Panthère Vase, Clear Crystal

Elegant black and white panthers play hide-and-seek with shadow and light. We can discern their silhouettes and their soft, velvety touch on a vase. Trained as a jeweler at the Ecole des Arts Decoratifs in Paris in the late 1880's, Rene Lalique gained recognition as an independent designer for some of the era's great jewelry houses including Cartier and Boucheron. Eventually, he turned to glassmaking, and his techniques were a triumph for the Art Deco movement. Every piece of Lalique is finely detailed and produced by hand in Alsace, France.