Lot n° 13
Estimation :
2000 - 3000
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: 6 656EUR
RENÉ LALIQUE (1860-1945) (ATTRIBUTED TO)... - Lot 13 - Ader
RENÉ LALIQUE (1860-1945) (ATTRIBUTED TO)
After the Scarabée model created for L.T. PIVER around 1911
Rare version of this cream box realized in bronze with double patina; golden and antique green.
Wear and tear to the patinas.
Diameter : 8,8 cm
Bibliography and related works :
Félix Marcilhac - R. Lalique, catalog raisonné de l'oeuvre de verre -, Les Éditions de l'Amateur, Paris, 2004. Glass model reproduced on page 970 and referenced under the number Piver 1.
History:
To date, several models of cream boxes by René Lalique, created between 1910 and 1920 and published in glass, are known in a bronze version without it being possible to determine their precise origin.
The Scarabée, René LALIQUE and L. T. PIVER :
Jacques Rouché (1862-1957), who was a polytechnician, passionate about theater and politics, was employed by the Ministry of Finance but also head of the commissariat of the 1889 World's Fair. In 1893 he married Berthe Piver, the great-grandniece of Louis-Toussaint Piver and heir to the house. Rouché became a little later the president-director of L.T. Piver and was awarded the Legion of Honor at the age of 27, then owner of the Théâtre des Arts from 1910 and director of the Paris Opera in 1913.
In 1905, he and his wife bought a private mansion at 30 rue de Prony in the 17th arrondissement near the Parc Monceau and called on the greatest artists of the time to renovate it: ironwork by Brandt, paintings by Maurice Denis, Matisse, Rouault, furniture by Pierre and Tony Selmersheim, Dufrêne, Majorelle, and René Lalique created the gilded bronze door and window handles in the shape of ears of wheat and the chandeliers decorated with dragonflies and scarabs.
In 1909, Rouché entrusted the creation of the Scarabée line to René Lalique for one of the fragrances of the House of L. T. Piver. He wanted the identity of this heady perfume with oriental notes to be symbolized by a mythical insect, a sacred emblem of the Egypt of the pharaohs. His choice for the scarab came when, on June 2, 1909, he attended the premiere of Diaghilev's Cleopatra at the Théâtre du Châtelet, with costumes by Léon Bakst. Rouché provides Lalique with the name and the theme. This was Lalique's second collaboration with a perfumer, after Cyclamen for François Coty, developed the same year.
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