A Galle Cameo Glass Slender Lamp Base c1925

Description

Heading : A Galle Cameo Glass Slender Lamp Base
Date :  1918 to 1935
Origin : Nancy France
Features : Internally banded in green. pink and white and overlaid in dark ochre and acid cut with with berries upon slender stems and leaves
Marks : Galle in cameo exaggerated signature
Type : Lead Glass
Size : Height 29cm
Condition : Excellent
Restoration : None
Weight : 1250 grams

Additional Information

The base retains part of the original Galle paper label. Nancy and Paris and another but complete label for Forterre the Strasbourg Porcelain and Glass retailer. These are often presented as vases but it is a lamp base. the vertical above the signature is sparsely decorated and the cable would be trailed in this alignment.

With the Galle cameo shade this would retail for in excess of £8.000.

Although electricity was available to the Parisian elite in the 1890s it was not until after the first world war that it became commercially viable to produce glassware for lamps. I know that all the major auction houses claim that these were made before 1905. but they are wrong. The great French glass makers were masters of their art. but they were also good business people. Any date attributed before 1918-19 fails the ‘common sense test’.