Gold and plique-à-jour enamel swan pendant, René Lalique, circa 1898-1900

Designed as a pair of gold swans, their feathers applied with white enamel, floating on a lake of blue plique-à-jour enamel, a pair of green enameled foliate motifs above, continuing to a pair of gold swans' necks that scroll to form the pendant hook, signed Lalique. 

Art Nouveau, Belgium/France, Rice Museum, Houston, March 26-June 27, 1976, and The Art Institute, Chicago, August 28-October 31, 1976, no. 399.

The Jewels of Lalique, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, New  York, February 3-April 12, 1998;  International Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. May 15-August 16, 1998, and Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, September 13, 1998-January 10, 1999, p. 182, no. 31.

Sigrid Barten, René Lalique, Schmuck und Objects d'Art: 1890-1910, Prestel-Verlag, Munich, 1977, pp. 298-300.

Yvonne Brunhammer, The Jewels of Lalique, Flammarion, Paris, 1998, p. 147.

René Lalique: 1860-1945, APT International Inc., Tokyo, 2000-2001, p. 84.

Henri Vever, French Jewelry of the Nineteenth Century, Thames & Hudson, London, p. 1195.