The delicate molding in this Art Nouveau design convincingly simultes a hand engraved work and is evidence Lalique's early training as a medalist and his unmatched ability of molding extremely finely detailed glass. The noted art critic Nilsen Laurvrik, who visited the 1912 exhibition commented on this and other similar boxes:
"These delicate, airy, fairylike figures dancing in the air are as evanescent as thistledown and scarcely more material, and yet they have chiseled perfection of outline tht denotes the unfaltering hand of the master. These little powder and pomade boxes may be said to epitomize the whole art of Lalique."

cf. Felix Marcilhac, R. Lalique, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre de verre, Les éditions de l'Amateur, Paris, p. 223, ref. no. 5;
Catalogue, René Lalique Museum, Suwa, Japan 1992, p.62;