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Small soliflore vase in glass paste *, signed Gallé **, with a clear decor with acid orchid flowers on a purple-yellow background, Art Nouveau period late XIXth-early XXth centuries.
This vase is in good condition. It is signed on the side.
A note: slight soiling, small manufacturing defects (visible on the collar and on the body), tiny micro-chips on the bottom (almost invisible), slight wear of time, see photos.
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* Glass paste: treatment of glass known from Antiquity (Pliny), rediscovered by H. Cros around 1880, who was looking for a fusible material that could be worked in a pasty or liquid state. It is a colored crystal, previously reduced to powder and mixed with water, added to a binder to compose a paste; this after baking becomes hard and translucent to be then modeled like a sculpture and colored. The real glass paste is removed by cold amalgamating crushed glasses and enamels. The dough is then molded and subjected to cooking in a lost wax mold; under the effect of heat, the constituent elements agglomerate. (Larousse Dictionary of Antiquities and Flea Market).
* Émile Gallé (1846-1904) is a French industrialist, master glassmaker, cabinetmaker and ceramist. He is founder and first president of the School of Nancy in 1901. Child of the Art and the trade, he is one of the most outstanding figures of the applied arts at his time and one of the pioneers of the Art new.
