LALIQUE CRYSTAL "Pipe player Panel with quadrangular body. Proof in satin-finish and polished pressed white crystal on a silvered ground Signed lower right Height 45.8 cm - Length 15.3 cm - Depth 1.7 cm (Minor cracks) History: The model of this panel was made to be inlaid in the furniture that decorated the trains of the Compagnie internationale des wagons-lits at the end of the 1920s. Bibliography: Félix Marcilhac, René Lalique - catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre de verre, Les Éditions de l'amateur, Paris, 2011, section "Compagnie internationale des wagons-lits", model referenced as no. 12 and reproduced on p. 868. Lalique catalogue, Paris, 2000, model referenced and reproduced on p. 123.