Message #50591

[Joey Silver / Si Zhouyi 義周司]

Dear Tom,

      While I agree Steven's bottle looks 'old', the technology problem of enameling very detailed work in cloisonne on a miniature piece like a snuff bottle, would in my opinion, mean it couldn't be earlier than the 1870s at earliest. And at that time, Japanese technology was superior to Chinese, simply because the Japanese had happily adopted Western technology.

    I've a small collection of Japanese cloisonne pieces, and it could be as early as 1870s, but more probably 1890-1920.
Best,
Joey