Serpent Vase
Designer: René Jules Lalique (French, 1860-1945)
Manufacturer: Lalique & Cie. (French)
Date: 1928
Dimensions:
9 3/4 × 10 1/16 in. (24.8 × 25.5 cm)
Medium: Red-brown glass; mold-blown and acid-polished.
Place of Origin: Nancy, France
Classification: Glass
Credit Line: Purchased with funds from the Florence Scott Libbey Bequest in Memory of her Father, Maurice A. Scott
Object number: 1976.47
Label Text:By 1929, René Lalique was established as an artistic leader of glass in the Art Deco style. The term was abbreviated from the French words Arts Décoratifs taken from the title of the 1925 Paris exhibition L’Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Moderne (International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts). At that seminal exhibition, Lalique presented the massive Serpent vase of vibrant orange-brown glass, which caused nearly as much a sensation at the time as his famous glass fountain in the Perfume Pavilion.
DescriptionSerpent
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