Facetted Chinese Cloisonne Dragon Vases
You must be a subscriber, and be logged in to view price and dealer details.
Subscribe Now to view actual auction price for this item
When you subscribe, you have the option of setting the currency in which to display prices to $Au, $US, $NZ or Stg.
- Faceting - Faceting is a technique of removing material from a curved surface, to give a series of flat surfaces but retaining the profile of the original surface.
The technique is most commonly associated with diamond cutting where the various cuts used such as rose cut and brilliant cut, add life and sparkle to the stone, whilst at the same time removing as little of the stone as possible.
Faceting by grinding is also used to decorate glass. The stems of many drinking glasses are decorated by cutting a series of flat surfaces on a circular stem, and hollow vessels such as vases may have faceted surfaces.
In furniture faceting is often applied to legs of tables and chairs, where a circular baluster shaped section is flattened so as to form an octagonal section.
This item has been included into following indexes:
Visually similar items
Pair of Chinese Champleve vases, with twin handle mystical animal handles and floral enamel decoration, height 32 cm
A Chinese cloisonne baluster vase, Qing Dynasty, late 19th century, the ruyi fungus shaped and lobed vase well decorated with auspicious Buddhist symbols to sectioned turquoise panels to the body in colours within gold wire inlay, similarly decorated upon
A pair of modern Chinese enamel ovoid vases, 31 cm high
Pair of early large Chinese porcelain vases, decorated with figural scene and foo dog handles to each side, height 36 cm approx (one A/F to top rim)