  
Chinese Cloisonne is also called "Enamel with copper roughcast
and inlayed copper wire" abbreviated for Enamel and
usually called cloisonne.
Chinese Cloisonne is a kind of artwork made of red copper
roughcast and decorated colorful glaze. It was well known
in the time of Jingtai of Ming Dynasty (1450--1456) for
the most exquisite production. When produced, the first
is to make the roughcasts of various vessels with red copper,
such as vase, dish, jar, box and so on. Then the second is to
inlay flower pattern with staved copper wires and weld on
roughcasts to form the pattern frame. On the spaces there
are full of many orderly and beautiful Jindi Patterns that are
filled with colorful glazes later. After the roughcasts are put
into a stove for burn, they are polished to be bright. Polishing is
using coarse sand, fine sand, yellow stone and charcoal in
turns until blue roughcasts and copper wires are clean and
smooth. The last is to increase the luster, protect against rust
and then plate gold and reach the effect of brilliance and
effulgence.
Its artistic feature is all of its style, pattern, color
and brightness are very wonderful. It has a great deal of types.
Most of them are daily vessels. Their styles are often grant
and elegant. The patterns are very rich. Taking the traditional
artistic skills of needlework, jade, china and lacquerwork,
it gives prominence to the pattern style of sketching lines
and filling colors. The color of glaze includes blue, red, yellow,
green, white, sky blue, navy blue, carmine, dark yellow,
light yellow, light green, milk white, deep violet, bright blue
and amaranth, etc... Caved gold and rich colors are so
magnificent and luxuriant.
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