Etablissements Gallé, Nancy, Four nesting tables 'Gauloise', c. 1918
Etablissements Gallé, Nancy, Four nesting tables 'Gauloise', c. 1918, 'Tables Gigogne Gauloise'. Side tables with rectangular plate to be pushed into each other; Bipod construction with cross brace and curved bipod in plastically stylized maple fruit stem. H. 64 cm, 36 x 36.3 cm; H. 67 cm, 41.5 x 36.5 cm; H. 69 cm, 47 x 37 cm; H. 72.5 cm, 57.5 x 37.5 cm. Walnut, carved, inlaid with different kinds of wood. Decor with lark in sunshine, flag depicting a wild boar, oak leaves and a sickle cutting mistletoe. All tables signed: GALLE., Cf. Exh. Nancy 1900, Mainz 1980, p. 317, cat.-no. 342.