Plate - Earthenware - Emile Gallé - St Clément- C. 1870

Glazed earthenware plate by Emille Gallé in Nancy, decorated with laurel branch, dove of peace on a landscape with a temple.
Our plate features the Latin inscription "Pulchra licet, laurus meliori cedat olivae" on its main face.
On the reverse, the inscription: "E. Gallé déposé". Gallé déposé".

Very good condition.

Circa 1870.

Emile Gallé was the only son of Charles Gallé (1818-1902) and Fanny Reinemer (1828-1891), who ran a crystal and porcelain business in Nancy.
After an apprenticeship in various European cities, including Weimar and Meisenthal, Emile Gallé joined his father's earthenware and glassware trading and decoration business in 1867.
He represented his father at the 1867 Universal Exhibition in Paris, where he won an honorable mention for glassware, and at the 1872 Universal and International Exhibition in Lyon, where he won a gold medal in class 33 (porcelain and crystal). In 1877, Emile Gallé took over the family business and extended his activities to cabinetmaking in 1885.
Already making a name for himself at the 1884 Exposition de la Terre et du Verre, Emile Gallé won three awards at the 1889 Paris World's Fair.