Art Nouveau Style Cameo Vase with Sweet Pea Decor from Emile Gallé, Nancy, France

Flush foot, raised, widening body with a shoulder-shaped narrowing at the top, with a short, wide neck and flared, rounded mouth rim. Burgundy red overlay on the outside, etched leaf decoration around the opening with pendulous flower panicles and leaves of sweet pea in front of a milky red-white-red, satined background. Cameo signature ‘Gallé’ near the ground between the flowers. 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: 1903-1904 Dimensions: Height: 11.8 cm / 4.64 in Diameter largest: 8.5 cm / 3.34 in Bibliographie: Carolus Hartmann, Glasmarken-Lexikon / Encyclopedia of Glass Marks, Stuttgart / Germany 1997, Signature number 3631 on page 174. Condition: very good – the small, bright spots on the pictures are air pockets caused by production.