Rene Lalique 'Saint-Francois' Vase: Opalescent Birds in Branches
A Rene Lalique 'Saint-Francois' vase, designed 1930, the tapering body moulded with birds amongst branches in opalescent glass, stenciled 'R. Lalique France', 6.89 in. high. Provenance: George and Janice Rayner, Melbourne. Literature: Felix Marcilhac, R. Lalique, catalogue Raisonne de L'Oeuvre de verre, Editions de l'Amateur, Paris, 1994, no. 1055, p. 450 (another example illustrated)
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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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Lalique (France), item types
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