Hunting Dogs Plate (Assiette chasse chiens)
René Lalique (French, 1860–1945)
c. 1913–21
- Medium
- glass
- Classification
- Glass
- Dimensions
- Overall: 2 x 21 cm (13/16 x 8 1/4 in.)
- Culture
- France, 20th century
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Decorative Art and Design
- Credit line
- Museum purchase from various donors by exchange
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
Entitled Chasse, Chiens, meaning hunt, dogs, this glass plate's gilded decoration of dogs and birds is intended to evoke the hunt. Six hunting dogs encircle the center of the plate, while game birds trim the perimeter.
