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René Lalique

Opal, glass and enamel pendant

Auction Closed

September 30, 03:31 PM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 80,000 EUR

Lot Details

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Description

The molded glass pendant decorated with blue-green enamel, centring a cabochon opal and suspending a drop-shaped opal pendant, on a foxtail-link chain.

  • Length approximately 560mm, pendant measuring approximately 80 x 65mm
  • Unsigned
  • Accompanied by a letter of expertise from Shai Bandmann, IAJA expertise, stating that the pendant was made by René Lalique
  • French import assay mark for 18 carat gold
  • Circa 1897-1899
  • Gross weight 44.40 grams

Sigrid Barten, René Lalique - Schmuck und Objects d'Arts 1890-1910, Munich, pg. 287, no. 530,1, for a design of a similar pendant dated 1897-1899.