Mid 20th Century Blue Cloisonne’ Mantel Clock

 
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Design Plus Gallery presents a Mid 20th-Century Blue Cloisonne’ Mantel Clock. Plaque on back marks clock was made in China. Brass case with turquoise ground cloisonné with botanical designs. White porcelain dial with Roman numerals has a hand painted pendulum attached with a waterfall design. Clock is functional and comes with two keys. Chimes in intervals.

“Cloisonne is an enamelling technique in which the pattern is formed by wires soldered to the surface of the object to be decorated, which is usually made from copper, forming cells or cloisons, each of which holds a single colour of enamel paste which is then fired, and ground and polished. The champleve technique also uses an enamelling technique, but the cells are formed by carving into the surface of the object, or in the casting. The cloisonne technique has been in use since the 12th century BC in the west, but the technique did not reach China until the 13th or 14th century. It became popular in China in the 18th century. Initially bronze or brass bodies were used, and in the 19th century copper, at which time the quality of the items produced began to decline. Chinese cloisonné is the best known enamel cloisonné, though the Japanese produced large quantities from the mid-19th century, of very high technical quality. In the west the cloisonne technique was revived in the mid 19th century following imports from China, and its use continued in the Art Nouveau and Art Deco periods.”

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Dimensions 16 x 6.5 x 19 in
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