René Lalique

Exhibited by Booij-Arts

Material Silver and opalescent glass

Dimensions 19 cm.

Place of Creation Paris

Price €30,000

Status Vetted

About the Work

This silver chalice was Lalique very first attempt to produce an item in a small series. After his succes at the 1900 Paris World Fair he wanted to produce modern luxury items for his growing affluent clientèle. The chalice has the same design as his living quarters at the river Seine in Paris; the pommes the pins.

These Pins symbolises his creative source, laying deep in the forests of his youth.

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Provenance

Private collection France

Literature

Magazine L'Art Décoratif 7, Paris 1902, page 55
Barten, Sigrid, René Lalique, schmuck und objets d'art, Zurich 1989, page 547
Booij, Lennart 'Lalique in Nederland,' Zwolle 2013, page 80-81