verre multicouche, à inclusions de paillons d'or et de platine, la surface partiellement martelée et entièrement repris à la roue

Vente Sotheby’s, Londres, The Great Exhibition Sale, 31 octobre 2006, lot 643

Alastair Duncan et Georges de Bartha, Glass by Gallé, 1984, Londres, p. 59, pl. 62
Alastair Duncan, The Paris Salons 1895-1914, vol. IV : ceramics and glass, Suffolk, 1988, p. 212
Valérie Thomas et al., Verreries d’Emile Gallé, de l’œuvre unique à la série, Paris, 2004, p. 57
Françoise Sylvestre et al., Emile Gallé et le verre, La collection du musée de l’Ecole de Nancy, Paris, 2004, p. 152

The colour when the vase is lit, is a deep purple and less brown than suggested by catalogue illustration, with intense mustard inclusions at the base. One area approximately 2 cm long to the widest corner of the base which appears to have been polished to remove a chip. Another irregular area to one side of the base of the vase approximately 2 cm x 2 cm, where the glass is clear, with no internal decoration. Photographers available on request. There is some overall light scratching consistent with age. The underside of the base with a couple of chips to the edge, the largest 5 mm.
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Deux autres vases Clématite de Lemoine sont connus et sont aujourd'hui conservés au Musée de l'Ecole de Nancy (n. d'inventaire 316) et au Musée Municipal de Chälons-en-Champagne (n. d'inventaire D992.2.30). Le modèle, exposé en 1900, tient son nom d'un poème de Verlaine dont un sonnet est inscrit sur le vase conservé à Nancy : "Elle a clos ses yeux divins de clématites" et rend également hommage à Victor Lemoine, grand horticulteur et ami de Gallé, qui avait donné à une nouvelle espèce de clématite le nom de sa fille: Lucie Lemoine. 

Two other Clématite de Lemoine vases are known and are kept in the Musée de l’Ecole de Nancy (inventory number 316) and in the Musée Municipal de Châlons-en-Champagne (inventory number D992.2.30). This model, exhibited in 1900, receives his name from a sonnet of a Verlaine’s poem written on the vase kept in Nancy: “Elle a clos ses yeux divins de clématites” ("She closed her exquisite eyes of clematis"). It also pays tribute to Victor Lemoine, the great horticulturist and one of Gallé’s friends, who gave his daughter’s name to a new clematis specimen: Lucie Lemoine.