Enamel-wire painting
掐丝珐琅点螺画Palace wire-and-enamel work, moved onto a picture board.
This craft descends from cloisonné (景泰蓝), which is more than 600 years old. It takes the court technique of laying wire and filling it with enamel and carries it onto a painting board, so the result is both a painting and a craft object. Gold wire draws the lines, and natural mineral glazes take the place of paint. Dalian makers add mother-of-pearl dotting, which gives the local version its own character.
- Steps
- Composition, base drawing, wire-setting (掐丝), blue filling (点蓝), film coating, shell dotting (点螺)
- Materials
- Gold wire, natural mineral glazes, shell
- Pictured
- Plates and a framed panel

























































