EMILE GALLE – PART OF THE “HERBIER” TABLE SERVICE, CIRCA 1868

PART OF THE “HERBIER” TABLE SERVICE, CIRCA 1868
Earthenware, painted in monochrome blue in the “grand feu” technique over a white tin-glaze, with shaped rims, comprising:
19 dinner plates
10 dessert plates
10 soup plates
2 sauce dishes
1 soup tureen
2 oval serving dishes
2 serving dishes

Signed with the Lorraine Cross monogram and/or signed Émile Gallé Fecit.

Exhibition
Gallé, exhibition catalogue, Musée du Luxembourg, for two cups with the same border, p. 104

Bibliography
Marc Bascou – Marie-Madeleine Massé – Philippe Thiébaut, Musée d’Orsay. Catalogue sommaire illustré des arts décoratifs, Paris, 1988, ill. of a plate held by the Musée d’Orsay
Le Tacon & Valk, Émile Gallé, L’amour de la fleur, Nancy, 2008, p. 318
Philippe Thiebaut, entry in Nouvelles acquisitions du musée d’Orsay, 1980–1983, Paris, 1983, plates and fish serving dish, n. 414–417, pp. 98–99
Françoise Charpentier, Philippe Husson, Bernard Ponton, Musée de l’École de Nancy. La céramique de Gallé, Nancy, 1984, cups listed under n. 4, p. 83
[Collective – Exhibition catalogue, curated by Philippe Thiébaut and Monique Nonne], Gallé, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, 1985–1986, RMN, pp. 92–93 and 104