Oiseau Lune

Agostini's bird throws back its head and neck until its profile draws a crescent moon: the animal and the star hold to the same line. Beak open to the sky, it calls the moon whose shape it has taken; the long stretched body runs downward, set on tapered legs. Here the bird stands shut within a cube of glass, raised on a base of alabaster and capped with a cubic bronze shade: the geometry of the glass encloses the curve of the animal, and the alabaster, translucent, holds the brightness beneath its legs. A ridge runs the length of the body and takes a distinct treatment according to the finish: polished on the 24-carat gilding, burnished with agate stone on the fire patina. The bronze keeps two skins in this way, one bright, the other deep, which Charles's ateliers tune as finely as possible.