Émile GALLE (1846 - 1904) Suite of four nesting tables in molded walnut with rectangular tops for three of them and a square top for the fourth. The tops are inlaid with various types of wood, decorated with narcissus, cats and sailboats in a lakeside landscape. Corner base with two small curved legs forming a baluster and a carved lower strut. Signed in the marquetry of each top. Height 70 cm - Length 59 cm - Depth 38 cm Bibliography: Alastair Duncan & Georges de Bartha, Gallé Furniture: The Furniture of Émile Gallé, 1884-1904, Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge, 2012, variants of our models referenced under no. 211 and reproduced on p. 218.

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