Trefoil vase / Emile Gallé
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1955/1.156
- Title
- Trefoil vase
- Artist
- Emile Gallé
- Artist Nationality
- French
- Artist Life Dates
- 1846-1904
- Medium and Support
- glass
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1890-1895
- Object Creation Place
- Europe (continent)
- France (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- Europe (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- France (nation)
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Margaret Watson Parker
- Inscription
- Inscriptions, on sides: Bon an Bon Jour Bonheur Inscription on base: Je fabrique en secret des bonheurs Emile Gallé fect. Nancy
- Dimensions
- 13.3 cm x 14.1 cm (5 1/4 in. x 5 9/16 in.)
- Century
- 19th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Decorative Arts
- Primary Object Type
- glass
- Physical Description
- Vessel with trefoil, or three-lobed, shape of transparent blue glass with an intricate plant-motif decoration and gold accents.
- Subject Matter
- Émile Gallé, influenced by the Art Nouveau movement—characterized by organic forms and motifs derived from nature—used a technique of glass making which featured heavy, usually opaque glass that he etched or carved with plant motifs.
- Secondary Keywords
- containers
- containers by form
- containers by function or context
- containers for serving and consuming food
- culinary containers
- descriptors
- drinking vessels
- glass and glassmaking mixtures
- inorganic material
- materials
- materials by composition
- medium
- objects we use
- vessels
- vessels for serving and consuming food
- Rights
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 775 x 809
- File Size
- 52 KB
- Record
- 1955/1.156
- Link to this Item
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"Trefoil vase; Emile Gallé." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1955-sl-1.156/1955_1.156.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed March 29, 2024.