Lovely Old Hand Soldered Brass Dodecahedron cinnabar and brass vase There is a surface crease

There is a surface crease at upper left on front but it is not a true crease--there is no sign of it on reverse

I believe most likely German Erzgebirge

Posts measure about 6" tall

secretly glimpsed through a scope from on far

Lovely Old Hand Soldered Brass Dodecahedron cinnabar and brass vase There is a surface creaseThe seller I purchased this from thought it may have been made as a practice or test piece by a metalworker long ago, which seems plausible to me; it was clearly made from one piece of brass, with a wonderfully imperfect seam where the edges were soldered together. (It is hollow inside.) Whatever the case, certainly it was done by hand and I believe has quite a bit of age to. To me it is satisfying in the way that antique geometric solid blocks are,