Ming vases - or Cloisonne vases they tell me. LOL Pictures of our cruise ship vacation to the Orient

  

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A visit to a - Cloisonné vase factory and market.

 

On the way back from the Great Wall we stopped at a factory where they make what I have always thought of as "Ming Vases". My mother had a couple and that is what they looked like.

I was astonished to discover that they start with a copper vase, hammered into shape on a mold. There are a number of steps including gluing on tiny little pieces of copper, which are then filled with ceramic material, fired, done again, etc. and then painted and polished.  A whole lot of work.  They are certainly beautiful when they are completed though. 

 
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The Cloisonné factory. An example as we go in. A dude beating the copper into shape.  
       
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All different sizes of course. Here they are using tweezers and gluing little pieces of copper to the vases. Really looks like pain-staking work.
     
Photographs of Cloisonné vases being made in China These vases are glued and awaiting the ceramic filling process.
More of the same process. See the pile of little tiny pieces of copper she is using. These vases are glued and awaiting the ceramic filling process.
     
Now the ceramic material is filled into the spaces between the tiny pieces of copper.
It takes a whole lot of little pieces to do one of these babies. Now the ceramic material is filled into the spaces between the tiny pieces of copper. More of the same.
     
These have been filled and fired. Still more work to go. After more filling and painting and roasting
These have been filled and fired. Still more work to go. After more filling and painting and roasting... This is where they roast them...ok where the fire them.
     
This guy is polishing them after the firing. Filled and fired...ready for more filling and painting I think.  
     
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We finally make it into the showroom. Not just vases though...all kinds of things from dogs to plates.  
     
Cloisonné A big vase...this must have taken a while.
  Pretty good sized show room too. A big vase...this must have taken a while.
     
     
     
 
       
       
 
       
       
 
    Kathy had to buy a few little trinkets...better than lots of big trinkets I guess.  
       
       

 

 

 

 



 
 

 

  

 
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