GALLÉ ESTABLISHMENTS (1904-1936) - Lot 140

GALLÉ ESTABLISHMENTS (1904-1936) dragonfly, sagittaria and bladderwort Collector's shelf. Tree-shaped uprights in carved, ribbed walnut. The odonate in walnut carved in high relief. Top shelf surround in molded walnut. The shelf attachments to the uprights simulate curvilinear foliage. The back is partly in precious and indigenous wood marquetry with sagittaria and bladderwort motifs; the upper part, on the right, is cut out in a variation of the previous décor and has a mirror background on the left. The two lower intermediate shelves with sagittaria leaf motifs in precious and indigenous wood marquetry. Art nouveau period. Condition and restorations, small scattered accidents, scattered woodworm holes. Signed GALLÉ, in marquetry on the top right-hand shelf. H.136,5cm - W.68cm - D.43cm Bibliography: Alastair Duncan and Georges de Bartha - Gallé Furniture - Éditions Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge, Suffolk, U.K., 2012. Identical model reproduced on page 292 (ill. 10).