BUTTERFLY BROOCH
Cloisonné enamelled brooch.
Butterfly body is orange; dark green on the inner wings, both feelers (oval) are gold in colour, attached at head with end of each joined to each wing half way along.
Lines and circle markings on wings and body.
Pin clasp on back centre.
Some deterioration of front enamelling.
Donated by Joan Ellen Cook
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Vitreous enamel, also called porcelain enamel, is a material made by fusing powdered glass to a substrate by firing, usually between 750 and 850 °C (1,380 and 1,560 °F). The powder melts, flows, and then hardens to a smooth, durable vitreous coating. Enamelling is an old and widely adopted technology, for most of its history mainly used in jewellery and decorative art. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitreous_enamel]
Cloisonné first developed in the jewellery of the ancient Near East, and the earliest enamel all used the cloisonné technique, placing the enamel within small cells with gold walls. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloisonné]
