GLASS ACT

Celebrating the iconic work of French glassmaker René Lalique, the British Museum has unveiled a new collection of Lalique crystal at its Grenville room shop. Famed for his elegant natureinspired figurines, vases, perfume bottles and car mascots, and noted as a key influence on the Art Nouveau and Art Deco movements, Lalique was also dubbed ‘the Rodin of transparencies’, so the collection is aptly timed to coincide with the Rodin and the art of ancient Greece exhibition.

Left to right: Covered in water nymphs with an Art Nouveau silhouette, this Naiades Vase is £3,500; a fine example of Lalique’s skill for capturing movement, this majestic Kazak Horse is £375; originally created in 1931, this design of the Chrysis,...