GOLD AND ENAMEL BROOCH, RÉNE LALIQUE, CIRCA 1900

Designed as two stylised anemone stems, the flower petals formed from frosted moulded glass with blue centres, the leaves in green plique-à-jour and translucent opalescent enamel, signed Lalique.

Cf: Sigrid Barten, Réne Lalique, Schmuck und Objets d'art 1890-1910, 1989, Munich, page 115 for a drawing and brooch by Lalique in the form of anemones created circa 1901-1903, page 320 and page 407 for a drawing of a design for an anemone brooch circa 1899-1901.

Cf: Vivienne Becker, The Jewellery of Rene Lalique, exhibition catalogue Goldsmiths' Company, 28th May - 24th July 1987, page 83 for an illustration of an anemone brooch/pendant circa 1897-98.

Signed Lalique. Frosted moulded glass and opalescent enamel in good condition. Green plique-à-jour enamel in overall good condition, one leaf on left hand side with crazing to one small section. Traces of dust, could benefit from a careful professional clean. Secure catch to pin, detachable. Scratches and small indentations to gold stem, consistent with age and wear, possible alteration to stem. In good condition.
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Réne Lalique was a master at recreating nature in fine jewels using delicate enamel work to imitate the translucency of light passing through a dragonfly wing or in this case the leaf of a flowering plant.  He studied nature closely in all its forms, many interpretations both beautiful and fragile, from flitting insects, flowers and blossoms to decaying leaves.