DOI issue:
No. 74 (April 903)
DOI issue:Werbung
DOI article:Frantz, Henri: Emile Gallé and the decorative artists of Nancy
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.26227#0149
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VASE BY E. GALLE
artist rings the changes on the
compiete scale of Nature's
coiours. Sun-stonesandmoon- VASE BYE. GALi.E
stones, miiky opals, agates
with mystic markings, varie-
gated quartzes and granites, garnets and sardonyx, one and ah
have been compeHed in their turn to yield up the most jeaiousiy
hidden secrets of Nature's own transmuting furnace, in the
crucibies of the master-magician of the giass manufactory.
M. Emile Galie has, however, himseif reiated on different occa-
sions the fascinating story of the evolution of his resuits, and has
generousiy given to the worid the secrets of his discoveries. We
know from his own writings what combinations produced certain
specially happy eifects, and how much he owes to what might
aimost be caiied accident in the mixing of certain colours. For
instance, in his crystai giass and in his imitations of quartz, he
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colours the vitreous matter a rich or duli violet with oxide of manganese ;
he reproduces the gleaming hssures in certain kinds of quartz by pouring
cold water into the moiten giass ; he achieves his blacks with the aid of
a solution of peroxide of iron. Another material which the glass of
M. GalM sometimes resembles is jade, an effect he obtains with sulphate
of potash, very slightly tinged with green by the use of variable
proportions of bi-chromate of potash, oxide of iron and copper;
and he gets an effect resembiing that of an agate or an onyx by the
incorporation of coloured ribbons with the diaphanous mass of
molten glass. The eager, watchful spirit of this most prolihc master
is ever reaching after new
triumphs, and the discoveries
we have narned are but a few
of the many achieved by him
in various directions. He has
enriched the decorative art
VASE
BY E. GALLE
VASE BY E. GALLE
artist rings the changes on the
compiete scale of Nature's
coiours. Sun-stonesandmoon- VASE BYE. GALi.E
stones, miiky opals, agates
with mystic markings, varie-
gated quartzes and granites, garnets and sardonyx, one and ah
have been compeHed in their turn to yield up the most jeaiousiy
hidden secrets of Nature's own transmuting furnace, in the
crucibies of the master-magician of the giass manufactory.
M. Emile Galie has, however, himseif reiated on different occa-
sions the fascinating story of the evolution of his resuits, and has
generousiy given to the worid the secrets of his discoveries. We
know from his own writings what combinations produced certain
specially happy eifects, and how much he owes to what might
aimost be caiied accident in the mixing of certain colours. For
instance, in his crystai giass and in his imitations of quartz, he
114
colours the vitreous matter a rich or duli violet with oxide of manganese ;
he reproduces the gleaming hssures in certain kinds of quartz by pouring
cold water into the moiten giass ; he achieves his blacks with the aid of
a solution of peroxide of iron. Another material which the glass of
M. GalM sometimes resembles is jade, an effect he obtains with sulphate
of potash, very slightly tinged with green by the use of variable
proportions of bi-chromate of potash, oxide of iron and copper;
and he gets an effect resembiing that of an agate or an onyx by the
incorporation of coloured ribbons with the diaphanous mass of
molten glass. The eager, watchful spirit of this most prolihc master
is ever reaching after new
triumphs, and the discoveries
we have narned are but a few
of the many achieved by him
in various directions. He has
enriched the decorative art
VASE
BY E. GALLE