Back ten years ago when I became interested in the dating sequence for Chinese cloisonne beads, I started collecting photos of larger items to compare designs and enamels.
The necklace I recently reconstructed [https://www.beadiste.com/2024/12/puzzling-evidence-helen-burton-miriam.html] has cloisonne beads in comparatively good shape - only a couple of scuffs - that show an identical composition to a style of millefleur bric-a-brac that seems to cluster around the 1930s. One particular canister is an example that shows an identical splashy style as in the necklace beads. I'd be awfully surprised to learn that the beads and canister did not come from the same Beijing workshop.
The red CHINA stamp on the canister is typical of Republic items from c1920-40s, so dating these cloisonne beads to the late 1930s seems reasonable.
(Click on photos below to enlarge them, or for more magnification open each in another tab.)
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