Beadiste

Sorting through my collection of trade beads recently, I observed that the very largest of my so-called "Russian" trade beads al...

We know the Lao Tian Li studio continued into the early 1920s, because Jin Shiquan   金世权   at age 12 was apprenticed there in 1922 under sen...

In previous posts about Deco-era cloisonne beads, large disk-shaped beads with slotted openings appear, often in a distinctive brass belt: ...

What happened in the Chinese cloisonne workshops during the ten years between the organization of the workshops in the mid-1950s and the Cul...