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AN ART NOUVEAU ENAMEL AND GLASS "WINTER WOODLAND" PENDANT, BY RENE LALIQUE
Designed as a opalescent glass panel depicting a frosty winter landscape with four bare tree trunks before a river or lake, bordered by a blue, grey and green finely enamelled tree trunk with branches and roots and opaque matte lilac colored leaves, the reverse in finely engraved gold, mounted in gold, (with pendant hoop for suspension), circa 1898, in a R. Lalique black leather fitted case
Signed Lalique for René Lalique
Designed as a opalescent glass panel depicting a frosty winter landscape with four bare tree trunks before a river or lake, bordered by a blue, grey and green finely enamelled tree trunk with branches and roots and opaque matte lilac colored leaves, the reverse in finely engraved gold, mounted in gold, (with pendant hoop for suspension), circa 1898, in a R. Lalique black leather fitted case
Signed Lalique for René Lalique
Provenance
Sold Sotheby's Geneva, "Magnificent Jewels", 19 November 1997, lot 3
Literature
Cf. Sigrid Barten, René Lalique, Schmuck und Objets d'art, 1890-1910, Prestel Verlag, München, 1977, page 312, plate 621
Cf. Vivienne Becker, The Jewellery of René Lalique, A Goldsmiths' Company Exhibition, 28 May to 24 July 1987, London, page 147, plate 148
Lalique designed a small number of variants on the winter landscape theme. A near identical version of the present pendant is in the collection of the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon. The museum records confirm that it was acquired by Gulbenkian, Lalique's greatest patron, in 1900. The museum also owns the original design executed in pencil, ink and gouache.
Cf. Vivienne Becker, The Jewellery of René Lalique, A Goldsmiths' Company Exhibition, 28 May to 24 July 1987, London, page 147, plate 148
Lalique designed a small number of variants on the winter landscape theme. A near identical version of the present pendant is in the collection of the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon. The museum records confirm that it was acquired by Gulbenkian, Lalique's greatest patron, in 1900. The museum also owns the original design executed in pencil, ink and gouache.