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Do We Have Reach or What? We Bring You An R Lalique Senart Vase Coming Up in Istanbul Turkey!

December 12th, 2008

R.Lalique Senart VAseWe scour the world to bring you information on great R Lalique items coming up for auction, and there can be no better example of the info flowing in here at World Headquarters than our listing of an R Lalique Senart Vase coming up for auction in Istanbul Turkey on December 20th at the Alif Art Auction House! Yes, Istanbul, you read it right! Figuring that many of our readers may not have done business in Turkey before, we’ve contacted the auction house directly to obtain information for you on how to make arrangements to investigate and bid on the vase. Here is the edited combined contents of two email replies we received from the auction house:

The vase is in good condition. H: 21cm
İf you want to participate, please give me a fax number so İ could send you a written bid form for you to complete with a credit card number as references (nothing will be debit from it).
The payment could be done by credit card within 1 week or by wire transfer 3 to 5 days after the auction date.
Concerning the shipping cost, it will depend the way we will send the item. Normally we use DHL, easiest way. As we are used to send marchandise overseas, be sure there will be no problem.

Thanks you very much for your interest and help. For the phone bids, İ just need a fax number so İ can send a written bid form to complete, sign and add a credit card number as references. During the auction, İ will call. İn the case of no fax number, İ will ask all the necessary informations (full name, address, passport number, phones, credit card numbers) but İ would rather have the bid form SİGNED by the bidder.

Concerning the vase, there is no problems (no damages, holes…) The glass is black (inside and outside), with some grey parts.

Do not hesitate to contact me for further information,
Sincerely yours,

Celine CHALABİ

Celine’s contact info is: c.chalabi@alifart.com +90 212-249 5811 or +90 212 249 3649
The website of Alif Art is: HERE!
And of course, the vase is listed in our RLalique at Auction Section!
Please, check the vase and the arrangements out thoroughly before bidding. We are passing this information along without warranty or representation and you must check things out for yourself. Celine will be happy to assist you, but don’t wait until the last minute. You can also review our RLalique Buyer’s Guide or RLalique Purchase Checklist to give you a good idea of items you want to know about. And as always, please remember to tell Celine that you saw this vase here, at RLalique.com. Istanbul; how great!

Istanbul Turkey

Lalique Vase Hirondelles: A Vase You Don’t See Too Often On Ebay

November 19th, 2008

Rene Lalique Vase HirondellesA great looking Rene Lalique Vase Hirondelles appeared on Ebay today. This elegant early vase has sold well in the past, making $24,000 including the premium at Christies New York in February of 2006, and 9 months later at Rago Arts and Auction Center in NJ making $13,200, again with the premium included. Of course, in red glass it has gone for a bit more :). Nice to see these kinds of great old Rene Lalique vases pop up from time to time. Lalique Hirondelles Vase – Ebay Item Number 220314781690.

A Great R Lalique Story AND The Tale of Lucky Carl

November 17th, 2008

Check out this BBC Report about the R Lalique Cire Perdue Vase that sold last week at Christies South Kensington. It was purchased for £1 at a “car boot” sale and brought to the Antiques Roadshow for appraisal and then to Christies to sell. Don’t you love stories like this?

£32,449 profit for car boot sale vase by Rene Lalique

Sign For An Estate SaleBUT, closer to the ancestral home of RLalique.com, consider the story of a Tucson Arizona man named Carl Rice. Carl frequented weekend garage and estate sales in the Tucson area. His biggest profit ever on the re-sale of one of his weekend finds, was the $55 he had made selling a $25 purchase for $80! On June 16th 1996, as was his habit, Carl perused the estate sales listings in his local paper, and then he headed off to an estate sale at the home of the recently deceased 94 year old Martha Nelson, where the representatives of her estate were clearing out her possessions. There in the Nelson home, Carl bought a pair of paintings off the wall for the asking price of $88. He then re-sold the pair at Christies New York in December of 1996 for over One Million Dollars! That’s right, over $1,000,000! Feeling LuckyA local Tucson gallery owner saw the Christies catalog noting the Nelson estate provenance, and mentioned it to the representatives for the dead lady’s estate. They of course mentioned the good fortune of Lucky Carl to their lawyers, and Lucky Carl quickly found out that just as night follows day, lawsuits follow lawyers. They sued Lucky Carl in January 1998, claiming that it was somehow his responsibility to let them know they had underpriced the paintings by $1,071,912! This ridiculous lawsuit dragged on for nearly three years until December 2000 before being tossed out by the Arizona Court of Appeals. Somehow we have the feeling that Lucky Carl, while a little less lucky, is a whole lot smarter for the experience.

