internally decorated with marqueterie-sur-verre and wheel-engraved periwinkles and leaves
9 x 4¹⁄₄ x 3 in. (22.8 x 10.8 x 7.6 cm)
engraved Gallé, fait pour Madame Decupper and Mais combien plus aimée la violette fleur des bois - Sully-Prudhomme

Ader Picard Tajan, Paris, 9 May 1980, lot 87
Acquired from the above by the present owner

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Émile Gallé's verreries parlantes ('speaking glassware') incorporates a literary or poetic quotation to his design. These inscriptions are typically wheel-engraved and are placed in such a way that necessitates the handling the object by the viewer. The present vase is engraved with an adaptation of a verse by René François Sully Prudhomme (1839-1907) from "Les serres et les bois" in Les Solitudes, opposing the artificial flowers and the wild violets along the stem. Poet and essayist Sully Prudhomme was the first winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901.

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Christie's would like to thank François Le Tacon for his assistance with the cataloguing of this lot.