AN ART NOUVEAU HARDSTONE AND ENAMEL BROOCH, BY RENE LALIQUE
AN ART NOUVEAU HARDSTONE AND ENAMEL BROOCH, BY RENE LALIQUE

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AN ART NOUVEAU HARDSTONE AND ENAMEL BROOCH, BY RENE LALIQUE
Designed as a carved white hardstone Mercury, wearing a sculpted silver helmet, extending openwork green and blue enamel wings in a butterfly motif, enhanced by sculpted gold swags, mounted in silver and gold, circa 1897-1899
Signed Lalique for René Lalique
Provenance
Sold Sotheby's Geneva, "Masterpieces of Art Nouveau Jewellery", 19 November 1997, lot 21
Literature
Yvonne Brunhammer, "The Jewels of Lalique", Flammarion, Paris, 1998, page 181

"René Lalique: 1860-1945", APT International Inc., Tokyo, 2000-2001, page 67
Exhibited
"The Jewels of Lalique", New York, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, 3 February-12 April 1998; Washington D.C., International Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 15 May-16 August 1998; Dallas, Dallas Museum of Art, 13 September 1998-10 January 1999, no. 11
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Mercury, personification of eloquence and reason, often appears in mythology as the messenger to the Greek gods. He is usually depicted wearing winged shoes and a winged hat, called a petasus, for swift travel.

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