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Material: Silver
Tortoiseshell and Silver Box
Located in Tampa, FL
A very attractive tortoiseshell box with silver, on ivory ball feet. English hallmarks on sterling, circa 1880s. The interior has two compartments.
Category
1880s English Antique Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Small Italian Mid-Century Modern Lapis & 800 Silver Dresser Box or Table Casket
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine small sized Italian Mid-Century Modern dresser or table box.
With sheets of lapis lazuli on black marble and mounted with a fine 800 silver mount and hinge.
Simply a won...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Lapis Lazuli, Silver
Italian 1920 Renaissance Revival Enameled Octagonal Box in .800 Silver
Located in Miami, FL
An Italian enamelled snuff box.
Colorful box, created in Italy, back in the 1920. It was crafted in an octagonal shape with neoclassical and renaissance Revival motifs in solid .8...
Category
1920s Italian Renaissance Revival Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver, Enamel
Cigarette Case Fired Enamel with Still Life Miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table cigarette case with rounded corners in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated with beautiful miniature fire enamelled and hand painted by the painter Beatrice Mellana reproducing a "still life" by the Flemish painter Willem Claes Heda. Dimensions cm. 5.7 x 9 x 1.7. Weight gr. 174. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1969 and manufactured in Florence in numerous specimens with various subjects and different colors, in the headquarters of the Salimbeni Company with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for withstanding numerous enamelled firings at about 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 ivory...
Category
1960s Italian Art Deco Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Enamel, Sterling Silver
German Imperial 1890s Victorian-Art Nouveau Repousse Box Solid Sterling Silver
Located in Miami, FL
Gorgeous German box in sterling silver.
An impressive highly decorated north European piece, made in Germany during the Imperial period, circa 1890-1910. It was totally crafted in repousse of solid .800/.999 sterling silver, with the interiors parts gilded with 24 karats gold. Is suited with a hinged lid that fit securely.
Surely, this box, was a birth or birthday present, since the surface is totally embellished with elaborated and intricates repousse designs with the figures of 7 winged baby children (putties) playing with ribbons.
It is pretty heavy, with a total weight of 902.94 grams and a measures of 6.75 by 6.5 by 4.5 inches (17.15 x 16.51 x 11.43 Cm).
Stamped, with the maker's mark, the German hallmark of a crescent moon with a royal crown (halbmond und reichskrone...
Category
1890s German Victorian Antique Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Signed Japanese Steel Shakudo Damascene Box with a Shimazu Mon
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine antique 20th century Japanese Amita Damascene Steel Box.
Made of damascened steel inlaid with gold & silver.
The lid of the box has gilt depictions of bamboo plants, whi...
Category
20th Century Japanese Showa Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Silver, Copper, Steel
Coco De Mer Nut Sculptural Box by Antony Redmile, London
Located in Palm Desert, CA
This is a rare and magnificent object fashioned from a rare coco de mer nut and Ostrich egg by Antony Redmile. The box is secured to a wooden base with a silvered stand, holding both sides of the coconut. The coconut is a rich dark chocolate brown and appears to be warmly polished. The top of the box is silvered and adorned with beautiful malachite specimens. 2 small cast resin boar's teeth set with malachite are present on either side of the box, much like handles. Decorative silvered fittings hold ostrich eggs that serve as the lids to the box. Finally, a silvered fitting holds an oval malachite finial...
Category
1970s English Mid-Century Modern Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Malachite, Silver Plate
Unusual Art Deco Sterling Silver Table Box With Hinged Lid
By Hassett & Harper Ltd
Located in New York, NY
Unusual, rare, Art Deco Period, footed sterling silver table box with rounded, hinged lid, Birmingham, England, year-hallmarked for 1938, Hassett and Harper Ltd. - makers. Underside ...
Category
1930s American Art Deco Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Silver and Enamel Art Deco Musical Cigarette and Singing Bird Box
Located in London, GB
A rare and exquisite silver and enamel Art Deco musical cigarette and singing bird box.
the singing bird with good multitone feathered plumage with highlights in red, yellow and blue, moving beak, tailfeather, flapping wings and turning in-sync to the continuous and melodic birdsong, rising through chased and pierced gilt grille, bird-form centrum, matt gilt bird lid interior, actuated by pull to the side.
