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Antique Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Meiji Era Vase By Gonda Hirosuke
Located in Long Island City, NY
An ancient Japanese vase with magnificent flower decoration made in a polychrome cloisonne enamel on a pale turquoise ground. Classic form for Ja...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Cloissoné Vases
Materials
Enamel
Antique Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Vase Bamboo And Gold Bird Hayashi School
Located in Long Island City, NY
An antique Japanese brass and enamel vase, Meiji period, 1868 to 1912. The baluster body with wide sloping shoulders is finely worked in silver ...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Cloissoné Vases
Materials
Enamel, Brass
Amazing, Pair of Chinese Cloisonné Vases, Enamelled and Gilded, Cina 1920
Located in Catania, IT
Pair of Chinese Cloisonné vases, Enamelled and gilded, early 20th century, with original box.
China, early 20th century.
Excellent co...
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1920s Chinese Other Vintage Cloissoné Vases
Materials
Metal
$452 Sale Price
52% Off
Pair of Antique Japanese Ormolu Mounted Cloisonné Enamel Vases
Located in London, GB
Of ovoid form with a pierced ormolu rim, decorated throughout with birds, flowers and foliage, raised on pierced ormolu feet; the enamel Japanese, the ormolu French, late 19th centur...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Cloissoné Vases
Materials
Bronze, Enamel
Chinese Blue Cloisonne Floral Enameled Vase 20thC
Located in Big Flats, NY
Chinese Blue Cloisonne Floral Enameled Vase 20thC.
Measures- 9.25"H x 5"W x 5"D.
A beautifully crafted Chinese cloisonné vase from the 20th century, featuring intricate floral ...
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20th Century Cloissoné Vases
Materials
Metal
$440 Sale Price
20% Off
Large Pair of 20th Century Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Vases Birds
Located in Long Island City, NY
A pair of large antique Japanese, late Meiji era, enamel copper vases. The urn shaped vases are adorned with polychrome images of birds in blossoming flowers against a bright turquoi...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Cloissoné Vases
Materials
Enamel, Copper
Japanese Cloisonne Rainbow Meiji Era Ginbari Vase Signed
Located in Long Island City, NY
An antique Japanese copper vase with polychrome ginbari cloisonne enamel decor. Late Meiji period
Ovoid bottle shape. Purple and blue body with grapevine motif. High quality.
Kanji...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Cloissoné Vases
Materials
Copper, Enamel
Pair of Large Cloisonné Vases
Located in LA CIOTAT, FR
An exquisite pair of Chinese antique cloisonné enamel 'millefleur' baluster-form brass vases, meticulously decorated in a traditional design of flowers, birds and butterflies, and fe...
Category
20th Century Chinese Cloissoné Vases
Materials
Brass, Enamel
$2,910 / set
High Quality Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Dragon and Phoenix Bird Vase
Located in Long Island City, NY
A high quality Japanese Meiji era enamel over copper vase. The urn shaped vase is enameled with polychrome medallions featuring Phoenix bird and dragon designs surrounded by floral a...
Category
19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Cloissoné Vases
Materials
Copper, Enamel
$1,200 Sale Price
40% Off
Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Vase Speckled Blue Ground Butterflies Floral Motifs
Located in Long Island City, NY
Elegant Japanese cloisonné enamel vase measuring 9½ inches tall, featuring a deep speckled blue ground with a flowing ribbon design in rich red, turquoise, and cream. At the center, ...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Cloissoné Vases
Materials
Enamel
Pair of Early 20th Century 'Republic Period' Chinese Urn Vases
Located in North Miami, FL
A pair of early 20th Century (Republic Period) Chinese urn vases created in the traditional cloisonne method. The miniature vases features brass metal forms with a classic baluster shape. The surface has been exquisitely hand decorated in colored enamel with cherry blossoms and flower patterns growing out of a turquoise rock formation. Both come with their original wooden display stands...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Cloissoné Vases
Materials
Brass
Antique Japanese Ginbari Cloisonne Enamel Vase
Located in Long Island City, NY
An antique Japanese Meiji era Ginbari enamel vase. The ground of the vase is enameled in a turquoise shade. The vase is enameled with polychrome images of fish and blossoming sakura ...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Cloissoné Vases
Materials
Enamel
Japanese Cloisonné Ando Jubei Signed Vase 8.5" Wireless Clematis
By Ando Jubei
Located in Somis, CA
An exquisite Ando Jubei wireless cloisonné vase. In his signature green enamel, portraying an intricate arabesque design of a blooming clematis vine under the glaze. On Musen-jippo b...
