Hello there. I've had an interest in collecting Carlton Ware figurines, in particular the 'girl' series for a while now, and having found information a little scarce on the subject, thought it might be worth...
Chryselephantine is the process where an amalgam of bronze and ivory is carved and gilded into a sculpture. This technique was popular with many Art Deco sculptors working out of Paris and Berlin in the 1920s...
Joe Descomps (1869 - 1950) was a French sculptur working out of Paris in the 1920s and specialised in small scale figures in Ivory and Bronze. Although a number of his chyrselephantine figures are eclectic or...