Topic: Emile Galle Vase parlant sells for £39,000

[flying free]

This beautiful vase 'suffered significant damage' during a childhood game, and was split in two, and then repaired.

It's an Emile Galle vase parlant  and sold a few weeks ago for £39000 against an auction estimate of £600-£800 -

I love stories like this.  No idea who bought it but it eventually sold to someone in the room, apparently a london based collector according to the second link.
Quote 'Some minutes later, a London-based collector in the room won it at £39,000 - later suggesting it might have made well over £150,000 had it been in perfect condition. '

 (Just occasionally I think I'd like to be the kind of collector who could pay £39000 for a vase  )
http://www.suttoncoldfieldobserver.co.uk/Rare-Emile-Galle-vase-Sutton-Coldfield-sells-39/story-28062232-detail/story.html

http://www.antiquestradegazette.com/news/2015/nov/03/galle-vase-at-hansons-is-broken-but-unbowed/
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[keith]

I've not seen a piece of Galle like that before, I'd also like the chance to spend that much, in my dreams,