Macassar Wood Hand-Carved Horse Head Tall Box

This stunning large orientalist decorative lidded box is from the French Art Deco period. The Africanist influence design boasts Macassar wood hand-carved faces on the lid. The recta...

This elegant French Art Deco modernist decorative lidded box boasts a minimalist yet refined and sophisticated shape with varnish Macassar wood ornate with tropical wooden edging tri...

This remarkable modernist decorative box dates back to the 1970s. It boasts a tall structure that's sure to capture anyone's attention. The box is square-shaped and features an inter...

This elegant Art Deco decorative cookie box or candy jar with a serving bowl insert was manufactured in France in the 1930s. The modernist design boasts a chromed metal and Macassar ...

Valenti, Spain, designed this lovely high-end quality modernist decorative lidded box in the 1980s. The yachting style has a tropical wood faceted body with a brass lid and handles. ...

This is a luxury Art Deco sterling silver and wood-lidded box hand-crafted by silversmith Adriana Binazzi, Firenze, Italy, in the 1930s. The rectangular shape boasts a refined compos...

An unusual hand carved log / wood trinket box, circa 1980s. The box has a removable drawer and is in great vintage condition; it measures 4" d x 5.5...

This is a heavy large wood box decorated with hand painted porcelain plaques in the front and both sides of it. They feature some cupids dancing while p...

Made in Czechoslovakia Made of wood, Veneer Good original condition.   

Rounded square pill box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with white fired enamel, above and below, with hand painted horse head. Dimensions cm. 5.2 x 5.2 x 2.3. Weight gr. 117. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1966 on the inspiration of previous artefacts made in the English Art Nouveau style of the early 1900s and manufactured in the Salimbeni company headquarters in Florence in numerous specimens also with different subjects, with completely manual execution by artisan artists with a slab of high thickness suitable for supporting numerous enamelled firings at around 800°C. Miniature is a very ancient technique which consists of painting works in small proportions. It was born for the decoration of the first letter of the paragraph of the books. Over the years, however, this technique is refined and enriched, then moving on to precious personal items. Hand-painted miniatures can be done with multiple different techniques. The most important that we use on our articles are of three kinds: 1) Fire enamel. 2) Water tempera on an ivory plate. 3) Painted on mother-of-pearl. Fire enameled miniatures: On a first layer of enamel generally white or very clear or even transparent suitably liquefied at a temperature of about 750 ° C, the chosen subject is painted using miniature colors which are as many colored crystals, ground and reduced to a very fine, almost impalpable powder washed and purified in distilled water with the addition of small quantities of deoxidizing acids which, diluted with essential oils (usually essential oil of solder), can be mixed to form a palette of colors. With very fine sable hair brushes you draw the subject starting from the perimeter and then gradually adding various layers of color. It is necessary to carry out various firings very often so that the colors harden and are not absorbed by the underlying glaze as, during the subsequent firings at 750 ° C, during liquefaction, it would spread irremediably. Hence the need to form the painting a little at a time, cooking it numerous times. Therefore it is necessary to proceed with numerous retouching, often overlapping different colors that only the painter's experience knows. A beautiful miniature needs from 20 to over 50 firings and is finished when the painter deems he does not have to further intervene. Some colors must have darker tones than others because then, by superimposing the transparent enamel placed at the end of the miniature, they fade. This transparent layer, called “fondant” in jargon, must be smoothed and polished like all other translucent enamel colors. The miniatures with water tempera colors are painted on real...

Carved wood villagers trinket box This box measures: 21 wide x 11 deep x 10 inches high This box is in good vintage condition with one hinge in need of repair, key is attached...

A simple hinged wooden box with carving. The box would be ideal for 420, notes, recipes, or on the desk to hold paper clips, rubber bands, etc. or on the nightstand. A beautiful ...