New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.

Vase

Manufacturer Cristallerie d'Émile Gallé (French, 19th Century)

CultureFrench

MediumBlown glass | Cameo

DimensionsOverall: 17 1/2 in. (44.5 cm)
Overall, Rim: 2 1/8 x 3 in. (5.4 x 7.6 cm)

InscribedEngraved on polished pontil: "Gallé".

Credit LineGift of Jean Outland Chrysler

Object number71.6635

Not on view

DescriptionEnameled cameo vase of blown glass. Decorated with a snow scene. Two enameled hawk-like birds, one on a snow covered evergreen branch and one in flight. Pale green, then transluscent white and enameled. Cylindrical shape with a flaring bottom. Round, then increasing in diameter and oval. Smaller diameter .75" high straight rim.

Label TextVASE Christallerie d'Emile Galle, Nancy, France Ca. 1900 Blown glass; acid-etched, enameled. Mark: engraved on bottom Galle Gift: Jean Outland Chrysler Collection 71.6635Published ReferencesGrover, CARVED AND DECORATED EUROPEAN ART GLASS, ill. pl. 282, pg. 170. For a similar one (no longer in collection).