René Lalique rose to fame during the 1890s, creating exquisite art nouveau jewelry that attracted attention with beautifully designed butterflies, dragonflies, grasshoppers, and other creatures of nature rather than with large karat stones. Several decades later, when steamships, railroad trains, airplanes, and automobiles became symbols of the fast-paced 20th century, the artist produced some of the most beautiful glassware of the “Roaring Twenties.” Lalique designed his first automobile hood ornament, or “mascot,” in 1925. Three years later, Victoire was designed. Her streamlined profile suggests at once technology’s victory over slower modes of travel and the west wind or Zephyr of Greek mythology.