Artist / Maker / Factory
JOSEPH DESCOMPS (1869-1950)
Dimensions
5.10cm wide
7.80cm high
(2.01 inches wide 3.07 inches high)
Description
Gold, plique-a- jour enamel, emerald & pearl
The brooch pin marked LG flanking a horn for Leon Gariod
French. Circa 1900
Fitted case
Literature
cf. Art Nouveau Jewelry,
Vivienne Becker, 1985, p. 217, pl. 85, 107, 115
The Paris Salons 1895-1914, Jewellery, Alastair Duncan, 1994,
Volume 1, The Designers A-K, P. 187-188
La Bijouterie Francaise au XIX Siecle, Volume III, Henri Vever. Henri Vever, French Jewelry of the Nineteenth Century
Translated from the French by Katherine Purcell, 2001
p. 1046 & 1112
Kunsthandwerk um 1900, Jugendstil, Art Nouveau, Modern Style, Nieuwe Kunst, Catalogue of the Hessischen Landesmuseums, Darmstadt, 1965, p. 97, pl. 128
