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Monday, May 25, 2026
Comparison of Small Bottles from the 1908 Great White Fleet Visit to Amoy, China
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A 1908 Great White Fleet crossed flags Chinese cloisonne bottle currently on offer at eBay sent me on a search through the picture files I’...
Saturday, May 23, 2026
Article on Chinese Cloisonne Manufacture in March 6, 1920 Issue of Scientific American
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Quaint but informative, useful evidence for the style of some of the shapes the coppersmiths were producing. As to these coppersmiths, Juli...
Wednesday, May 20, 2026
Mysterious Business Card for the TianXinCheng 天新成 (成新天 Tien Hsin Cheng) Cloisonne Company
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A puzzle partly resolved by a passage in Zhou Chunbing's 2022 book, Enamel Bureau: Research and Collection of Famous Cloisonné Worksho...
Tuesday, May 19, 2026
Mysterious Japanese Cloisonne Scroll Weghts (Fuchin)
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Recently I acquired a large 45x33mm bead designed as a Japanese scroll weight (fuchin). The design and rounded shape resembles a spherical...
Thursday, May 14, 2026
Rare Antique Chinese Cloisonne Beads Featuring Spotted Deer, Red-Crowned Cranes, and a Dragon
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Eleven years ago, back in July 2015, I wrote about 4 rare Chinese cloisonne beads featuring red-crowned cranes. Recently two similar bead...
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