Émile GALLE (1846-1904) - Lot 117

Émile GALLE (1846-1904) Suite of four nesting tables, circa 1900, in carved and molded walnut with rectangular tops for the first three and square for the last. Decorated with thistle buds and flowers, butterflies and marquetry of different woods. Lateral legs with carved thistle decoration on each, with semi-relief decoration on the first, and a flat carved spacer with thistle flower decoration on the last (small veneer accidents and two small holes on one of them). Signed in the marquetry on each table. Height 71 cm - length 37 cm - depth 58 cm Bibliography : Alastair Duncan & Georges de Bartha, Gallé Furniture, Antique Collectors Club, Woodbridge, 2012, model reproduced plates 198-198a, p. 213.