Bud Vase Vase

Emile Gallé

ca. 1900

mold-blown and acid-cut cameo glass

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

A tall-necked vase with a four-sided bulbous body is decorated with brown flowers and foliage over olive green glass with dark green inclusions. A tall-necked vase with a four-sided bulbous body is decorated with brown flowers and foliage over olive green glass with dark green inclusions. Tall necked vase, mouth with slightly deep upper rim, swelling at bottom to four-sided bulbous body, decorated with brown-toned flowers and foliage over olive green glass with dark green inclusions. Raised inscription "Beni/soit/le coin/sombre/ ou s'isolent/nos Coeurs/Marcel ine Valmore". Signed in script: Gallé. Gift of Jacqueline Rea in memory of Dr. Robert Roux-Delimal