Émile Gallé “Cycas Revoluta” Vase
Regular price
$75,000
This exquisite “Cycas Revoluta” vase by Émile Gallé features five racemes of hot-applied cycas revoluta nuts with carved, mottled pink and yellow-green leaves set against a swirling ground of clear and pale pink glass. Its rounded base and gently narrowed neck frame a composition executed in layered cameo glass, with the surface carefully cut back to reveal depth and color.
Item #: YG-21492
Artist: Émile Gallé
Country: France
Circa: 1900
Dimensions: 6.25" height, 6" diameter.
Materials: Glass
Signed: Gallé
Item #: YG-21492
Artist: Émile Gallé
Country: France
Circa: 1900
Dimensions: 6.25" height, 6" diameter.
Materials: Glass
Signed: Gallé
Native to the subtropical Ryukyu Islands of southern Japan, Cycas revoluta, commonly known as the Japanese sago palm, is an ancient species of cycad whose lineage predates the flowering plants. Despite its palm-like appearance, it is a gymnosperm, distinguished by a stout, woody trunk crowned with a symmetrical rosette of rigid, arching, dark-green fronds. Its exotic silhouette made it a prized ornamental plant in nineteenth-century European botanical collections.
Native to the subtropical Ryukyu Islands of southern Japan, Cycas revoluta, commonly known as the Japanese sago palm, is an ancient species of cycad whose lineage predates the flowering plants. Despite its palm-like appearance, it is a gymnosperm, distinguished by a stout, woody trunk crowned with a symmetrical rosette of rigid, arching, dark-green fronds. Its exotic silhouette made it a prized ornamental plant in nineteenth-century European botanical collections.
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