European LIMOGES

White porcelain figure of a Dutch girl wearing clogs on a base decorated with geese motif on a blue background.

Date 1920s.

Sculptor, generally known as 'Joe Descomps'. Studied in Paris under the sculptor Louis Auguste Hiolin (1846-1910), and regularly exhibited at the Salon where he was made a full member in 1893. He designed and sculpted Art Deco figures, particularly female nudes, in bronze, terracotta, ivory and porcelain. Some of his work was reproduced by the Pouyat Company of Limoges and by Edmund Etling & Cie. of Paris
30cm high
Mark: Limoges/Joedescoumps impressed
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