Fleurettes

Object NamePerfume Bottle with Stopper

Series

Garnitures de toilette

Designer René Lalique (French, 1860-1945)

Maker Lalique et Cie

Made FromNon-lead glass

Datedesigned in 1919

Techniquemold blown bottle, pressed stopper, acid-etched

SizeH: 15.7 cm, WxD: 7.6 cm x 7.6 cm

Accession Number91.3.78

Credit LineGift of Dr. and Mrs. Edward Lewison

Curatorial Area(s)

Modern

Place Made

France

Physical DescriptionColorless non-lead glass, matte finish and sepia patina on floral details; mold blown bottle, pressed stopper, acid-etched, patinated, polished. Vertical squared bottle flaring and swelling towards base, all floral decoration on stopper and bottle acid-etched and patinated sepia; pressed colorless solid mushroom-shaped stopper with raised edge decoration of stylized flowers laying end to end, deeply inset short solid ground shank (inscribed on base of shank 296/4 ); bottle has short, lipped columnar (ground) neck, ground flat and slightly beveled; at each chamfered corner the squared shoulder meets vertical bands of floral decoration extending to base, flattened sides are undecorated; slightly concave base ground and polished, inscribed 296/4; no pontil; impressed on center bottom of base in block letters: "LALIQUE"; also inscribed near one bottom base edge in script: "R. Lalique France No. 576".
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