French glass designer René Jules Lalique's gray patina spherical vase with an everted rim is molded in low relief. Throughout his career, Lalique decorated many of his vases with a menagerie of creatures ranging from realistic to highly stylized forms like the antelopes seen here whose bodies seem to curve and leap over the translucent convex roundels.

Drawn from

• Patricia Bayer and Mark Waller, The Art of Rene Lalique (London: Quintet Publishing Ltd., 1988), 144.

• Kevin W. Tucker, DMA unpublished material.

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