Primary Description:
Translucent deep green, aquamarine, smokey gray, lavender, beige, orange, colorless glasses; blown, cased, hot-applied and inlaid decorative elements, acid-etched, cut, and engraved; bronze mount. Thick, flattened ovoid or bud shaped vessel comprised of multiple layers of glass; narrow, lipless, crescent opening has been carved and polished; upper half of body a smokey blue/gray, lower half grass green; along each of the two side edges applied colorless glass trails with overall minute bubbles and beige flecks, broadening then fusing into curved base; body decorated with overall internal beige flecks of glass, one broad side has engraved life-size bearded iris spray in full bloom with orange marquetry stem, the reverse side has inlaid trails of orange and lavender which have been carved and engraved to form a withered iris spray; inscribed vertically in stylized block letters on engraved leaf above the base on blossoming iris side: "Gallé"; deeply inset foot is crudely threaded and has a metal plate, foot is encased and held by a screw to modeled bronze foot in form of alternating petals and buds, patinated green.