Model No: 1139 Tete d'Epervier. Created January 1928
René LALIQUE, who excelled in the art of giving life to animals frozen forever in glass, created the hawk's head, a dignified and noble raptor, just like the eagle and the falcon, in 1928.
With pure and stylized lines, it is one of the more Art Deco mascots of all those of René LALIQUE. An abstract and simple design but with a face of pure concentration and a homage to Egyptian motifs prevalent at the time.
Height: 6.1cm
Clear (white) glass, Opalescent and Topaz (fume) colour examples are catalogued and exist. Press molded
Price (1932 Lalique et Cie Catalogue): 245FF (clear), 275FF (colour)
Molded LALIQUE FRANCE in relief above the base
Breves of Knightsbridge, London UK titled this model ’The Hawk’s Head’ and listed a price of £2/12/6 ‘unilluminated' or £3/13/6 ‘for light’ using the patented Breves illuminated mount. A bulb was 3/s and Duty was 10/6. No price was listed for a colour example though presumably this could be ordered at additional cost. This was the least expensive of the mascots, along with the Frog.
Other names for this mascot - Tete d’Epervier, Hawk’s Head, Hawk Head, Sparrow Hawk. Mascotte, Hood Ornament, Car Mascot, Bouchon de Radiateur, Radiator Cap.
Appeared in 1928 and 1932 Lalique Catalogue. Removed from 1937 Catalogue.
Also available as a presse-papier (paperweight).
No known reissue in crystal post 1947, not marketed today.