Victorian gold bracelet with Japanese sceneries in damascene technique

The first thing noticeable about this magnificent bracelet is the high-quality craftsmanship required to create the lovely scenes on each link. Eight little pieces of art, each telling its own story in low relief in various colours of gold. We have a strong feeling that these scenes refer to one or more (Japanese?) stories or fairy tales, but we were unable to trace back more information on them. The technique used here is called "Damascening", "zougan", or "shakudo", which is the art of inlaying different metals into one another. This technique has a long history in Japan, where it was used to decorate sword fittings. Just take a look at the individual picture of each link and be as amazed as we are.

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