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AN ART NOUVEAU ENAMEL, GOLD AND DIAMOND CORSAGE ORNAMENT, BY RENE LALIQUE
The openwork gold corsage ornament designed as three interlocking sections of textured opaque lavendar enamel lilac blossoms, with gold branches and old mine-cut diamond leaves, suspending a detachable pendant of similiar design, terminating with a cultured pearl drop, the reverse with finely chased gold, mounted in gold, (two end sections may be worn as brooches and the central panel as a dog collar, with pendant hoop for suspension), circa 1902
Signed Lalique for René Lalique
The openwork gold corsage ornament designed as three interlocking sections of textured opaque lavendar enamel lilac blossoms, with gold branches and old mine-cut diamond leaves, suspending a detachable pendant of similiar design, terminating with a cultured pearl drop, the reverse with finely chased gold, mounted in gold, (two end sections may be worn as brooches and the central panel as a dog collar, with pendant hoop for suspension), circa 1902
Signed Lalique for René Lalique
Provenance
Sold Sotheby's Geneva, "Magnificent Jewels", 20 November 1996, lot 7
Literature
Vivienne Becker, The Jewellery of René Lalique, A Goldsmiths' Company Exhibition, 28 May to 24 July 1987, London, page 78 and 79, plate 55
Sigrid Barten, René Lalique, Schmuck und Objets d'art, 1890-1910, Prestel Verlag, Passau, 1977, page 273, plate 476 (pendant only)
René Lalique, Exhibition Catalogue, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 23 May to 12 July 1992, page 134, plate 83
Sigrid Barten, René Lalique, Schmuck und Objets d'art, 1890-1910, Prestel Verlag, Passau, 1977, page 273, plate 476 (pendant only)
René Lalique, Exhibition Catalogue, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 23 May to 12 July 1992, page 134, plate 83