Lalique Houbigant Perfume Set

Rene Lalique 'Houbigant Ensemble', model Houbigant, c. 1921 clear and opalescent box and cover containing four perfume bottles, cardboard base lined in silk created design created for perfumer Jean-Francois Houbigant, preferred perfumer of Marie-Antoinette

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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
- boxes 56
- perfume / scent bottles 173