DOI Heft:
Nr. 120 (March 1903)
DOI Artikel:Frantz, Henri: Emile Gallé and the decorative artists of Nancy
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19878#0126
Entile Galle
colours the vitreous matter a rich or dull violet with oxide of manganese ;
he reproduces the gleaming fissures in certain kinds of quartz by pouring
cold water into the molten glass ; he achieves his blacks with the aid of
a solution of peroxide of iron. Another material which the glass of
M. Galle 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 resembling 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 prolific master
is ever reaching after new
triumphs, and the discoveries
we have named are but a few
of the many achieved by him
in various directions. He has
enriched the decorative art
by e. galle
artist rings the changes on the
complete scale of Nature's
colours. Sun-stones and moon- vase by e. galle
stones, milky opals, agates
with mystic markings, varie-
gated quartzes and granites, garnets and sardonyx, one and all
have been compelled in their turn to yield up the most jealously
hidden secrets of Nature's own transmuting furnace, in the
crucibles of the master-magician of the glass manufactory.
M. Emile Galle has, however, himself related on different occa-
sions the fascinating story of the evolution of his results, and has
generously given to the world the secrets of his discoveries. We
know from his own writings what combinations produced certain
specially happy effects, and how much he owes to what might
almost be called accident in the mixing of certain colours. For
instance, in his crystal glass and in his imitations of quartz, he vase by e. galle
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colours the vitreous matter a rich or dull violet with oxide of manganese ;
he reproduces the gleaming fissures in certain kinds of quartz by pouring
cold water into the molten glass ; he achieves his blacks with the aid of
a solution of peroxide of iron. Another material which the glass of
M. Galle 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 resembling 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 prolific master
is ever reaching after new
triumphs, and the discoveries
we have named are but a few
of the many achieved by him
in various directions. He has
enriched the decorative art
by e. galle
artist rings the changes on the
complete scale of Nature's
colours. Sun-stones and moon- vase by e. galle
stones, milky opals, agates
with mystic markings, varie-
gated quartzes and granites, garnets and sardonyx, one and all
have been compelled in their turn to yield up the most jealously
hidden secrets of Nature's own transmuting furnace, in the
crucibles of the master-magician of the glass manufactory.
M. Emile Galle has, however, himself related on different occa-
sions the fascinating story of the evolution of his results, and has
generously given to the world the secrets of his discoveries. We
know from his own writings what combinations produced certain
specially happy effects, and how much he owes to what might
almost be called accident in the mixing of certain colours. For
instance, in his crystal glass and in his imitations of quartz, he vase by e. galle
114