Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Art, Decorative Arts, and Wine

Online-Only Auction, 31 May - 7 June 2021

A Decorators' Cornucopia - Part 1
  • Four Emile Gallé à Nancy St Clément blue and white two-handled baskets, 19th century


Lot Estimate
ZAR 5 000 - 7 000

About this Item

Nancy & Saint-Clément, France
Four Emile Gallé à Nancy St Clément blue and white two-handled baskets, 19th century
oval, each with two pierced cartouches centred by a medallion painted with the thistle of Lorraine below birds in flight flanked by two scrolling foliate flower-filled towers interspersed with rectangular vacant cartouches and pierced interlocking scrollwork incorporating a pair of scroll handles, shaped apron, on four outswept tapering square-section feet, chips, oneprinted Gallé à Nancy in underglaze-blue, the other three with Gallé Nancy and St Clément, the largest 26cm wide over handles
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Provenance

De Goede Hoop Estate, Noordhoek, Cape Town

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