France
Lalique et Cie., Wingen-sur-Moder
René Lalique (designer)
French, 1860-1945

Famed glass and jewelry designer René Lalique (1860-1945) featured this Art Deco liqueur cabinet embellished with glass plaques as the focal point of his firm’s display at the Salon D’Automne (Autumn Salon) in Paris in 1928. Lalique exhibited the cabinet with opened doors, revealing the dazzling interior with its mirrors, glass shelves, and press-molded glass panels.  In keeping with the purpose of the cabinet (to hold liquor and barware), Lalique chose a theme of grapevines and frolicking fauns, related to Bacchus, the Roman god of wine.

Pearwood, rosewood, basswood; silvered metal (brass?); glass panels, press-molded, 1928
Purchased with Funds from the Florence Scott Libbey Bequest in Memory of her Father, Maurice A. Scott, 1978.46