What Is It Wednesday - Week 13

marlof

Trying to focus
Location
The Netherlands
Name
Marlof
A strange object. What is it?

How this is played?

Each member gets one guess. The answer will be revealed on the following Tuesday. The first correct guess has the honor of submitting the image for the next challenge. Sometimes there will be more than one thing in the photo or more than one way to accurately describe what the photo represents. The original poster will be the final judge of who is "most correct".

Enjoy!

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What is it Wednesday - Week 13 by Marlof Bregonje, on Flickr
 
the shadows are just obscuring enough to really make this difficult. I think it carved wood. And I think it is part of a piece of furniture. I'll try narrowing it further to be the back corner of an ornate old sofa.
 
I edited the original picture with a great high contrast B&W preset Wouter Brandsma (no longer active here) once made available for Lightroom.

The non edited version of the same picture, showing the bronze material:
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by Marlof Bregonje, on Flickr

The object in its full glory:
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by Marlof Bregonje, on Flickr

It is a Chinese (gong / guang) (see Wikipedia), an antique wine vessel, as found in Xi'an at the Terra cotta site. Matero obviously was the closest, even when it is not a cooking kettle. So you're up again, Matero. Keep a close watch on the timetable. ;-)
 
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