The separate musical movement within the case playing the rondo theme from the Fledermaus waltz by Strauss, from the single-air cylinder Cruendet movement, actuated from hidden start/stop pin in the cigarette compartment lid.
The lined interior for cigarettes with matching matt gilt interior, within the stunning high-Art Deco case of rectangular form, with twin ovals with turquoise enamel ground and chased diamond-form gilt centres, one of which is the bird lid, all framed by ever decreasing alternate white enamel and tooled silver bands, the widths and ends of the case with matching design and with oblong centres, cigarette lid with plain raised thump grip, the underside with matt gilt finish, captive musical movement winding key and singing bird winding spindle, all raised upon four elegant silver bracket feet...
Category
1920s French Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver, Enamel
Art Deco 1930 Swiss Centerpiece Compote with Lid in Gilded .925 Sterling Silver
Located in Miami, FL
An important Swiss art deco centerpiece.
Beautiful and unusual antique piece, created in Switzerland during the Art Deco period, back in the 1930s. This round center compote has b...
Category
1930s Swiss Art Deco Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver, Gold
Chinese Gilt Silver Cloisonne Box with Jade Medallions, Jeweled with Gemstones
Located in Gardena, CA
Chinese Gilt Silver Cloisonne Box with Jade medallions, circa 1900, jeweled with jade, carnelian Shaded enamel, Elevated wires. Heart shape.
Addition...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
Gabriella Crespi Tortoise and Sterling Silver Box
Located in New York, NY
Gabriella Crespi tortoise and sterling silver box. Vintage Crespi cylindrical cigarette case with engraved Gabriella Crespi logo monogram and original ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Cassetti, Large Sterling Silver Box, Jewelry/ Decorative, with Wood Lining
By Cassetti
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Beautiful large sterling silver box by Cassetti, marked. Nice wood lining.
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Post-Modern Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Los Castillo Taxco Handcrafted Mexico Silverplate Turquoise & Malachite Bowl
Located in San Diego, CA
Wonderful silverplated Los Castillos bowl with an inlayed malachite and turquoise edge. This wonderful bowl dates from the 1950's and was made in Taxco...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mexican Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver Plate
Oval Pill Box Monochrome Fired Enamel Landscape Miniature Art Nouveau Style Ster
Located in Firenze, FI
Oval pillbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with hand painted fine monochrome fire enamelled miniature depicting a landscape in Art Nouveau style. Dimensions cm. 4.5 x 5.5 x 1.4. Weight gr. 70. Designed by Giorgio Salimbeni in 1977 and manufactured in Florence in some specimens with various subjects and different colors, in the headquarters of the Salimbeni company with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for withstanding numerous enamelled firings at about 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 ivory...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Mauro Manetti Duck Ice Bucket, Italy, 1970s
Located in Munich, DE
Elegant silver plated duck ice bucket by Mauro Manetti, with an metal inlay inside and signed on the bottom.
Category
1970s European Mid-Century Modern Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal, Silver Plate
Herend Lidded Trinket Box in Porcelain with Hand-Painted Purple Flowers
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Herend lidded trinket box in porcelain with hand-painted purple flowers and gold decoration. Lid modelled with a rose bud.
Mid-20th century.
Measures: 14...
Category
Early 20th Century Hungarian Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Stainless Steel
Snuffbox Fired Enamel Miniature on Lid Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rounded rectangular snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with hand-painted fire-enamelled miniature on the lid. Early 1900s English Art Nouveau style. Measurements cm. 5....
Category
1960s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Stunning French Silver & Guilloche Enamel Pill Box
Located in Bath, GB
An absolutely stunning enamel box, French in origin with the boars head mark for solid silver (minimum 800/1000). The goldsmith's makers mark is also present, I think GB but a little...
Category
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver, Enamel
Set of Unusual Spanish Crab Boxes in Solid Silver
Located in London, GB
Set of unusual Spanish crab boxes in solid silver
Spanish, 20th Century
Height 4cm, width 9cm, depth 7cm
The delightful boxes in this set of four are cra...
Category
20th Century Spanish Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
English Victorian Burl Wood Makeup Box
Located in New York, NY
English Victorian burl wood traveling vanity / make up box with ebonized trim edge and a small lower drawer; interior holding 9 various silver boxes and...
