"But struggling in society is not easy," he says. "When I made several articles by myself for the first time, I felt the responsibility of inheriting the family trade." He waited for eight years ...

Arts and crafts master Zhong Liansheng works on a vase. [Photo provided to China Daily] A major exhibition on cloisonne enamel opened in Beijing on July 17 to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the ...

Cloisonne remains one of the most mysterious and least understood forms of Chinese decorative art. For centuries, the intricate and colorful patterns were the exclusive preserve of imperial families ...

For years I've been fascinated by your work and how it's accomplished. What exactly is cloisonne enamel? Enamel is the process of baking powdered glass onto base metal like copper, silver or gold.

Guan Dian and her husband, Li Jinglong, run cloisonne workshops in Beijing. [Zou Hong/China Daily] About eight years ago, Li Jinglong and Guan Dian visited the Palace Museum in Beijing. Like many ...

As a painter, Le Ann Gehring-Ryan always wonders how she can take her work to the next level. A longtime jewelry artisan, she discovered an art form that combined her two worlds, cloisonné enamel. The ...

Cloisonné, one of China's intangible cultural heritages, originated from Europe and introduced to China through the legendary Silk Road. For hundreds of years, cloisonné was an expensive form of art ...

Oris has selected the Monkey King Sun Wukong to be the subject of its first ever watch with a cloisonné enamel dial. More precisely, the handcrafted dial depicts a scene from the 1961 animated film ...

Question: A distant relative lived in Asia during the 1930s and while there collected several pieces of cloisonne. Can you tell me more about this type of collectible? Are the pieces I have worth ...