The cloisonne process, chiefly practised in the East, consists of small cells or cloisons formed of wire filled with the requisite colours.
This fine bowl, also of the Ming period, is florally enamelled, the inside showing the pattern outlined by wire cloisons upon a white ground, the flowers being worked in five colours.
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.
In some cases the metal foundation is in the centre and cloisons or cells formed on either side of it.
Silver rim, with cloisons for jewels and sockets for candles.
From the silver rim project six cloisons which formerly held jewels; one alone remains, an oval paste of opaque blue.
Another watch, by Vautier of Blois, has the centre of the dial enriched with translucent enamel in gold cloisons on opaque white.
The finest are made of pure gold decorated with cloisons shaped according to the natural formations of the body and wings of the bird.
It is often enriched with opaque enamel fired between cloisons formed of twisted wire.
The fine cloisonsof the enamel work are arranged so as to mark the outlines of the face, a crown upon the head, and the folds of the drapery of a mantle or tunic.
This "filigree-enamel," which was executed from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century in Hungary and throughout the valley of the Danube, is composed of bright opaque colours fired between cloisons or partitions composed of twisted wire.
These fine cloisons and shapes are most correct in form, and the whole piece shows a perfection of craftsmanship rarely equalled.
The first is an inlay of transparent enamels similar to plique-a-jour without cloisons to divide the colours.
They are in the form of little stained glass windows, the cloisons forming (as it were) the leads.
The cord of the embroiderer answers to the cloisons of the enameller, the surfaces of shining floss to the films of vitreous enamel.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cloisons" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
