Cyclamen

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Glass, Room 131

Artist/Maker	Verrerie Combs-La-Ville (manufacturer) Lalique, René Jules (designer)
Place of origin	Combs-la-Ville (made)

Scent bottle, France, Seine-et-Marne (Combs), designed by René Lalique, for Verrerie Combs-la-Ville, 1909

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Object type	Scent bottle
Titles	Cyclamen Coty (manufacturer's title) Cyclamen (manufacturer's title)
Materials and techniques	press-moulded and mould blown, patinated
Brief description	Scent bottle, France, Seine-et-Marne (Combs), designed by René Lalique, for Verrerie Combs-la-Ville, 1909
Dimensions	Height: 14.0cm
Style	20TH CONT
Marks and inscriptions	' Coty Paris', 'Lalique Deposé' and 'Cyclamen Coty Paris' moulded (Makers's mark and retailer's)
Gallery label	The cosmetics manufacturer and perfumier, François Coty, first commissioned designs for perfume bottles from Lalique in 1908. The first of these was for the perfume 'Cyclamen' and the first production was made at Baccarat. On the strength of the Coty commission, Lalique rented the Compagnie Générale d'Éléctricité glassworks, Combs-la-Ville in the autumn of 1908, purchasing it in 1913
Credit line	Sir Claude Phillips Bequest
Bibliographic reference	Marcilhac,F: Lalique, Paris, 1989 p.925 Arwas, V: Art nouveau-artdeco; Garner,P; History of Glass (ed. Dan Klein)
Other numbers	9502 - Glass gallery number p.925 - Marcilhac (1989)
Collection	Ceramics Collection
Accession number	C.1501-1924

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Record created	December 13, 1997
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O2687/cyclamen-scent-bottle-lalique-rené-jules/

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