Showing posts with label commercial perfume. Show all posts
Showing posts with label commercial perfume. Show all posts

Sunday, March 10, 2013

Niobe by Violet c1919

Niobe by Violet c1919 perfume bottle, clear and frosted glass with shoulder design of birds on branches, with blue patina, manufactured by Rene Lalique.


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Photos by Drouot

Ritz by Lalo c1919

Ritz by Lalo c1919 perfume bottle, made up of clear and frosted glass with fishscale pattern, low swuat shape, molded stopper, manufactured by Rene Lalique. Bottle also used for the Lalo perfumes Shyba and Auteuil.

Photo from Rago Arts






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Poesie by D'Orsay c1914

Poesie by D'Orsay c1914, clear and frosted glass perfume bottle, molded with dancing figures, sepia patina, manufactured by Rene Lalique.


Photo by Rago Arts



photo by Drouot


Styx by Coty c1911

Styx by Coty: launched in 1911.


Carnette Guêpes Flacon:

The first flacon used for Styx was produced by Rene Lalique. The bottle is a vertical oblong pillar with eight raised lines, a flat base and a sculpted frosted glass collar representing four wasps arranged at the right angles to each other. The stopper was given a sepia tinted patina. The mouth of the bottle is very narrow at the center of the collar, closed by a thin sculpted stopper. This flacon model was called "Carnette Guêpes" (collar of wasps). The bottle measures approximately 5" to the top of the stopper. The bottle was fitted with an embossed gold paper label.

The model was originally created in 1911 for Lalique's own use and destined to be sold empty in his Maison under the name "Carnette Guêpes," but was also used by Francois Coty the same year for the "Styx" fragrance. 

This bottle is catalogued and photographed in the book R. Lalique: Catalogue Raisonne de L'Oeuvre de Verre by Felix Marcilhac, dubbed the "Lalique Bible" by collectors. You can see the bottle on page 322 of the 2011 French printed edition, under reference "H" for Lalique's own "Carnette Guêpes" and on page 927 under reference "Coty 6" for  his perfume"Styx". The Marcilhac comment mentions that the last Lalique bottle was produced in 1919. Once the Rene Lalique editions were no longer available, Coty had the same design produced at his own glassworks in France, you can see the bottle was still being used in 1923 via the advertisement I posted below. The Styx perfume was also sold later in various bottles. 





Photos by Drouot




Mystere by D'Orsay c1912

Mystere by D'Orsay c1912, upright rectangular black glass perfume bottle, with molded stopper, manufactured by Rene Lalique.

image by Drouot







Photos by Rago Arts

Cyclamen by Coty c1913

Cyclamen by Coty c1913, clear and frosted tapering 6 sided perfume bottle with intaglio design of winged nude fairy figures on each panel. The fairy figures are reaching up to, and pulling over a flower to smell, their wings cascading down each side of the bottle, manufactured by Rene Lalique.

Photo by Rago Arts




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Roses by D'Orsay c1919

Roses by D'Orsay c1919, perfume bottle in clear and frosted glass with rose patina, stopper molded with flowers. Molded "R. LALIQUE". M p. 934, No. 14. Ht. 3 3/8 in (8.5 cm). Manufactured by Rene Lalique.



Photo by Drouot


commercial, also used for Fleur de France and possibly other D'Orsay fragrances.

Photo from Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates



Triomphe by D'Orsay c1920

Triomphe by D'Orsay c1920, clear, frosted and blue stained moulded "TRIOMPHE D'ORSAY", 12.2 cm. high. Manufactured by Rene Lalique.



Photo by Christie's Auction

Frivole by Luyties c1915

Frivole by Luyties c1915. Two different size perfume bottles, each made of up clear and frosted glass, molded with a scale pattern, however, contrary to what some sellers claim, it was not manufactured by Rene Lalique and does not appear in any Lalique catalogs.

Photo by ebay seller rarityny





Ambre by D'Orsay c1911

Ambre by D'Orsay c1911. Black glass perfume bottle of tapering square section, the corners moulded in relief with classical maidens, the stopper intaglio moulded with flowers, 13.3cm. high.Signed in the mold "LALIQUE" and "AMBRE DORSAY". Manufactured by Rene Lalique.

 A rare version was made from clear and frosted glass, also by Rene Lalique.







Photos by Drouot




"Amber" white blown glass bottle, molded on one side titled "Ambre and Lalique D'Orsay," four caryatids ridges molded in relief. Marked on base "Lalique". 1911 period. H: 13 cm Ref Marcilhac p 933. Photo from Neret-Minet & Tessier


Ambre Antique by Coty c1910

Ambre Antique by Coty: launched in 1910. Gorgeous clear and frosted perfume bottle with sepia patina manufactured by Rene Lalique. 







Photos by Drouot

Photo from Craftsman Auctions, showing original presentation box.


A company named Societe Parfumer used exact copies of Lalique's Ambre Antique bottle for their perfumes. These were made in two different sizes. The main differences are the shapes of the stoppers and the copy bottle is not molded with the Lalique signature as on the original bottles.