Glass Bowl by Émile Gallé with a Walnut Foot

This whimsical glass bowl by Émile Gallé, featuring a multicolored pinched-sided glass bowl in yellow, purple, and green, is charming with its dimples and streaks of candy hues so imbued with seamless motion as though someone is actively swirling colors around the interior of the container. The glass bowl sits atop a carved walnut wood foot, with openwork floral design, and a scrolled base that similarly appears to be about to take flight, or perhaps is being compelled by the ripples of an unsettled tide.