DESCOMPS Joe (1872-1948)

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A GROUP OF SEALS, CIRCA 1900

THEOPHILE HINGRE
LOUCHET, Chaser

Silvered bronze, featuring two dragonflies facing each other on a sprig of lily of the valley
Signed T. HINGRE and LOUCHET
9.8 cm. high

GUSTAVE GURSCHNER
LA MAISON MODERNE

“MEDITATION” SEAL, CIRCA 1900
Gilt bronze
Height: : 9.5 cm.

Bibliography
Documents sur l’Art Industriel au vingtième siècle. Reproductions photographiques des principales œuvres des collaborateurs de La Maison Moderne, La Maison Moderne, Paris 1901, La Sculpture,
ill. p. 14, seal, n. 724-1

JOE DESCOMPS
SUSSE FRERES

“TANAGRA” SEAl, CIRCA 1900
Gilt bronze
Signed Joé Descomps and Susse Fres
Height: 9.8 cm.

FRENCH
“LES VIOLETTES” SEAL, CIRCA 1900
Silver
With French Minerva mark
Height: 8 cm.

Bibliography
An identical model in gilt bronze is illustrated in Les Sceaux, Empreintes du Pouvoir, Roberto Lucio Rosaia, éditions Langlaude, p. 176

JOE DESCOMPS – LEON GARIOD – GOLD, ENAMEL, PERIDOT, PEARL PENDANT, CIRCA 1900

GOLD, ENAMEL, PERIDOT, PEARL PENDANT, CIRCA 1900
Bearing the monogram of the artist
With eagle’s head and maker’s mark

Bibliography
We can compare this pendant to a pendant exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français in 1901 and ill. in l’ Art Décoratif, July 1901, p. 142
Mario Amaya, Art Nouveau, Studio Vista Limited, 1966, ill. p. 113
Ulrike von Hase-Schmundt, Jugendstil schmuck – Die europäischen Zentren – Von 1895 bis 1915, Wilhem Heyne Verlag, München, 1998, similar example ill. p. 57
Imperishable Beauty – Art Nouveau Jewelry, MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA, ill. p. 140, (Collection Sataloff)