Live Auction 2569Important 20th Century Decorative Art & Design
RENÉ LALIQUE (1860-1945)
Lot 150

RENÉ LALIQUE (1860-1945)

AN 'AMBRE DE SÎAM' PERFUME BOTTLE AND STOPPER, MODEL INTRODUCED 1920

Closed14 June 2012

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RENÉ LALIQUE (1860-1945)
AN 'AMBRE DE SÎAM' PERFUME BOTTLE AND STOPPER, MODEL INTRODUCED 1920
Marcilhac Volnay 4, polished and frosted glass
4 5/8 in. (12 cm.) high
engraved R. LALIQUE

Specialist note

One of Lalique's rarest commercial perfume bottles, this model is one in a line of styles created for the perfumerie Volnay of Paris France & Suresnes France. The dynamic stopper reveals a female nude among a bramble of thorns and it is these two themes that repeatedly appear, although independently, both in the line of bottles created for Volnay as well as throughout his prodigious oeuvre.