Espalion

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Object Name: 
Vase
Title: 
Espalion
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
France, Wingen-sur-Moder
Accession Number: 
79.3.122
Dimensions: 
H: 18 cm, W: 15.9 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
designed in 1927
Credit Line: 
Gift of Otto W. Hilbert
Web Description: 
This style was also called Fougères (Ferns).

Description

Primary Description: 
Colorless glass with aqua/grey enamel; mold-blown, enameled. Spherical vessel with slightly elongated neck, narrow opening with ground and polished lip; overall decoration of fern fronds in relief; overall matte surface and patination (except for lip); narrow slightly concave base, base rim ground and polished flat; no pontil; impressed in block letters curving around bottom of base: "R. LALIQUE"; inscribed in script on polished base edge: "R. Lalique France".

Publications (1)

Rene Lalique 1860-1945 maitre-verrier: analyse de l’oeuvre et catalogue raisonne (1989 edition) (1989) illustrated, p. 438, pl. 997; BIB# 33384