Emile Gallé
Trumpet Vine Table Lamp
1901-1903
Physical Qualities
Glass, copper alloy, replacement cord, Base (w/o lightbulb): 12 x 11 1/8 in. (30.5 x 28.3 cm.)
Overall: 16 x 11 1/8 in. (40.6 x 28.3 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Michael and Anis Merson, Baltimore
Object Number
2008.89
The flowing lines of a flowering trumpet vine wrap around the rounded glass shade and base of a lamp illuminated by the recently invented electric lightbulb. Emile Gallé was France’s premier glassmaker and leading innovator of the late 19th-century Art
Nouveau moment, a style defined by curving forms and natural imagery. While Gallé’s organic decoration was highly modern at the time, his process of layering and carving colored glass is based on early Roman Empire (c. 25 BCE–25 CE) technology.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2008; Michael and Anis Merson, Baltimore
Rena Hoisington, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "New Arrivals: Gifts of Art for a New Century", February 7-May 8, 2016.
BMA Today, Summer 2009, cover (detail).
BMA Today, Summer 2009, p. 23, ill.
Inscribed: None.
Markings: Base: red cameo "Gallé" Shade: red cameo "Gallé"
On View at the BMA
