Fougère (Fern) Occasional Table

Maker: Emile Gallé

Origin: French

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Year: circa 1905

Description

A French Art Nouveau carved and inlaid wood marquetry "Fougére" Table by, Emile Gallé with carved wood fern decorated legs with further inlaid various exotic wood marquetry landscape scene with  a butterfly in flight. The table is signed, "e.gallé"  

References:
Gallé Furniture" by Alastair Duncan and Georges de Bartha, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Antique Collectors' Club, 2012, p. 202, plate