Lovely Old Hand Soldered Brass Dodecahedron cinnabar and brass vase secretly glimpsed through a scope

secretly glimpsed through a scope from on far

I believe most likely German Erzgebirge

There is a surface crease at upper left on front but it is not a true crease--there is no sign of it on reverse

Posts measure about 6" tall

starting with page 66 and fading out toward the end of the book

Lovely Old Hand Soldered Brass Dodecahedron cinnabar and brass vase secretly glimpsed through a scopeThe seller I purchased this from thought it may have been made as a practice or test piece by a metalworker long ago, which seems plausible to me; it was clearly made from one piece of brass, with a wonderfully imperfect seam where the edges were soldered together. (It is hollow inside.) Whatever the case, certainly it was done by hand and I believe has quite a bit of age to. To me it is satisfying in the way that antique geometric solid blocks are,