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(Among the most impressive of Ming pottery types chiefly vases and jars decorated with floral motifs in turquoise,purple,yellow and deep violet blue, the colours separated by raised lines in imitation of the metal strips used in cloisonne work)from the book "The culture of China" page 176 by Kathleen Kuiper.Is this an example?? the enamel raised lines moved after firing.All the gold is applied using kinrande technique.The colours used you find in Ming dynasty.japanese 19th century cloisonne is of extremely fine quality and this doesn't seem to be

Perhaps Japanese, but quite crude. Not Chinese. I'm uncertain of the type of decoration the text you quoted is describing, could it be fahua decoration? If so, your item is not an example of fahua. See: http://gotheborg.com/glossary/fahua.shtml

Here's a fahua-decorated jar in the Freer Gallery: https://www.freersackler.si.edu/object/F1945.1/

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