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Drawing, Design for a Comb with "Flying Fish" Motif
This is a Drawing. It was designed by René Lalique. It is dated 1904–06 and we acquired it in 1998. Its medium is graphite, brush and watercolor, white gouache on brownish translucent wove paper, possibly coated with resin. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
It is credited Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment and Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Funds.
- Textile, Origami Pleat
- polyester.
- Gift of the Nuno Corporation.
- 2004-18-1
- Drawing, Design for a Corsage Ornament: Night
- brush and watercolor, graphite, brush and gouache on brownish, translucent....
- Museum purchase from Drawings and Prints Council Fund through gift of The....
- 1998-50-1
Its dimensions are
28.3 x 22.1 cm (11 1/8 x 8 11/16 in.)
It has the following markings
Verso, lower center: B F K Rives
It is inscribed
Inscribed in graphite, lower right corner: 96 (encircled and underlined) and 381 (these are probably auction lot numbers)
Cite this object as
Drawing, Design for a Comb with "Flying Fish" Motif; Designed by René Lalique (French, 1860–1945); France; graphite, brush and watercolor, white gouache on brownish translucent wove paper, possibly coated with resin; 28.3 x 22.1 cm (11 1/8 x 8 11/16 in.); Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment and Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Funds; 1998-10-1
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Rococo: The Continuing Curve 1730-2008.
