* Émile GALLÉ (1846-1904). - Lot 67

* Émile GALLÉ (1846-1904). Superb stanniferous earthenware Lorraine cross stoup with polychrome and gilded enamel decoration in the taste of Byzantine cloisonné enamels and numbered "AM" on a stained wood oval wall plaque with engraved decoration of 12 Lorraine crosses. Handwritten signature enameled and engraved in the decoration, circa 1876. D. stoup: 36 × 16.5 cm. Total diameter with base: 43 × 21 cm. Magnificent neo-medieval and neo-Byzantine decoration with the Christic or Rosicrucian symbol of the mystical pelican feeding its children with its blood by piercing its heart. Bibliography - Musée Départemental George De La Tour Vic-Sur-Seille, Émile Gallé: Nature & Symbolisme, influences du Japon, exhibition catalog, Edition Serge Domini, 2009: a stoup with the model (shape) reproduced on p. 101. And above all, reproduced on the same page, a study drawing by Gallé depicting the mystical pelican. Preserved in the collections of the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, num. OAO 1986, donated by Jean Bourgogne, grandson of Émile Gallé.