émile Galle (1846 1904) "Magnolias" Glass Lamp Circa 1900
Saint-Ouen, France
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Item details
Height
69.0 cm
Width
34.0 cm
Depth
34.0 cm
Diameter
34.0 cm
Wear conditions
Good
Wear conditions
Excellent
Shows little to no signs of wear and tear.
Good
May show slight traces of use in keeping with age. Most vintage and antique items fit into this condition.
Average
Likely to show signs of some light scratching and ageing but still remains in a fair condition.
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Visible signs of previous use including scratches, chips or stains.
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Description
Émile GALLE (1846-1904) "Magnolias"
Important Mushroom Lamp with Magnolias design, in multilayer glass with acid-etched decoration and wheel-engraved in yellow, purple, and pink tones of foliated and flowery branches,
Gilt bronze frame with three claws and two lights
Signed "Gallé" on both elements.
Circa 1900
Bibliography :
Gallé Lamps - Alastair Duncan et Georges de Bartha. Éditions Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge, Suffolk, U.K., 2014.
Approaching models illustrated pages 116, 119, 126, 128 et 129.
Émile Gallé was born in Nancy on 4 May 1846, the only son of Charles Gallé (1818-1902) and Fanny Reinemer (1828-1891), who had a crystal and porcelain business in Nancy. After a period of apprenticeship in various European cities, Weimar and Meisenthal among oth-ers, Émile Gallé was associated with his father’s business of trading and decoration of earthenware and glassware in 1867. He represented his father at the Universal Exhibition of 1867 in Paris where he obtained an honorable mention for glassware and at the Exposition universal and international of 1872 in Lyon where he obtained a gold medal in the class 33 (porcelain and crystals). He married in 1875, Henriette Grimm (1848-1914), daughter of a pastor of Bischwiller (Alsace), with whom he had four daughters.
In 1877, Émile Gallé took over the family business and extended his activities to the cabinet-office in 1885. Already noticed at the Exposition de la Terre et du Verre in 1884, Émile Gallé was devoted to the Universal Exhibition in Paris in 1889 by three awards for his paintings, glassware and furniture (including a Grand Prix for his glassware). At this occa-sion, Gallé was made an officer of the Legion of Honor. Since then, Gallé has been inten-sively developing its technical and aesthetic research on glass work, a field in which it de-velops and creates new manufacturing processes. His glassworks were designed in Meisenthal until 1894, when Gallé opened a crystal factory that was set on fire on 29 May 1894 in his company in Nancy. His research led in 1898 to the filing of two patents, for "a kind of decoration and patina on crystal" and "a kind of marquetry of glasses and crystals".
His work, with multiple references, expresses the diversity of interests of Émile Gallé where nature plays a dominant role, but not exclusive. Artist but also botanist, Gallé was elected secretary of the Central Society of Horticulture of Nancy in 1877.
His patriotic and political commitments found their most successful form at the Universal Exhibitions of Paris in 1889 and 1900 with pieces such as the table "The Rhine" (which claims the return of an Alsace-Lorraine united to France) or spectacular installations like "Les sept cruches de Marjolaine" (in favor of the rehabilitation of Dreyfus). In 1898, Gallé was a founding member and treasurer of the Ligue des Droits de l'Homme et du Citoyen in Nancy and, the following year, a founding member of the Université populaire de Nancy. Dreyfusard of the first hour, he dedicated to the cause of Captain Dreyfus many talking glassware (which include a quote engraved on the glass), such as the vase Black Men, the chalice.
Involved very early in the renewal of the decorative arts, Émile Gallé disseminated, in his French but also English and German works, quality series pieces, thanks to the industrialization of his production. He opened sales depots in Frankfurt (1894) and London (1901), but his main dealer was Marcelin Daigueperce in Paris (1879) and his son Albert Daigueperce in 1896.
In 1901, he was the founder and first president of the Nancy School, "Alliance Provinciale des Industries d'Art" whose statutes he drafted.
At the death of Émile Gallé in 1904, his widow Henriette Gallé, assisted by her son-in-law Paul Perdrizet (1870-1938), took over the artistic and industrial activity of the glassworks. In 1908 she published the Writings for Art, which included Gallé’s main writings on botany and floriculture, as well as all his exhibition notices and speeches (including the Décor sym-bolique, pronounced at Gallé’s admission to the Academy of Stanislaus in 1900) and several articles on art and artists. The limited company of Établissements Gallé, transformed in 1927, stopped its glass production in 1931.
Created in 1904, the Museum of Decorative Art in Nancy bought thirty-eight glassworks in Gallé, shortly before his death.
Power Source: Plug-in
Lampshade: Included
Condition report:
Good. Wear consistent with age and use.
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