Category
Late 19th Century British Victorian Antique Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
Antique English Coromandel Fitted Traveling Vanity Dressing Box, circa 1870
Located in Pearland, TX
A superb antique 19th century English coromandel and rosewood fitted travel vanity or dressing box, circa 1870. This fine box contains the original contents including silverplate lidded cut glass jars, sewing tools...
Category
Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver Plate
Snuff Box Octagonal English Queen Anne style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Octagonal snuff box in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated with borders in the English Queen Anne style and sides with translucent fired enamels on ...
Category
1980s Italian Queen Anne Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box “The Great Odalisque” Fired Enamel on Guilloche Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
table box in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated with edges with fire - enamelled stripes and upper frame with insertion of paillons in pure gold and beautRectangular iful fire-enam...
Category
1960s Italian Empire Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Enamel, Sterling Silver
Mid-Century Mexican Abalone Box
Located in Tampa, FL
A very decorative mixed metal box adorned with abalone and little bit of silver. Has tiny ball feet and a rosewood interior. circa 1940s, signed Mexico.
Category
1940s Mexican Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal, Silver
Pair of Antique Picnic Boxes in Silver Plate by Thornhill & Company, c. 1910
Located in London, London
A fine pair of antique silver plated picnic boxes, made and retailed by Thornhill & Company of 144 Bond Street London.
Each box measuring 3.25"(8cm) tall, by 8.5"(21.5cm) wide, b...
Category
1910s English Edwardian Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver Plate
Antique Japanese Meiji-Era Silver Box with Iris Flowers
Located in New York, NY
Japanese silver box, ca 1890. Rectangular with straight sides and hinged cover. On cover top and box sides are chased and engraved iris flowers and tendril...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Art Nouveau Antique Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
Antique Middle Eastern Sterling Silver Pierced Potpourri Box, Mini Portraits
Located in Gardena, CA
Antique Middle Eastern Sterling Silver Pierced Potpourri Box, Mini Portraits
A pierced sterling silver table potpourri box, with two finely painted mi...
Category
20th Century Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Pill Box Hand Painted Miniature of a Lady with Small Dog, Art Nouveau Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Domed round 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated pillbox with fire enamels above and below, and hand-painted miniature of a lady with small dog, in Viennese Art Nouveau style second ...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Puiforcat Ridged Silver Cigarette Box, circa 1940
Located in London, GB
A stylish cigarette box in reeded silver with cedar lining by Jean Emile Puiforcat (1897-1945), French Art Deco silversmith, sculptor and designer...
Category
1940s French Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
Tiffany Mid-Century Modern Sterling Silver Box
Located in New York, NY
Mid-Century Modern sterling silver box. Made by Tiffany & Co. in New York. Rectangular with straight sides. Cover flat and hinged with flat molded rim. Box interior cedar lined and p...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Unique Silver Box by K Anderson Stockholm Sweden 1932 Signed
Located in Paris, FR
Unique silver box by K Anderson Stockholm Sweden 1932 signed K anderson and has all the embossed with all stamps for Swedish silver.
This unique model probably custom made by K Ande...
Category
Mid-20th Century European Mid-Century Modern Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal, Silver
Egg on Tripod Hand Painted Sterling Silver Enamel on Guillochè Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Egg on tripod in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè, Russian Empire style inspired by Carl Fabergè eggs ...
Category
1960s Italian Other Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Enamel, Sterling Silver, Gold Plate
Antique Sterling Silver & Enamel Arabian Box with Chased Decoration
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This antique box is signed by an unknown maker, but presumed to have originated from the UAE and date to approximately 1920 and done in the period Bessarabian style. The box is compo...
Category
Late 19th Century Emirian Bessarabian Antique Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box Enamel on Guilloche and Hand Painted Miniature Sterling Silver Salimb
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular box with inward corners in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated with beautiful miniature fire enameled and hand painted by the painter Beatrice Mellana depicting the painting "The Turkish slave" by Francesco Mazzola known as "il Parmigianino" (National Gallery of Parma). Dimensions cm. 8.5 x 11.5 x 3. Weight gr. 345. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1965 and manufactured in Florence in numerous specimens with various different subjects, in the headquarters of the Salimbeni company with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for withstanding numerous high-fire enameled firings at about 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 ivory...
