Live Auction 15697Beyond Boundaries: Magnificent Jewels from a European Collection
AN ART NOUVEAU OPAL AND ENAMEL BROOCH, BY RENÉ LALIQUE
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AN ART NOUVEAU OPAL AND ENAMEL BROOCH, BY RENÉ LALIQUE

Closed13 November 2017

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AN ART NOUVEAU OPAL AND ENAMEL BROOCH, BY RENÉ LALIQUE
Modelled as a naturalistic plum branch, the two plums set with geometric opal panels, to the textured gold stems and green enamel leaves, circa 1900, 11.0 cm, with French assay marks for gold, in René Lalique fitted case
Signed Lalique, with maker's mark for Lalique

Michel Perinet

Specialist note

Cf. S. Barten, René Lalique: Schmuck und Objets d’Art, 1890-1910, Munich, Prestal-Verlag, 1977, p. 167, ill. 4 for a diadem using the same technique for setting opals