A Rene Lalique Avallon vase, designed 1927, the compressed cylindrical body moulded with birds on berried branches, in frosted and clear glass with a sepia patina, wheel-cut R Lalique and France, 14.5 cm high. Provenance: Mr Hans Mueller and Mrs Gertrud Mueller, Sydney. Literature: Felix Marcilhac, R. Lalique, Catalogue Raisonne De L'Oeuvre de Verre, Editions de l'Amateur, Paris, 2004, no. 986, p. 436 (illustrated, another example)