Category
20th Century Japanese Meiji Cloissoné Vases
Materials
Metal, Enamel
$600 Sale Price
45% Off
Pair of Chinese Cloisonne Enamel Vases
Located in Germantown, MD
A Pair of Mid Century Chinese Cloisonne Enamel Vases
Measures 5.5" in width, 5.5" in depth and 9" in height.
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Cloissoné Vases
Materials
Brass, Enamel
$1,221 / set
Antique Early Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Translucent Vase Floral Clouds
Located in Long Island City, NY
An antique Japanese Meiji period cloisonne enamel vase. Baluster shaped vase decorated with a band of orange with swirling and floral elements at the top, followed by a broader band ...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Cloissoné Vases
Materials
Enamel
$2,250 Sale Price
50% Off
Large Antique Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Floral Vase
Located in Long Island City, NY
An antique Japanese Meiji era cloisonne enamel vase. The vases has a baluster shaped body. Features blue medallions adorned with enameled floral and bird motifs. Medallions are on a ...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Cloissoné Vases
Materials
Enamel
Pair of Antique Japanese Cloisonné Enamel Vases with French Ormolu Mounts
Located in London, GB
Pair of antique Japanese cloisonné enamel vases with French ormolu mounts
Japanese and French, Late 19th Century
Height 30.5cm, width 22cm, depth 17cm
Virtually identical in design,...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Cloissoné Vases
Materials
Ormolu, Enamel
Antique Japanese Cloisonne Meiji Era Enamel Vase Signed Hayashi Yojiro
Located in Long Island City, NY
An antique Japanese, late Meiji period, enamel over brass vase. The vase has an amphora shaped body and a narrow fluted neck. The ware is enameled with a polychrome image of a bird i...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Cloissoné Vases
Materials
Enamel, Brass
Pair of Chinese Red Cloisonné Zodiac Vases, with Stands
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Pair of Chinese red cloisonné zodiac vases, with stands, each one with gilt brass phoenix bird ring handles, with 'cracked ice' and floating animal medalli...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Cloissoné Vases
Materials
Brass, Enamel
$2,360 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Signed Ando Jubei Green Wireless Cloisonné Vase 8.5"
By Ando Jubei
Located in Somis, CA
An exquisite Ando Jubei wireless cloisonné vase. In his signature green enamel, portraying an intricate arabesque design of a blooming clematis vine under the glaze. On Musen-jippo b...
Category
20th Century Japanese Meiji Cloissoné Vases
Materials
Metal, Enamel
$600 Sale Price
50% Off
Very Large 19th Century Japanese Cloisonné Bronze Vase with Magnolias
Located in Hudson, NY
Very Large 19th Century Japanese Cloisonné Bronze Vase with a parrot in a magnolia tree.
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Cloissoné Vases
Materials
Bronze
High Quality Antique Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Vase with Blossoming Iris Flowers
Located in Long Island City, NY
An antique Japanese, late Meiji period, enamel over gilt copper vase. with silver wire
The unusual shaped vase has a long fluted neck. The ware is enameled with a polychrome image o...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Cloissoné Vases
Materials
Copper, Enamel
High Quality Japan Meiji Cloisonne Enamel Silver Wire Vase
Located in Long Island City, NY
A high quality Japanese, Meiji era, Cloisonné enamel and silver wire vase. The vase has an amphora shaped body and a narrow neck. The ware is enameled with a polychrome image of blos...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Cloissoné Vases
Materials
Enamel, Silver
Japanese Ginbari Perfume Vase in Cloisonné Enamel, 1920s
Located in Esbjerg, DK
A stunning example of a Japanese foiled cloisonne miniature brass perfume bottle or incense vase hand-painted with decorative flowers. The shimmer from ...
