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Technique: Cloissoné
Antique Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Vase Bamboo and Birds
Located in Long Island City, NY
PLEASE NOTE THIS LISTING IS FOR JUST ONE VASE, NOT TWO....
THE VASE FOR SALE IS THE VASE PICTURED IN THE LISTING.
An antique Japanese Meiji period cloisonne vase of a baluster shap...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Cloissoné Furniture
Materials
Enamel
$1,500 Sale Price / set
62% Off
A Japanese Meiji Era Cloisonne Enamel Dragons and Ho Ho Bird Lobed Lidded Jar
Located in Long Island City, NY
An antique Japanese copper lidded jar with cloisonne enamel design. Late Meiji period, before 1912. Elongated lobulated shape with pronounced base. The piece is richly decorated with...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Cloissoné Furniture
Materials
Enamel, Copper
Large Antique Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Censer Koro W Stand Attributed To GOTO
Located in Long Island City, NY
A large Japanese covered tripod enamel censer koro or incense burner. The sphere form ware is enameled with polychrome medallions representing cranes and birds in blossoming flowers ...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Cloissoné Furniture
Materials
Enamel
$7,800 Sale Price
35% Off
Antique Japanese Meiji Ginbari Cloisonne Enamel Vase
Located in Long Island City, NY
An antique Japanese, late Meiji era, Ginbari enamel over copper vase. The urn shaped vase is enameled with a polychrome image of blossoming flowers on the light blue ground made in t...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Cloissoné Furniture
Materials
Copper, Enamel
Enamel cloissoné and gilt bronze picture frame. France, late 19th century.
Located in Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
Enamel cloissoné and gilt bronze picture frame. France, late 19th century.
Category
Late 19th Century French Rococo Antique Cloissoné Furniture
Materials
Bronze, Enamel
Antique French Neoclassical Style Ormolu and Cloisonne Enamel Clock Set
Located in London, GB
This exceptionally detailed clock set consists of a mantel clock and a pair of accompanying vases, which are all crafted in ormolu and extensively decorated in vibrant cloisonné enam...
Category
19th Century French Neoclassical Antique Cloissoné Furniture
Materials
Ormolu, Bronze, Enamel
Antique Meiji Era Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Bud Vase with Butterflies
Located in Long Island City, NY
A high quality late 19th century Japanese bud vase featuring a globular body and a tall, everted neck. The vase is enameled with a polychrome image of b...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Cloissoné Furniture
Materials
Enamel
Antique Japanese Meiji Goldstone Cloisonne Enamel Vase
Located in Long Island City, NY
An antique Japanese, late Meiji Era, enamel over brass vase. Circa: early 20th century. The amphora shaped vase is enameled with a polychrome image of a dragon made in the Cloisonne ...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Cloissoné Furniture
Materials
Enamel, Brass
$650 Sale Price
35% Off
Antique Japanese Cloisonne Meiji Enameled Kogo Incense Box with Ho Ho Bird
Located in Long Island City, NY
An antique Japanese Meiji Era covered enamel brass kogo or box for incense. Circa: late 19th century to early 20th century. The box is enameled with polychrome floral and foliage pat...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Cloissoné Furniture
Materials
Enamel
$487 Sale Price
35% Off
Rare Antique Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Enamel 3 Piece Tea Ceremony Dragon Set
Located in Long Island City, NY
A Japanese covered and footed enamel tea set including three pieces. The set includes a large tea pot, a small tea pot, and a sugar bowl. The wares are adorned with a polychrome enam...
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Cloissoné Furniture
Materials
Enamel
Japanese Cloisonne Lobed Vases, Pair
Located in Astoria, NY
Pair of Japanese Cloisonne Lobed Vases, decorated with flowers and butterflies on black grounds 7.25" H x 3" Diameter. Provenance: From an East 72nd Street Estate.
Category
20th Century Japanese Cloissoné Furniture
Materials
Metal, Enamel
$1,200 / set
Massive Chinese Cloisonné Vase with Phoenix, Magnolia, Lotus and Chrysanthemums
Located in New York, NY
A massive Chinese blue cloisonné vase or urn depicting a colorful imperial phoenix with gilt bronze wires among birds and butterflies in an imperia...
