Vases made using the Cloisonnet technique

In the art of colored enamel on metal, the term “cloisonné” refers to the cloisonné technique, which replaced the more labor-intensive champlevé enamel practiced by medieval craftsmen, in particular the French city of Limoges in the 12th-13th centuries. According to one version, such a transition occurred under the influence of the art of engraving and the technique of soldered cloisonné stained glass, which was also at one time called “cloisonne”. Limoges craftsmen began to solder onto metal products - vessels, church reliquaries, plaques, decorations - metal partitions “on the end” along the contour of the future design, and the gaps were filled with powder from metal oxides and melt (glass-forming mass). After firing, the molten enamel filled the gaps. A similar technique in jewelry is called filigree