Category
20th Century Japanese Arts and Crafts Cloissoné Vases
Materials
Brass, Enamel
$237 Sale Price
39% Off
Antique Japanese Meiji Era Ginbari Cloisonne Vase
Located in Long Island City, NY
An antique Japanese copper vase with polychrome cloisonne enamel decor. Late Meiji period, before 1912. Baluster shape, black body with ginbari decor representing a chrysanthemum flo...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Cloissoné Vases
Materials
Enamel, Copper
Antique Early Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Brush Pot in the Style of Namikawa
Located in Long Island City, NY
An antique Japanese copper brush pot with cloisonne enamel design. Early Meiji period, after 1868. Cylinder shape. Cherry blossom motif and floral patterns in cobalt and turquoise bl...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Cloissoné Vases
Materials
Enamel, Copper
$1,170 Sale Price
35% Off
Pair of Chinese Cloisonné Vases with Egyptian Revival Motifs, Later 20th Century
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Pair of Chinese Cloisonné Vases with Egyptian Revival Motifs, Late-20th Century
A dramatic pair of Chinese cloisonné enamel vases decorated in a vibrant polychrome palette on a whit...
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Late 20th Century Chinese Egyptian Revival Cloissoné Vases
Materials
Copper, Enamel
Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Butterfly Vase Attributed to Hayashi Kodenji
Located in Long Island City, NY
An antique Japanese, Meiji era, Silver wire enamel vase attributed to Hayashi Kodenji, Japanese, 1831 to 1915. Circa 1900s. The baluster form vase is enameled with polychrome images of butterflies made in the Cloisonne technique on a black ground. The base and the neck of the ware are adorned with a geometrical motif on a green ground made in the same technique. Unmarked. Hayashi Kodenji was a pivotal figure in the history of Cloisonne enamel manufacturer. He was instrumental in the formation and leadership of the Shippo cho enamellers guild, and it is probable that he worked for the Nagoya-based Shippo Kaisha. He exhibited and won prizes at many international exhibitions: Nuremberg 1885 Silver, Paris 1889...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Cloissoné Vases
Materials
Enamel
Rare Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Silver Wire White Enamel Vase with Birds and Flowe
Located in Long Island City, NY
A rare small Japanese, late Ming dynasty, silver wire white enamel vase. The vase has an amphora shaped body and a fluted neck. The ware is enameled with a polychrome image of birds ...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Cloissoné Vases
Materials
Enamel, Silver
Japanese Cloisonné Vase with Plum Blossoms Décor and Silver Plated Rim
Located in Bochum, NRW
Japanese Cloisonné Vase with Plum Blossoms Décor and Silver Plated Rim and Bottom.
Height 17 cm. In excellent condition.
Discover the timeless beauty of Japanese artistry with this ...
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Mid-20th Century Japanese Mid-Century Modern Cloissoné Vases
Materials
Metal
$264 Sale Price
20% Off
Pair Of Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Trumpet Vases Dragons Attributed To Honda
Located in Long Island City, NY
A antique pair of Japanese cloisonne enamel Meiji period vases. Each vase has a trumpet shaped body, a wide fluted neck, and a fluted base. The vases are adorned with polychrome enam...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Cloissoné Vases
Materials
Enamel
$4,875 Sale Price / set
35% Off
Pair Antique Late 19th Century Chinese Cloisonné Enamel Vases.
Located in New Orleans, LA
Pair Antique Late 19th Century Chinese Cloisonné Enamel Vases.
