Chinese gilded bronze or copper ?

[gerspee]

Small and decorated with gilded copper or bronze and Chinese origins ?  Anybody any idea  where made and when maybe ?  Thanks

[icedgold10]

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.

[KC]

Is this "I Dream Of Jeanie"'s home?  

Love it!  From the pics looks like brass.

[gerspee]

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 ?

[brucedixon01]

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 and consult this item on them.

[gerspee]

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 .

[gerspee]

Update from the house off vases  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 .