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Antiques! => Antique Questions Forum => Topic started by: gerspee on April 06, 2015, 08:25:13 AM
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Small and decorated with gilded copper or bronze and Chinese origins ? Anybody any idea where made and when maybe ? Thanks
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My guess is copper looking at the bottom. Could be a mixed metal item though because the top doesn't have as much of an orange tint.
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Is this "I Dream Of Jeanie"'s home?
Love it! From the pics looks like brass.
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The red copper you see is the base material and the gold colour looks to me fire burned gold like in a lot done on the earlier days . I think that the copper has been treated with a acid to get the design and after that the gilding .
The vase inside the gilded copper is a normal ceramic small vase so must have been a long job to get it surrounded with the copper before etching and the gilding . But maybe there's some better explanation about the way it's made ?
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Yeah! it looks like a brass but I don't have any idea when and where it made. If you want, try to go in Alternative Pawnshop (http://www.biltmoreloanandjewelry.com/) and consult this item on them.
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No it's not the yellow off brass you see but gold colour so probably fire gilded . To get brass as a layer on red copper (under the gold you see the red copper base metal) is a bit more difficult then fire gilding and useless because you would make the metalwork straight away in brass . So to me it's older then 1900 because off the way made . The little vase is also seen same shaped in Japanese Satsuma works .
To me it is Asian origins and maybe a lot older then it looks .
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Update from the house off vases ;D According to big known auction house maybe Bohemian or Hongary make and price €600 Euro's . So nice but not been ale to find anything like in these maybe origins . So still need some help .