"Porcelain Plate With Arms Of The Fournier Family From Pellan Daminet Hainaut"
Old plate with the arms of the family of Pellan Daminet Hainaut around 1875. Emile Gallé workshop, the preparatory drawing of the blazon, made on paper in 1868 is preserved in the Musée d'Orsay, file art N ° 158978). Charles and Emile Gallé offered their bourgeois and aristocratic clients table services to their numbers or their weapons. the plate is signed Dannreuther Nancy. Between 1875 (date from which the direction of the Gallé store is entrusted to the brother-in-law of Charles Gallé, Henru Dannreuther) and 1895 (the year of the death of Count Albert Fournier de Pellan who married in 1866, the daughter of Baron Daminet , burgomaster of Tournai and squire of Seneffe, in Hainaut, Belgium). the service was probably ordered before 1888, when the count retired to Paris, ruined by the coal crisis. shine on the back of the plate and wear. delivery in colissimo armored without risk of breakage.