Introducing myself, Skans...

My mother was an avid antique collector and also a dealer who had a brick and mortar store for many decades. After her passing, I inherited a number of her collections. While Mom tried to teach me all that she knew about her collections through out the years, I only picked up on about 30% of the information she tried to pass along. So, now I am on a bit of a quest to fill in some of my knowledge gaps.

I tend to know a fair bit about Japanese Cloisonne (1800's - 1950) and the various styles/artisans. Not quite as much about antique Chinese Cloisonne (pre-1900's). I generally prefer Japanese Cloisonne, particularly from the "golden age". I have even added to my Mom's collection over the years, hopefully enhancing it a bit. I can certainly appreciate some of the really nice older pieces of Chinese Cloisonne as well, and have a few examples. However, it is much more difficult to find really fine examples of 150-300+ year old Chinese Cloisonne that I can afford.

Would be interested in hearing from others who are knowledgeable in this area!

Oh, I am linking to a cloisonne bowel I posted photos of - anyone know anything about it??? https://www.antiquers.com/conversations/chinese-cloisonne-bowl-circa-1870.34076/

 

Hello, Skans! Thank you so much for joining us. You'll find lots of knowledgable people here.

Debora

 

Welcome Skans. Sounds like you had a very good teacher.

The link doesn't work. Looks like it was posted in a private conversation, which means only the person you included can see it.

Also, autocorrect decided to play a trick on you, bowel instead of bowl. You can still edit your post by clicking on 'edit' in the line below your post.

It is best to start a new thread for your bowel/bowl. Preferably the latter.

 

Welcome! If you haven't looked up the way, holy old school, this board allows us to post photos, it's going to help.