Art Nouveau Style Cameo Vase with Annual Honesty Decor from Emile Gallé, France, 1920s

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Vase in the form of a baluster: Flush foot, high, bulbous body with set off, short neck on gently sloping … Read more Vase in the form of a baluster: Flush foot, high, bulbous body with set off, short neck on gently sloping shoulders. Colorless glass with light blue color powder inclusions, burgundy overlaid on the outside, highly etched floral decoration with annual honesty decoration in various stages, etched matt on the inside and outside, polished relief. Cameo signature 'Gallé' on the lower part of the wall. 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: 1925/31 Dimensions: Height: 18.7 cm / 7.36 in Diameter: 10.0 cm / 3.93 in Bibliographie: Carolus Hartmann, Glasmarken-Lexikon / Encyclopedia of Glass Marks, Stuttgart / Germany 1997, Signature number 3683 on page 176. Condition: very good. This piece has an attribution mark,
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