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Vase
Emile Gallé (French, 1846 - 1904)
ca. 1881
- Medium
- Glass, enamel, gold
- Classification
- Glassware
- Dimensions
- H x W: 29.5 x 11.5 cm (11 5/8 x 4 1/2 in.)
- Culture
- Nancy
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Credit line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ormond Russell Maisch
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
Tall cylindrical vase of greenish-brown transparent glass. Flat base, with swelling lower section, curved inward to semi-round collar of applied glass. Above collar rises elongated cylinder, slightly flattened and with pronounced curve. Rounded lip, with cut reveal. Lower body section enameled with stylized flowers in black, blue, and gold, surrounding lozenge-shaped reserve panel with enameled and gilded depiction of Persian warrior on horse, against azure blue ground. Upper portion of body with diagonally placed band of enameled decoration extending from base collar to lip; painted with blue letters against black stripes: "Rien Sans Amour," in pseudo- Kufic script.
