RENÉ LALIQUE

Exhibited by Galerie Marcilhac

Material Glass

Dimensions 107 × 87 × 87 cm

Status Vetted

About the Work

2 panels engraved R.LALIQUE/FRANCE.

Model created on 2 May 1930, made of white moulded-pressed glass, composed of several separately assembled elements, and fitted with a central stem mount in nickel-plated metal.

It appears in René Lalique’s 1932 catalogue as well as in the 1937 price list, and was not reissued after 1947.

The glass panels are decorated with a recessed design—whose relief is revealed by transparency when viewed from the reverse—depicting small birds, evoking passerines, perched among leafy branches dotted with berries, forming a Mediterranean-inspired iconography in keeping with the model’s name, Alger.

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Provenance

Alastair Duncan Ltd.
Philips, New York, June 9, 2015, lot 15.

Literature

Félix Marcilhac, 'R. Lalique, Catalogue Raisonné de l'œuvre de verre', Les Éditions de l'Amateur, 2011, p.653, n.2289.
Alastair Duncan, 'Art Deco Complete', Thames & Hudson, London, 2009, p. 232, for a comparable model.