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Even though I cant afford to buy any of the above items, I can still capture them with my camera and share with you the beauty of these extremely fine art works.
Cloisonné, an ancient metalworking technique, is a multi-step enamel process used to produce jewelry, vases, and other decorative items.
Cloisonné was first developed in central Europe by the Huns, and it spread to the rest of the Germanic peoples, achieving these peoples high quality objects, such as fibulae, brooches and sword fittings. It spread then into the Byzantine Empire and from there along the Silk Road to China. Chinese cloisonné, which is called 景泰藍 (Pinyin: jǐngtài lán; "blue of Jingtai"), is probably the most well known and ubiquitous. Russian cloisonné from the Tsarist era is highly prized by collectors. Chinese cloisonné is sometimes confused with Canton enamel, a similar type of enamel work that is painted on freehand and does not utilize partitions to hold the colors separate.
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