Message #32300

[Wattana]

Hi YT,

I have been watching this thread, undecided as to whether your bottle is modern with artificial aging, or indeed an old one. I am inclined to agree with Charll that it looks to belong to an older group. But the two-tone gradation from white to pink within one 'cell' that David mentioned bothers me.

Here are two older cloisonne bottles for reference. You will see that the designs are very simple yet delicate, and each cell has only one solid colour. Despite having some age, it is interesting that the 'experts' still give them a wide date range - both are dated 1790-1900.  In short, it is still hard to pinpoint dating of cloisonne bottles.

Tom