The Planet MarsOne final note about the case of Lucky Carl. The gallery owner that saw the provenance in the Christies catalogue and ratted out Lucky Carl, was quoted in the Tucson Daily Star newspaper as follows: “If you are going through an estate sale, YOU have a responsibility to say you are aware this is such a valuable painting.” Sure, that’s why people go to boot sales, garage sales, estate sales and the like. So that they can appraise and authenticate items for the sellers, and help the sellers identify hidden treasures. And here we thought all the people in Tucson lived on the same planet as the rest of us. We stand corrected.

And the moral of the story: It can never hurt to consult with an expert before selling. If you need an appraisal on your R Lalique items, check out the Rene Lalique Appraisal page here at RLalique.com.

Lalique Sales are Strong as Christies South Ken Posts Solid Results – High Selling Cire Perdue Video Appraisal Included

November 12th, 2008

R Lalique Cire Perdue Feuilles FougeresChristies South Kensington’s Semi-Annual Sale of the works of the great Rene Lalique, posted a very respectable sale total of £318,450 including buyer’s premium. The sale had a catalogued 126 lots, but a couple were withdrawn and not offered. A total of 90 lots sold, for a respectable take up rate of 71%, which would be bit higher if the withdrawals were removed from consideration. High seller was of course the fresh to market R Lalique 1929 Cire Perdue Vase Feuilles Fougeres, CP551, which appears in the R Lalique Catalogue Raisonne only with information that it exists, and without even a drawing, let alone a picture. A photo of this vase has graced our home page for the better part of the past month. Measuring around 4.75 inches high (slightly smaller than a Rampillon Vase), this unique vase had a high relief design, and was in nearly original condition. The buyer was a London dealer in the room, thought by some observers to be acting on behalf of another dealer that wished to remain anonymous (intrigue). Big question – Who will step up to tell Christie’s “I saw it at RLalique.com”? These concerns aside, it sold for £32,450 including the buyer’s premium, against an estimate of £20,000 to £30,000.

Here is the video from the British Antiques Roadshow when they appraised the newly found Cire Perdue for the consignor:

For more info on the unique cire perdue creations of Rene Lalique, visit the Lalique Cire Perdue section of the Rene Lalique Bio.

Colored vases dominated the rest of the high selling list, comprising 5 of the 7 other lots to break £10,000. These included R Lalique Red Poissons, Blue Perruches, Blue Tuileries, Blue Milan, and an Green Languedoc Vases, in addition to an R Lalique Opal Bacchantes and a Boule De Gui Chandelier. A successful and solid sale with much bidding activity in the room from dealers and collectors, and phone bidders active on a very high percentage of lots.

An Opalescent Ronsard R.Lalique Vase Appears On Ebay

October 31st, 2008

R.Lalique Ronsard Opalescent VaseA great looking RLalique Ronsard Opalescent Vase appeared out of Oklahoma on Ebay this morning. $1750, no reserve, and the ad states no damage. Lots of photos from a high volume Power Seller. Seems like it might be worth checking out before it disappears.

RLalique.com Ebay Item – Bluets Vase circa 1914

October 12th, 2008

Our 2nd listing has appeared on Ebay. It’s a good Rene Lalique Bluets Vase, circa 1914. The vase has a starting price well below half of recent sales prices of the same model vase, and no reserve. Our Ebay User I.D, is RLaliqueSales. We’ve posted the listing in the RLalique at Auction Section, and the Ebay Item Number is 320308942233. You can also check out our RLalique.com Ebay About Me Page (well, About US really)!

