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Chinese cloisonne beads from the late 1970s
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Posted by: beadiste Post Reply
06/07/2021, 10:01:58

Recently I purchased a box of 15mm beads from an importer who described them as old stock from the late 1970s.

I was delighted to find that many of them feature tiny butterflies and birds on the other side of the bead from a blossom motif.

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Nice score!!
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Posted by: Rosanna Post Reply
06/07/2021, 10:15:52



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Posted by: Rosanna Post Reply
06/08/2021, 06:24:04



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Congrats! Wonderful find!
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Posted by: Joyce Post Reply
06/08/2021, 22:21:45



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Re: Chinese cloisonne beads from the late 1970s/ Lovely! Congrats!
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Posted by: AnneLFG Post Reply
06/08/2021, 23:54:52

Bead lover, collector since Age 15, semi-retired had wholesale/retail bead, folk art, tribal art store Lost and Found Gallery for 25 yrs. in DT Greensboro, NC

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Bird beads on Ebay
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Posted by: beadiste Post Reply
06/15/2021, 09:06:08

By way of comparison, a necklace of 15mm beads that recently sold on eBay for about $340.

I think the larger swallows and sky swirls make for a more dramatic design. These swallows are a pretty much a trademark of products of the Beijing Enamel Factory (JingFa) circa the 1970s.

I bid on this necklace because I felt obliged to, but was relieved to be outbid, mainly because I have a dislike of that brick red enamel. The birds are neatly depicted in an appealing variety of color schemes, however, so I think this is a good example of better Chinese cloisonne beads.

The leaves seem somewhat similar to the water weeds accompanying beads with koi.

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Very cute!
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Posted by: Beadman Post Reply
06/16/2021, 15:09:42

I wonder why I never saw these sorts of cloisonné beads in the 1970s (?). At that time I often went to the stores of Chinese merchants in San Francisco, that provided new and old beads. (That's where I first found Chinese millefiori beads on tassels—offered as "ceramics.")

I did see and buy occasional new floral cloisonné beads at that time. As well as a few old champlevé beads. I could not afford to buy much—but I saw what was offered.

JDA.



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Example of a typical JingFa bird from the 70s-80s
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Posted by: beadiste Post Reply
06/19/2021, 20:57:08

A magpie, maybe

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