Saturday, October 9, 2021

Hispano-Suiza hood ornaments

The stork (Cigogne) in flight as sculpted by Francois Victor Bazin.

 

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yum. Saw a bunch of Lalique at Corning some years back, including hood ornaments - similar era and style. Weren't they actually radiator caps, although with a much nicer name?

rdguy

Anonymous said...

OK, found the other name:

"Mascots"

https://www.carters.com.au/index.cfm/index/5864-lalique-france-car-mascots-radiator-caps/

rdguy

Mister G said...

The Lalique sculptures are far too nice to put out in traffic!