Featured austrian cold painted mini dogs

hi folks

found these 3 little painted doggies (£3 each) today in a house clearance shop

the two littler ones are stamped austria on base (1 1/2" tall)

the bigger (2 1/2 ") one looks a different material, bronze maybe ?

any info relating to them appreciated

 

pictures are not clear, but the dog without base shows similarities
https://www.1stdibs.com/furniture/d...atures-dog-canine-figurine-lot/id-f_14077011/

 

cool thanks rec

hes got a weird colour scheme going on that one

 

Charming pack!
Viennese bronze if metal under the paint is yellow as for the spaniel, others seem rather spelter, I see grey metal where the paint is worn.
google « plombs de Nuremberg »

 

awesome thanks kyra, i shall do that

i nearly lost um as well, put me bag down in another shop and left them there

at the bus stop realised the bag i was holding wasnt the christmas one i had put them in

instant nausea then alot of legging it around

 

Pheww! Happily they stayed still till you came back... GOOD BOOOYS!

 

some better pics of the spaniel, looks good news for bronze (noticed hes got a little willy)

following kyras advice i think the others might be lead

 

He is a BOY!

 

nice pictures, very lovely.
the yellow color on the bottom is a red flag.
if it is not paint, then is it perhaps not made of bronze but brass.
how heavy is it?.

 

Raw bronze is yellow, it is applied patina which gives it brown color

 

Bronze: copper +tin: Copper is reddish orange color and tin is more yellowish.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze

copper + zinc you get brass

The main indicating factor of the differences between brass and bronze is that bronze will have a much redder color hue than brass would. Brass will look more yellowish due to its higher zinc content.

 

i did ponder that myself rec, but these are all stated as bronze, but are similar colouring to mine

 

last 2 is possible gold painted, first one looks brass to me eye

 

there are indeed some examples im seeing with a definite browner under colour, so will look into that more

 

"There is a widely held belief that the natural color of bronze is brown. While it is true that many bronze sculptures you may have seen have been given a brown patina, the natural color of quality made bronze is actually gold."

 

i agree to disagree

 

They are lovely, charlie, great find (as usual ).

 

Tin is silvery white.

Bronze can have other minerals in the alloy that influence the colour.
Below is a table from one of the sites I use for archaeological bronzes and bronze alloys. If we look at the bronze made from only copper and tin, you can see that nr 3, copper with 12% tin (Sn), is yellow.

"The alloys of bronze range in colour from red to yellow (See Table 2). The percentage of tin in the alloys influences the colour changes. The alloy No. 7, which contains the least tin at 5 %, is the reddest, followed in this order of alloys No. 4, No. 1, No. 5, No. 9, No. 2, No. 6, No. 3 and finally alloy No. 8 with 15 % tin, which is yellow (See Figure 8).

Number Alloy Colour Munsell code
1 CuSn8 Light red 10R 6/8
2 CuSn10 Reddish yellow 7.5YR 8/6
3 CuSn12 Yellow 10YR 8/6
4 CuSn8Pb2 Light red 10R 6/6
5 CuSn10Pb2 Reddish yellow 5YR 7/6
6 CuSn12Pb2 Yellow 10YR 7/6
7 CuSn5Pb1 Light red 7.5R 6/8
8 CuSn15Pb4 Yellow 2.5Y 8/6
9 CuSn9Pb9 Reddish yellow 7.5YR 7/6
10 CuSn8Pb14 Pale yellow 2.5Y 7/4
11 CuAg4Au1 Red 7.5R 5/8 "

https://exarc.net/issue-2017-2/ea/colour-palette-antique-bronzes-experimental-archaeology-project

 

thanks aj, im not posting in the evenings anymore cause they go by so quick im always worried your not going to see them

so the second set of photos was a cunning move, and it worked