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Antique Cloissoné Vases
Materials
Enamel
Large Antique Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Green Goldstone Enamel White Dragon Vase
Located in Long Island City, NY
Large Antique Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Green Gold Stone Enamel White Dragon Vase
A large antique Japanese Meiji period cloisonne vase, featuring an im...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Cloissoné Vases
Materials
Enamel
Cloisonné Centerpiece, Japan, Late 19th Century
Located in Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
Cloisonné centerpiece. Japan, late 19th century.
Wood pedestal: 8 cm height.
Centerpiece without wood pedestal: 30 cm height.
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Anglo-Japanese Antique Cloissoné Vases
Materials
Bronze, Enamel
Chinese Cloisonné Brass Vase
Located in Vienna, AT
Really beautiful brass vases.
Category
20th Century European Cloissoné Vases
Materials
Brass
Huge Pair of Early 20th Century Antique Chinese Cloisonne Pots/Vases
Located in Pomona, CA
Look at this pair of magnificent Antique Chinese Cloisonne Pots. It shows very detailed hand craft works of cloisonne art - a lot of Chinese traditional folks art like Buddhas flower...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Cloissoné Vases
Materials
Metal, Copper
$10,125 Sale Price / set
25% Off
Exquisite Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Silver Wire Vase Irises on Karakusa
Located in Long Island City, NY
This exquisite Japanese Meiji cloisonné vase showcases delicate white and blue irises worked in fine silver wire against a shimmering karakusa gro...
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Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Cloissoné Vases
Materials
Enamel
Rare Japanese Closionne Enamel Vase with Wisteria and Fish Signed
Located in Long Island City, NY
A rare antique Japanese, late Meiji period, enamel over copper vase.
The vase has an amphora shaped body and a long fluted neck.
The ware is enameled with a polychrome image of blossoming Wisteria flowers and fish...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Cloissoné Vases
Materials
Copper, Enamel
Antique Japanese Meiji Era Cloisonne Enamel Vase
Located in Long Island City, NY
An antique Japanese Meiji era covered amphora shaped enamel over brass urn vase. The exterior of the vase is adorned with polychrome enameled continuo...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Cloissoné Vases
Materials
Brass, Enamel
$750 Sale Price
37% Off
Antique Japanese Cloisonne Enamel on Porcelain Floral Vase
Located in Long Island City, NY
An antique Japanese porcelain vase with polychrome design. Meiji period, circa 1870 Cylinder shape. Hand-painted blue and white pattern...
Category
19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Cloissoné Vases
Materials
Enamel
$1,500 Sale Price
50% Off
Antique Pair of Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Goldstone Dragon Vases
Located in Long Island City, NY
A pair of identical antique Japanese copper vases with cloisonne enamel design. Late Meiji period, circa 1885. Baluster shape, solid base, pronounced neck. Golden stone flake ground,...
Category
19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Cloissoné Vases
Materials
Copper, Enamel
Antique Meiji Silver Wire Japanese Cloisonne Vase with Eagle and Dragon over Wav
Located in Long Island City, NY
An antique Japanese Cloisonne Meiji Golden Age Period high quality silver wire
Attributed to Hattori
The vase is of an ovoid form tapering to the bottom and featuring a short everted...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Cloissoné Vases
Materials
Enamel
Antique Early Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Birds Floral Design Enamel Bowl
Located in Long Island City, NY
A 19th century Japanese enamel bowl. The surface of the bowl is enameled with a polychrome images of birds surrounded by floral and foliage patter...
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Cloissoné Vases
Materials
Enamel
$400 Sale Price
50% Off
A Rare Pair of Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Silver Wire Vases with Dandelions
Located in Long Island City, NY
A pair of antique Japanese copper vases of flattened round shape with figurative rims. Late Meiji period, before 1912. The pieces are decorated w...
