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AN ART NOUVEAU OPAL, ENAMEL AND GOLD "BRYGO" HAT PIN, BY RENE LALIQUE
Centering upon a scene of four grayish blue enamel satyrs depicting the myth of 'Hera and Iris Pursued by Silenes', within an 18k gold frame enhanced by a black opal, extending a gold and purple plique-à-jour enamel foliate spray, with dark blue enamel accents, circa 1900, with French assay mark, (pin stem deficient)
Signed Lalique for René Lalique
Centering upon a scene of four grayish blue enamel satyrs depicting the myth of 'Hera and Iris Pursued by Silenes', within an 18k gold frame enhanced by a black opal, extending a gold and purple plique-à-jour enamel foliate spray, with dark blue enamel accents, circa 1900, with French assay mark, (pin stem deficient)
Signed Lalique for René Lalique
AN ART NOUVEAU OPAL, ENAMEL AND GOLD "BRYGO" HAT PIN, BY RENE LALIQUE
Centering upon a scene of four grayish blue enamel satyrs depicting the myth of 'Hera and Iris Pursued by Silenes', within an 18k gold frame enhanced by a black opal, extending a gold and purple plique-à-jour enamel foliate spray, with dark blue enamel accents, circa 1900, with French assay mark, (pin stem deficient)
Signed Lalique for René Lalique
Centering upon a scene of four grayish blue enamel satyrs depicting the myth of 'Hera and Iris Pursued by Silenes', within an 18k gold frame enhanced by a black opal, extending a gold and purple plique-à-jour enamel foliate spray, with dark blue enamel accents, circa 1900, with French assay mark, (pin stem deficient)
Signed Lalique for René Lalique
Sigrid Barten, René Lalique, Schmuck und Objets d'art 1890-1910, Prestel-Verlag, Munich, 1977, no. 410
Alastair Duncan, The Paris Salons 1895-1914, Jewellery, Volume II, The Designers from A to K, Antique Collectors' Club, Suffolk, 1994, page 34
Alastair Duncan, The Paris Salons 1895-1914, Jewellery, Volume II, The Designers from A to K, Antique Collectors' Club, Suffolk, 1994, page 34
The Jewels of Lalique, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., 15 May - 16 August 1998; and the Dallas Museum of Art, 13 September 1998 - 10 January 1999, exhibition catalogue, no. 106
René Lalique 1860-1945, Sogo Museum of Art Yokohama, 26 August 2000 - 29 October 2000; Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, 11 November 2000 - 4 February 2001; National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, 14 February 2001 - 15 April 2001, exhibition catalogue, no. 25
The Belle Epoque of French Jewellery, 1850-1910, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich, 1 December 1989 - 4 March 1990, exhibition catalogue, page 221, no. 141
Art Nouveau Jewelry by René Lalique, organized and circulated by the International Exhibitions Foundation, Washington D.C.; The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore; The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; the Kimbell Art Museum, Texas; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, 1985 - 1986, exhibition catalogue, no. 85
Art Nouveau Belgium/France, Institute for the Arts, Rice University, Houston, 26 March - 27 June 1976, exhibition catalogue, fig. 410
René Lalique 1860-1945, Sogo Museum of Art Yokohama, 26 August 2000 - 29 October 2000; Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, 11 November 2000 - 4 February 2001; National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, 14 February 2001 - 15 April 2001, exhibition catalogue, no. 25
The Belle Epoque of French Jewellery, 1850-1910, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich, 1 December 1989 - 4 March 1990, exhibition catalogue, page 221, no. 141
Art Nouveau Jewelry by René Lalique, organized and circulated by the International Exhibitions Foundation, Washington D.C.; The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore; The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; the Kimbell Art Museum, Texas; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, 1985 - 1986, exhibition catalogue, no. 85
Art Nouveau Belgium/France, Institute for the Arts, Rice University, Houston, 26 March - 27 June 1976, exhibition catalogue, fig. 410
The mythological scene of 'Hera and Iris Pursued by Silenes' is based upon a red-figure vase in the British Museum made by the Brygos Painter, an ancient Greek Attic red-figure vase painter employed by the workshop of Brygos, Late Archaic period (circa 490 - 470 B.C.).