Vintage Lalique Liquor Set Decanter & 9 Stemglasses (04/10/2011)

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Vintage Lalique Liquor Set Decanter & 9 Stemglasses

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Sold Date: 04/10/2011
Channel: Online Auction
Source: eBay
Category: Glass

Welcome to Marie's Vintage Perfumes. This store is a collection of vintage perfume bottles from the estate of Marie-Louise Fredyma, my mother who passed away in 2010 after nearly 70 years in the antique business. Marie's perfumes were a special place in her collection of antiques and vintage items and are now offered for sale as part of her estate.

Description:

Vintage 1920's R. Lalique Liquor Set with Stemglasses and Decanter. Set consists of 9 large size stemglasses which are signed "R. Lalique France" on base. Large Decanter with stopper signed "R. Lalique " on bottom.

Provenance:

This set belong to Marie-Louise Fredyma's mother Louise Fromm, whom lived in New York from 1900-1967 and was purchased in the 1930's from the Park Avenue Gallaries in New York.

Background R. Lalique:

Rene Lalique was born a rural 19th century man in a pre-industrialized Europe. It was a time before light bulbs, and telephones, before automobiles and washing machines and electricity. But by the time of his death in 1945 at the dawn of the atomic age, he would have completed two careers spanning two different centuries. In 1900 at the age of 40, he was the most celebrated jeweler in the world and an art nouveau artist and designer of magnificent proportions. But by 1925 at the height of the art deco era he was the most celebrated glassmaker in the world. In between Lalique would leave his contemporaries behind as he turned from creating unique jewelry and objects d'art, to the mass production of innovative and usable art glass. He brought glass into the home of everyday people where it had never been before, and he worked out the industrial techniques to mass produce his useful art glass objects on a scale and cost to complement the spreading industrial revolution and resulting worldwide appetite for his products.

Condition:

Decanter and Stemglasses are in excellent condition with no cracks, scratches, or chips.