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Emile GALLÉ, important vase with floral decoration

This vase features a rich decoration of flowers and gold spangles. It is signed “E.Gallé nancy E G registered”. It dates from between 1879 and 1930. This vase, due to its size and the richness of its decoration, is a rare piece of the ceramic work of Émile Gallé. It rests on a harness with Japanese decor. Emile Gallé is one of the main artists of the Art Nouveau movement. Emile Gallé's ceramics appear in prestigious museum institutions around the world.

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Émile GALLÉ, Earthenware vase with eggplant glaze and gold decoration, circa 1885-1889

This earthenware vase was created by Émile Gallé between 1885 and 1889. Considered the founding father of Art Nouveau, Émile Gallé took over the factory founded by his father and gave it significant impetus, which he supported throughout his life with ever-renewed creativity. This large vase with its eggplant glaze is adorned with hollows alternating white with green vegetal motifs and green with white decorations, both highlighted with gold. The motifs on the neck, alternating with a certain regularity, echo this design. Inside, the glaze features various shades of green also present in the external decorations. Thus, the rich overall composition presents a beautiful homogeneity. The signature under the base of the work indicates that it was made in the second half of the 1880s by the artist, during a period when Gallé was influenced by East Asian art, which likely inspired the eggplant color of the vase’s glaze.

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Émile GALLÉ, Plant holder with dragonflies, circa 1880

This small zoomorphic planter was created by Émile Gallé around 1880. Considered the founding father of Art Nouveau, Émile Gallé took over the factory founded by his father and gave it a decisive impetus, which he supported throughout his life with ever-renewed creativity. For this planter, the artist drew inspiration, as he often did in his work and in Art Nouveau, from a natural element: a dragonfly. The insect with its prominent eyes wraps its wings around the structure of the object, which seems to extend them to form a basin. The whole piece displays a delicate polychromy enhanced with gold. On the body of the planter, other insects echo it, thus bringing the decoration to life. The planter is signed twice under the base: “E ☨ G / deposé” and “E. Gallé / Nancy”. Gallé designed other zoomorphic planters in a similar style to this one, dated 1881. The Musée d’Orsay, for example, has in its collections a zoomorphic planter of Egyptian inspiration representing the god Horus. As with our planter, the body of the animal is at one end of the object, while the body is made up of its wings.