Pair of 'Chardon Lorrain' Vases, circa 1890

acid-etched, enameled and gilt glass
12³⁄₄ in. (32.4 cm) high, 5 in. (12.7 cm) diameter
each enameled Emile Gallé with the Croix de Lorraine

Anonymous sale; Christie's, South Kensington, 27 June 1997, lot 117.
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.

W. Warmus, Émile Gallé: Dreams into Glass, exh. cat., The Corning Museum of Glass, New York, 1984, p. 16 (for a period photograph of the Gallé factory).
T. Newark, The Art of Émile Gallé, London, 1989, pp. 22-23 (for a related example).
P. Thiébaut, Les dessins de Gallé, Paris, 1993, pp. 87 (for a related drawing of thistles and the Croix de Lorraine by Émile Gallé) and 176 (for a related drawing).
F. Le Tacon, Émile Gallé: ou le Mariage de l’Art et de la Science, Paris, 1995, pp. 48-50, 52, 127 (for related examples); 54, fig. 20 and 56, fig. 21 (for related drawings of Carlina vulgaris (carline thistle) by Eugène Kramer); 125, fig. 97 (for the above related drawing by Gallé); 126, fig. 98 (for a ceramic plate with a related design); 134, fig. 98 (for a related drawing).
Exposition Émile Gallé et Toulouse-Lautrec, exh. cat., Suntory Museum, Osaka, 1995, p. 21 (for a related example).
F. Le Tacon, L’Œuvre de Verre d’Émile Gallé, Paris, 1998, p. 95, fig. 64 (for a related example).
Émile Gallé et le verre la collection du Musée de l’École de Nancy, exh. cat., 2004, Paris, pp. 67, no. 59 and 101, no. 128 (for related examples).
F. Le Tacon, Émile Gallé: L’artiste aux multiples visages, Nancy, 2011, p. 105 (for a plate with a related design).
B. Hakenjos, Émile Gallé: Keramik, Glas und Möbel des Art Nouveau, Volume 2, Munich, 2012, p. 73, no. 137-138 (for related examples).
Émile Gallé: Collecting Nature, exh. cat., Pola Museum of Art, Hakone, 2018, p. 34, no. 19 (for a related example).

Christie's would like to thank François Le Tacon for his assistance with the cataloguing of this lot.

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