French Art Nouveau pâte-de-verre Vase by Rousseau

A French Art Deco pâte-de-verre vase by Gabriel Argy-Rousseau, titled “Lions”. The vase depicts blue lions surrounded by abstract blue and aqua swirls against a white ground. Pictured in: G.Argy-Rousseau: Les Pâtes de Verres, catalogue raisonné by Janine Bloch-Dermant (Paris: Les Editions de l’Amateur, 1990), page 209, cat. no. 26.08; color picture in: G. Argy-Rousseau: Glassware as Art by Janine Bloch-Dermant, New York, Thames and Hudson, Inc., 1991, page 78. The lions motif “was inspired by an Assyrian relief of the king Assurbanipal hunting lions at Ninevah. Roaring, aggressive and bounding, they have become a conventional symbol of the animal....” (G. Argy-Rousseau: Glassware as Art by Janine Bloch-Dermant, New York, Thames and Hudson, Inc., 1991, page 68)