Emiliane Covered Box
Manufacturer
René Lalique
(French, 1860-1945)
CultureFrench
Dateca. 1920-1937
MediumPressed glass
DimensionsOverall: 1 3/4 x 4 in. (4.4 x 10.2 cm)
Base: 3 5/8 in. (9.2 cm)
Base: 3 5/8 in. (9.2 cm)
InscribedMarks: Incised on lid: "D'ORSAY" Raised on bottom of bowl: "R. LALIQUE"
Credit LineBequest of Ida Patterson Walton in Memory of Walter and Maude M. Walton, the Parents of Ida Patterson Walton and Aline Chapman Walton
Object number92.44.3
Not on view
DescriptionColorless pressed glass; domed lid in brown-stained floral pattern called "Emiliane" in 1932 Lalique catalogue; bowl--plain and shallow with flat bottom. The covered box was probably used for powder.Published ReferencesWill of Ida Patterson Walton, filed in the City of Norfolk, Article III, Item "d". René Lalique. LALIQUE GLASS: THE COMPLETE ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE FOR 1932. Reprint: 1981. Corning: Corning Museum of Glass and Dover Publications: plate 49, no. 70. Marie-Claude Lalique. LALIQUE. Geneve: Edipop. 1988: p. 149. For a perfume bottle (before 1914) bearing the same D'Orsay mark see this reference. Félix Marcilhac. RENÈ LALIQUE, 1860-1945: MAÎTRE-VERRIER: ANALYSE DE L'OEUVRE ET CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ. Paris: Editions de l'Amateur. 1994. No. 70, p. 235.
