Émile GALLÉ (1846-1904)
Vase with Persian horsemen of truncated cone shape on a foot and wide neck, with four cabochons applied by heat.
Proof in burnished amber glass and polychrome enamel, enhanced by gold.
Covering acid-etched decoration of leafy thorny branches scattered with white flowers, releasing reserves.
The main one, centred, with decoration of horsemen holding spears; the six others, round or lozenge-shaped, with a motif of pink flowers on a green background. The cabochons and the foot decorated in succession.
Signed in relief in the decoration.
Model created around 1882-1889.
H. : 23,5 cm.
Cabochons not identical in size, wear to the gilding and enamel.
In the 1880s, Emile Gallé and Philippe-Joseph Brocard ( 1831-1896) were influenced by oriental art and reproduced with finesse the Mamluk enamelled decorations, with more freedom in the interpretation for Gallé. He appreciated the elegance of the Persian repertoire of the Seljuks of the 11th-12th centuries and used the horseman motif several times on glasses produced in the same period.
These models, sometimes dated, may have been reissued in the 1900s.
Related works:
- A baluster vase with a medallion decoration with a very similar horseman. (Horsemen carrying spears, Washington, Maryhill Museum of Art).
- Gourd vase with Persian rider on an elephant, 1884 (Tajan sale, 7 June 2012, lot 34).
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