Style Art Nouveau / Ref.15087
Émile GALLÉ, Plant holder with dragonflies, circa 1880
Dimensions
Width 9'' ½ 24cm
Height 4'' ¾ 12cm
Depth: 3'' ⅛ 8cm
Origin:
France, 19th century
This small zoomorphic planter was created by Émile Gallé around 1880.
Considered the founding father of Art Nouveau, Émile Gallé took over the factory founded by his father and gave it a decisive impetus, which he supported throughout his life with ever-renewed creativity.
For this planter, the artist drew inspiration, as he often did in his work and in Art Nouveau, from a natural element: a dragonfly. The insect with its prominent eyes wraps its wings around the structure of the object, which seems to extend them to form a basin. The whole piece displays a delicate polychromy enhanced with gold. On the body of the planter, other insects echo it, thus bringing the decoration to life.
The planter is signed twice under the base: “E ☨ G / deposé” and “E. Gallé / Nancy”.
Gallé designed other zoomorphic planters in a similar style to this one, dated 1881. The Musée d’Orsay, for example, has in its collections a zoomorphic planter of Egyptian inspiration representing the god Horus. As with our planter, the body of the animal is at one end of the object, while the body is made up of its wings.
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