🔥SALE🔥 Beautiful Cloisonné Egg on a 17-19” Waxed Black Cotton Necklace.

Absolutely beautiful…is this cloisonné egg necklace!Soft pinks, terracotta, green and brown make up the flowers / stems against a white background with golden swirls all over creating the classic cloisonné look! What is cloisonné? Cloisonné is the technique of creating designs on metal vessels with colored-glass paste placed within enclosures made of copper or bronze wires, which have been bent or hammered into the desired pattern. Known as cloisons (French for "partitions"), the enclosures generally are either pasted or soldered onto the metal body. The glass paste, or enamel, is colored with metallic oxide and painted into the contained areas of the design. The vessel is usually fired at a relatively low temperature, about 800°C. Enamels commonly shrink after firing, and the process is repeated several times to fill in the designs. Once this process is complete, the surface of the vessel is rubbed until the edges of the cloisons are visible. They are then gilded, often on the edges, in the interior, and on the base. Cloisonné objects were intended primarily for the furnishing of temples and palaces, because their flamboyant splendor was considered appropriate to the function of these structures but not well suited to a more restrained atmosphere, such as that of a scholar's home. However, by the period of Emperor Xuande, this ware came to be greatly prized at court. - Metropolitan Museum of Arts