Category
1920s Chinese Vintage Cloissoné Furniture
Materials
Enamel
$22,400 Sale Price
20% Off
massive Chinese jade/stone flower tree in cloisonné base
Located in New York, NY
tall wooden stand/pedestal shown in pictures is not included with this item; flower tree only (not including wooden stand): 43in(H)
Category
Late 20th Century Chinese Cloissoné Furniture
Materials
Stone, Agate, Jade, Metal, Enamel
Antique Japanese Cloisonne Totai Covered Enamel Porcelain Jar
Located in Long Island City, NY
A Japanese covered Totai enamel on porcelain ginger jar. The ware is enameled with polychrome medallions representing blossoming flowers surrounded by floral, foliage and geometrical...
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Cloissoné Furniture
Materials
Enamel
$600 Sale Price
60% Off
A Fine Pair of Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Wisteria Vases. Meiji Era
Located in London, GB
A FINE PAIR OF JAPANESE CLOISONNE ENAMEL VASES.
Meiji Period (1868-1912).
Worked in silver wire of varying gauge with a continuous design depicting birds perched among leafy bra...
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Cloissoné Furniture
Materials
Enamel
Pair Of Antique Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Vases Cranes In Flight
Located in Long Island City, NY
A pair of antique Japanese Meiji period cloisonne vases. Each adorned with image of cranes and resplendent multicolor floral motifs within intricate foliate patterns, all skillfully ...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Cloissoné Furniture
Materials
Enamel
$5,250 Sale Price / set
30% Off
Fish Scale Midnight Blue Chinese Cloisonne Tobacco Box 1930's
Located in Mobile, AL
Monochrome Chinese Fish Scale cloisonne is long famed for it's high quality of craftsmanship and understated elegance. A staple of interior design...
Category
1930s Chinese Chinoiserie Vintage Cloissoné Furniture
Materials
Metal, Enamel
$396 Sale Price
20% Off
A Fine Pair of Japanese Cloisonné-Enamel Vases with Swallows and Parrots. 19th C
Located in London, GB
A Fine Pair of Japanese Cloisonné-Enamel Vases with Swallows and Parrots
Meiji period
Each of square shape with rounded shoulders, rising to a slightly waisted neck and flaring mout...
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Cloissoné Furniture
Materials
Enamel
$1,545 Sale Price / set
30% Off
Antique Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Blue Vase Birds In Wisteria Tree Goto
Located in Long Island City, NY
A Japanese enamel over copper brush pot.attributed to Goto
The cylindrical form pot is adorned with a polychrome design representing birds in blossoming wisteria flowers made in t...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Cloissoné Furniture
Materials
Enamel, Copper
Antique Japanese Cloisonne Meiji Bird Tree Enamel Vases
Located in Long Island City, NY
Large Pair of Antique Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Vases Hawks on Cherry Blossom Tree
Silver wire High Quality attributed to Hayashi or Ota
A pair of antique Japanese Meiji peri...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Cloissoné Furniture
Materials
Enamel
Pair of Antique Japanese Cloisonne Accent or Boudoir Table Lamps
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This pair of unmatched antique lamps are unsigned, but presumed to have originated from Japan and date to approximately 1920 and done in an Anglo-Japanese style. These small accent o...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Anglo-Japanese Cloissoné Furniture
Materials
Brass
Antique Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Multi Panel Floral Vase Attributed OTA
Located in Long Island City, NY
An antique Japanese enamel vase, Ota Kichisaburo, Meiji period, 1868 to 1912. The baluster body is adorned with a polychrome design representing panels with blossoming flowers and sa...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Cloissoné Furniture
Materials
Enamel
Longwy France Art Deco Cloisonné Enamel Bowl with Daisies, 1930
Located in AMSTERDAM, NL
This Longwy Art Deco bowl, handcrafted in France in July 1930, displays the manufactory’s celebrated cloisonné-style enamel work at its peak. The decor...
