René Laliques’s Vase, The Kissing Lovebirds

Rene Laliques Vase, the Kissing Lovebirds, has an embossed motif of the glossy green coloured birds lying on a cream coloured background.

Nature was a wonderful inspiration for designers during the Art Nouveau period. Curious about Japanese art, these designers didn’t copy nature but transformed it into an expressive art that had distinguished ornamental characteristics.

In advance, Lalique used undulating, sinuous natural themes in colourful compositions in jewellery. But after applying glass pieces along with diamonds, opals, and semi-precious stones, he observed the natural qualities of glass and moved slowly into glass art.

Lalique’s factory produced the Bacchantes vase in cast iron moulds where the molten glass was heated by the blowing iron and cleaned from bubbles. Then the factory placed it in a mould and sculpted it into a form. It was fired again to stabilize the result. Lalique’s workshop cut, retouched and corrected the vase from the mould lines, immersed it twice in an acid bath to reach the matt appearance and at last polished it to achieve a shiny, gleaming appearance to obtain the so-called Lalique’s glass look.

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