Cloisonné Enamel Craft

Name and category

According to the public notice of January 2024, Cloisonné Enamel Craft is one of the new inscriptions in the recommended list for the fourth batch of district-level intangible cultural heritage items, in the traditional fine-art category. Together with Lishui Traditional Flower Arrangement Craft, it was submitted by the Yongyang Subdistrict Office.

Applicant and locality

The applicant unit named in the notice is the Yongyang Subdistrict Office, and the recommended guardian unit is the Yongyang Subdistrict culture and sports station. An article by the Jiangsu Provincial Local Gazetteers Office says that Yongyang has a wealth of intangible heritage, with "paper-cutting, traditional flower arrangement, cloisonné enamel and embroidery passing down from generation to generation"; its short form "cloisonné enamel" presumably denotes the same craft as this item. The article's wording is abbreviated, and this entry records both forms without merging them.

Local transmission

According to a Dragon Boat Festival programme published by Xinhua Jiangsu in May 2025, Liangpengxia village in Yongyang Subdistrict offered intangible-heritage experiences amid its gardenia slopes, and the craftsmen present demonstrated, among other crafts, this cloisonné enamel craft. This confirms that the craft has a venue for teaching and display within Yongyang Subdistrict, though the report names no bearer and states no level.

Wording of the item name

The name joins two terms, one a conventional label for this kind of enamelware and the other a description of the wire-and-enamel technique. The notice does not say whether the two are used as synonyms or refer to different things, and this entry follows the wording as it stands.

Bearer

The same notice lists Zhang Juhua as a bearer in this batch, for Cloisonné Enamel Craft. Three other entries in the list of bearers are attached to items that do not appear in the recommended project list of this batch; no level is inferred for them. The items are recorded in the notice as follows:

陶艺烧造技艺、洪蓝传统牛肉制作技艺、金陵派古琴演奏技艺

Translated: Pottery Firing, Honglan Traditional Beef Making, and Jinling-school Guqin Playing.

Zhang Juhua's teachers and line of transmission are not given by any source in this library.

Points in doubt

First, whether the two terms in the item name are synonyms or denote different things is not stated in the notice.

Second, no source in this library directly describes the processes of this project. The general steps of the craft seen at community and school workshops, such as wire inlay, enamelling, enamel firing, grinding and gilding, are popularising material rather than a record of this project, and this entry does not adopt them.

To be added

• the body material and the steps of forming it;
• the individual steps of wire inlay, enamelling, firing, grinding and gilding;
• the shapes, patterns and uses of the objects;
• the line of transmission, the workshops and the safeguarding measures.

All of the above remain absent after searching this library's seven source layers, namely official web pages, published notices and lists, the local-gazetteer system, academic papers, classical full texts, media reports and maps; this entry adds nothing by conjecture.