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Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Cloissoné Vases
Materials
Copper, Enamel
Antique Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Enamel With Pair of Peacocks
Located in Long Island City, NY
An antique Japanese Meiji period enamel over brass vase. The vase has an amphora shaped body and a narrow neck. The vase is enameled with a polychrome scene with a pair of peacocks m...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Cloissoné Vases
Materials
Enamel, Brass
Pair of Chinese Cloisonné Vases
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pair of mid 20th century Chinese cloisonné over ceramic vases. This fun and whimsical pair depicts carp fish in a water scene with possible lotus leaf or lily pad and other water cre...
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Cloissoné Vases
Materials
Ceramic
$4,080 Sale Price / set
36% Off
Antique Early Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Vases
Located in Long Island City, NY
A pair of antique Japanese, early Meiji era, Translucent enamel over gilt copper vases. The exteriors of the wares are adorned with polychrome enamel designs representing bugs in blo...
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19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Cloissoné Vases
Materials
Enamel
$600 Sale Price / set
50% Off
Antique Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Ginbari Baby Blue Enamel Floral Double Handle V
Located in Long Island City, NY
An antique Japanese copper vase with polychrome ginbari cloisonne enamel decor. Late Meiji period,
Squat round shape, long neck and decorative side handles. Blue body with pink and ...
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Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Cloissoné Vases
Materials
Copper, Enamel
$800 Sale Price
46% Off
Japanese Meiji Era Cloisonne Enamel Vase Signed
Located in Long Island City, NY
An antique Japanese copper vase with cloisonne enamel design. Late Meiji period, 1868 to 1913. Miniature dark cobalt blue vase with a round body and long neck. The neck is decorated ...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Cloissoné Vases
Materials
Copper, Enamel
$500 Sale Price
58% Off
19th Century Cloisonné Enamel Dragon Vase, Meiji Period Japan
Located in London, GB
This intricately decorated antique Japanese vase was crafted in the Meiji period (1868-1912). The vase is of circular form and features a waisted base, large, ovoid body and a lid wi...
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Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Cloissoné Vases
Materials
Enamel
A Pair of Early Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Censors Attributed to Honda Yasaburo
Located in Long Island City, NY
A pair of high quality Japanese early Meiji period bronze and cloisonne enamel planter pots or koro incense burners, each of a globular form w...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Cloissoné Vases
Materials
Enamel
$800 Sale Price / set
73% Off
Antique Japanese Meiji Era Ginbari Cloisonne Vase
Located in Long Island City, NY
A large antique Japanese copper vase with polychrome ginbari cloisonne enamel decor. Late Meiji period, before 1912. Baluster shape with pronounced neck. White and green body...
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Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Cloissoné Vases
Materials
Enamel, Copper
Signed Ando Jubei Green Wireless Cloisonné Vase Large 10"
By Ando Jubei
Located in Somis, CA
A large masterpiece of Ando Jubei wireless cloisonné vase at an exceptional 10" height. In his signature green enamel, portraying an intricate arabesque design of a blooming clematis...
Category
20th Century Japanese Meiji Cloissoné Vases
Materials
Enamel, Metal
$1,120 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique Pair Of Early Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Vases Namikawa School
Located in Long Island City, NY
A pair of Japanese cloisonne enamel early Meiji translucent enamel vases . Each vase has an urn shaped body, a wide neck, and a fluted base. The vases are adorned with polychrome ena...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Cloissoné Vases
Materials
Enamel
$3,600 Sale Price / set
50% Off
Pair of 19th Century Miniature Gilt Bronze and Champlevé Enamel Vases
Located in London, GB
A pair of gilt bronze and champlevé enamel vases
Constructed from solid fire-gilded bronze, the miniature decorative vases supported on square plinths rising from paw feet, the co...
