Featured When was brass first lacquered?

I posted this picture in another thread. No one was able to identify it, but after some Googling it looks Italian to me. I don't know the age but I do know it is lacquered bronze.

When did people begin to lacquer bronze?

 

Hi, John, and welcome!

I don't know the answer to your question re: the actual date that brass was first lacquered, but there's a book called The Early History of Brass and the Brass Manufactures of Birmingham ... by WC Aitken, Martin Billing, Son, and Company, dated 1866, that talks about the lacquering process.

You can access it on Google Books.

 

I have a thing for candelabras, especially of this type, though I do not know enough about them to help you. These are beautiful, I think, late 19th century ones, wasn't there an ornate mantel clock accompanying these two? They could be italian but more likely french, hard to tell.

 

Welcome!

Please go back to edit and use the full image button for all your photos up to 10 per post and always do this.

Thank you.

 

Hi and WELCOME, John!! I don't think I posted this for you before, and if I did, I apologize, but visuals always help me, so am posting in that vein!!! Good luck!!

 

My kingdom for FI as default.

 

Well, we both use it now.....so it gets posted often enough!!!

 

I have no idea when it was FIRST lacquered, but I know that my folks had a mantle garniture that was "sent out" to be polished yearly - until the 1960s when Mother discovered that you could have it lacquered..................wasn't polished again before it was sold in the 1990s...............