Impey, Oliver, and Joyce Seaman, Japanese Decorative Arts of the Meiji Period 1868-1912, Ashmolean Handbooks (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2005), no. 40 on p. 84, pp. 8 & 74, illus. pp. 84-85
cloisonné, moriage
Decorative technique in which wires are attached to a metal body and coloured enamels are applied between the wires.
Type of low relief decoration found in ceramics, cloisonné enamel, lacquerware, and painting.
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