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NINE FROSTED GLASS ARCHITECTURAL ORNAMENTS
BY RENE LALIQUE FOR THE COMPAGNIE INTERNATIONALE DES WAGON-LITS, CIRCA 1928
Consisting of three elongated panels molded as the Bacchantes "Figurine et Raisins, Tete Levee", "Figurine et Raisins, de Profil" and "Joueur de Pipeau" amidst stylized grapevines, together with six smaller rectangular plaques each molded as stylized pendant grapes, all set in a fitted sycamore frame--37in.(94cm.) x 31in. (79cm.), including frame
Created in 1928 by Rene Lalique, these panels were originally used as partitions for the luxurious dining cars of the "Cote d'Azur-Pullman Express"
cf. Felix Marcilhac, Rene Lalique 1860-1945, maitre-verrier, analyse de l'oeuvre et catalogue raisonne, Les editions de l'amateur, Paris, 1989, pp. 866-867; Frederick R. Brandt The Sydney and Frances Lewis Collection in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; Late 19th and Early 20th Century Decorative Arts, University of Washington Press, Sÿeattle, 1985, pp. 220-221, illustrates similar plaques. (9)
BY RENE LALIQUE FOR THE COMPAGNIE INTERNATIONALE DES WAGON-LITS, CIRCA 1928
Consisting of three elongated panels molded as the Bacchantes "Figurine et Raisins, Tete Levee", "Figurine et Raisins, de Profil" and "Joueur de Pipeau" amidst stylized grapevines, together with six smaller rectangular plaques each molded as stylized pendant grapes, all set in a fitted sycamore frame--37in.(94cm.) x 31in. (79cm.), including frame
Created in 1928 by Rene Lalique, these panels were originally used as partitions for the luxurious dining cars of the "Cote d'Azur-Pullman Express"
cf. Felix Marcilhac, Rene Lalique 1860-1945, maitre-verrier, analyse de l'oeuvre et catalogue raisonne, Les editions de l'amateur, Paris, 1989, pp. 866-867; Frederick R. Brandt The Sydney and Frances Lewis Collection in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; Late 19th and Early 20th Century Decorative Arts, University of Washington Press, Sÿeattle, 1985, pp. 220-221, illustrates similar plaques. (9)