a - Lot 40

a * Émile GALLÉ (1846-1904). Set of a dish on a pedestal and three plates in tin-glazed earthenware with painted polychrome enamel decoration of wild flowers for the dish and 2 plates from the so-called floral service, and 1 plate decorated with crossed feathers and a fantastic bird in the center. Together, these 4 pieces are typical of the Japonism so appreciated by Émile Gallé, with a bluish background dotted with clouds in sponge-applied gold. Enameled painted signature on reverse, circa 1881. Diameters: 24 cm and 25.5 cm. (Wear to gilding) The floral service was created in 1881 (P. Thiébault, catalog de l'exposition Gallé, Paris, Musée du Luxembourg, 1985-86) and executed in Raon-l'Etape at Adolphe Muller's faience factory. The drawings are by Louis Hestaux, head of Gallé's drawing workshop in Nancy. Plates in the model (floral service) are part of the Musée d'Orsay collections Inventory number: OAO 1336 1. Bibliography : - Tiny Esveld, Art signed Gallé, Édition privée, 2013: one plate reproduced on p. 33 (for the one with feathers). - Musée Départemental George De La Tour Vic-Sur-Seille, Émile Gallé: nature & symbolisme, influences du Japon: exhibition catalog, Edition Serge Domini, 2009 pp. 84 and 85 relating the creation of this model by Louis Hestaux with reproductions of variants of this model (there were 28 variants).