Believed lost for decades, an exceptionally rare Chinese Ming Dynasty cloisonné box was a surprise hit at auction, selling at Dreweatts in Berkshire, U.K., for £288,000 ($358,000). It was expected to ...

As a painter, Le Ann Gehring-Ryan always wonders how she can take her work to the next level. A longtime jewelry artisan, she discovered an art form that combined her two worlds, cloisonné enamel. The ...

CLOISONNE IS A method of decorating metal with enameling. The art is predominately Asian and has been practiced continuously, except during war years, since the sixteenth century — that’s 500 years.

Cloisonne is an ancient technique for metalwork decoration using glasslike enamel, cut gemstones, glass and other materials. Cloisonne enamel has over 600 years of history in China. With more than 10 ...

“Making [cloisonné] is incredibly time-consuming,” says Davies. “A single cloisonné bead can involve hundreds of hours.” Each bead is set with a gold wire inlay, which is then filled with glass enamel ...

On January 28, Christie’s in London will auction a large Japanese cloisonné enamel charger as part of its “Christie’s Interiors” sale. Cloisonné is an enamel technique in which metal wires are welded ...

Xiong Songtao's studio is one of the country's five only places to produce enamel dials.Photo provided to China Daily In a village in Huoxian town, a one-hour drive from downtown Beijing, there is an ...

Cloisonné is well-known traditional enamelware with a history that dates back more than 500 years. It is often called the "Blue of Jingtai" for two reasons. First, blue is the most commonly used color ...

Time is money and in this case, very big money, as Christie's brought the hammer down on the most expensive Rolex wristwatch ever sold at auction. The rare 1949 Oyster Perpetual model with a cloisonné ...

Machine generated contents note: pt. I History -- 1.Early Enameling History -- 2.The Post-1830 Japanese Cloisonne Tradition -- 3.Technical and Stylistic Refinement, 1880 to 1915 -- 4.Expanding ...