Notes:
R. Lalique perfume bottle unique original drawing c. 1895-1900, ink and watercolor on BFK Rives parchment paper. A remarkable drawing perhaps Rene Lalique's earliest perfume bottle design depicting a pendant perfume simulating a Chinese snuff bottle.
Displayed in the exhibition titled "Perfume bottles : from design table to dressing table", held at the Rakow Research Library, November 26, 2007-February 1, 2008.
Image included in the exhibition titled Designing for a new century : works on paper by Lalique and his contemporaries, held at The Rakow Research Library, May 17, 2014-January 4, 2015.
Displayed in the exhibition titled Designing for a new century : works on paper by Lalique and his contemporaries, held at The Rakow Research Library, May 17, 2014-January 4, 2015.
A very similar item was offered at auction by Olivier Coutau-Bégarie Dec. 16, 1993. See p. 6-7 of the catalog, where it is referred to as Masque et saphir, flacon a suspendre.
See lot 379 in Rago Arts & Auction Center's auction catalog for the auction held Nov. 6, 2004.
