'LUTTEURS', AN EXTREMELY RARE OPALESCENT GLASS VASE

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'LUTTEURS', AN EXTREMELY RARE OPALESCENT GLASS VASE
BY RENE LALIQUE, MODEL INTRODUCED IN 1914

The compressed circular bowl above a tapered base, molded with crouching wrestlers, blue patina, wheel-cut R. LALIQUE and inscribed Lalique
6¾in. (17.5cm) diameter, 5¾in. (14.5cm) high

Only very few examples of this model in the opalescent version are known to exist

Lot Essay

cf. Felix Marcilhac, R. Lalique, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre de verre, Les éditions de l'Amateur, Paris, ref. no. 890;
Nicholas M. Dawes, Lalique Glass, Crown Publishers Inc., NY, 1986, p. 53