Category
19th Century French Antique Cloissoné Vases
Materials
Ormolu, Bronze, Enamel
Large Antique Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Vase Crane in Bamboo Field
Located in Long Island City, NY
An antique Japanese, late Meiji period, enamel over brass vase. The vase has an amphora shaped body and a fluted neck. The ware is enameled with a polychrome image of a crane in bamb...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Cloissoné Vases
Materials
Brass, Enamel
Rare 3 Piece Set of Antique Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Silver Wire Vases wi
Located in Long Island City, NY
Rare 3 Piece Set of Antique Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Silver Wire Vases with Wisteria and Birds
antique Japanese copper vases with silver wire cloisonne...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Cloissoné Vases
Materials
Enamel, Silver
Antique Decorative Vase, French, Cloisonne, Baluster Urn, Victorian, circa 1880
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique decorative vase. A French, cloisonné baluster urn, dating to the Victorian period of the late 19th century, circa 1880.
P...
Category
Late 19th Century French Victorian Antique Cloissoné Vases
Materials
Brass, Enamel
Brass Enamel Cloisonné Vases Yellow Flowers, Pair
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful small pair brass and enamel Cloisonné vases, circa early to mid- 20th century, China. Vases have a yellow enamel flower and green leaf design with a black background. Oth...
Category
20th Century Chinese Cloissoné Vases
Materials
Brass, Enamel
$300 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Antique Silver Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Crane Vase Signed Hayashi Kodenji
Located in Long Island City, NY
Antique Silver Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Crane Vase Signed Hayashi Kodenji
An antique Japanese copper vase with cloisonne enamel design. Late Meiji period, before 1885. Classic...
Category
19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Cloissoné Vases
Materials
Copper, Enamel
Find Exquisite Antique Cloisonné Vases for Sale on 1stDibs
As ceramic vases and other types of decorative vessels are gaining popularity again — the personalization of handmade craftsmanship has served as a sort of anti-Internet to screen-weary designers — antique cloissonné vases can help introduce interesting colors and patterns to your space.
Technically, enamel is colored glass fused to metal. But that simple description greatly understates the case. Applied using an array of techniques to a wide range of objects, enamel is one of the most dynamic, and alluring, mediums in the world. And cloisonné vases, bowls, lamps and other objects and vessels ornamented with lustrous enamel can truly liven your home.
No one knows for sure when or where enameling originated. But, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica, it is widely believed that the decoration on a gold scepter found in a royal Mycenaean tomb at Kourion Kaloriziki, in Cyprus, and dating to the 11th century BC, is a true, early example of the technique.
Between the 6th and 12th centuries AD, cloisonné — in which tiny compartments (cloisons) made by soldering copper filaments to a metal surface are filled with vibrantly hued enamel — had a huge vogue in the Byzantine Empire. By the 7th century, Lombard craftsmen in northern Italy were using enamel to emulate Byzantine objects. In the 12th and 13th centuries, artisans in China imported the technique and made it so much their own that enameled objects have long been associated with Eastern aesthetics and motifs rather than Western ones.
Collectors of authentic antique Chinese furniture and decorative objects know that Ming dynasty-era cloisonné objects are particularly coveted. Although ornamentation was minimal at the time, Ming dynasty furniture often featured carved or painted details of flowers, insects, dragons, fruits and other motifs. As overseas trade expanded, techniques from the West, like cloisonné enamel painting, adorned table screens and other pieces.
Elaborately decorated Ming-era cloisonné objects and furnishings — vessels and other items featuring lots of vibrant colors and details — are likely to fetch considerable sums at auction, as Chinese cloisonné vases created during the Ming and Qing eras represent a golden age of the country’s furniture design. (Victorian cloisonné is also popular with design enthusiasts.)
Cloisonné wasn’t adopted in Japan until the 1800s. Back then, amid an era of societal and cultural shifts, a bolstered interest in art and design elevated Japanese craft traditions during the Meiji period. European styles like Japonisme appropriated Japanese design while craftsmen in places like Wales and England employed japanning, a varnishing technique that approximated the appearance of lacquer for the surfaces of furnishings.
Today, Meiji-era cloisonné vases or incense burners in good condition are of great interest to collectors of Asian art and furniture produced by the period’s Japanese cloisonné workshops.
Find antique cloisonné vases and other cloisonné objects for sale on 1stDibs.
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