Category
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Cloissoné Furniture
Materials
Enamel
$1,449 Sale Price
20% Off
Rare Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Red Enamel Green and White Dragon Jar
Located in Long Island City, NY
A rare antique Japanese late Meiji Era tripod and covered enamel copper censer koro. Circa: late 19th century to early 20th century. The sphere form censer koro is enameled with poly...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Cloissoné Furniture
Materials
Enamel, Copper
$1,820 Sale Price
35% Off
Exquisite Antique Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Tray Featuring Dragons in Clouds, Att
Located in Long Island City, NY
An antique Japanese, late Meiji era, enamel over copper tray. The interior of the ware is adorned with a polychrome enamel design representing figural medallions depicting plants in ...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Cloissoné Furniture
Materials
Enamel, Copper
$4,550 Sale Price
30% Off
Late 19th Century Cloissoné-Enamel Inkwell, France, circa 1870-1890
Located in Greven, DE
Inkwell with Cloisonné Enamel
Origin: France
Material: Bronze with polychrome cloisonné enamel
Date: Circa 1870–1890
Dimensions:
H × W × D: 8 × 8 × 8 cm
Description:
This small in...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Cloissoné Furniture
Materials
Bronze, Enamel
Meiji Japanese Totai Cloisonne Enamel Ceramic Jar
Located in Long Island City, NY
An antique Japanese late Meiji era covered Totai enamel on ceramic ginger jar. Circa: late 19th century to early 20th century. The ware is enameled with a polychrome fan shaped medallions with blossoming flowers, bamboo trees, grapes, surrounded by a geometrical pattern made in the Cloisonne technique. The cover of the ware is decorated with polychrome fan shaped medallions with blossoming flowers. The neck and the lid are adorned with polychrome geometrical, and swirl motifs made in the same technique. Signed with red ink hieroglyphs, on the bottom. Totai Shippo...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Cloissoné Furniture
Materials
Enamel
$750 Sale Price
37% Off
Two Chinese Gilt Bronze Mounted Cloisonné Enamel Vases
Located in London, GB
These cloisonné enamel vases are wonderful pieces of Chinese decorative art. They were crafted in the last decade of the Qing dynasty, which lasted from 1644 to 1911.
The vases a...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Cloissoné Furniture
Materials
Ormolu, Bronze, Enamel
Pair of Chinese Cloisonné Enamel Baluster Vases
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Fine pair of early 20th century Chinese enamel cloisonné vases. The baluster form bodies are decorated with intricate foliate and vine patterns almost in an arabesque style design wi...
Category
20th Century Chinese Qing Cloissoné Furniture
Materials
Copper, Enamel
$630 Sale Price / set
30% Off
High Quality Antique Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Silver Wire Vase Blossoming
Located in Long Island City, NY
High Quality Antique Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Silver Wire Vase Blossoming Wisteria and Iris's
An antique Japanese, late Meiji period, ena...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Cloissoné Furniture
Materials
Brass, Enamel
French gilt bronze and enamel three-piece clock set
Located in London, GB
French gilt bronze and enamel three-piece clock set
French, late 19th Century
Clock: Height 45cm, width 26cm, depth 14.5cm
Candelabra: Height 31.5cm, width 21cm, depth 9cm
This char...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Cloissoné Furniture
Materials
Ormolu, Enamel
$20,069 / set
Japanese Ombre Cloisonné Enameled Vase
Located in Malibu, CA
Cloisonné enameled bud vase delicately trimmed with contrasting blonde enamel scallop pattern on the top & bottom. The aqua in ombre with gradual subtle tones. A very rare piece. Mad...
Category
Mid-20th Century Japanese Cloissoné Furniture
Materials
Bronze, Enamel
$637 Sale Price
25% Off
Antique Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Green Dragon Geometric Pattern Vase
Located in Long Island City, NY
An antique Japanese, Meiji era, enamel vase. The urn shaped vase is enameled with a polychrome design representing a dragon made in the Cloisonne technique. The neck is adorned with ...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Cloissoné Furniture
Materials
Enamel
Chinese Yellow Cloisonne Dragon Box, Republic Period, circa 1920, China
Located in Austin, TX
A charming Chinese yellow cloisonne small trinket box with dragons, Republic Period, circa 1920, China.
The small box sets on four bun feet and designed ...
Category
1920s Chinese Qing Vintage Cloissoné Furniture
Materials
Copper, Enamel
Napoleon III Gilt-Bronze and Cloisonné Enamel Jardinière on White Onyx Base
Located in New York, NY
Napoleon III Gilt-Bronze and Cloisonné Enamel Jardinière on White Onyx Base
This oval form jardinière is wrapped with black, white and gold cloisonné enamel, with a shield at the ...
Category
Late 19th Century Napoleon III Antique Cloissoné Furniture
Materials
Onyx, Bronze, Enamel
Antique Japanese Meiji Cloisonne Enamel Brush Pot
Located in Long Island City, NY
An antique Japanese Meiji Era cylindrical shaped enamel brush pot. Circa: 19th century. The cylindrical form pot is enameled with polychrome medallions with cranes in blossoming flow...
