Posted 1 year ago
Steptoe1
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Hello I’ve just rediscovered my stash of Bangles, I went through a phase about 11 years ago of collecting Bangles, this one is hinged and enamel, I’ve forgotten the name of this kind of work, I have a Chinese vase made this way as well somewhere, I guess that this maybe Chinese too,
Cloisonné is a decorative art technique involving metalwork and enamel work.
Thanks Phil that’s the name I forgot, I didn’t realise that this was cloisonné till earlier on.
Champlevé is an enamelling technique in the decorative arts, or an object made by that process, in which troughs or cells are carved, etched, die struck, or cast into the surface of a metal object, and filled with vitreous enamel. The piece is then fired until the enamel fuses, and when cooled the surface of the object is polished. The uncarved portions of the original surface remain visible as a frame for the enamel designs; typically they are gilded in medieval work.[1] The name comes from the French for "raised field", "field" meaning background, though the technique in practice lowers the area to be enamelled rather than raising the rest of the surface.
The technique has been used since ancient times, though it is no longer among the most commonly used enamelling techniques. Champlevé is suited to the covering of relatively large areas, and to figurative images, although it was first prominently used in Celtic art for geometric designs. In Romanesque art its potential was fully used, decorating caskets, plaques and vessels, in Limoges enamel and that from other centres.
Champlevé is distinguished from the technique of cloisonné enamel in which the troughs are created by soldering flat metal strips to the surface of the object.
Happy new year apostata, hope your well and so glad you could help me with this as your really good with information. Always find your help great. I’ve seen you the name mentioned by you but never came across it. I will look some up
Thanks a lot
Thanks a lot ?
don,overdo it girl , we are not in choir boy business