ÉMILE GALLÉ (1846-1904) Healed turquoise & Cleonis pigra on blue thistles Rare diabolo-speaking vase; the lower part originally finished in faceted cut. Proof in slightly purplish gray smoked glass; the title maxim and animated title decoration of the beetle done in full hard polychrome enamels and kiln gold. Circa 1890. Signed with the monogram E. G. à la Croix de Lorraine in a beetle and bears the words Je suis ouvrier du bonheur, engraved and enhanced with gold under the base. Height: 22cm Provenance: Private collection: Private collection. This work has been in the current owner's family since its origin; the grandmother, the first owner of the vase, was close to the artist. Bibliography: Philippe Gardner - Gallé - Éditions Flammarion, Paris, 1977. An identical model is reproduced on page 98.