René Lalique

RENÉ LALIQUE (Aÿ, France, 1860 - Paris, 1945).
Large round opalescent glass box "Boite Ronde Grande Muguet" 1921.
Molded and pressed mint green opalescent glass box decorated with lily of the valley.
Extremely rare in this color with matching base and lid, both opalescent glass.
Signed "R. Lalique" on the lid.
Illustrated in Félix Marcilhac, René Lalique Catalogue Raisonné de l'Oeuvre de Verre, Éditions de l'Amateur, number 40 page 230.
Measurements: 5 x 26 x 26 cm.

Green opalescent glass is one of the rarest and most collectible colors that René Lalique has produced. The colored glass was made by mixing metal oxides in white glass.

René Jules Lalique (1860 - 1945) was a French master glassmaker and jeweler, founder of the firm that bears his name. He enjoyed great recognition thanks to his original creations of jewelry, perfume bottles, glasses, plates, etc., within the Art Nouveau and Art Deco styles. He trained with the Parisian jeweler Louis Aucoq, and then continued his studies at Sudenham Art College in London. The excellence of his creations and the taste he applied to his works earned him important commissions for the interior decoration of ships, trains such as the Orient Express, churches such as St. Nicasius in Reims and numerous religious and civil goldsmiths. Lalique was not content with designing their models, but also founded a factory to produce large quantities, patenting several innovative manufacturing processes of glass, and various technical effects such as "satin Lalique" or opalescent glass. Lalique pieces are preserved in prominent museums such as the Corning Museum of Glass and the Metropolitan in New York, the Louvre or the Orsay in Paris, among many others.