Art Nouveau Furniture
ART NOUVEAU STYLE
In its sinuous lines and flamboyant curves inspired by the natural world, antique Art Nouveau furniture reflects a desire for freedom from the stuffy social and artistic strictures of the Victorian era. The Art Nouveau movement developed in the decorative arts in France and Britain in the early 1880s and quickly became a dominant aesthetic style in Western Europe and the United States.
ORIGINS OF ART NOUVEAU FURNITURE DESIGN
- Emerged during the late 19th century
- Popularity of this modernizing style declined in the early 20th century
- Originated in France and Britain but variants materialized elsewhere
- Informed by Rococo, Pre-Raphaelite art, Japanese art (and Japonisme), Arts and Crafts; influenced modernism, Bauhaus
CHARACTERISTICS OF ART NOUVEAU FURNITURE DESIGN
- Sinuous, organic and flowing lines
- Forms that mimic flowers and plant life
- Decorative inlays and ornate carvings of natural-world motifs such as insects and animals
- Use of hardwoods such as oak, mahogany and rosewood
ART NOUVEAU FURNITURE DESIGNERS TO KNOW
ANTIQUE ART NOUVEAU FURNITURE ON 1STDIBS
Art Nouveau — which spanned furniture, architecture, jewelry and graphic design — can be easily identified by its lush, flowing forms suggested by flowers and plants, as well as the lissome tendrils of sea life. Although Art Deco and Art Nouveau were both in the forefront of turn-of-the-20th-century design, they are very different styles — Art Deco is marked by bold, geometric shapes while Art Nouveau incorporates dreamlike, floral motifs. The latter’s signature motif is the "whiplash" curve — a deep, narrow, dynamic parabola that appears as an element in everything from chair arms to cabinetry and mirror frames.
The visual vocabulary of Art Nouveau was particularly influenced by the soft colors and abstract images of nature seen in Japanese art prints, which arrived in large numbers in the West after open trade was forced upon Japan in the 1860s. Impressionist artists were moved by the artistic tradition of Japanese woodblock printmaking, and Japonisme — a term used to describe the appetite for Japanese art and culture in Europe at the time — greatly informed Art Nouveau.
The Art Nouveau style quickly reached a wide audience in Europe via advertising posters, book covers, illustrations and other work by such artists as Aubrey Beardsley, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Alphonse Mucha. While all Art Nouveau designs share common formal elements, different countries and regions produced their own variants.
In Scotland, the architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh developed a singular, restrained look based on scale rather than ornament; a style best known from his narrow chairs with exceedingly tall backs, designed for Glasgow tea rooms. Meanwhile in France, Hector Guimard — whose iconic 1896 entry arches for the Paris Metro are still in use — and Louis Majorelle produced chairs, desks, bed frames and cabinets with sweeping lines and rich veneers.
The Art Nouveau movement was known as Jugendstil ("Youth Style") in Germany, and in Austria the designers of the Vienna Secession group — notably Koloman Moser, Josef Hoffmann and Joseph Maria Olbrich — produced a relatively austere iteration of the Art Nouveau style, which mixed curving and geometric elements.
Art Nouveau revitalized all of the applied arts. Ceramists such as Ernest Chaplet and Edmond Lachenal created new forms covered in novel and rediscovered glazes that produced thick, foam-like finishes. Bold vases, bowls and lighting designs in acid-etched and marquetry cameo glass by Émile Gallé and the Daum Freres appeared in France, while in New York the glass workshop-cum-laboratory of Louis Comfort Tiffany — the core of what eventually became a multimedia decorative-arts manufactory called Tiffany Studios — brought out buoyant pieces in opalescent favrile glass.
Jewelry design was revolutionized, as settings, for the first time, were emphasized as much as, or more than, gemstones. A favorite Art Nouveau jewelry motif was insects (think of Tiffany, in his famed Dragonflies glass lampshade).
Like a mayfly, Art Nouveau was short-lived. The sensuous, languorous style fell out of favor early in the 20th century, deemed perhaps too light and insubstantial for European tastes in the aftermath of World War I. But as the designs on 1stDibs demonstrate, Art Nouveau retains its power to fascinate and seduce.
There are ways to tastefully integrate a touch of Art Nouveau into even the most modern interior — browse an extraordinary collection of original antique Art Nouveau furniture on 1stDibs, which includes decorative objects, seating, tables, garden elements and more.
