Underwater
fauna and flora Rare and important vase on heel; the base slightly swollen and ribbed, the neck shaped and hot pinched all around the circumference
Proof in brown smoked glass; the rotating decoration made of polychrome enamels placed, for the most part, on gold
leaf Large gold and silver leaves bursting into surface inclusions when hot complete the decoration
Signed and located E. GALLÉ in Nancy, at the point under the base
H. 23,5 cm - D. from the neck: 24 cm E.E. Note:
A project, in pencil and watercolour, entitled "circular decoration of corals, shells and fishes", close to the decoration of our vase, is kept in the Émile Gallé Fund at the Musée d'Orsay under the inventory number
ARO1986-639
Public collection and related work:
A "vase with fishes", with a decoration close to that of our vase, is kept at the Musée de l'Oise MUDO in Beauvais under the inventory number INV95.68.
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