Rattan tripod with Chinese brass bowl

Hi all,is this antique? Painted rattan tripod with engraved chinese bowl (dragon motif) The bowl has a good weight and marked ‘China’ I was thinking maybe ‘vintage’ but I found several similar bowls listed as
‘antique’. Is this correct? Is this a planter? The bowl fits quite securely (I can turn the whole
thing upside down without the bowl falling out) It stands 87cm tall. So maybe the bowl is antique? and the tripod was later made for it? Thanks

 

The tripod was made for something else.
The bowl looks early 20th century, and it also looks very uncomfortable suspended halfway down that big tripod. It has a pronounced footring, so it was meant to stand.

 

I appreciate the reply. Thanks AJ. I was wondering about the foot. So someone had themselves a poor marriage idea. Was only the equivalent of about $3 so that’s Ok.

 

Certainly is.
Maybe you can find a better match for the tripod.

 

Very precarious.

Debora

 

I'm guessing a potted plant, like a spider plant, was set inside that wicker tripod. It probably had a platform similar to this:

 

That's what I was thinking. The center bit died in a move or got smashed by a five year-old, and Mommy sat the bowl in the stand. I might leave the bowl where it is, put a big silk fern into the top and call it fixed.

 

The problem is weight so you wouldn't want a real plant in soil in that location. I agree with evelyb that a silk plant would be best. Either a fern or a Swedish ivy.

 

It may have had a rattan jardiniere.

 

The way the legs extend beyond the top rim it make me think it is a small table base. With the top missing. IMHO.
Mikey