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AN ART NOUVEAU HORN AND GOLD "REVELER" UMBRELLA HANDLE, BY RENE LALIQUE
Designed as a openwork carved horn handle of organic design, centering upon four entwined and sinuous gold figures, circa 1900, 4¼ x 2½ ins.
Signed Lalique for René Lalique
Designed as a openwork carved horn handle of organic design, centering upon four entwined and sinuous gold figures, circa 1900, 4¼ x 2½ ins.
Signed Lalique for René Lalique
Literature
Judith Price, Masterpieces of Twentieth Century French Jewelry from American Collections, Running Press, Philadelphia, 2006, page 33
Exhibited
Art Nouveau Belgium/France, Institute of the Arts, Rice University, Houston and The Art Institute of Chicago, 28 August - 31 October 1976, exhibition catalogue, no. 407
Further Details
A similiar umbrella handle from the Gulbenkian Museum is illustrated in the exhibition catalogue titled René Lalique, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, 22 October 1991 - 8 March 1992, no. 183