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 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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Oris has selected the Monkey King Sun Wukong to be the subject of its first ever watch with a cloisonné enamel dial. More precisely, the handcrafted dial depicts a scene from the 1961 animated film ...

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 ...

Metalwork has been decorated using the cloisonne technique for centuries in both Asia and Europe. Objects of many kinds, such as vases, plates, bowls and pendants for jewelry, as well as great ...

Marc Newson is one of today’s most prominent designers. His Lockheed Lounge (ca. 1990), primarily made from fiberglass-reinforced polyester resin and aluminum, became the most expensive piece of ...

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 ...

Cloisonne remains one of the most mysterious and least understood forms of Chinese decorative art. For centuries, the intricate and colorful patterns were the exclusive preserve of imperial families ...