Details
enameled glass smoked glass, enameled with various drinking toasts and stylized floral sprays, comprising:
two decanters with stoppers
four glasses
a tray
decanters with stoppers: 778 in. (19.8 cm.) high (each)
glasses: 2 in. (5 cm.) high (each)
tray: 12 in. (30.5 cm.) wide, 9 in. (22.9 cm.) deep
decanters and glasses enameled E. Gallé
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 1 November 1996, lot 92.
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.
Literature
Émile Gallé et le verre la collection du Musée de l’École de Nancy, exh. cat., 2004, Paris, pp. 12, 66-67 (for related examples)
G. de Bartha and A. Duncan, Glass by Gallé, London, 1984, p. 35 (for a related example)
Émile Gallé: Meditation of the Fin de Siècle, exh. cat., Suwa, Kitazawa Museum, 1996, p. 39 (for a related example)
F. Le Tacon, L’Œuvre de Verre d’Émile Gallé, Paris, 1998, p. 24 (for a related example)
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