Cloisonné

Cloisonne, called (French émail cloisonné, short cloisonné to cloison " septum " ) also cloisonne enamel or cloisonné, is an enameling technique with enamel work. ( A piece of jewelry or a small plastic ), thin wires or metal strips soldered decorative, and then engage in several steps between them different colored glass flows onto the blank, mostly made of copper manufacturing. The blank is then fired at about 750-800 ° C.

Karl Woermann mentioned this art technique in his History of Art (1905 ):

" The cells Melting Art (email cloisonné ) is outline drawing with a network of fine gold bars which will be attached to the gold surface, and replenish the individual fields of this drawing with colored glass fluxes [ ... ] received a significant number of such works of art in Domschätzen and collections of the West. Famous is the golden front wall ( Pala d' oro ) of the high altar of the church of St. Mark at Venice. The Doge Pietro Orseolo I. she ordered 976 to Constantine Opel. But only the melting images of their top row, for example, the medallion image of the Archangel Michael and the six images of the suffering and Acts belong to this golden age of Byzantine art; the rest are added later. Famous is also the golden cross loading ( reliquary ) in the Cathedral of Limburg an der Lahn. "

The cloisonné technique has been used primarily in Chinese art. Originally they came from the west, but evidenced by archaeological bronzes in China, the idea of ​​a colored inlay in metal just for the Bronze Age. The oldest preserved in the Chinese room pieces come from the Yuan Dynasty (1261-1368), the deep blue cast to use today originated in the subsequent Ming dynasty (1368-1644 ). Later cloisonné artists also took up suggestions from the manufacture of porcelain and combined both materials. This compound was mainly in Japan (七宝; Shippo ) maintained at the beginning of the Meiji period (1868-1912 ).