LALIQUE CRYSTAL Figurine and grapes, head up"... Lot 23

LALIQUE CRYSTAL Figurine and grapes, head up" panel, model created in 1928. Proof in pressed white crystal with matte and glossy finish (minor chips). 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 under n° 8 and reproduced on p. 867 ; Catalogue commercial de la maison Lalique, Paris, 2000, model referenced and reproduced p. 123.