Glass vases. During the Art Nouveau era there were some excellent glass designers such as Emile Galle and Tiffany. Naturalistic forms and inlaid glass was popular.
Below are some examples and price guides of Art Nouveau glass vases including a Mont Joye art glass vase and a rare cameo glass vase b y Yuri Nechaev-Maltsov.
An Art Nouveau Mont Joye art glass vase
Late 19th/early 20th Century; France Signed: Mont Joye The acid-etched cameo glass vase with gourd-form translucent body, enameled Icelandic poppy motif, and gilt highlights
Sold for $375 at John Moran Auctioneers, Inc. in 2021
Art Nouveau style glass vase by Emile Galle
This is an inlaid glass, acid-etched, Art Nouveau style vase made by Cristallerie d’Emile Galle of Nancy, Lorraine, France, between 1895 and 1905.
Reference: Museum of Applied Art and Sciences
A rare Cameo Glass Vase, Yuri Nechaev-Maltsov, Gus’-Khrustalny Glassworks, circa 1900 two-layer green and brown glass, finely etched in Art Nouveau style with views of a palace and a park, inscribed in Cyrillic Yu. S. N.M nk, Gus.Khurst.
Sold for 25,000 GBP at Sotheby’s in 2009
This Russian vase shows an awareness of developments in French glass in the early 20th century. It is dated 1904 but may have been designed earlier. The designer, Ivan Ivanovich Murinov, was a glass painter who became artistic director at the Imperial China and Glass Works in St Petersburg from 1894-1901. During his last years there he supervised the production of pieces in the Art Nouveau style. Murinov much admired the work of the French glassmaker Emile Gallé, which influenced the decoration of this vase. Waterweeds and snails were popular in Japanese art. Here, as in Gallé’s work, these natural forms have been used as symbols of mystical ideas.
Reference: © Victoria and Albert Museum
Tall Vase with Lily Pads and Wild Carrots
Tiffany was the foremost American exponent of the Art Nouveau movement, which rejected historical styles and called for a re-examination of vegetal and zoological motifs, particularly as seen in Japanese art. He developed it into a sensuous, organic style. The Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company, founded in Corona, New York, in 1892, was particularly known for its “Favrile” glass, which imitated the iridescent sheen that ancient Roman glass acquired after being buried for centuries. This vase is thought to have been engraved by Fredolin Kreischmann.
Reference: The Walters Art Museum
DAUM FRÈRES ‘Libellules et Nénuphars’ bottle vase, circa 1900 Clear overlay glass with colourful in- and onlaid powders; with vitrified and acid-etched waterlilies, and applied dragonflies. 13.6cm high Underside with engraved ‘Daum Nancy’ and Cross of Lorraine.
Sold for £ 5,737 inc. premium at Bonham’s in 2020
