Art Nouveau wooden tray in intarsia technique by Emile Gallé with inlaid decoration of Carlile Thistle in several tropcal wood species made around 1900.
Japonising signature Gallé.
Handles cut in thistle shape.
Literature: Emile Gallé, "Keramik, Glas und Möbel des Art Nouveau" by Bernd Hakenjos, page 173.