# Vase

- By: Emile Gallé (French, 1846 - 1904)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ormond Russell Maisch
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/185058)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/ee99d96fd28b391ecb6985f7b2e667eb.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.