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Émile Gallé

‘Qui s’y frotte s’y picque’, Henri II-Style Chair

1889

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vintage chair in an empty room
vintage chair in an empty room

Description

Émile Gallé
(1846 – 1904)
‘Qui s’y frotte s’y picque’, Henri II-Style Chair, 1889
Solid pearwood and veneer, walnut, marquetry in ash,
mahogany, palisander, holm oak, amaranth, maple
94 × 45 × 45 cm
37.01 × 17.72 × 17.72 inches


Model created for the Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1889
Signed on the front face of the backrest: ‘Émile Gallé Nancy’

Literature

Alastair Duncan et Georges de Bartha, Gallé furniture, Antique Collectors’ Club, 2012

Provenance

Paris, private collection

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