ys, all as silent as sleep. It isone thing to read of cloisonne making, but quiteanother to watch it being made. I began tounderstand the cost of the ware when I saw aman working out a pattern of sprigs and butter-flies on a plate about ten inches in diameter.With finest silver ribbon wire set on… … ORIENTAL ENAMELS 167 the raw copper plate would have sent the patternflying into a thousand disconnected threads. . . .Followed the colouring, which was done by littleboys in spectacles; with a pair of tiniest steelchopsticks, they filled from bowls at their sideseach compartment of the pattern…
Enamel and enameling
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