Emile GALLÉ (1846-1904), - Lot 277

Emile GALLÉ (1846-1904), Glass service set "La ballade des dames au temps jadis", consisting of two decanters, seven liqueur glasses and a tray. Gothic-style liqueur service in smoked glass with gold pearl inclusions, decorated in polychrome and gold enamel with medieval figures and verses from François Villon's poem "La ballade des Dames du temps jadis". On the glasses, "La ballade des dames du temps Jadis", "Archipiades, ne Thaïs", "Qui beaulté ot trop plus qu'humaine", "Ou est la très sage Hellois", "La royne Blanche comme lis", "Bietris, Alis", "Haremburgis qui tint le Maine". On the decanters, "Dictes moy ou, n'en quel pays, Est Flora la belle Rommaine [...] La royne Blanche comme lis, Qui chantoit a voix de seraine" and "La ballade des dames du temps jadis [...] Archipiedes Thais, Bietris, Alis". The rectangular glass tray with rounded edges, decorated in gold enamel with a frieze of fleurs-de-lis. The glasses are signed E. Gallé and E. Gallé Nancy on the wheel. Gallé Nancy, the decanters signed Emile Gallé in enamel. H. glass: 6.7 cm. H. carafe: 15.1 cm without stoppers. Tray size: 30.6 x 22.5 cm. (Tray: major accident to the corner of the tray and scratches. Glasses: a chip to one lip, very slight wear to the enamel. Carafe: a chip to a foot and a major accident with restoration, very slight wear to the decoration). Note: to be compared with the service on the same theme presented at the UCAD (Union Centrale des Arts Décoratifs) exhibition in 1884 and republished at the History of Glass exhibition at the 1900 Universal Exhibition. Bibliography: - To be compared with n°53 and 60 p. 65 of the Collection du Musée de l'Ecole de Nancy. Somogy. Editions d'Art/A. Duncan et G. de Bartha Gallé, le verre, p. 49.