GALLE Emile (1864-1904) " Mantis religiosa " PAIR... Lot 280
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GALLE Emile (1864-1904) " Mantis religiosa " PAIR OF VASES with a fully twisted body, spherical body and tubular neck. Proofs in blown moonlight glass, with rotating decoration of a praying mantis on a background of dahlias and ferns in polychrome enamels in natural colour entirely enhanced with gilding.
Signed on each piece. Circa 1878. Height: 24 cm.
Expert : Amélie Marcilhac
History: the "moonlight" glass is created by Emile Gallé in 1878, giving to the glass a sky blue tone obtained by the cobalt oxide.
A vase with a similar decoration was presented at the Universal Exhibition in 1878 in Paris and reissued for the Universal Exhibition of 1900.
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