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AN ART NOUVEAU PERIDOT, RUBY, ENAMEL AND GOLD CORSAGE ORNAMENT, BY RENE LALIQUE
Designed as an enamel and gold openwork hinged gold plaque, set with two oval-cut peridots, designed as two facing dragonflies, each with a brown enamel body and a cabochon ruby eye, extending pale orange plique-à-jour enamel wings with gold veining, to the orange enamelled gold scrolls and cabochon peridot accents, mounted in gold, circa 1903
Signed Lalique for René Lalique
Designed as an enamel and gold openwork hinged gold plaque, set with two oval-cut peridots, designed as two facing dragonflies, each with a brown enamel body and a cabochon ruby eye, extending pale orange plique-à-jour enamel wings with gold veining, to the orange enamelled gold scrolls and cabochon peridot accents, mounted in gold, circa 1903
Signed Lalique for René Lalique
Provenance
Sold Sotheby's Geneva, "Magnificent Jewels", 20 November 1996, lot 10
Literature
Vivienne Becker, The Jewellery of René Lalique, A Goldsmiths' Company Exhibition, 28 May to 24 July 1987, London, page 57, plate 34
René Lalique, Exhibition Catalogue, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 23 May to 12 July 1992, page 139, plate 87
Laurence Buffet-Challie, Le Modern Style, 1975, Paris, 1975, page 163, plate 4
Marc Lalique, Lalique par Lalique, Paris, 1977, page 38
René Lalique, Exhibition Catalogue, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 23 May to 12 July 1992, page 139, plate 87
Laurence Buffet-Challie, Le Modern Style, 1975, Paris, 1975, page 163, plate 4
Marc Lalique, Lalique par Lalique, Paris, 1977, page 38