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  • noun Alternative spelling of cloisonne.

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Examples

  • Apart from its unusual architecture, the Teuchitlán tradition was distinguished by a particular way of decorating their ceramic pieces, a process now referred to as pseudo-cloisonné.

    Guachimontones: unearthing a lost world near Teuchitlan, Jalisco 2009

  • Apart from its unusual architecture, the Teuchitlán tradition was distinguished by a particular way of decorating their ceramic pieces, a process now referred to as pseudo-cloisonné.

    Guachimontones: unearthing a lost world near Teuchitlan, Jalisco 2009

  • Hong Kong real-estate billionaire Joseph Lau paid Christie's ₤ £ 10.7 million for a pair of imperial cloisonn é crane censers, a type of incense vessel, during a Hong Kong sale in December.

    Jump in Art Sales at Christie's Points to Market Rebound Kelly Crow 2011

  • Thus the exhibition includes La Farge ' s only known window featuring a tropical figure, a small composition executed around 1909 and done entirely in what La Farge called " cold cloisonn é " glass, an experimental technique he invented that is akin to the translucent, highly fragile plique- à -jour enamel work used most famously by Carl Faberg é .

    The Distant Travels of a Restless Mind Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2010

  • All sorts of vases, bits of china, cloisonn‚, clocks

    Manners and Social Usages Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood

  • The Easter-egg has long been a favorite offering in silk, satin, plush, and velvet, in covered, egg-shaped boxes containing bonbons; these, laid in a nest of gold and silver threads in a _cloisonn‚_ basket, afford a very pretty souvenir to carry home from a luncheon.

    Manners and Social Usages Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood

  • Japanese: framed lacquer & mother of pearl picture: Nippon vase; carved ivory; Kyoto Satsuma lidded jar; inlaid bronze tsuba; Meiji period lacquer box; Meiji period carved ivory tusk; cloisonn; mixed metal document folder; (4) Japanese ink & color on silk scroll paintings of the four seasons; Japanese woodblock prints by Hiroshige, Hokusai, Hasui

    unknown title 2009

  • A Japanese cloisonn tachi, blade Muromachi period, fittings late Edo period

    unknown title 2009

  • Chinese furniture; Famille rose; celadon; Chinese cloisonn; snuff bottles; Chinese paintings

    unknown title 2009

  • A Japanese cloisonn tachi, blade Muromachi period, fittings late Edo period

    unknown title 2009

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