A Rene Lalique 'Bouchardon' vase, designed 1926, the spherical body with a narrow flaring neck, applied with twin handles moulded as nude female figures holding a garlands, opalescent glass with blue patina, script-etched, R Lalique France no. 981', 12.5 cm high. Provenance: George and Janice Rayner, Melbourne. Literature: Felix Marcilhac, R. Lalique, catalogue Raisonne de L'Oeuvre de verre, Editions de l'Amateur, Paris, 1994, no. 981, p. 435