Category
19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Cloissoné Furniture
Materials
Enamel
Ando Wireless Cloisonne Jade Green Silver Mounted Vase, Showa Era, 1930's, Japan
By Ando Shippo Ten, Ando Jubei
Located in Austin, TX
An alluring Japanese Ando Jubei musen shippo (wireless cloionne) "jade green" silver mounted vase by the Ando Cloisonne Company (Ando Shippo Ten) ...
Category
1930s Japanese Showa Vintage Cloissoné Furniture
Materials
Silver, Copper, Enamel
Rare Antique Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Charger With Figures 12 Inches
Located in Long Island City, NY
An antique Japanese copper serving plate with polychrome cloisonne enamel design. Meiji period, ca. 1880s. Round footed piece. Turquoise blue ground color. The plate depicts a samura...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Cloissoné Furniture
Materials
Enamel, Copper
Vintage Chinese Jade Gemstone Bonsai Tree Sculpture, Cloisonné Planter
Located in Berlin, DE
Vintage Chinese Gemstone Bonsai Tree Sculpture, Cloisonné Planter Offered for sale is a Vintage Chinese Jade and other semi-precious stones Bonsai tre...
Category
1960s Vintage Cloissoné Furniture
Materials
Brass, Copper
$3,965 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique Imperial Russian Silver Gold Enamel Kovsh Nikolai Antipov Moscow 1896
Located in Portland, OR
A good antique Imperial Russian silver & cloisonne enamel kovsh, silversmith Nikolai Lakovlev Antipov & assayer Anotoly Apollonovish Artsybashev, Moscow, 1896.
The kovsh of tradition...
Category
1890s Russian Late Victorian Antique Cloissoné Furniture
Materials
Gold, Silver, Enamel
Chinese Cloisonné Enamel Egg "Flowers" with Wood Stand, Early 20 Century #6
Located in Norton, MA
Presenting a beautiful Chinese cloisonné enamel egg depicting the faces of the Chinese traditional opera theme with a wood stand, early 20 century.
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Cloissoné Furniture
Materials
Copper
Antique Cloisonne Enamel and Gilt Bronze Clock Set
Located in London, GB
This wonderful cloisonne enamel clock set is an artful piece of design in the neoclassical style: each piece is elaborately applied with turquoi...
Category
19th Century French Antique Cloissoné Furniture
Materials
Ormolu, Bronze, Enamel
$16,055 / set
Rectangular Tray, Mediterranean Design by Robert Kuo, Handmade Cloisonne
By Robert Kuo
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Rectangular tray
Mediterranean design
Shades of blue
Glass enamel
Gold plated copper
Cloisonné
Limited edition
Each piece is individually crafted and is unique.
The cloison...
Category
2010s Cloissoné Furniture
Materials
Copper, Enamel
Chinese Cloisonné small Vase with flowers & bird, Circa 1920
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a very decorative small cloisonné vase, made in China and dating to the first quarter of the 20th Century.
The vase has a good globular baluster shape. It has been well mad...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Qing Cloissoné Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Large Chinese Cloisonne Enamel Over Bronze Charger
Located in Long Island City, NY
A large antique Chinese Meiji Era bronze and enamel charger. Circa: late 19th century to early 20th century. The charger is enameled with polychrome i...
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Meiji Antique Cloissoné Furniture
Materials
Enamel, Bronze
$1,950 Sale Price
35% Off
Large Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Eagle Floral Design Yellow Vase
Located in Long Island City, NY
A Japanese enamel over copper vase. The exterior of the ware is enameled with a polychrome design depicting an eagle seated on a rock over a seascape made in the Cloisonne technique....
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Cloissoné Furniture
Materials
Enamel, Copper
High Quality Antique Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Blossoming Iris’s Vase
Located in Long Island City, NY
A high quality antique Japanese, late Meiji period, enamel over gilt copper vase. The vase has an urn shaped body and a fluted neck. The ware is enameled with a polychrome image of b...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Cloissoné Furniture
Materials
Enamel, Copper
$800 Sale Price
55% Off
Vintage Chinese Cloisonne Enamel Vase with Floral and Leaf Motifs
Located in Dallas, TX
Decorate a table or a buffet with this colorful baluster vase. Created in China circa 1980, the vase features floral and leaf motifs in the cloisonné technique (decorative work in wh...
