Cleveland Museum of Art

Lily of the Valley Comb

René Lalique

Date

c. 1900

Medium

horn, enamel and gold

Culture

France, early 20th Century

Department

Decorative Art and Design

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

This comb was purchased by Cleveland native Jeptha Homer Wade II from Lalique after admiring the designer's work at the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris, probably for his wife Ellen Garretson Wade. Pearlescent horn forms the leaves of the lily of the valley, out of which the delicate, bell-shaped enamel flowers emerge. Lalique valued the use of horn for its transparent qualities and natural color.

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