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Need help with ID this cloisenne butterfly bottle

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Joey Silver / Si Zhouyi 義周司
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« on: July 31, 2014, 08:59:43 pm »
Dear Sally,
    I wrote you before that it is made by soldering silver (or in this case, brass) wires on a thin copper bottle; the 'cloisons' ('cells', in French; from same word source as 'cloister') were filled with powdered glass, which when fired, fused to the wires. Then the copper bottle was removed by acid, leaving the glass and brass wire bottle. It is quite beautiful, though I believe not older than 1930 and probably 1950s/1960s.
Joey
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