Cloisonne enamel art production techniques and is a local rumor enamel metal product of the combination. Ming and Qing dynasties, Queen supervision and Office was equipped with enamel workshop designed for royal service in Beijing, from the mature artistry to glory. In modern times, social unrest, Beijing Cloisonne skills decline once. After 1949, depending on the country to take an active protection, support policies, this ancient art to the rapid recovery and development.

　　Cloisonne, historically known as enamel, known as "fetal copper filigree enamel," the process is a combination of porcelain enamel copper handicrafts, Beijing well-known traditional specialty crafts.

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In the Ming Dynasty Jingtai years (1450-1457), this process has been very mature, especially blue glaze has a new breakthrough, like a rich sapphire blue sapphire, noble and magnificent, it is called "cloisonne." Modern, although cloisonne craft already have a variety of colors, but still use the term "cloisonne" customary title. Cloisonne having 500 years of history as an arts and crafts, i.e. their preparation on a bronze colored enamel surface to be painted pattern, four weeks or a pattern embedded in a metallic copper, then a high degree of fire burning Serve. Cloisonne is now much improved, diverse style, decoration variety, have been known to the public, and its fantastic design and its magnificent color, at home and abroad won a high reputation. As a renowned Beijing's traditional handicrafts, in addition to cloisonne vases, bowls, plates and other traditional products outside, there developed many new varieties of products. Cloisonne is a great gift with our international friends and the friends and family dealings with each other.

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The main cloisonne production process

Cloisonne production process, both using the traditional techniques of bronze and porcelain firing, but also absorbed the traditional techniques of painting and sculpture, called a master of Chinese traditional crafts. Made handicrafts have let the solemn, splendid and elegant artistic features. Cloisonne production process is a comprehensive art, is art design, type production (manufactured tires), integration of technology with knowledge of filigree, Blue Point, polished and gold-plated. A product to go through more than a dozen procedures to complete. First a tread made use of copper, followed by craftsmen in the above painting, after then rolled flat thin copper wire, made in accordance with a variety of patterns drawn, pinch, welding, attached to the carcass, and then with a different color enamel glazes material embedded in the pattern, and finally after repeated firing, polished, plated, and other procedures to produce the final product.

After the final rinse water drying process, a gorgeous eye-catching Cloisonne will come to the fore. A good gold-plated carved exquisitely carved hardwood bottom bracket matched with cloisonne, cloisonne show more elegant, dignified and beautiful pretty.

Cloisonne design

Including design, pattern design, color pictures design. Because cloisonne patterns of lines is limited tire type, wire craft workers and glazes, will not lean too close, so designers must not only have a certain knowledge of art and drawing ability, but also familiar with the production process cloisonne, understand the various performance of raw materials, so that when creative ideas, give full consideration to the characteristics of the production process, the product has the beauty and harmony of the whole.

Cloisonne birth system

Cloisonne products handsome in appearance or not, first of all depends on the "system child" process. The tire is made of copper flake qualified FIG press, cut into or cut into various different fan-shaped circular, and beaten with a hammer copper body of various shapes. In a bottle, for example, it consists of three segments connected hammer pourer, belly bottles, molded mounts welding. When the cast tire has Ming, tick tires, tire drilling process, with the development of modern technology, the early portion of the tread is also now using a mechanical turning, pressing, roll, spin, carry out a mechanical braking tire. Master craftsman Zhang Lu after thousands of tests, restore lost a tire cloisonne casting, production of fetal type and then with filigree copper casting type of method, burning the glaze. This feature is Cloisonne, heavy tread type, complex type, in addition to the land portion bluing Jin, the exposed gold surface is generally larger. This usually gilded gold surface with gilt methods, work more glorious and splendid, magnificent.

Heritage significance of cloisonne production techniques

Cloisonne enamel art techniques and local rumor is enamel metal product of the combination. It combines history, culture, art and traditional crafts in one, Gu Pu and elegant, exquisite luxury, with unique folk art style and deep cultural connotation. With the continuous development of cloisonne and the needs of the market, a number of special products, useful products, souvenirs and high, big, fine, sharp, high-quality cloisonne mass production, new varieties, new colors, new technology emerging in recent years Cloisonne industry appeared womb cloisonne, cloisonne silver tire, and Cloisonne enamel painting combining cloisonne, cloisonne mechanism, imitation Japanese cloisonne silver crystal blue, and combine a variety of Cloisonne. Especially multi-technology combined with cloisonne particularly prominent. This is a kind of cloisonne as the main body, and then combined with ivory, jade carving, wood carving, lacquer ware and silk inlay and other processes, due to the variety of unique combination of technology, materials set off each other, plus a lot of whole body and inlaid stones, so that works more novelty, exquisitely carved, whole body exudes jewels.

Beijing Cloisonne arts complex, many processes, which combines the technology of bronze and enamel, the tradition of painting and metal chisel carved craft, reflecting the traditions learn from each other between the Chinese traditional craft categories. Cloisonne elegant, patterns of harassment, rich colors, has the characteristics of court art, gives a "strong mellow, glittering" artistic sense, has high artistic value, has participated in important exhibitions at home and abroad, it is also frequently ceremony as a gift foreign guests. However, in recent years, under the impact of the market economy, cloisonne factory or bankruptcy or endangered, highly skilled cloisonne production master and descendant of the few, not further rescue protection, this outstanding art about to decline even lost.