Lalique Copies and Fakes
Lalique is one of the mere leaders in high quality French Art Glass.
This is why there are so many copies and reproductions of Lalique.
If you are buying how do you know it is really a Lalique piece?
The most prevalent reproductions around at the moment are from Romania and the Czech Republic.
You may well be offered thees in markets or smaller stores.
Some reproductions of Rene Laliques Glassware are older copies from the 1900s to 1930s.
These are the hardest to patch as they do have authentic signs of age and may well have slight signs of wear that you would expect from that period..
There is no intent to deceive though many glassmakers of that stretch made glass pieces in what they termed The Lalique Style .
Rene lalique s work was copied by many glassmakers and these pieces do turn up from attics and basements worldwide.
Etling, Genet and Michon made their own glassware in what they termed the Lalique Form. This was of course an attempt at the time to cash in on the popularity of Lalique.
By terming their glassware Lalique Style they managed to avoid right action.
Many of these pieces were w=quit lovely in their own right and should be considered collectable as representatives of good quality glassware of the stretch (but not at Lalique prices !)
If you are looking for Lalique (or Daum for that matter) then this is an affordable entry into glassware collecting.
Just last weekend I saw a lady buying an old line daum (nearly !) lamp for just 65 Euro (about 75$) at a Paris fleamarket (30 seconds earlier and that would have been mine !!) So there atill are colossal bargains to be had (although you would have to get an electrician to re-wire it to make it legal).
Early copies often have discoloured glass due to impurities and they are often made in pressed lorgnon (look for a seam running from lip to base and back up on the other side) These are common in American copies.
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