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This is not much like Marie's unique style, but I liked the contrasts.
Marie Kuyken (1898-1989) designed cloisonne panels from 1918-1922. Her designs were produced by the family firm of Wilhelm A. Kuyken Jr., in Haarlem, Netherlands, which specialized in printing plates for textiles, linoleum and wallpaper. During the First World War, when international business faltered, he and his brother-in-law, the sculptor Hendrik van den Eijnde, changed the focus of the business to the local domestic market. They began using the technique of hammering and punching flat copper strips into wood to make decorative panels and boxes. Marie's designs would be hammered into wooden boxes with red copper and silver strips forming (cloisons) cells, which were then filled with blends of plaster and gelatin in various colors. Marie and her father preferred to see the panels incorporated in a cabinet, a frieze, a mantelpiece or in wall panelling.
Marie designed around forty images, each of which was probably not executed more than six times. The panels are therefore quite rare: the total production is estimated at between 150 and 200 examples, of which around fifty panels are known to have survived.
Read more about her and see her marvelous designs here:
https://www.kunstmuseum.nl/en/exhibitions/cloisonne