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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Darkwing Manor, post: 357502, member: 738&quot;]Hi Aaron,</p><p>You&#039;ve got two different techniques going on in that beautiful vase. The underlayer is basse taille, where a pattern is engraved into a metal then covered with a layer of transparent enamel.&nbsp; Over that is the more familiar cloisonne technique, where wire compartments are laid on a surface, then filled with colored enamel. A third common method, that I don&#039;t see here, is champleve&#039;, where the base metal is carved out and the enamel fills the depressions. There is also another method called &quot;Ginbari foil&quot;, but I don&#039;t think that is what you have here. I&#039;ve over-simplified that, and it gets confusing, but there are lots of images on the internet. Once you understand the construction process, it&#039;s easy to ID which one (or more) of those it is. I&#039;ve seen the deep red transparent enamel like yours described as pidgeon&#039;s blood, also Akasuke, but I don&#039;t know how accurate those are. I&#039;m much less familiar with the popular collector&#039;s terms for dec arts.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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