769 - Small "Etude" bowl by Emile Gallé. A fluted, thick-walled form with a compressed, ovoid body and a wide opening. Overlay glass, colorless, with marbled fusions in gray-blue within a crackled intermediate layer, overlaid with a layer of amber-yellow glass. The bowl was likely created in the lead-up to the “Marqueterie de verre” and “Patinage” techniques and was classified by Gallé as an “Etude” (study) due to a small, manufacturing-related air bubble that burst in the kiln at the rim. Etched signature “Gallé Etude” and engraved no. 6208. Diameter 11.5 cm; height 5.5 cm.

Small "Etude" bowl by Emile Gallé. A fluted, thick-walled form with a compressed, ovoid body and a wide opening. Overlay glass, colorless, with marbled fusions in gray-blue within a crackled intermediate layer, overlaid with a layer of amber-yellow glass. The bowl was likely created in the lead-up to the “Marqueterie de verre” and “Patinage” techniques and was classified by Gallé as an “Etude” (study) due to a small, manufacturing-related air bubble that burst in the kiln at the rim. Etched signature “Gallé Etude” and engraved no. 6208. Diameter 11.5 cm; height 5.5 cm. Emile Gallé used the term “Etude” to designate pieces that had sustained defects during the complex manufacturing process. If Gallé nevertheless considered these pieces to be of sufficient artistic value, he did not have the “Etude” objects destroyed despite their flaws, but instead released them for sale. See/Lit.: Hilschenz-Mlynek/Ricke, Cat. Hentrich Collection, nos. 215–20, 252–253. An “Etude” glass bowl by Émile Gallé. Minor open air bubble on the upper rim. Acid-etched signature “Gallé Etude” with engraved no. 6208. France. Nancy. Émile Gallé. Circa 1895–1898.