#cloisonne

Based on an off-screen scene from Retired Assets 1-5 “Broken Things Can Be Mended Anew”

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(The WIP name was Link Appleheart)

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Four-leafed glass door made by the Catalan artisan, carpenter and stained-glass maker Frederic Vidal around the year 1900. He was a master of the cloisonné technique of stained glass.

Some more of his work, all made around 1900:

And a beautiful example of his furniture:

(By the way, Frederic Vidal was the brother of the Modernist painter Lluïsa Vidal).

Cloisonne Enamel Cat Effigy

China, 20th c.

If anyone remembers my radium watch adventure, that was thousands of times less radioactive than some cloisonne jewelry.

The radioactivity comes from uranium used in certain enamel colors, especially shades of cream and orange.

For those of us who don't know much about antique jewelry, cloisonné looks like this:

~ Fibula with an Enamel Bust.

Culture: Langobardic

Date: A.D. 7th century

Period: Early Medieval

A French 'Japonisme' Gilt & Patinated Bronze & Chinese Cloisonné Enamel Table By Ferdinand Barbedienne,

The Design attributed to Edouard Lievre, Paris, Circa 1870, the Cloisonné Qing Dynasty, 19th Century,

The rectangular top with turquoise ground elaborately decorated with colorful flora, fauna, feathers and foliate scrolls, set in cloud-form pierced gallery, raised on cluster-column bamboo-style stem adorned with dragons, with further bamboo-style supports and similar base with outscrolled feet, signed F. Barbedienne to base.

35 in. (89 cm.) high, 34 in. (87 cm.), 22 in. (56 cm.) deep.