'LOUVECIENNES', AN EXTREMELY RARE BLUE MOLDED GLASS BOX AND COVER

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'LOUVECIENNES', AN EXTREMELY RARE BLUE MOLDED GLASS BOX AND COVER
BY RENE LALIQUE, MODEL INTRODUCED IN 1910

Circular, molded with foliage, the translucent cover molded with two diaphanously draped maidens holding garlands, molded in relief LALIQUE DEPOSE
3½in. (8.7cm.) diameter

Lot Essay

Only three examples of this box in blue are known to exist

cf. Felix Marcilhac, R. Lalique, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre de verre, Les éditions de l'Amateur, Paris, p. 223, ref. no. 5