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Émile GALLÉ (1846-1904) "He saw the flower of his thought blossom". Talking glassware. Vase with a baluster body and a three-lobed neck, hot-modeled in pink mixed glass with blue traces. Decor of thoughts entirely engraved with the wheel and the grinding stone. Engraved with the quotation of Pierre Quillard, signed Gallé 1900 and dated 17 June 1900. Height : 17,5 cm. Height : 17,5 cm History: this verse is taken from the poem "The Glory of the Word" published by Pierre Quillard (1864-1912) in his collection La Lyre héroïque et dolente in 1897. An anarchist, defender of the Armenian people and fervent dreyfusard, this playwright and journalist shared common convictions with Emile Gallé, to whom he dedicated several of his poems such as "Cristal" (1897). Bibliography: Collective, Émile Gallé: Meditation of the Fin de Siècle, catalog of the homonymous exhibition at the Kitazawa Museum, Suwa (Japan), 1996, model with a similar shape referenced under n° 120. Expert : Cabinet MARCILHAC
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Émile GALLÉ (1846-1904) "He saw the flower of his thought blossom". Talking glassware. Vase with a baluster body and a three-lobed neck, hot-modeled in pink mixed glass with blue traces. Decor of thoughts entirely engraved with the wheel and the grinding stone. Engraved with the quotation of Pierre Quillard, signed Gallé 1900 and dated 17 June 1900. Height : 17,5 cm. Height : 17,5 cm History: this verse is taken from the poem "The Glory of the Word" published by Pierre Quillard (1864-1912) in his collection La Lyre héroïque et dolente in 1897. An anarchist, defender of the Armenian people and fervent dreyfusard, this playwright and journalist shared common convictions with Emile Gallé, to whom he dedicated several of his poems such as "Cristal" (1897). Bibliography: Collective, Émile Gallé: Meditation of the Fin de Siècle, catalog of the homonymous exhibition at the Kitazawa Museum, Suwa (Japan), 1996, model with a similar shape referenced under n° 120. Expert : Cabinet MARCILHAC
