Beyond was a gallery of women busied in cutting and setting slabs of artificial ruby, and next these were men and women busied together upon the slabs of copper net that formed the basis of cloisonne tiles.
They continued along one of the lower galleries of this cloisonne factory, and came to a little bridge that spanned a vault.
Precious cloisonne in heroic pieces has been used for the background of paintings.
I was anxious to get some really good cloisonne workers to make some things for me, and by very good luck I hit upon a man who had just discovered an entirely new method of handling gold.
There are technical obstacles connected with making broad sweeps of colour in cloisonne that render simple designs much more expensive.
One is much inclined to fancy that cloisonnevases with elaborate designs must necessarily be expensive.
Inchie came round, and I left them in the reading-room together discussingcloisonne umbrella handles.
A cloisonne shop is every bit as depressing as the embroidery works.
The design is generally framed at the outset with a ribbon of thin metal, precisely after the manner of ordinary cloisonne ware.
Many excellent examples of cloisonneenamel have been produced by each branch of this school.
Cloisonne enamel is essentially of modern development in Japan.
To such a depth of debasement had the ceramic art fallen in Owari, that before the happy renaissance of the past ten years, Nagoya discredited itself by employing porcelain as a base for cloisonne enamelling.
The kind of enamel which was so often imitated by the manuscript illuminator is now called cloisonne enamel from the thin slips of gold or cloisons which separate one colour from another, and mark out the chief lines of the design.
So closely did many of the illuminators copy designs in this cloisonne that very often one sees manuscript miniatures which look at first sight as if they were actual pieces of enamel.
The cloisonne enamel was generally on a brass basis, and as in the more recent examples from China and Japan, the cloisons or tiny cells of metal were filled with the right and appropriate colours; afterwards subjected to heat.
The cloisonne process, chiefly practised in the East, consists of small cells or cloisons formed of wire filled with the requisite colours.
The exceptionally fine altar set wrought in cloisonne enamels, illustrated in Fig.
Cloisonne glass is a patent ornamental glass formed by placing two pieces flat against each other enclosing a species of glass mosaic.
I pawed carefully through the bag, and brought to light, not the wrist watch, but the Cloisonne locket, which Mrs. Harper had accused Clarice of taking.
A Cloisonne locket belonging to Mrs. Harper had disappeared from her jewel box and she had accused her maid, Clarice, of taking it.
He ascribed the absence of lace curtains to Romeo and the Cloisonne vase to Juliet.
Several really fine paintings adorned the walls, and the dingy mantel was glorified by exquisite bits of Cloisonne and iridescent glass, for which Juliet had a pronounced fancy.
The use of enamels of very similar constitution on metals had, however, been known in certain parts of Europe since the first century of our era if not earlier, and the cloisonne enamels of the Byzantines had long been famous.
Now that I am better acquainted with you I will say, however, that if it gives you any pleasure to loll around here or to sleep up there in my cloisonnejar with the rose leaves, you are welcome to do so.
And in this perfect garden of flowers there are mounds of magnificent fruit piled up in brightly enamelled cloisonne dishes, fresh peaches, luscious pears, bright oranges; but again, all of them in the tints of gold.
The boys as a rule become artisans or tradesmen, and those who show greater aptitude become silversmiths, or cloisonne makers.
Two remarkable methods of decorating porcelain bring us to lacquer-work and cloisonne enamel.
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