The colour and shine is exactly what was pictured.  Has good weight to it as well. The rubber feet on the bottom kept coming off so I had to finally glue them on.   The rooster finial doesn't fit squarely on the top.  Just a note to others that purchase this, every time you want to put a new role of paper towel in the holder, you will need to unscrew the rooster first which might become tedious after a while.