A Rene Lalique 'Danaides' vase, no. 972, designed 1926, the tapering cylindrical body moulded with a continuous design depicting female water carriers, each with a gourd raised to her shoulder, in frosted and opalescent glass, wheel-cut 'R. Lalique, 18.5 cm high. Provenance: Tim D. Goodman's, Sydney, 29 October 1991. Literature: Felix Marcilhac, R. Lalique, Catalogue Raisonne De L'Oeuvre de Verre, Editions de l'Amateur, Paris, 2004, no. 972, p. 433 (illustrated, another example)