Beadiste

In a prior post I discussed a style of cloisonne box clasp with a mysterious flower design that, for want of a better idea, I named the ...

Collecting beads also leads to an interest in pendants, and so once upon a time I acquired a little cloisonné bottle pendant featuring what...

Photographing small jewelry items tends to focus your attention upon little details.  Thus, I noticed a pattern appearing in certain cloison...

In October of 1949, the Chinese civil war ended with the founding of the People's Republic of China.  Many members of the Nationalist pa...

This was an eBay item too neat to pass up, so now it's mine; however, I bought it to share with you because documentation for vintage cl...

In my quest to discover what the tell-tale signs were to distinguish older Chinese cloisonné beads from newer products, one of the motifs I...