'PAPILLONS', AN EXTREMELY RARE AND FINE MOLDED GLASS TABLE LAMP

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'PAPILLONS', AN EXTREMELY RARE AND FINE MOLDED GLASS TABLE LAMP
BY RENE LALIQUE, MODEL INTRODUCED IN 1919

The tapered rectangular base with flared standard intaglio molded with butterflies in flight, supporting frosted, rectangular, ribbed shade, engraved Lalique
14½in. (37cm.) high

Lot Essay

Only very few examples of this model are known to exist

cf. Felix Marcilhac, R. Lalique, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre de verre, Les éditions de l'Amateur, Paris, p.618