Cleveland Museum Exhibition with Fabulous R.Lalique – An Inside Look – Some Great Stuff!

October 6th, 2008

Rene Lalique Jewelry

Here is a link to the Blog of Stephen Harrison, the Curator of Decorative Art and Design at the Cleveland Museum of Art. The museum is putting on a great Exhibition which opens October 19th on the works of Rene Lalique, Tiffany, and Faberge. The Exhibit is titled: Artistic Luxury: Fabergé, Tiffany, Lalique. It focuses on the early 1900’s work of the three named artists. Steve has a blog which contains some great tidbits of info, lots of photos, and which also links to a series of short videos on the work involved in setting up the Exhibition. Some great RLalique stuff throughout. More information about the Exhibition is contained in an RLalique.Com Blog Post We Did The First Week of August when we were just getting started. This info is well worth checking out for all admirers of Rene Lalique (and those other two guys that are also represented at the Exhibition), though suffering thru the short intro ad to each of the videos is not pleasant :).

And for more information, you can find out about all the exhibition resources at RLalique.com by visiting the Lalique Exhibitions section of the Rene Lalique Biography.

Rene Lalique Vase Bacchantes with Tragic Damage

September 27th, 2008

The photo in this post says it all. The Ebay seller says it would sell for thousands if not broken. It sounds like they have no idea. A total tragedy to see such a great RLalique item go down the tubes. Unfortunately, it’s likely that every day, somewhere in the world, a great piece of RLalique glass gets destroyed or severely damaged by accident. And with both natural and man made disasters (earthquakes, riots, war) likely taking out plenty of pieces as well, it’s all the more important that those of us entrusted as custodians of the works of the great Rene Lalique, take special care with them, so that we can usher these wonderful works of art into the future and transfer them intact to the next generation of collectors and enthusiasts.

For more information about the great vases of Rene Lalique, see the Lalique Vases section of the Rene Lalique Biography.

October 16th – Almost 100 RLalique Items

September 16th, 2008

Souris Seal by Rene LaliqueAnother good sized offering of RLalique glass has been put on the fall calendar! Kuehnert’s Auction Gallery in Houston has a large group of R Lalique items totaling nearly 100 pieces on the schedule for October 16th. Check it out, and don’t forget to tell them you saw it at RLalique.com! This auction is also listed in the RLalique at Auction Section.

Ebay R Lalique Enfants Vase Listing – bad and GOOD news!

September 3rd, 2008

The great Rene Lalique Enfants Vase that was our first ever Ebay listing (Ebay user I.D. RLaliqueSales), unfortunately did not sell on Ebay, achieving a price of around $4500 but not reaching it’s reserve. But the GOOD news is that it sold privately on Wednesday, the day after the Ebay auction ended. Chalk this up in the “All’s Well That Ends Well” category, as a rare RLalique Vase finds a new home in an up and coming American collection. Also, listing our first item on Ebay got us organized and we made a great About Me Page on Ebay, which looks very similar to our website, AND links back to a GIANT photo of whatever item we might have on Ebay. We are thinking about listing another Ebay item sometime this month, and we’ll alert readers of this Blog if and when we do. In the meantime, thanks for your support, and we hope to see you hanging around the Blog.

Mark Your R Lalique Calendars – 2 Major R Lalique Sales

August 27th, 2008

Two major RLalique sales are on schedule for the Fall. Up first is the semi-annual Christie’s South Kensington Lalique Sale on November 12th. Always sporting a great variety of items produced by the great Rene Lalique, our expectations for this Fall’s rendition are quite high. Rumors are that one highlight item will be a known, but previously un-photographed Cire Perdue shown only as a drawing in the Catalogue Raisonne. The following month, on December 13th, Mastro Auctions will present a major RLalique Sale as well, combined with a Perfume Presentations Auction. Hopes are for over a hundred works by Rene Lalique anchored by a large consignment from an American collection assembled over the last 10 to 15 years. More details on these two major RLalique sales will be posted here and in the RLalique At Auction Section as they become available.

July 2009 Update: Mastro has become Legendary Auctions and the links here have been updated to the Legendary Auction website. Later, Legendary Auctions ceased doing business and all links to their site have been deleted.

