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AN ART NOUVEAU HORN, DIAMOND, GLASS AND ENAMEL WISTERIA HAIRCOMB, BY RENE LALIQUE
The comb of pale coloured horn with openwork upper section carved with leaves and applied with sprays of blue glass wisteria to purple enamel stems, enhanced with single-cut diamond calyx, 8.3 x 9.0 cm. (restored)
Signed Lalique
Cf. Sigrid Barten's "Ren Lalique: Schmuck und Objets d'Art 1890-1910" Prestel Verlag, Munich, 1977, page 204 for an illustration of the mirror pair to this haircomb at the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon.
The comb of pale coloured horn with openwork upper section carved with leaves and applied with sprays of blue glass wisteria to purple enamel stems, enhanced with single-cut diamond calyx, 8.3 x 9.0 cm. (restored)
Signed Lalique
Cf. Sigrid Barten's "Ren Lalique: Schmuck und Objets d'Art 1890-1910" Prestel Verlag, Munich, 1977, page 204 for an illustration of the mirror pair to this haircomb at the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon.