“There are maybe one or two factories in China that can still do it at this level,” designer Marc Newson says of cloisonné, the ancient technique of inlaying enamel into dainty patterns on metal.

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.

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 ...

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Zhang Tonglu is a nation-level intangible cultural heritage inheritor of cloisonne. Ancient Chinese cloisonne is a cultural icon of Beijing, and visitors often marvel at these truly fine art pieces.

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 ...

We feature a 19th century cloisonné picture of Mount Fuji. A cloisonné is made by attaching enamel, a kind of glass, to a metal base using heat. The piece was made by Sousuke Namikawa, one of Japan’s ...

Marking 90 years since the death of Yasuyuki Namikawa (1845-1927), a Meiji-era cloisonné master whose detailed, highly sophisticated work was met with admiration in Europe and elsewhere only years ...