Vase
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1881
name: label: Artist
content: Emile Gallé, French, 1846 - 1904
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: 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.
place: label: made in
content: Nancy, France
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ormond Russell Maisch
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1986-123-1
objectType: label: Type
content: glasswares
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Type
content: Vase
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Glass, enamel, gold
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 29.5 x 11.5 cm (11 5/8 x 4 1/2 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (lip): 8.6 x 6.8 cm (3 3/8 x 2 11/16 in.)