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Eglantines Chandelier

Rene Lalique Eglantines Chandelier information and photos at RLalique.com are tied together on this main Eglantines Chandeliers page. Past and future auctions, historical details, sales, copies, reproductions, articles and more are all accessible from here. This page grows as more info is added to the website.

Note: Églantines is French for sweet briar roses or wild roses. Here is Oberon in Shakespeare's A Midsummer-Night's Dream: "I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows; Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, with sweet musk roses and with eglantine."

Also note: In the fall of 1926 Lalique created 2 similar Chandelier models. Each is a bowl form with decorative protrusions. Églantines has 6 protrusions and Ronces has 4. Including protrusions both models are approximately 70 cm wide.

Also note: There is a documented prototype of an 80 cm Églantines Light Fixture that appears from the photo to have 6 protrusions affixed to a bowl that is shallower than the known commercial model. We have never seen this model in the flesh.

Also Note: Here are other Lalique eglantine decorated models to compare/contrast his eglantine implementations: Ashtray Bowl Box-1 Box-2 Clock Extinguisher Mirror Perfume Burner Vase D'Orsay Box D'Orsay Perfume Bottle