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)