Vase With Butterflies
Manufacturer
Cristallerie d'Émile Gallé
(French, 19th Century)
CultureFrench
Dateca. 1900
MediumBlown glass | Engraved glass | Marquetry | Cased glass
Dimensions13 3/4 × 6 3/4 in. (34.9 × 17.1 cm)
Overall, Rim: 4 in. (10.2 cm)
Overall, Rim: 4 in. (10.2 cm)
InscribedEngraved lower side: "Galle"
Credit LineJoan Foy French Collection
Object number71.6532
Not on view
DescriptionVase; bulbous marquetry and intaglio. Clear, minutely bubbly plated at top with lavender with five long drips almost to bulb and bulb plated with amber. Mid point - red carved butterfly and two other butterflies engraved on clear; also three mid streaked fuschia blotches and irregular dark brown speckles on one side of bulb. Several intaglio diagonal and curved ends cuts from bulb top up neck; probably simulating wind.Label TextVASE Cristallerie d'Emile Galle, Nancy, France Ca 1900 Blown cased glass with one marquetry Butterfly (red); engraved. Mark: engraved on lower side Galle Gift: Joy Foy French Collection 71.6532Exhibition History"Whistler and Montesquiou: The Butterfly and the Bat", The Frick Collection, NY, November 13, 1995 - January 28, 1996. Published ReferencesArwas, GLASS: ART NOUVEAU TO ART DECO, pg. 97, similar shorter one ill. Nancy O. Merrill, A CONCISE HISTORY OF GLASS REPRESENTED IN THE CHRYSLER MUSEUM GLASS COLLECTION (Norfolk, VA: The Chrysler Museum, 1989), No. 70, p. 57, b/w ill.; No. 70, p. 194. Edgar Munhall, WHISTER AND MONTESQUIOU: THE BUTTERFLY AND THE BAT (NY and Paris: The Frick Collection/Flammarion, 1995), No. 97, p. 127, color illustration.
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