Émile GALLÉ (1846-1904) Rare talking glassware "L'air avait l'odeur des petits pois verts", quotation from the Comtesse De Noailles - 1904 Plate in jade-coloured opaline glass, known as glass porcelain according to Émile Gallé, enamelled and gilded, with a Japanese frieze reproducing a design inspired by Imari ceramics. Quote from "Le visage émerveillé", Anna de Noailles's second novel, published in 1904. Signed on the marli "E Gallé". Diameter : 23 cm Bibliography : Alastair Duncan, Georges de Bartha, Gallé le verre, Éditions Bibliothèque des Arts, Paris, 1985, p.44 for a plate. Catalogue of the exhibition Natures de l'Art nouveau & Florilège, Éditions AAMEN, Nancy, 2013, p.15 n°11 for an example of material Émile GALLÉ (1846-1904) An opaline glass "L'air avait l'odeur des petits pois verts" plate by Émile Gallé, signed - 1904 Diameter: 9.06 in.