For years I've been fascinated by your work and how it's accomplished. What exactly is cloisonne enamel? Enamel is the process of baking powdered glass onto base metal like copper, silver or gold.

“Making [cloisonné] is incredibly time-consuming,” says Davies. “A single cloisonné bead can involve hundreds of hours.” Each bead is set with a gold wire inlay, which is then filled with glass enamel ...

Visitors admire cloisonne artworks on display at the showroom of Beijing Enamel Factory on June 28. JIA TIANYONG/CHINA NEWS SERVICE Bent over a luminous vase of pink peonies, a young craftsman guided ...

“There are maybe one or two factories in China that can still do it at this level,” designer Marc Newson says of cloisonné, the ancient technique of inlaying enamel into dainty patterns on metal.