Lot: 42


'Lotus' vase, 1897

H. 17.5 cm. Cased glass, clear and dark ruby red. Etched pattern, worked with the wheel. Egyptian Lotus (Nymphaea Lotus) on rough ground. Signed: GALLÉ, inscribed: Ges. Gesch., déposé (needle etching).

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Hammer Price: 2,400 €

141A - Auction Art Glass from Lorraine - a private collection
20. November 2018 at 2:00 PM CET

Literature:

Klesse/Mayr, glass coll. Funke-Kaiser, Kunstgewerbemuseum Cologne, 1981,p. 244, no. 164f; cf. Hilschenz-Mlynek/Ricke, glass coll. Hentrich, Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, p. 194, no. 232ff. more examples of the 'Etrennes', gifts for the new year 1897-98 of the 'Grand Dépôt'. One of the jars was in the possession of the tsarina Katharina Feodorovna in St. Petersburg.