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759 - Rare early "Pour bonheur" footed bowl by Émile Gallé. Profiled bell-shaped foot; bulbous, hexagonal-pressed bowl. Overlay glass, colorless, opalescent, and light olive or yellowish-amber in color; blown with a longitudinal optical effect. Decoration featuring water lilies, snails, and flower stems in polychrome, opaque relief enamel on a delicate, slightly lustrous, etched mesh and leaf-vein ground. Signed “Emile Galle (/) Pour bonheur” with a stylized cloverleaf and “deposé A” (painted in enamel or gold). H. 11.3 cm; D. approx. 12.8 cm.
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Rare early "Pour bonheur" footed bowl by Émile Gallé. Profiled bell-shaped foot; bulbous, hexagonal-pressed bowl. Overlay glass, colorless, opalescent, and light olive or yellowish-amber in color; blown with a longitudinal optical effect. Decoration featuring water lilies, snails, and flower stems in polychrome, opaque relief enamel on a delicate, slightly lustrous, etched mesh and leaf-vein ground. Signed “Emile Galle (/) Pour bonheur” with a stylized cloverleaf and “deposé A” (painted in enamel or gold). H. 11.3 cm; D. approx. 12.8 cm. Cf. Klesse/Mayr: Cat. “Glass from Art Nouveau to the Present: The Gertrud and Dr. Karl Funke-Kaiser Collection,” Cologne 1981, no. 138 (decoration). A rare early French Art Nouveau footed “Pour bonheur” glass bowl with enameled, acid-etched, and gilded decoration. Signed. France. Nancy. Émile Gallé. Circa 1890–1892.
Auction details
International Fine Art Auction No. 198 - PART IAuction house
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