Lily of the Valley Comb
René Lalique (French, 1860–1945)
1895–1905
- Medium
- horn, enamel and gold
- Dimensions
- Overall: 15.4 x 9.4 x 3 cm (6 1/16 x 3 11/16 x 1 3/16 in.)
- Genre
- jewelry
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Tags
France, early 20th Century
About
This comb was purchased by Cleveland native Jeptha Homer Wade II from Lalique after admiring the designer's work at the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris, probably for his wife Ellen Garretson Wade. Pearlescent horn forms the leaves of the lily of the valley, out of which the delicate, bell-shaped enamel flowers emerge.
