Model No: 1137 Tete de Coq. Created February 1928
1928 in France, LACOSTE, BOROTRA and COCHET won the Davis Cup for the second time. After years of research, GAUMONT finally gave Cinema a voice. So many small victories for the country of France which would reinforce in René LALIQUE the confidence and love he had for it.
In the Tete de Coq Lalique created a proud rooster, epitomising the emblem and symbol of France!
The Latin name for rooster is gallus, remarked by Suetonius to be similar to the word Gaul, the land today known as France.
Height: 18cm
Clear (white) glass press molded
Price (1932 Lalique et Cie Catalogue): 420FF
Breves of Knightsbridge, London UK titled this model ’The Cock’s Head’ and listed a price of £4/4/0 ‘unilluminated' or £5/5/0 ‘for light’ using the patented Breves illuminated mount. A bulb was 3/s and Duty was 15/s. This model was removed from later Breves mascot catalogues but it did appear on a special price stock sales list produced when Breves moved offices.
Nil Melior, a prominent auto accessories company whose showrooms were located at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York, listed the Tete de Coq as "Chanteclair" a name derived from the Edmond Rostand play Chantecler (see also 1135 Coq Nain), for $50 including a chromium plated base.
Other names for this mascot - Tete de Coq, Cock’s Head, The Cock’s Head, Chantecler, Chanteclair. Mascotte, Hood Ornament, Car Mascot, Bouchon de Radiateur, Radiator Cap.
Appeared in 1928 and 1932 Lalique Catalogue. Removed from 1937 Catalogue (though available as book-ends at this time and continued as a paperweight).
Reissued in crystal post 1947 as a paperweight and again in 1951 in clear crystal, later without the molded Lalique signature. No longer marketed today.