Speaking Glass Vase "je Ne Cherche Qu'une" - Emile Galle (1846-1904)

Vase called "Cristallerie de Gallé"
also known as "speaking glassware", with an old French sentence "Ie ne serche que une" (for"Je ne cherche qu'une" – "I'monly looking for one")
Vase with rounded body and tall flaring neck,
ornated with fishes, heraldic lions, fleur-de-lys and stylized foliage.
Smoked glass,
decorated with opaque enamels in relief and enhanced with goldSigned under the vase " E. Gallé à Nancy " 

Those "Cristalleries de Gallé" are part of the formerproductions by Emile Gallé, now sought after by collectors.

Perfect condition
France
circa 1886-90

height 24 cm
diameter 15 cm 
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Biography :
Émile Gallé (1846-1904) wasone of the most outstanding figures of the applied arts of his time and one ofthe pioneers of Art Nouveau, founder andfirst president of the School of Nancy in 1901. After his apprenticeship in the glass trades in Meisenthal, andceramics at the Saint-Clement Faience Factory, Emile Gallé was associated with his father's business in themanufacture of earthenware and glassware since 1867. He represented his fatherat the 1867 World Fair in Paris where he obtained an honorable mention forglassware and at the World and International Exhibition from 1872 to Lyon wherehe won a gold medal in class 33 (porcelain and crystals). His approach wqs not just theoretical, he did not fear indeed to learnglass-blowing. He added to this a good knowledge of cabinetmaking andespecially the family passion for the natural sciences and especially forplants that led to drawing. Galléwas in Nancy the student of Dominique-Alexandre Godron, naturalist and doctor.He carried out studies on plants, animals, insects. He was elected secretary ofthe Central Horticultural Society of Nancy in 1877. The same year, Emile Gallé took over the family business and expanded itsactivities to cabinetmaking in 1885. Already noticed at the Exposition “Earthand Glass”  in 1884, Gallé was dedicated to the Universal Exhibition of Paris in 1889 bythree awards for his ceramics, glassware and furniture (including a GrandPrix for his glassware), where he celebrated the lost provinces of the Alsaceand Lorraine regions and developped, through his symbolic decoration, the themeof patriotism. On this occasion, Gallé was made an officer of the Legion ofHonor. From that date, Emile Gallé intensivelydevelopped his technical and aesthetic research on glass work, a field in whichhe developped and created new manufacturing processes. His glassworks weredesigned in Meisenthal until 1894, when he opened a crystal factory whosefiring took place in May 1894 in his company in Nancy. Emile Gallé's research led in 1898 to the filing of two patents, for"a kind of decoration and patina on crystal" and "a kind ofmarquetry of glasses and crystals" by depositing small inclusions ofglass in the molten paste. His pieces were then reworked by engraving, at thewheel for the most precious, hydrofluoric acid for the most common, hisengravers-decorators thus giving a cameo decor on a lined or multilayeredglass. After the death of Emile Galléin 1904, his company continued to produce until 1936. Each piece bears thesignature of Gallé with hundreds of variants.