A Rene Lalique 'Nemours' bowl, designed 1929, the shallow ovoid body moulded with a radiating pattern of flower heads graduating in size, in frosted and clear glass with a sepia patina and black enamel highlights, moulded 'R. Lalique France, 25.5 cm diameter. Provenance: A Good Selective Sale with Fine and Applied Art Effects, William S. Ellenden, Sydney, 5 November 1987, lot 179, Mr Hans Mueller and Mrs Gertrud Mueller, Sydney, acquired from the above. Literature: Felix Marcilhac, R. Lalique, Catalogue Raisonne De L'Oeuvre de Verre, Editions de l'Amateur, Paris, 2004, no. 404, p. 229 (illustrated, another example)