A Group of Asian Champleve

Late 19th century, includes a vase or urn flanked with lion masks holding rings, archaic cast decoration to bands encircling the neck, shoulder and foot alternating with bands of wire filled with enamels composing gourds and lotus blossoms, and a pair of candlesticks composed in similar manner with hexagonal cast pattern which alternates with enamel and wire decoration of flowers and geometric stylized motifs, all unmarked.

Vase 10 1/2 in., Candlesticks 9 3/4 in.

From the Estate of the late John Handy Debnam, Wilmington, North Carolina

Push to lower body of vase; loss to casting on one butterfly motif to shoulder; wear to candlesticks from use and age.