Large Art Nouveau Style Gall Vase with Pond Landscape Decor from Emile Gallé, France

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Vase with a three-pass floor plan, widening upwards, dented at the upper edge between the segment arches, outer edge ground … Read more Vase with a three-pass floor plan, widening upwards, dented at the upper edge between the segment arches, outer edge ground at the top. Colorless glass with yellow-orange color powder inclusions in the area of the base and on the upper edge, bluish-white cover layer on the outside and brown overlay, in various stages highly etched decoration with a pond landscape, etched matt on the inside and background on the outside, polished relief. Cameo signature 'Gallé' with star near the bottom. Hand-made Cameo glass: Glass overlaid with several layers, with high-cut worked out motifs. Since the middle of the 19th century, the design has also been done by etching. Cameo glass vessels were already being made in antiquity; at the end of the 19th century, Émile Gallé further developed this glass art, created Art Nouveau designs and employed a large factory in Nancy. Manufactory: Émile Gallé / Nancy, Lorraine, France Dating: 1904/06 Dimensions: Height: 21.3 cm / 8.38 in Width: 14.0 cm / 5.51 in Depth: 13.0 cm / 5.11 in Bibliographie: Carolus Hartmann, Glasmarken-Lexikon / Encyclopedia of Glass Marks, Stuttgart / Germany 1997, Signature number 3641 on page 175. Condition: Very good. This piece has an attribution mark,
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