Lot 109
Émile Gallé Fern table lamp, 1925-1936
7 December 2021, 10:00 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £6,375 inc. premium
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Shannon Brunette
Associate Specialist
Émile Gallé
Fern table lamp, 1925-1936
Blown glass, overlaid and acid-etched.
35 cm high
Shade and base signed in cameo Gallé.
Blown glass, overlaid and acid-etched.
35 cm high
Shade and base signed in cameo Gallé.
Footnotes
Provenance
Crafoord Auktioner, Lund, 'The Collection of Gustaf Lofberg', 25 April 2009, lot 299
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Literature
Alastair Duncan, Glass by Galle, London, 1984, p. 148 for similar pattern.
Bonhams wishes to thank Samuel Provost for his assistance cataloguing the present lot.
Gustaf Lofberg began his career as an office boy at a timber company in Vaxjo and later worked for both the Kosta and Rejmyre Glassworks. In May 1898 he opened his retail business in Malmo selling glass, porcelain and crystal. He later became the general agent for Gallé in Scandinavia. When in the 1930s interest in Art Nouveau decreased his remaining stock of Gallé was stored until its discovery in late 2008.