IMPORTANT Emil Galle enameled Chalice in Islamic stylle 8 inch ht X 4 1/2 inch dia Emil Galle @ Nancy, enameled, signed under base in red enamel, circa 1880, when Galle began to emulate early Arabic/Persian glass in his decorations. Galle's Arabic style was preceded by Philippe-Joseph Brocard, who also exhibited in Paris at the expositions and was a great influence on the young Emile Gallé This chalice is in perfect condition and represents some of the finest detailed raised enamel work you will ever see.

Islamic or Persian or Egyptian style enameled glass by Galle is extremely rare and has brought record prices at London sales rooms for several years now.

Emile Gallé (1846-1904) was the foremost glassmaker of his day. In 1874 he took over the running of the Gallé factory in Nancy from his father and immediately began to expand the business, proving himself an outstanding businessman as well as a designer of genius. His creations were exhibited at the great exhibitions and world fairs in Paris, Chicago and Saint Louis and were keenly collected by the most notable collectors of the day including Roger Marx, the editor of Gazette des beaux-arts, the industrialist Edouard Hannon, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Russian and Danish royal families (Carboni, S., and D. Whitehouse, Glass of the Sultans, New York, 2001, p.299).

Gallé began to experiment with enamelling on glass in the late 1870s. In a statement to the jury of the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1889 he wrote: "Since 1878, I have devoted myself continually to developing a palette that would allow me to decorate glass with the aid of colours and low-temperature vitrifiable enamels ... I also developed reflecting colours by mixing them with hard Arabian enamels. Finally in 1884, I produced for the Union Centrale de Arts Décoratifs a new series of transparent enamels in relief ... I therefore present you today with the results of my continued research: opaque enamels with artificial and bizarre colours, muted nuances designed to add some 'spice' to an already impressive array of colours" (Warmus, W., Emile Gallé: Dreams into Glass, Corning, New York, 1984, p.185).


If you collect early Galle do not let this one slip by.






Condition: Used  

enameled glass Art Deco vase by Albert Mazoyer Working in the village of Moulins in the Allier region in France, a great piece of French Deco design, perfect, signed Mazoyer*France
Circa: 1925
Condition: perfect
Size: 11inch ht X 6 1/2inch dia
Country of Origin: FR  

cameo glass vase w/ruby clear and gilt design gilt daiseys are cut on the clear body of this unsigned, improved pontiled, cameo Art Nouveau 4 sided vase
Circa: 1890
Size: 10inch ht X 3 1/2inch dia
Country of Origin: FR  

6 lace enameled cordials Baccarat? all perfect,
Circa: 1890
Condition: perfect
Size: 1 1/2inch dia X 3 1/4inch ht
Country of Origin: FR