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Lily of the Valley Comb

c. 1900

René Lalique

(French, 1860–1945)

France, early 20th Century

Horn, enamel and gold

Overall: 15.4 x 9.4 x 3 cm (6 1/16 x 3 11/16 x 1 3/16 in.)

Gift of Mrs. A. Dean Perry 1981.49

Location

221 19th Century Decorative Arts

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Lalique valued the use of horn for its transparent qualities and natural color.

Description

This comb was purchased by Cleveland native Jeptha Homer Wade II from Lalique after admiring the designer's work at the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris, probably for his wife Ellen Garretson Wade. Pearlescent horn forms the leaves of the lily of the valley, out of which the delicate, bell-shaped enamel flowers emerge.

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Inscription

Engraved on side of gold stem: "LALIQUE"

Citations

Lalique, René, Yvonne Brunhammer, and Sigrid Barten. The Jewels of Lalique. New York: Flammarion, 1998. p. 26, cat. no. 71

Harrison, Stephen, Emmanuel Ducamp, Jeannine J Falino. Artistic Luxury: Fabergé Tiffany Lalique. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2008. Reproduced: P. 258; Mentioned: P. 334, no. 162

Exhibition history

The Year in Review for 1981. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982).

The Jewelry of Rene Lalique. Goldsmiths' Hall, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (organizer) (May 28-July 24, 1987).

Art Nouveau in France. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 12-November 27, 1988).

Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991).

The Jewels of Lalique. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, NY (February 3-April 12, 1998); Smithsonian Institution, International Gallery, Washington, D.C (May 15-August 16, 1998); The Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX (September 13, 1998-January 10, 1999).

Rococo: The Continuing Curve 1720-2008. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, NY (organizer) (March 7-July 6, 2008).

Artistic Luxury: Fabergé Tiffany Lalique . Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA (February 7-May 31, 2009).

Imagining the Garden. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 24, 2015-March 6, 2016).

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