Lalique Bacchantes vase

Lalique Bacchantes vase.

The iconic design features the young priestesses of Bacchus with their voluptuous beauty and curves. A work of unparallel beauty, the splendour and sensuality of the vase continue to leave admirers spellbound.

Since its original release in 1927, it has been a staple in the Lalique collection and has become a lasting symbol of Lalique’s celebrated style. This version made post war in frosted and clear glass. Signed Lalique France to the side of the base. Produced circa 1980. Excellent original condition and a superb example.

Approximate height 24.5 centimetres diameter at mouth of vase 19 centimetres long.

French designed 1927 made 1980s.

Rene Lalique 1880-1945

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 jeweller 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 jewellery 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 appeal.

Following the death of René Lalique in 1945, his son Marc took over as head of the business. He was to bring Lalique into the age of crystal.

In 1977 Marc’s daughter Marie-Claude Lalique became CEO of the company. She renewed the tradition of jewellery design and developed the fragrance business.

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