Pair of Chrome Elephant Bookends by Walter von Nessen for Chase USA camel This ceramic piece is sprayed

This ceramic piece is sprayed with slip finish and carved with handmade tools to reveal the white of the porcelain clay body beneath

evolving through experimentation into unorthodox uses of the components

Brass paper bag satchel in the style of Sarreid Ltd

Signed - on the bottom

Pair of Chrome Elephant Bookends by Walter von Nessen for Chase USA camel This ceramic piece is sprayedPair of chrome bookends by Walter von Nessen for Chase, c. 1930s, USA. The pair of bookends feature two chrome plated brass elephants with curved tubular bodies and geometric shaped heads with delicate trunks. They rest upon a rectangular enameled base. The Chase Brass and Copper Company of Waterbury, Connecticut, was founded in 1876, and for most of its existence produced industrial metal parts. During the 1930s, part of their focus shifted to the