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Style: Art Nouveau
Creator: Émile Gallé
Emile Galle Cameo, Glass Banjo Vase, 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 Antique Art Nouveau Furniture
Materials
Glass
A Large French Signed Emille Galle Souffle "Sunset Flower" Vase
By Émile Gallé
Located in New York, NY
This sand-polished cameo art glass vase from the famed Art Nouveau master Émile Gallé consists of a gorgeous array of souffle technique flowers, leaves, and branches in sunset shades...
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Early 1900s French Antique Art Nouveau Furniture
Materials
Art Glass
Antique French Art Nouveau Fire Polished Cameo Glass Emile Gallé Stem Vase, 1900
By Émile Gallé
Located in Portland, OR
A fine antique French Art Nouveau Emille Galle cameo glass vase, circa 1900.
The stem vase of a tapering conical form and finely wheel carved and acid etc...
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Early 1900s French Antique Art Nouveau Furniture
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Glass
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 Antique Art Nouveau Furniture
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Art Glass
Pichet Saint Clément Coq en majolique Française, design Art Nouveau 19ième
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 Furniture
Materials
Ceramic, Faience
Émile Gallé "Grenouilles" Fruitwood Cabinet
By Émile Gallé
Located in New York, NY
This French Art Nouveau "Grenouilles" carved fruitwood cabinet by Émile Gallé features detailed and masterful marquetry depicting dragonflies and mushrooms in a lush, leafy landscape...
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Early 1900s French Antique Art Nouveau Furniture
Materials
Beech, Fruitwood
Émile Gallé "Chardons des Sables" Chest of Drawers
By Émile Gallé
Located in New York, NY
This "Chardons des Sables," or "Sand Thistle," multi-wood chest of drawers, by Émile Gallé, is a moving meditation on the artist's own mortality. T...
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Early 1900s French Antique Art Nouveau Furniture
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Wood
Gallé Cameo Glass Lamp
By Émile Gallé
Located in New Orleans, LA
Cameo Glass Lamp
Émile Gallé
Circa 1900
This stunning cameo glass lamp displays the unparalleled artistry of the famed Art Nouveau master Émile Gallé, one of the most highly regarde...
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20th Century French Art Nouveau Furniture
Materials
Glass
French Art Nouveau Emile Galle Cameo Glass Prunus Blossom Vase, circa 1920
By Émile Gallé
Located in Worcester Park, GB
Unusual Emile Galle cameo vase in dark red, and bright red over orange depicting Prunus Spinosa blossom (Blackthorn) falling from above (most Em...
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1920s French Vintage Art Nouveau Furniture
Materials
Art Glass
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 Furniture
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Glass
Rare Galle cameo glass aquatic butterfly vase C1900
By Émile Gallé
Located in Devon, GB
Lovely little Emile Galle multi layered cameo glass vase decorated with an aquatic scene around the bottom section of the vase with pond lilies and reeds. The tops section interestin...
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Early 1900s French Antique Art Nouveau Furniture
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Glass
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 Antique Art Nouveau Furniture
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Art Glass
Émile Gallé St Clément Art Nouveau Trompe L'oeil French Asparagus Plate, 1870
By Émile Gallé
Located in Philadelphia, PA
From St. Clément, Luneville and designed by Émile Gallé, a Barbotine square shaped, trompe l’oeil asparagus plate, circa 1870.
Five raised asparagus spears are strewn across a bei...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Art Nouveau Furniture
Materials
Earthenware
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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Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Furniture
Materials
Glass
French Art nouveau hall tree / coat rack by Emile galle 1905 marquetry hallway
By Émile Gallé
Located in Ijzendijke, NL
Enhance your hallway decor with the elegant and functional Emile Gallé hallway tree coat rack.
Featuring exquisite craftsmanship and a timeless design. the coat rack comes with its ...
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Early 1900s French Antique Art Nouveau Furniture
Materials
Brass, Bronze
Two yellow ceramic cats, Emile Gallé (1846-1904)
By Émile Gallé
Located in Paris, FR
Emile Gallé (1846-1904) was one of the greatest French glassmakers and ceramists of the 20th century. The son of a master glassmaker, he came into contact with the art world at an ea...
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1880s French Antique Art Nouveau Furniture
Materials
Ceramic, Glass
A Rare Art Nouveau 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). Ovoid vase with a shouldere...
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Early 1900s French Antique Art Nouveau Furniture
Materials
Glass
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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1910s French Vintage Art Nouveau Furniture
Materials
Glass
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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1890s French Antique Art Nouveau Furniture
Materials
Art Glass
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 Antique Art Nouveau Furniture
Materials
Glass, Art Glass
Early 20th Century Art Nouveau Glass Vase entitled "Scenic Vase" by Emile Gallé
By Émile Gallé
Located in London, GB
An eye catching late 19th Century French cameo glass vase decorated with raised deep burgundy trees against a blue mountainous landscape against a variegating yellow field. Exhibitin...
