Collecting beads also leads to an interest in pendants, and
so once upon a time I acquired a little cloisonné bottle pendant featuring what
looks like a swan or phoenix, with little flowers as the background pattern on
the other side. It got placed in the box
of beads and pendants that appear to be Kuo cloisonné products.
But then some other similar items began to appear, such as
this nifty bottle featuring a pond of lotus flowers, with water lines as the
background pattern. The eBay vendor Money Penny Collectibles confirms that this was one of a collection of snuff bottles that was examined
by noted Chinese art appraiser Lark Mason at an Antiques Roadshow event in Jacksonville,
Florida. "All of the snuff bottles I showed him were from the 1800s ... with one potentially dating back to the late 1700s."
And then this little box, with a bird nearly identical to the
bottle pendant, of which the seller, gramagramm on eBay, states, “The person I got this little box
from told me that her sister brought it with her in the early 1950s from China.”
What to make of this puzzling evidence?
UPDATE: My blog post for July 7, 2014 gives some possible answers with regard to the workshop that created these pieces. Note especially the use of twisted wire to form some of the cloisons.
UPDATE: My blog post for July 7, 2014 gives some possible answers with regard to the workshop that created these pieces. Note especially the use of twisted wire to form some of the cloisons.
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