Vase 'Pissenlit', 1898 – Emile Gallé, Nancy | Lot 128

Lot: 128

Emile Gallé, Nancy
Vase 'Pissenlit', 1898

In the shape of a dandelion on twisted shaft with entasis. H. 19.1 cm. Clear glass, matted in so called 'Patine' in the shape of dandelions, heightened with needle etching, iridescent. Shaft and foot pink, matted. Bottom signed: Emile Gallé Nancy, modèle et décor déposés with dandelion (needle etching).

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Hammer Price: 3,800 €

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Literature:

Cappa, Europe of Glass Art, Liège 1991, p. 197, No. 347 b (dated here 1894-1900); for the 'Patine'-technique cf. exh. cat. Émile Gallé et le Verre, la Collection du Musée de l'Ecole de Nancy, Paris 2004, p. 34: Both color and material, the decorative process which Gallé patented on August 12, 1898 and which he called 'patina' corresponds to the exploitation of a phenomenon usually considered by glassmakers as an intolerable manufacturing defect.

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