Rene Lalique Cire Perdue Vase at James D. Julia sells for $60,000

August 27th, 2008

Rene Lalique Cire Perdue Covered Vase at James D. Julia AuctionWith a crowd that was wall to wall and out the door, Ebay live bidding available, and half dozen phone lines in play, the Rene Lalique 1919 Cire Perdue covered vase Frise Chiens was sold today at James D. Julia auction house in Maine. This one of a kind Cire Perdue, which was the pictured highlight item on our RLalique.com Home Page for the RLalique At Auction Section during the past 10 days, was hammered down for $52,000 plus a minimum buyer’s premium of 15% or $7,800 for a total sale price of $59,800 against a pre sale estimate of $25K to 30K. The buyer’s premium and total sale price may be higher than stated here, depending on the buyer’s payment method. The 5 and 1/2 inch vase showed several small chips to the top rim of the vase and the edge of the cover, as well as a larger chip which removed a “Chien’s” (dog’s) head (see photo below). This vase had previously been shown in the Catalogue Raisonne only by the original Rene Lalique drawing, a photo of it not having been previously available. All things considered, a good price for a one of kind unique work of art by the great Rene Lalique. And we can only hope that the buyer remembered to tell them what is becoming an increasingly familiar phrase at auction houses around the world: “I saw it at RLalique.com!”

Rene Lalique Cire Perdue Close Up of Damage

For more information, see the Rene Lalique Biography section on Lalique Cire Perdue.

First Ebay R Lalique Listing! Ebay Screen Name RLaliqueSales!

August 23rd, 2008

Tonight (Saturday) at 8:00 PM Eastern Standard Time in the U.S., our first Ebay listing will appear. It’s a great Rene Lalique Enfants Vase, Circa 1931. The Enfants is pretty good size, around 27 centimeters tall. Our Ebay User I.D, is RLaliqueSales. We plan to list other great RLalique items on Ebay from time to time. We’ve posted the listing in the RLalique at Auction Section, and here is a direct link to the item number 320290418131 of the Enfants Vase on Ebay. You can also check out our new RLalique.com Ebay About Me Page (well, About US really)!

R Lalique Red Courges Sells for $42,000 AUS in Australia

August 9th, 2008

Rene Lalique Red Courges VaseOn August 8th, a Rene Lalique Red Courges Vase, one of only a few Red Courges to appear in recent years, surfaced at Davidson Auctions in Sydney Australia and on Ebay Live Auctions. The cased, heavy, and richly colored early R Lalique vase had a rim flaw; a bubble that was in between the two layers of glass and was  broken thru the top rim. This bubble lit up pretty good when the vase was illuminated on display. It also still had the original Hardy Brothers Retailer Label on the bottom. Hardy Brothers was an Australian retailer of R Lalique, and R. Laiique pieces still retaining their label on the underside appear from time to time. Note that an amazingly rare original Hardy Brothers R. Lalique marketing booklet is for sale at this time in our Library in the section containing Original RLalique Retailer Material. The auction house said the consignor was the original Australian purchaser. The vase made $36,000 plus a 16.5% premium against an estimate of 9,000 to 11,000 AUS. With the slight decline of the Australian dollar off its recent highs against the US dollar, the AUS price is approximately 10% higher than it would be in US Dollars. Despite half dozen phone lines being in play, the vase was purchased in the room in Sydney, against strong runner-up bidding on Ebay Live.

Cleveland Museum of Art Exhibit – Lalique Tiffany, Faberge

August 8th, 2008

The Cleveland Museum of Art is having an Exhibition titled Artistic Luxury: Faberge Tiffany Lalique. The Exhibition will go from October 19, 2008 to January 18, 2008. The Museum just acquired the famous Frogs Vase (Grenouilles Et Nenuphars circa 1912) shown here, which was sold at auction at Christies in New York in December 2006. Here is a link to the information about the exhibition on the Cleveland Museum of Art Website, where you will be able to get further information as it becomes available.Rene Lalique Grenouilles Vase Cleveland Museum of Art

 
 

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