Category
1960s Italian Baroque Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box Enamel on Guilloche Hand Painted Miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Square box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè also on the sides. In the center, a beautiful hand painted tempera miniature on a vegetable ivory plate depicting the portrait of a 19th century lady, signed by the painter Anna Maria Manfriani. Dimensions cm. 12 x 12 x 2.5. Weight gr. 618. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1976 and manufactured in Florence in some specimens with various subjects and different colors, in the headquarters of the Salimbeni Company with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for withstanding numerous enamelled firings at about 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 ivory...
Category
1970s Italian Modern Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Enamel, Sterling Silver
Antique English Glass & Sterling Silver String / Twine Jar or Box, 1899
Located in Bath, GB
A most unusual late Victorian fine string or twine box made from glass with a star cut base, the base mounted with a sterling silver foot and fitted with a solid silver lid topped wi...
Category
1890s British Late Victorian Antique Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Mid-18th Century German Engraved Sterking Silver Box
Located in Brescia, IT
This fine sterling silver box is a piece of high craftmenship. All the surfaces are finely engraved with rich Baroque decor. It is a little jewel of handmade work.
It was a jewel bo...
Category
Mid-18th Century German Baroque Antique Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Sterling Silver Box Samodorok technique Russia unknown marquer 1960
Located in Paris, FR
Sterling Silver box made with Samodorok technique in Russia 1960 Unknown maker
The inside of the lid is gilded, 9.5 x 14.5 cm, height 4.5 cm. Total weight C. 330 g.
Good condition.
Category
Mid-20th Century European Mid-Century Modern Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Indian Silver Mounted and Semi-Precious Stone Encrusted Large Wood Chest
Located in Gardena, CA
Indian silver mounted and semi-precious stone encrusted large wood chest
2nd Half 20th century. Silver mounts to the exterior with various semi-pre...
Category
Late 20th Century Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
Snuff Box Monocrome Miniature Hand Painted Sterling Silver Enamel Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Round snuff box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fired enamel on the enameled edge with vertical stripes and fine monochrome miniature hand painted by the painter Renato Dainelli. Diameter cm. 6.2 cm high. 3.4. Weight gr. 222. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1967 and produced in Florence in the Salimbeni company headquarters with manual workmanship by skilled artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for withstanding numerous high-fire enamelled firings at approximately 750 < 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 ivory...
Category
1960s Italian Baroque Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Jewelry box inward corners miniature hand painted Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Large rectangular tabletop jewelery box with inward corners in gilded 925/1000 silver with translucent fired enamel on guillochè also on the sides and finished with fine hand engraving. In the center, a beautiful rectangular miniature cm. 4 x 5.5 hand painted in tempera on vegetable ivory plate by Roberto Masi depicting the portrait of Madame Boucard by Tamara De Lempicka (1931). Size cm. 14 x 19 x 3.2. Weight gr. 1,248. Designed by Giorgio Salimbeni in 1998 and manufactured in Florence in various specimens with different subjects and colours, in the headquarters of the Salimbeni company with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for withstanding numerous glazing firings at high heat about 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...
Category
1990s Italian Art Deco Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
1940s Silver Boxe in the Renaissance Style
Located in Bois-Colombes, FR
Very unusual silver boxe showing Four women around a breast
Italy
circa 1940s
Part of varnish left., Excepted that great overall condition
See pictures.
Category
20th Century Italian Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
Antique Sterling Silver and Glass Combination Scent Bottle / Vinaigrette
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive, large antique Victorian English sterling silver combination scent bottle / vinaigrette; an addition to our diverse collectable silverware collection
This exceptional and large antique Victorian sterling silver combination vinaigrette and scent bottle has an oval cylindrical shaped form.
This exceptional bottle is comprised of a cut glass body, overlaid with impressive sterling silver covering embellished with pierced and embossed floral decoration, incorporating interlacing scrolling leaf and daffodil designs.
The piece retains the original hallmarked screw fit cover to the antique scent bottle...
