Price is per two of these beautiful beads - large 22mm with largeish 2mm hole. Yellow Chinese dragon over the bead - dragon's bring luck & good feng shui. Both the dragon and yellow represent the Emperor in Imperial China!
Decorative enamel work in which metal filaments are fused to the surface of an object to outline a design that is filled in with enamel paste.
Cloisonné enamelware dates back over 500 years in China. Being especially popular during part of the Ming Dynasty (mid 15th-centure). Owing to its brilliant colours and designs, cloisonné has been highly appraised around the world. Hand crafted by an elaborate and complicated process of hammering, soldering, enamel-filling, enamel firing, polishing and gilding. Cloisonné beads are no different in this process, and their energies are similar to those of flaked stone.
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