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Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Furniture
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Glass
French Art Nouveau Red and Clear Signed Emile Gallé Cameo Glass Vase circa 1920
By Émile Gallé
Located in Worcester Park, GB
Beautiful signed French Art Nouveau Emile Gallé botanical cameo vase depicting flowers in reds over frosted clear. A good size; the oval profile vase has ...
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1920s French Vintage Art Nouveau Furniture
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Art Glass
Gallé Émile French Art Nouveau Nightstand
By Émile Gallé
Located in Prato, Tuscany
We kindly ask that you read the entire description, as we strive to provide detailed technical and historical information to guarantee the authenticity of our items. This exquisite n...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Art Nouveau Furniture
Materials
Maple, Walnut
Emile Galle 20th Century Perfume Bottle
By Émile Gallé
Located in Autonomous City Buenos Aires, CABA
Emile Galle 20th Century Perfume Bottle
Elegant antique perfumer with Emile Galle bottle base in yellow, pink tones and the evaporator in cream tone, wit...
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20th Century French Art Nouveau Furniture
Materials
Art Glass
French Art Nouveau Emile Galle Pink And Green Cameo Glass Vase C1900
By Émile Gallé
Located in Worcester Park, GB
Super early Emile Galle green over pink cameo vase featuring a dramatic wild flowers with large blooms, branches and big leaves. The vase is a classic early Galle shape with a slight...
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Early 1900s French Antique Art Nouveau Furniture
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Art Glass
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 Antique Art Nouveau Furniture
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Art Glass
A Large French Signed Emille Galle Souffle "Sunset Flower" Vase
By Émile Gallé
Located in New York, NY
This sand-polished cameo art glass vase from the famed Art Nouveau master Émile Gallé consists of a gorgeous array of souffle technique flowers, leaves, and branches in sunset shades...
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Early 1900s French Antique Art Nouveau Furniture
Materials
Art Glass
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 Antique Art Nouveau Furniture
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Glass
Pair of Art Nouveau Side Chairs by Emile Gallé, 1890s
By Émile Gallé
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Magnificent and rare pair of Art Nouveau side chairs.
Design by Emile Gallé.
Striking French design from the 1890s.
Solid oak frames with original sycamore decorations of flowers in ...
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1890s French Antique Art Nouveau Furniture
Materials
Oak, Sycamore
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 Antique Art Nouveau Furniture
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Art Glass
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 Antique Art Nouveau Furniture
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Art Glass
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 Antique Art Nouveau Furniture
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Art Glass
Antique French Art Nouveau Fire Polished Cameo Glass Emile Gallé Stem Vase, 1900
By Émile Gallé
Located in Portland, OR
A fine antique French Art Nouveau Emille Galle cameo glass vase, circa 1900.
The stem vase of a tapering conical form and finely wheel carved and acid etc...
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Early 1900s French Antique Art Nouveau Furniture
Materials
Glass
French Art Nouveau Brown & Pink Signed Emile Gallé Iris Cameo Glass Vase c1910
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 Vintage Art Nouveau Furniture
Materials
Art Glass
Pichet Saint Clément canard en majolique Française, design Art Nouveau 19ième
Located in London, England
Le pichet canard de Saint Clément, en faïence barbotine, modèle 7492, est un véritable chef-d'œuvre qui illustre l'élégance et le savoir-faire des artistes Émile et Charles Gallé. Ce...
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Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
French Art Nouveau Lamp by Emile Galle Cameo Cut Glass in Red Sunset Colors
By Émile Gallé
Located in New York, NY
A Magnificent and Rare Antique French Galle Signed Cut-Cameo Lamp with Original Signed Galle Cut-Cameo Shade, in Red and Yellow Sunset Colors. This floral motif Galle lamp is made in the art nouveau style with two-toned deep red flowers on a base and shade. The sharp edges of the floral design, which is all hand-carved, complement the smooth round mushroom-shaped shade and base. The rounded shape and delicate hand-carved glass of multiple colors and hues is a signature of Galle lamps. They typically form a cap-like shade over the thin tourine base. Another important feature of the lamp is the rounded finish on the rim, the glass is smooth at the rim—a sign that the lamp is authentic. This lamp exudes the soft romanticism of Art Nouveau. Gallé was a prominent glassblower and one of the most influential figures in the French Art Nouveau movement. Specializing in floral glassware...
