Re: Japanese style - mostly, yes, except for the cloisonne
Re: Japanese style -- redmountain Post Reply Edit Forum Where am I?
Posted by: beadiste Mail author
04/14/2014, 09:06:09

Notice especially the flat disk with the phoenix on it. Some of these disks are not exactly cloisonne, but are machine-stamped with the pattern and then filled with enamel - that is, the pattern is not drawn by hand with thin strips of wire.

Given that these Chinese cloisonne items show up in Japanese accessories, I have to wonder just what went on during the 1930s years of Japanese invasion of China.
Like the glass works in Boshan, did the Japanese also invest in cloisonne workshops?
Is there a Japanese influence in Chinese cloisonne designs from 1930-1950?
Everyone who knows anything about this is most likely now dead, but it is a mystery, I think. I wonder what the archives of theJapanese Ando and Inaba companies might reveal.



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