mote-historie: René Lalique, Bat anklet, 1898-1899. Opals, diamonds and blue enamel.Pho
mote-historie: René Lalique, Bat anklet, 1898-1899. Opals, diamonds and blue enamel.Photo by Jean Tholance. Museé des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, France. In 1899 Liane de Pougy commissioned two pieces of jewelry by René Lalique as gifts for Natalie Clifford Barney. One was an opal, diamond and blue enamel anklet and the other a silver, enamel and moonstone ring. Both pieces were decorated with a bat motif, an extremely unusual and highly evocative image for the period. The bat has the highest rate of homosexuality among mammals and their sexuality was first studied in 1895 by Raymond Rollinat and Édouard Louis Trouessart (French). The image of a bat became a symbol of homosexuality. (x) -- source link
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