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cloisonné
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synonyms: ~champlevé ???
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Definition:Defn: Inlaid between partitions: -- said of enamel when the lines which divide the different patches of fields are composed of a kind of metal wire secured to the ground; as distinguished from champlevé enamel, in which the ground is engraved or scooped out to receive the enamel.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)---Tobias Skowronek: a technique where the artist would first do some net-like structure on the object, and then put in a binding medium of calcite, enamel, and some pigments to achieve some colours.The History Channel. The Curse of Oak Island, season 6: Heavy Metal, March 26, 2019
photo: By pschemp - taken at the Royal Museum, Edinburgh by User:pschemp, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=829214
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But it was strange to see a German Army trudging along this way, young men with guns and uniforms, who could only hope either finally to be reformed on some line by some miracle and turned around to fight—or to fall into the hands of the Americans who, it was rumored, were closing in on them from all directions. In either case, framed paintings from Norman chateaux and cloisonné lamps would do them a minimum amount of good.
Irwin Shaw. The Young Lions, p.532 (1948)
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Jacques Sauniere enjoyed imitating master craftsmen - Faberge, assorted cloisonné artisans, and the less artistic, but far more practical, Leonardo da Vinci.Dan Brown. The Da Vinci Code, p.198 (2007)
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Tobias Skowronek: I believe that this object could have been once an art object.
Marty: What makes you think that?
Tobias: In the Middle Ages there was invented a technique called cloisonne.*
The History Channel. The Curse of Oak Island, season 6: Heavy Metal, March 26, 2019
*actually the piece looks more like a champlevé than a cloisonné.
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I have seen in its depths a clear, crude blue that was almost violet, suggesting a floor of Japanese cloisonné. Here and there, on the surface, floated, blushing like a strawberry, the scarlet heart of a lily set in a ring of white petals.
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 1]
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