Lorgnette and chain

Inscription: Signed (on side of several leaf-shaped links, stamped): LALIQUE

Marking: (in relief on cameo glass inset on one side of case): Arms of Sands [Sandys]

possibly Eleanor Lydell Livingston Sands (probably purchased from the designer); her daughter Mrs. J.G. Phelps Stokes (née Lettice L. Sands), New York (until 1965; her gift to MMA)

Yokohama. Sogo Museum of Art. "René Lalique 1860–1945," August 26–October 29, 2000.

Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum. "René Lalique 1860–1945," November 11, 2000–January 31, 2001.

National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto. "René Lalique 1860–1945," February 10–April 15, 2001.

Paris. Musée du Luxembourg. "René Lalique: Exceptional Jewellery 1890–1912," March 7–July 29, 2007, no. 187.

Cleveland Museum of Art. "Artistic Luxury: Fabergé Tiffany Lalique," October 19, 2008–January 18, 2009, no. 196.

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. "Artistic Luxury: Fabergé Tiffany Lalique," February 7–May 31, 2009, no. 196.

State Museums of the Moscow Kremlin. "The Art of René Lalique," September 16, 2010–January 9, 2011, no. 18.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Jewelry: The Body Transformed," November 12, 2018–February 24, 2019, unnumbered cat. (pl. 187).

Clare Le Corbeiller in "Western European Arts." The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Notable Acquisitions, 1965–1975. New York, 1975, p. 273, ill.

Katharine Morrison McClinton. Lalique for Collectors. New York, 1975, ill. p. 22.

Emmanuel Ducamp in Artistic Luxury: Fabergé Tiffany Lalique. Exh. cat., Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, 2008, pp. 101, 335, no. 196.

Charlotte Ashby. Art Nouveau: Art, Architecture and Design in Transformation. London, 2022, pp. 141–42, fig. 7.5 (color).