10 earthenware plates signed Emile Gallé service chasseurs et chasseresses en bleu 19th century

Suite of 10 dinner plates from the chasseurs et chasseresses service signed by Emile Gallé late 19th c.
Different decorations in the center of the plate with hunters sounding their horns, rifles on the ground, in their sights... and huntresses with feathered hats...
Created circa 1882-1884, with blue monochrome decoration on bluish tin glaze
Brush signature E. Gallé Nancy on the back
Scalloped edges with fillets and flowers, all in cobalt blue on a slightly bluish background
Very good overall condition, but minor wear to edges (see photos).
Plates with shiny cover, no fels or chips
d : 25.5 cm
1 dish from this service can be seen at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris
For your information:
Émile Gallé was born in Nancy on May 4, 1846.
He was the only son of Charles Gallé and Fanny Reinemer, who ran a crystal and porcelain business in Nancy. After an apprenticeship in various European cities, including Weimar and Meisenthal, Émile Gallé joined his father's 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 the porcelain and crystal class. In 1875, he married Henriette Grimm, with whom he had four daughters.
In 1877, Émile Gallé took over the family business and extended his activities to cabinetmaking in 1885. Having already made a name for himself at the Earth and Glass Exhibition in 1884, Émile Gallé was honored at the Paris Universal Exhibition in 1889 with three awards for his ceramics, glassware and furniture (including a Grand Prix for his glassware). On this occasion, Gallé was made an Officer of the Légion d'Honneur. From this date onwards, Gallé intensively developed his technical and aesthetic research into glasswork, a field in which he developed and created new manufacturing processes. His glassworks were conceived in Meisenthal until 1894, when Gallé opened a crystal glassworks in his company in Nancy. His research led to the filing of two patents in 1898, for "un genre de décoration et patine sur cristal" and "un genre de marqueterie de verres et cristaux".
His work, with its many references, expresses the diversity of Émile Gallé's interests, in which nature plays a dominant but not exclusive role. An artist as well as a botanist, Gallé was elected secretary of the Société Centrale d'Horticulture de Nancy in 1877.
Committed to the renewal of the decorative arts from an early stage, Émile Gallé's industrialized production enabled him to distribute quality mass-produced pieces to his French, English and German warehouses. He opened sales depots in Frankfurt (1894) and London (1901), but his main dealer was Marcelin Daigueperce in Paris.
In 1901, he was the founder and first president of the Ecole de Nancy, "Alliance Provinciale des Industries d'Art", whose statutes he drafted.
When Émile Gallé died in 1904, his widow Henriette Gallé, assisted by her son-in-law Paul Perdrizet (1870-1938), took over the artistic and industrial activities of the glassworks. In 1908, she published Écrits pour l'art, a collection of Gallé's main writings on botany and floriculture, as well as all his exhibition notices, speeches and several articles on art and artists. The Établissements Gallé limited company, transformed into this form in 1927, ceased glass production in 1931.

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