walter and Daum Nancy is decorated with a relief of a reddish-brown crab poised upon a bright contrast of green and...
Category

Early 20th Century Art Nouveau Paperweights

Materials

Glass

"Langouste" Pâte de Verre Paperweight by Walter and Bergé
By Henri Bergé and Amalric Walter
Located in New York, NY
This French Art Nouveau pâte de verre paperweight (or "Presse Papiers") by Amalric Walter and Henri Bergé is an earlier, and smaller version of a series of "Langouste" paperweights f...
Category

Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Paperweights

Materials

Glass, Art Glass, Blown Glass

"Langouste" Pâte de Verre Paperweight by Walter and Bergé.
Located in New York, NY
A French "Langouste", pâte de verre paperweight by Amalric Walter and Henri Bergé. The brown crayfish with red spots straddles a green and yellow curved base. Circa 1920. A simil...
Category

Vintage 1920s French Art Nouveau Paperweights

Materials

Art Glass

Gabriel Argy-Rousseau Pâte de Verre "Fruits et Feuilles" Night Light
By Gabriel Argy-Rousseau
Located in New York, NY
Argy-Rousseau's near-unique ability to gracefully soften the starkness of Art Deco design without ever sacrificing the strength of the design is on full display in this remarkable, p...
Category

Early 20th Century French Art Deco Table Lamps

Materials

Wrought Iron

Gabriel Argy-Rousseau Pâte de Verre "Araignees et Ronces" Vase
By Gabriel Argy-Rousseau
Located in New York, NY
This exquisite "Spiders and Brambles" cameo glass vase by Gabriel Argy-Rousseau features entwined charcoal, orange and blackberry leaves. The mottled white glass ground is dominated ...
Category

Early 20th Century American Art Nouveau Vases

Materials

Glass, Art Glass, Blown Glass

You May Also Like

Art Nouveau Paperweight with Mussels Amalric Walter & Henri Mercier, Nancy
By Henri Bergé and Amalric Walter
Located in Vienna, AT
Two mussels on a yellow stone base covered with algae. Signed 'AWALTER NANCY' and 'hm'. Manufactory: Amalric Walter & Henri Bergé, Nancy, Lorraine, France Dating of manufacture: circa 1920/1930 Designer: Victor Amalric Walter (1870-1959) was a French glass manufacturer mainly known for his pâte de verre pieces. In the Cristalleries Daum at Nancy, France, he met the designer and modelist HENRI BERGÉ, with whom he produced the first pâtes de verre, which at the time were only signed with "Daum Nancy". After the war he continued to work with Henri Bergé. From 1919 to 1935 he cast no fewer than 500 models with Bergé and other famous sculptors or designers, always in few numbers due to the sophisticated technique of glass kiln casting. Henri Mercier...
Category

Vintage 1920s French Art Nouveau Glass

Materials

Glass

Pâte-de-verre by Almeric Walter Incised A.Walter Nancy
By Almeric Walter
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Almeric Walter (1870-1959) A fine and well executed Pâte-de-verre (glass) work of art, by Almeric Walter, France, circa 1920 the mottled yellow-brown ...
Category

Vintage 1920s Animal Sculptures

Materials

Glass

Vase Sign: Le Verre (Decoration Escargots / Snails) , Style: Art Nouveau
By Le Verre Francais
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
Monumental Vase Sign: Le Verre Francais acid worked Le Verre cameo glass was a separate line of art glass designed by Charles Schneider. Its production was made at the same time as ...
Category

Vintage 1920s French Art Nouveau Glass

Materials

Art Glass

1950s Glass 'Shell' Sculpture by Flavio Poli, for Seguso Vetri d'Arte, Murano
By Flavio Poli
Located in London, England
Acid-etched sommerso elongated glass stylised seashell in shaded purple, red and clear glass. The sculpture has been acid-etched and has a tactile textured surface.
Category

Vintage 1950s Italian Glass

Materials

Art Glass, Murano Glass

Rare Archimede Seguso \"Valva\" murano glass bowl
By Seguso Vetri d'Arte
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a rare Valva line in a thick glass green, brown, yellow colors.
Category

Vintage 1950s Italian Modern Decorative Bowls

Materials

Glass

Effie Hegermann Lindenkrone for Bing & Grøndahl. Art Nouveau porcelain bowl
Located in København, Copenhagen
Effie Hegermann Lindenkrone for Bing & Grøndahl. Art Nouveau porcelain bowl featuring a motif of crayfish and aquatic plants. Underglaze. Model 1111. ...
Category

Vintage 1970s Danish Art Nouveau Decorative Bowls

Materials

Porcelain