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Early 1900s French Antique Art Nouveau Furniture
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
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 Vintage Art Nouveau Furniture
Materials
Art Glass
French Art Nouveau Emile Galle Cameo Glass Limited Edition Vase, circa 1900
By Émile Gallé
Located in Worcester Park, GB
Rare and early Art Nouveau Emile Galle limited edition cameo glass vase, depicting spiky dahlia like blossoms in orange over frosted clear, signed in cameo (see picture 5) with the additional super rare limited edition number 13 -raised in cameo (just visible in the picture centre below the Galle) The only Galle documentation about limited editions, like this, consist of a letter where Emile complains about the difficulty of doing them. It is not known who the editions were made for, or how many...
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Early 1900s French Antique Art Nouveau Furniture
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Art Glass
Emile Galle Paysage Vosges Table Lamp With Eagles
By Émile Gallé
Located in Dallas, TX
Emile Galle
A Rare Paysage Vosges table lamp with eagles
France, c. 1910
Acid-etched cameo glass
Dimensions: 23 Inches High x 11.25 diameter
Signed in cameo to base and shade 'Gal...
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1910s French Vintage Art Nouveau Furniture
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Art Glass
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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Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Furniture
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Glass
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 Antique Art Nouveau Furniture
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Glass
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 Antique Art Nouveau Furniture
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Art Glass
French Art Nouveau Red and Yellow Signed Emile Gallé Cameo Glass Vase circa 1920
By Émile Gallé
Located in Worcester Park, GB
Signed French Art Nouveau Emile Gallé compact footed cameo vase depicting flowers in reds over orange, with fine internal polishing to highligh...
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1920s French Vintage Art Nouveau 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 Vintage Art Nouveau Furniture
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Art Glass
French Art Nouveau Signed Red Cyclamen Emile Gallé Cameo Glass Vase circa 1920
By Émile Gallé
Located in Worcester Park, GB
A dramatic French Art Nouveau Emile Gallé cameo vase depicting multiple Flowering Cyclamen in reds over orange-yellow, with fine internal polishing to highlight the red in the flower...
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1920s French Vintage Art Nouveau Furniture
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Art Glass
Original French Art Nouveau Marquetry Table ''Japonisme'' by Emile Galle 1900
By Émile Gallé
Located in Ijzendijke, NL
Very rare original Emile Galle ''plate 66 Japonisme'' side table in Art Nouveau style.
This beautiful side table was created by Emile Galle in 1900, during the art nouveau period. It features exquisite marquetry woodwork that is inspired by the Japonisme movement, which was influenced by Japanese art and design. The side table is decorated with breathtaking Magnolia flowers & a romantic couple of butterflies. Made from various types of wood, creating a unique scenery almost like a painting.
The table showcases intricate details, such as delicate foliage and organic forms, that are hallmarks of art nouveau style. Galle was renowned for his innovative techniques and attention to detail, and this piece is a testament to his mastery of the craft. It is a stunning example of the art nouveau movement and a true work of art.
Literature: ''Galle furniture by Alastair Duncan and Georges de Bartha 2012 Page 153. Plate 66.
This Emile Galle table...
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Early 1900s French Antique Art Nouveau Furniture
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Walnut
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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Early 1900s French Antique Art Nouveau Furniture
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Art Glass
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 Vintage Art Nouveau Furniture
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Art Glass
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 Antique Art Nouveau Furniture
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Art Glass
French Faience Plate Emile Galle Saint Clement, Circa 1900
By Émile Gallé
Located in Austin, TX
French Faience plate signed Emile Galle Saint Clement Circa 1900.
Decorated with cornucopia and flowers, butterfly.
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Early 1900s French Antique Art Nouveau Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Amazing set of Art Nouveau Nesting Tables by Emile Galle ''Thistle'' 1905 Walnut
By Émile Gallé
Located in Ijzendijke, NL
A set of four French Art Nouveau nesting tables by Emile Gallé decorated with fruitwood marquetry in a motif of carlile thistle and butterflies. Each table represents a different sta...
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Early 1900s French Antique Art Nouveau Furniture
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Wood, Walnut
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 Vintage Art Nouveau Furniture
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Art Glass
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 Antique Art Nouveau Furniture
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Glass
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 Antique Art Nouveau Furniture
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Art Glass
Gallé Cameo Glass Table Lamp
By Émile Gallé
Located in New Orleans, LA
Statuesque and artfully etched, this exquisite cameo glass table lamp is the work of the famed Art Nouveau master Émile Gallé, one of the most highly regarded names in French glassmaking. The artist's appreciation of nature is on full display in the detailed Marguerite daisy pattern carefully etched in varying layers of colored glass. The blooms dance across the lamp's amber-colored form in mesmerizing shades of purple and red. When lit, the lamp emits an enticing warm glow. Nearly two feet in height, the lamp is much larger than is typical of Gallé's pieces, yet it maintains its grace and proportion.
