id:			150488
accession number:	1981.49
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1981.49
updated:		2021-06-17 09:00:58.915000

Lily of the Valley Comb, c. 1900. René Lalique (French, 1860-1945). 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.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. A. Dean Perry 1981.49

title:				Lily of the Valley Comb
title in original language:	
series:				
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creation date:			c. 1900
creation date earliest:		1895
creation date latest:		1905
current location:		221 19th Century Decorative Arts
creditline:			Gift of Mrs. A. Dean Perry
copyright:			

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culture:	France, early 20th Century
technique:	horn, enamel and gold
department:	Decorative Art and Design
collection:	Decorative Arts
type:		Jewelry
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catalogue raisonne: 

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CREATORS

* René Lalique (French, 1860-1945)  - artist

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

	inscription:	Engraved on side of gold stem: "LALIQUE"
	translation:	
	remark:		

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The Year in Review for 1981
	opening date:   1982-02-17T05:00:00
	<i>The Year in Review for 1981</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer).

	title:		The Jewelry of Rene Lalique
	opening date:   1987-05-28T04:00:00
	<i>The Jewelry of Rene Lalique</i>. Goldsmiths' Hall, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (organizer) (May 28-July 24, 1987).

	title:		Art Nouveau in France
	opening date:   1988-07-12T04:00:00
	<i>Art Nouveau in France</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 12, 1988-January 2, 1989).

	title:		Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum
	opening date:   1991-06-07T04:00:00
	<i>Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991).

	title:		The Jewels of Lalique
	opening date:   1998-02-03T00:00:00
	<i>The Jewels of Lalique</i>. 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).

	title:		Rococo: The Continuing Curve 1720-2008
	opening date:   2008-03-07T00:00:00
	<i>Rococo: The Continuing Curve 1720-2008</i>. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, NY (organizer) (March 7-July 6, 2008).

	title:		Artistic Luxury: Fabergé Tiffany Lalique 
	opening date:   2008-10-19T04:00:00
	<i>Artistic Luxury: Fabergé Tiffany Lalique </i>. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA (February 7-May 31, 2009).

	title:		Imagining the Garden
	opening date:   2015-10-24T00:00:00
	<i>Imagining the Garden</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 24, 2015-March 6, 2016).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

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digital 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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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Lalique, René, Yvonne Brunhammer, and Sigrid Barten.<em> The Jewels of Lalique</em>. New York: Flammarion, 1998.
	page number: 	p. 26, cat. no. 71
	url:		

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IMAGES

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