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LALIQUE CRYSTAL Figurine and grapes, arms raised"...

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LALIQUE CRYSTAL Figurine and grapes, arms raised" plaque, created in 1928. Proof in pressed white crystal satin-finish and glossy (minor chips and broken upper right corner). Signed on the front. Height 2 cm - Length 46 cm - Depth 15 cm History: The model of this panel was made to be inlaid in the furniture that decorated the trains of the Compagnie internationale des wagons-lits in the late 1920s. Bibliography: Félix Marcilhac, René Lalique - catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre de verre, Les Éditions de l'amateur, Paris, 2011, section "Compagnie internationale des wagons-lits", model referenced as n° 10 and reproduced on p. 867 ; Catalogue commercial de la maison Lalique, Paris, 2000, model referenced and reproduced p. 123.