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Interesting twisted wire cloisonne necklace
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Posted by: lindabd Post Reply
04/16/2018, 14:41:19

When I first encountered this necklace I thought it might have been broken and reassembled haphazardly. Actually though, it is designed to be asymmetric and the necklace is weighted quite well as designed.
We don't actually have beads here. They are links. The wires test for fine silver all of which is quite oxidized and dark. Every joint is soldered.
The enamel colors are clear and vibrant. Surfaces have not been ground.
There is no stamp of any kind that I can find.
Seems to fit in with other older twisted wire objects that have appeared on this site.
Could it be a 1920s item or earlier even? For what market?

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1970s
Re: Interesting twisted wire cloisonne necklace -- lindabd Post Reply Edit Forum Where am I?
Posted by: beadiste Post Reply
04/16/2018, 21:47:32

There's a difference in the floral pattern used in the Deco-era enameled silver twisted wire beads and those such as yours. And, as you have observed, the enamel is thicker and more saturated in color.

They share the wired links structure that appears in the better cloisonne necklaces from the 1960s-70s, as well as the nicer clasps.

But there are comparatively so many of them, and they are all so similar and in comparatively good condition that I have been unable to convince myself that they are anything other than the production of one post-war workshop, presumably for buyers from Hong Kong, just like the other cloisonne necklaces produced in these decades.

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Re: 1970s - thank you for the reorientation!
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04/16/2018, 22:28:53



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