Small Earthenware Empty Pocket By Emile Gallé

Superb little empty by Emile Gallé. There is a small chip on the edge about 3 millimeters. The earthenware is very fine and of good quality. The decoration has fine gold and enamels. The work of the decoration is perfect. Emile Gallé was born in 1846 in Nancy, where he spent his childhood. He studied from 1858 to 1864 at the imperial high school in Nancy, then from 1865 to 1867 in Weimar. After his studies, he worked in the paternal company of ceramics and crystals of his father, Charles Gallé (1818-1902). A trained porcelain painter, he was a porcelain and crystal merchant, supplier to His Majesty Emperor Napoleon III. He inherited his mother-in-law's shop, where he sold ceramics manufactured as a subcontractor by the Saint-Clément factory until 1876. In 1873, the Gallé family moved to Avenue de la Garenne in Nancy. Emile Gallé then benefited from a ceramic decoration workshop and undertook research into glass.