AN EXQUISITE ART NOUVEAU ENAMEL "DRYAD AND WILLOWS" PLAQUE, BY RENE LALIQUE
AN EXQUISITE ART NOUVEAU ENAMEL "DRYAD AND WILLOWS" PLAQUE, BY RENE LALIQUE

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AN EXQUISITE ART NOUVEAU ENAMEL "DRYAD AND WILLOWS" PLAQUE, BY RENE LALIQUE
Designed as an openwork pastoral scene, depicting a sculpted gold wood nymph gazing at a blue plique-à-jour enamelled lake, with green enamelled lily pads and sculpted gold willows extending a web of gold branches, mounted in gold, circa 1899
Signed Lalique for René Lalique
Literature
Sigrid Barten, "René Lalique, Schmuck und Objets d'art 1890-1910: Monographie und Werkkatalog", Prestel-Verlag, München, 1977, page 310

Yvonne Brunhammer, "The Jewels of Lalique", Flammarion, Paris, 1998, pages 158-161

Alastair Duncan, "The Paris Salons, 1895-1914: Volume II", Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1994, page 32

"René Lalique: 1860-1945", APT International Inc., Tokyo, 2000-2001, page 87
Exhibited
"Art Nouveau: Belgium, France", Rice Museum, 26 March-27 June 1976; Chicago, The Art Institute, 28 August-31 October 1976, no. 398

"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. 52

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