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Lidded vase with lotus flowers and leaves |
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The egg shape was made of two-layered glass, clear and orange-brown. The decoration, consisting of lotus flowers and leaves, was devised by Gallé in 1897 for vases offered as étrennes (New-Year gifts) in Emile Bourgeois's Paris shop Le Grand Dépôt. In the Winter Palace this vase stood on the desk in the study of Empress Alexandra Fiodorovna. |
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