Cloisonne, champleve, enameled, Japanese Chinese French... OMG! HELP!

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  1. wildrose

    wildrose Well-Known Member

    Lots of pics! some numbered to help with identity. vases.jpg vases2.jpg vases3.jpg vases4.jpg vases5.jpg vases6.jpg vases7.jpg I have these four items, #3 is what I typically call cloisonne. But are the others also? Pops says #4 is champleve. Any insight is helpful thank you!
     
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  2. evelyb30

    evelyb30 Well-Known Member

    All Chinese I think. #2 is pretty recent. The big one might be Japanese.
     
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  3. wildrose

    wildrose Well-Known Member

    but are they all cloisonne? or some are and some aren't? I find it very confusing.
     
  4. Miscstuff

    Miscstuff Sometimesgetsitright

    My two bobs worth -
    1-Cloisonne - not Chinese/Japanese - maybe European
    2-Cloisonne - Chinese/Japanese
    3-Champleve - Chinese/Japanese
    4-Looks like its painted to imitate champleve - might just be the photo.
    Might be wrong about No.3 as they sometimes polish it down a lot and
    cloisonne can look like champleve.
    Cheers
    Stephen
     
  5. clutteredcloset49

    clutteredcloset49 Well-Known Member

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  6. wildrose

    wildrose Well-Known Member

    you can see how I can be confused heh?
     
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  7. Miscstuff

    Miscstuff Sometimesgetsitright

    Nope - have to disagree.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloisonne
    1 and 2 have what looks like fine wire construction.

    Actually 1 looks like "Majollica" cloisonne which is why I think it is European.

    3 is leaning more to fine cast Champleve than Cloisonne.

    4 is Champleve

    If you google champleve vs cloisonne you will end up with all the eboo pictures from thousands of vendors who, because they haven't a clue, describe their goods as "Cloisonne/Champleve".

    Edit: must pay more attention to the pictures - 1 and 3 have the same shape and bottom colouration so delete reference to "European" and they are probably both Cloisonne.

    Cheers
    Stephen
     
    Last edited: Mar 31, 2018
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