Cylindrical, slightly tapering, broad vase with a deep, cut and faceted glass surface. The surface carving forms a pattern of continuous stylized spiny curves that is both geometric and reminiscent of the vegetal world. These swirls form the outermost surface, and are highlighted in smooth and shiny black enamel. Between the swirls, the grooves in the surface are made of clear, cut and etched glass that appears like a blurred background, giving the illusion of moving water, or of ice. This sculptural vase conveys all at once ideas of organic growth forms, water, and motion.

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Object Timeline

1926	Work on this object began.
1969	We acquired this object.
2007	We photographed this object.
2008	We exhibited this object.
2015	This was an Object of the Day.
2017	We photographed this object. We photographed this object. We exhibited this object.
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Object ID #18469311

This is a vase. It was made for René Lalique. It is dated 1926 and we acquired it in 1969. Its medium is pressed, carved, acid-etched and enameled glass. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.

Among the French objects on view at the Exposition of Modern French Decorative Art at Lord & Taylor in 1928 was Suzanne and René Lalique’s Tourbillons vase, with a faceted glass surface created through mass-production pressing and hand-carving. This vase, here accented with black enamel, represented a new vision and technique in decorative glass.

This object was featured in our Object of the Week series in a post titled An Endless Swirl of Plants That Never Die.

It is credited Museum purchase through gift of Anonymous Donor.

Water Pitcher (Austro-Hungarian Empire (Klostermühle))

Water Pitcher (Austro-Hungarian Empire (Klostermühle))
mouth-blown colorless glass, black ink feather-pen drawing with gilding.
Museum purchase through gift of Dale and Doug Anderson, Anonymous Donor,....
2009-18-86

Oran Vase
glass.
Gift of Stanley Siegel, from the Stanley Siegel Collection.
1975-32-8

Tall, slightly flared footless vase of clear glass with ten paneled sides. On two opposite sides are five handles. The handles are spiral-shaped and remind of the tendrils of climbing plants or of young, rolled up, fiddlehead fern leaves, that seem to arise from the base of the vase. They are arranged in a graduated series of declining size, with the largest one at the top of the vase. They are stacked, touching each other. While the body of the vase is clear, the handles appear frosted with a satin finish, and oblique grooving on their underside. The vase appears made of molded and cut glass.

Beauvais Vase
press-molded glass.
Gift of Jacques Jugeat.
1969-126-6

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Vase
cased glass.
Lent by Dallas Museum of Art, The Patsy Lacy Griffith Collection, bequest of....
35.2016.3

Vase
engraved and acid etched glass.
Gift of Mrs. Jefferson Patterson.
1981-13-29

A large, ovoid jar with brass lid. The body has a dark background with stretches of dark blue and black. Overlaid the background are dark-pink flowers with open petals, as well as large green leaves.

Covered Jar, Clochettes Mauves
porcelain with colored pâte-sur-pâte, glazes, and gilding.
Lent by The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1987.196.
48.2016.1a,b

Its dimensions are

H x diam.: 20.1 x 17.5 cm (7 15/16 x 6 7/8 in.)

It has the following markings

R. LALIQUE

Cite this object as

Object ID #18469311; Made for René Lalique (French, 1860–1945); France; pressed, carved, acid-etched and enameled glass; H x diam.: 20.1 x 17.5 cm (7 15/16 x 6 7/8 in.); Museum purchase through gift of Anonymous Donor; 1969-20-1

We have 1 video that features Object ID #18469311.

"Dinah," Quintette of the Hot Club of France (1934)

American jazz had become very popular in Europe by the 1930s, and the Quintette of the Hot Club of France is a pivotal ensemble from the time period. With violinist Stephane Grappelli and guitarist...

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibitions The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s and Rococo: The Continuing Curve 1730-2008.

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2CEhp/
Accession Number 1969-20-1
Object ID 18469311