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Joey Silver / Si Zhouyi 義周司
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« on: March 11, 2012, 04:40:28 pm »

   Sorry George, but the examples you posted, at least the first one, anyway, looks like cloissonne but where they've not filled in the surrounding background colour.  I saw a genuine old Champleve enamel bottle from Neal and Frances Hunter's collection, Laguna Hills, CA (old collectors with an old collection - they'd been collecting from the 1940s or 1950s!).
  The bottle had a thick body and a design had been gouged out and filled with enamel. Relatively simple (flowers on stems with leaves), but the metal surface, while shallowly etched (scribed?), was the same level as the enamel, pretty much. On the example(s) you posted, the enamel is quite a bit higher than the surrounding surface.
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