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

Vase

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

CultureFrench

Dateca. 1895

MediumBlown glass | Cameo

DimensionsOverall: 11 1/2 in. (29.2 cm)
Overall, Rim: 3 1/2 in. (8.9 cm)
Base: 3 3/8 in. (8.6 cm)

InscribedEngraved on polished pontil: "Gallé".

Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.

Object number71.6650

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DescriptionVase. Cameo. Blown glass. Increasing diameter cylinder with an incurving rim and an indented solid foot. Clear with minute bubbles, then opaque rose, then purple rose. Scene of a woman in a garden holding flowers with trees in the background. In the Japanese taste.

Label TextVASE Christallerie d'Emile Galle, Nancy, France Ca. 1900 Blown cased glass; acid-etched. Mark: engraved on bottom Galle 71.6650Exhibition HistoryArt Nouveau Exhibition, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts of Richmond, Nov. 22, 1971-Dec. 26, 1971. "Charlotte Potter and April Surgent: Cameo Glass in Context," Wichita Art Museum, June 9 - October 20, 2018.Published ReferencesDuncan & de Bartha, _Glass by Gallé_, pg. 183, #274, from series: End or Meuses Saisons, designed by Louis Hestaux on Thame from Baudelaire, 1900. Virginia Museum Catalogue "Art Nouveau," recorded pg. 17, #39. Chrysler Museum Newsletter, Vol. 1, No. 6 (Aug. 1972), illus. K.M. McClinton, "Documented Galle Glass," _Apollo_, April 1985, pg. 263. Nancy O. Merrill, _A Concise History of Glass Represented in the Chrysler Museum Glass Collection_ (Norfolk, Va.: The Chrysler Museum, 1989), no. 64. Type citation: Christie's, _Art Nouveau and Art Deco_ Sale AND-5715, auction cat., London, England, October 4, 2005, 25, no. 78.