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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 7374864, member: 2844&quot;]Beautiful, laura.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is cloisonné enamel, made by soldering wires on a metal base and filling them with enamel.</p><p>I think &#039;shaded&#039; simply means colour shading, which many cloisonné pieces have.</p><p><br /></p><p>Plique-à-jour enamel is translucent, it has no backing and the enamels are like coloured glass windows inside the metal wire cloisons.</p><p>Champlevé is when the metal is partly cut out, creating pools which are filled with enamel.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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