Bronze Art Nouveau plaque with rolled edges - help

Do you think it's a flue cover? I do.

 

It might be a flue cover but I just think it is a wonderful hanging plaque.
greg

 

It looks like someone removed the steel wire around the rim to sell it as scrap brass

Someone else 'saved' it and rolled the edge to cover up the damage where the wire was removed

 

I think it was a round charger originally

But perhaps it was cut from something else

 

The crimped rim look awfully uneven given the pretty good casting of the girl, so I'd agree with Terry. Perhaps salvaged from a wooden frame?

I have a really hard time telling brass and copper from bronze. This doesn't look like bronze though, does it? Isn't bronze usually much thicker than this? I get more of a copper feel from it, especially that pebbly background. Tell me how to see the difference please.

 

The difference between copper, brass and bronze is less than 10%

Any of them can look very similar after some aging

 

Birg, I thought the same as you - that perhaps it was copper. Thank you for the explanation Terry, now I better understand why I have such a hard time telling the difference when viewing online photos of items.

 

it doesn't touch me as particularly art nouveau, but rather classic in Greek or Roman manner.

 

perhaps someone might know when those hangers started being made in this form ?
to me the whole looks machine-worked, deep-drawn then rolled-in on the edges. I'd stay on the vintage side to be safe.

 

I hate to use Ebay as a reference, but here's a similar one. The rolled edges may well have been an afterthought. Maybe it was damaged so they crimped the rest. I've had 12"-14" flue covers before. Some glass ones with reverse paintings.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/SUPERB-TOOL...763?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2c8431368b

I'm getting a Le Mis feeling about the flyaway hair!

 

There is actually a similar one on ebay that they say is copper but looks like brass in their photos. They don't have any information on who made it but theirs has a single hole in each side and is a bit bigger. It does have the same curled sides but their lady has a moon.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Antique-Art...064?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item5665a1f038