Category
Late 20th Century Chinese Cloissoné Furniture
Materials
Multi-gemstone, Brass
Pair of Japanese Cloisonne Silver Wire Meiji Golden Age Wisteria Vases
Located in Long Island City, NY
A matched pair of antique Japanese vases of elongated shape with long flared necks. Meiji period, 1868-1913. The pieces are decorated wi...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Cloissoné Furniture
Materials
Enamel, Silver
A Large Jet Black Japanese Meiji Period Cloisonné Enamel Vase
Located in London, GB
A Large Jet Black Japanese Meiji Period Cloisonné Enamel Vase
An elegant Meiji period Japanese cloisonné vase of ovoid form with a gently flared neck finely decorated on a rich bla...
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Cloissoné Furniture
Materials
Enamel
Antique Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Fan Butterfly Geometric Pattern Plate
Located in Long Island City, NY
An antique Japanese plate adorned with a polychrome cloisonne enamel design. The front side is decorated with floral ornaments and two medallio...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Cloissoné Furniture
Materials
Enamel
$3,000 Sale Price
37% Off
Pair of Chinese Cloisonné Tigers
Located in Houston, TX
A stunning pair of late 20th century life-size Chinese cloisonné tigers from the Baron Estate.
In Chinese symbolism, these tigers represents the ma...
Category
Late 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Cloissoné Furniture
Materials
Brass
$38,000 / set
Pair Early 20th Century Empress Fu Dog Cloisonné Figures
Located in Houston, TX
Pair of Empress Fu Dogs cloisonné. Each figure is shown seated on top of a mythical beast, one holding a flowering vase and one holding a ruyi scepter, decorated with brightly colore...
Category
20th Century Chinese Cloissoné Furniture
Materials
Metal, Enamel, Bronze
Antique Russian Cloisonné Enamel and Silver Gilt Milk Jug
Located in Braintree, GB
Antique Russian Cloisonné Enamel and Silver Gilt Milk Jug.
Details:
Maker: Unidentified (hallmarks partially worn)
Assayer: Lev Fridrikovitch...
Category
1890s Russian Antique Cloissoné Furniture
Materials
Silver, Enamel
Large Antique Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Vase Birds Flying In Garden
Located in Long Island City, NY
An antique Japanese Meiji Era Silver and enamel vase. Circa: Late 19th Century The baluster form vase is enameled with polychrome images of blossoming flowers and plants and birds ma...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Cloissoné Furniture
Materials
Enamel, Silver
Rare Shape Chinese Cloisonne Snuff Bottle Hand Enameled, 19thC Qing
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a very good example of a small rare shaped triangular Chinese snuff bottle, made from cloisonne´ with hand enamelled decoration depicting various floral designs and complete ...
Category
19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Cloissoné Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Antique Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Fan Scenic Night And Day Plate
Located in Long Island City, NY
A highly decorative antique Japanese Meiji Era enamel plate. The central part of the plate is enameled with a polychrome design with images of two fans adorned with traditional lands...
Category
19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Cloissoné Furniture
Materials
Enamel
$1,200 Sale Price
50% Off
Japanese Vintage Silver Metal Mounted Cloisonne Vase with Fish
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
Exceptional vintage Japanese silver mounted cloisonne vase decorated with veiltail gold-fish and carp swimming amidst pond weed and dating arou...
Category
1940s Japanese Mid-Century Modern Vintage Cloissoné Furniture
Materials
Silver Plate, Enamel
Japanese Meiji Cloisonne Enamel Goldstone Brush Pot
Located in Long Island City, NY
An antique Japanese Meiji Era enamel over brass brush pot. The cylindrical form pot is enameled with polychrome images of blossoming flowers and birds, and a geometrical ornament mad...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Cloissoné Furniture
Materials
Enamel, Brass
Japanese Early Meiji Cloisonne Enamel Lidded Jar
Located in Long Island City, NY
An antique Japanese copper jar with lid. Early Meiji period, mid 19th-century. The item is richly decorated with geometrical cloisonne enamel ornaments against the turquoise background. Collectible Oriental...
Category
Mid-19th Century Japanese Antique Cloissoné Furniture
Materials
Enamel, Copper
$600 Sale Price
20% Off
Cloisonné Vases, Lamps, Bowls and Other Furniture and Objects for Sale on 1stDibs
Liven your home with cloisonné vases, bowls, lamps and other objects and furnishings ornamented with lustrous enamel. 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, it is one of the most dynamic, and alluring, mediums in the world.
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 cloisonné vases, lighting, decorative bowls and other objects for sale on 1stDibs.
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