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Émile Gallé “Bleeding Hearts” Vase
$75,000
This exquisite “Coeur de Jeanette" vase by Émile Gallé, features blooming bleeding hearts flowers on vines with carved leaves, against a mottled pink, yellow-green ground. This unique vase with a round base and narrowed neck features a technique known as glass marquetry whereby pieces of hot glass are applied to still molten glass and marvered into the surface, creating an inlaid effect. It was incredibly difficult to produce, as most pieces cracked during the annealing process.
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Item #: YG-21492
Artist: Émile Gallé
Country: France
Circa: 1900
Dimensions: 6.25" height, 6" diameter.
Materials: Glass
Signed: Gallé
The “Coeur de Jeanette" was an Alsatian colloquialism for the Bleeding Heart flower. Referring to a jewelry form comprised of a Latin cross suspended from a bleeding heart, newly working young girls across Northern France would use four months of pay to make their first autonomous purchase on the titular Fête de la Saint-Jean. The "Coeur de Jeannette" represented a rite of passage for young Alsatian girls, and one that is perfectly expressed by this vase's crepuscular setting. Just as twilight denotes the border between day and night, the Fête de la Saint-Jean marked the border between girlhood and womanhood.