Émile Gallé opened a small woodworker's shop in 1885, where he began experimenting with marquetry in furniture and naturalistic glass designs. In 1889, he displayed his new glass creations at the Paris International Exhibition, where the designs and colors not previously seen caused an immediate sensation. The new style of Art Nouveau had begun to appear, and the movement's aesthetics and devotion to nature appealed greatly to the young Gallé. In 1894 Gallé built a manufacturing plant in Nancy and began creating his own designs from inception through production. Gallé personally developed many of the designs, and he was known to actively make alterations and approve the designs of his talented team of designers and craftsmen he employed at the "Cristallerie D'Emile Gallé."
Signed "Gallé" on shade and base
Circa 1920
Literature:
A. Duncan, G. de Bartha, Glass by Gallé, London, 1984, p. 170, pl. 245 for another lamp of this model
A. Duncan, G. de Bartha, Gallé Lamps...
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20th Century French Art Nouveau Furniture
Materials
Glass
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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Early 1900s French Antique Art Nouveau Furniture
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Art Glass
Pagoda Lamp By Émile Gallé
By Émile Gallé
Located in New Orleans, LA
This Pagoda Cameo glass lamp is a highly rare and coveted example of Émile Gallé's mastery of glassmaking. Layers of vibrant color, from golden yellows to mauve, radiate from a backg...
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20th Century French Art Nouveau Furniture
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Glass
Large Galle Cameo Glass Vase
By Émile Gallé
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A large and impressive original Art Nouveau Emile Gallé cameo glass vase. colourless glass with a degrading amber layer overlaid in brown blue and green, e...
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Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Furniture
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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 Antique Art Nouveau Furniture
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Art Glass
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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Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Furniture
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Glass
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 Antique Art Nouveau Furniture
Materials
Glass
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 Antique Art Nouveau Furniture
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Glass
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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Early 1900s French Antique Art Nouveau Furniture
Materials
Art Glass
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 1900s French Antique Art Nouveau Furniture
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Art Glass
Emile Gallé Art Nouveau Marquetry Nest of Four Tables Seascape Boats, Circa 1900
By Émile Gallé
Located in Norwich, GB
Superb French Art Nouveau nest of tables with graduated tops, having specimen wood inlays with nautical themes of Brittany. Each table signed in marquetry, 'Gallé'. Circa 1900.
Each table top is a work of art in its own right, a fabulous series representing seascapes of Brittany in specimen woods. Raised on beechwood chamfered openwork supports, united by stretchers.
The main table shows a coastal landscape. The second having boats near the coastline, a lighthouse in the distance. The third, sailing boats at sea with light reflections. The fourth, Breton women in a rowing boat with light reflection, a gull in the foreground.
The tables are in very good condition and have their original finish which has been lightly restored, cleaned and wax polished. Showing some age and use related patina marks to the tops. The top table has a few areas of inlay which have raised very slightly, please refer to photographs 17, 18 and 19. They are not loose, and it does not affect the table's use in any way.
One of the legs has moved with age, as shown in the last photograph. This however is solid and does not affect the stability of the table.
Emile Gallé (1846 – 1904) was one of the most important French designers of the Art Nouveau period. His career took off after his work received praise at the Paris Exhibition of 1878. Within a decade of another successful showing at the Paris Exhibition of 1889, Gallé had reached international fame and his style, with its emphasis on naturalism and floral motifs, was at the forefront of the emerging Art Nouveau movement.
In 1901, together with Victor Prouvé, Louis Majorelle, Antonin Daum and Eugène Vallin...
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Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Furniture
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Beech
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 Furniture
Materials
Glass, Paint
Original French Art Nouveau game table / side table by Emile Gallé 1905 chestnut
By Gallé, Émile Gallé
Located in Ijzendijke, NL
Exquisite & most rare! This marvelous games table by Emile Galle. The top is richly decorated with a masterfully inlay of various woods. Depicting multiple chestnut leaves in differe...
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Early 1900s French Antique Art Nouveau Furniture
Materials
Wood, Walnut
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 Antique Art Nouveau Furniture
Materials
Glass
French Art Nouveau Green/Pink Emile Galle Cameo Glass Vase with Hazelnut Catkins
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 Antique Art Nouveau Furniture
Materials
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 Vintage Art Nouveau Furniture
Materials
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 Vintage Art Nouveau Furniture
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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 Antique Art Nouveau Furniture
Materials
Glass
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...
Category
1920s French Vintage Art Nouveau Furniture
Materials
Art Glass
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