'CÔTE D'AZUR', A MOLDED GLASS STATUE

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'CÔTE D'AZUR', A MOLDED GLASS STATUE
BY RENE LALIQUE, MODEL INTRODUCED OCTOBER 12, 1929 FOR LA COMPAGNIE DES WAGONS-LITS TO COMMEMORATE THE INAUGURATION OF THE 'CÔTE D'AZUR' EXPRESS LINE

Molded as a streamlined, windswept nude woman, molded in relief with the Wagon-Lits monogram and Côte D'Azur Pullman Express
9 Decembre 1929, and wheel-cut R. LALIQUE
6½in (16.5cm.) high

Lot Essay

cf. Felix Marcilhac, R. Lalique, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre de verre, Les éditions de l'Amateur, Paris, p. 396;
N. M. Dawes, Lalique Glass, New York, 1986, p. 75;
C. V. Percy, The Glass of Lalique: a Collector's Guide, London, 1977, p. 120