Galle
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all Galle pieces are signed
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Galle Perfume bottle
Soft beige background
with green and plumb flora
Brass top stands about 7"
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Galle banjo vase
Soft ochra background
with plumb flora
Stands about 7"
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Galle Vase
Soft white to green background
with green flora
Stands about 6"
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Galle Mark
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Galle Vase
Sunset orange background
with plumb flora
Stands about 7"
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Galle Vase
Soft pink background
with shades of burgandy flora
Stands about 5"
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Galle Vase
Soft white and Rose background
with yellow and plumb flora
Stands about 6"
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Galle Vase
Frosty background
with soft seafoam green
waters edge scene
Stands about 12"
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Galle Vase
Soft yellow background
with plumb flora
Stands about 4"
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Galle Vase
Frost white background
with peach flora
Stands about 4"
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Galle Vase
Butterscoth background
with watermelon flora
Stands about 7"
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About Galle Glass
The famous French glass artist Emile Galle was born in Nancy, France in 1846. His father Charles Galle owned a ceramics and glassmaking factory, and in his early years Emile was exposed academically to botany, art, entomology, and chemistry. Galle began working for the Burgun, Schverer glass company in Meisenthal before establishing his own company in 1873. In 1889, Emile Galle displayed his new glass creations at the Paris International Exhibition, his designs and colors had not previously been seen and caused an immediate sensation.
Galle admired Art Nouveau aesthetics and his love of nature appealed naturally to the still young Emile Galle. Burgun, Schverer produced Galle's designs when he first established his studio, but in 1894 Galle built his own manufacturing plant in Nancy and began creating his own designs from inception through production. Galle personally created many of the designs, and he was known to actively make alterations and approve the designs of his talented team of designers and craftsmen he employed at the "Cristallerie D'Emile Galle." As a botanist, his designs are inspired by nature, like insects, flowers, dragonflies, and the concentration of dew on leaves. Galle's work, cameo glass in particular, has always been widely copied even during Emile Galle's lifetime. His style influenced many of his contemporaries including Daum, Muller Freres, and Le Verre Francais, who became collectively known as the "School of Nancy" and of which Galle was elected the first President.
Galle died in 1904 from leukemia at the age of 58, and his widow continued to make Galle glass designs in the factory until the advent of World War I in 1914 and still using his signature on the pieces but adding a star after the "Galle" following his death. After World War I, Paul Perdrizet, Emile's son-in-law, began producing Galle glass once again, even adding new designs and primarily making the multi-layer cameo glass in floral and landscape designs. Galle cameo glass was both wheel cut and acid eteched, both techniques which required fine craftsmanship to produce and in which layers of multi-colored glass is progressively removed to create the designs. All Galle production ceased in 1936, Reproductions are still made in great quantities to fool the uninformed.
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Trotter's Antiques / 590 Lighthouse Ave. Pacific Grove, CA 93908 / 831.373.3505
