Chinese Cloisonné buy Enamel Large Plate - Colourful Peony Flowers, Balcony & Moon - Designer Centrepiece – Red Silk Box – BMJ China Coal Gift

A beautiful vintage multi coloured Chinese Cloisonné Enamel Large Plate / Charger / Tray featuring a vibrant colourful floral and lunar design. Peony Flowers are pictured amongst green foliage with a blue Chinese Garden Balcony and a full moon. The rim is gold coloured brass metal with turquoise blue design detail.

The enamel colours used for the plate are fabulously bright and vivid. The peony flowers are pink, yellow and red. The garden balcony is a light and darker Wedgwood blue. The moon is a solid ivory cream colour. The colours are as intense as the day this amazing plate was made. The back is a beautiful turquoise blue.

It is a stunning item. The amount of work that has gone into creating this work of art is amazing. Made buy by skilled craftsmen.

The Cloisonné display plate comes in a large red and gold silk brocade gift presentation box, padded inside with gold silk and with two fastenings. The red silk box exterior is decorated with gold dragons. It also comes with a black wood plate display stand.

The label on the back says “BMJ, Chinacoal Beijing Coal Mining Machinery. Co. Ltd”. This indicates that the large decorative Cloisonné plate was a gift from one of China's most prestigious industries and will be of the highest quality.

The plate diameter is 31 cm (12 ¼ in) and it is 4 cm (1 1/2 in) high. The box dimensions are 32.5 x 32 x 8 cm (12 ¾ x 13 x 3 in). The box and plate are very heavy and weigh 2610 g (5 lb 12 oz)

The Chinese in excellent vintage condition with no chips, cracks, dings or obvious scratches. Presents as if it has been kept in its box. Please view photos carefully for condition.

Cloisonné is the technique of creating designs on metal with coloured-glass paste placed within enclosures made of copper or bronze wires, which have been bent or hammered into a pattern. Known as cloisons (French for “partitions”), the enclosures generally are either pasted or soldered onto the metal body. The glass paste, or enamel, is coloured with metallic oxide and painted into the contained areas of the design. The item is usually fired at a relatively low temperature, about 800°C. Enamels commonly shrink after firing, and the process is repeated several times to fill in the designs. Once this process is complete, the surface of the item is rubbed until the edges of the cloisons are visible.

This vintage Chinese Cloisonné gift presentation plate and box would make a fabulous and unusual wedding gift or house warming gift. No one else will have a Cloisonné plate like this. No one.

Also great for a collector of Chinese Cloisonné art or for an interior decorator looking for a special piece.

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All of the listings in my shop are for pre-owned items. Many will show some signs of wear due to their age. There may be slight surface scratching or wear consistent with normal use.