Rene Lalique 'Houppes' Box and Cover, 1921
A Rene Lalique 'Houppes' box and cover, designed 1921, the domed circular cover moulded with dandelions on a mottled ground, in clear and opalescent glass, moulded 'R. Lalique, 5.51 in. diameter. Provenance: Mr Hans Mueller and Mrs Gertrud Mueller, Sydney. Literature: Felix Marcilhac, R. Lalique, Catalogue Raisonne De L'Oeuvre de Verre, Editions de l'Amateur, Paris, 2004, no. 29, p. 228 (illustrated, another example)
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- Opalescent / Opaline - The descriptions of glass as "opalescent" or "opaline" are often used interchangeably by dealers and auction houses. At the upper end of the scale, opalescent / opaline glass can refer to the opal-like milky blue glass produced by Lalique and Etling. It also refers to the pressed glass mass produced in Britain from the 1840s with a milky white edge as sugar-basins, milk jugs and vases were made in great quantities for the mass market, and were sold at fairs along with Staffordshire figures and wooden dolls. A less common type of opalescent glass was made from two layers of glass blown into a mould.
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