Category
19th Century English Victorian Antique Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Table Box Hand-Engraved and Miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table box with rounded corners in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated with a beautiful hand-engraved and fire-enamelled frame and in the center a beautiful hand painted miniature by the painter Beatrice Mellana reproducing the painting by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres "Odalisque with slave". Dimensions cm. 9.5 x 12.3 x 3.3. Weight gr. 671. Designed by Giorgio Salimbeni in 1979 and manufactured in Florence in numerous specimens with various subjects and different colors, in the headquarters of the Salimbeni Company with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for withstanding numerous enamelled firings at about 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...
Category
1970s Italian Art Deco Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Cigarette Case Fired Enamel on a Fine Hand-Engraved Mountain Landscape Sterling
Located in Firenze, FI
Rounded rectangular snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with beautiful fire enamelled miniature hand painted by the painter Simone Dainelli inspired by the paintings of Boris Vallejo, in fantastic contemporary style, with hand-engraved frame. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1967 and manufactured in Florence in numerous specimens with various subjects and different colors, in the headquarters of the Salimbeni company with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for withstanding numerous high-fire enamelled firings at about 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 ivory...
Category
1960s Italian Modern Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Enamel, Sterling Silver
Table Box Fired Enamel on Guillochè Arab-Style Ornament Sterling Silver Salimben
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular box with rounded corners in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè with hand-engraved and enamelled Arab-style ornament. Dimensio...
Category
1990s Italian Modern Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Antique French Sterling Neoclassical 'Four Seasons' Tea Caddy
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Antique French Sterling neoclassical 'Four Seasons' tea caddy
France, circa 1880s
A hefty, highly detailed silver tea caddy/ box, with remo...
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Materials
Sterling Silver
Silver Box Austria-Hungary 18th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
SILVER BOX
Austria-Hungary 18th Century
in silver with profuse decoration inspired by the Crimean War, in which Russia lost to an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, United K...
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18th Century Austrian Baroque Antique Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
Italian Futurist Crystal Enameled Box with Silver Sculpture, Italy, 1933
Located in Roma, IT
Incredible futurist multifaceted crystal glass box, this stunning piece was produced in Italy in 1933, as it features the 800 silver engraving that w...
Category
1930s Italian Futurist Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Silver
Art Deco Sterling Silver Box
Located in Miami, FL
A stylish minimalistic Art Deco Sterling Silver box.
Made in France.
Category
20th Century French Art Deco Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
20th Century Italian Sterling Silver Table Box
By Pampaloni
Located in VALENZA, IT
Rectangular/octagonal table box in 925 silver.
The box was completely handmade in Florence at the end of the last century.
Engraved with floral and abstract motifs, it has been fin...
Category
1990s Italian Other Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Antique 1890s Burmese Silver Box
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique Burmese silver box; an addition to our diverse Asian silverware collection.
This exceptional antique Bu...
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1890s Burmese Antique Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
Japanese Meiji Period Silver Box Signed Masayuki
Located in Newark, England
Japanese Meiji period silver box with shibuichi plaque dating circa 1900. The box of rectangular form with a silver polished case stamped Jungin (J...
Category
Early 1900s Meiji Antique Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
Snuffbox Vessel Miniature Hand-Painted Sterling Silver Enamel Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Shaped snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fired enamel inserted in a fine hand engraving and with round miniature diameter cm. 3.3 hand painted always with fire enamels depicting a sailing ship. Early 19th century Viennese Baroque style. Fine hand engraving on all sides and bottom. Measurements cm. 7.5 x 7.5 x 2. Weight gr. 151. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1976 on inspiration of ancient original artifacts and manufactured in Florence at the Salimbeni company headquarters in several specimens, also with different colors and miniatures, with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick slabs and large reinforcements suitable for supporting numerous high-fire enamelled firings at approximately 750 < 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 ivory...
Category
1970s Italian Baroque Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Antique Tiffany & Co. Chrysanthemum Silver Gilt Box
Located in New York, NY
Chrysanthemum gilt sterling silver box. Made by Tiffany & Co. in New York. Traditional lobed and ovoid bowl with short and inset neck and splayed volute scroll supports. Cover hinged...
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Late 19th Century American Japonisme Antique Silver Decorative Boxes
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Sterling Silver
Victorian Burl Walnut Gentlemans Dressing Box
Located in Essex, MA
Rectangular hinged top opening to a box fitted with sterling capped jars and tools. One lid is damaged.
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1850s English Victorian Antique Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
One-Off Winsor & Newton Queen Elizabeth Jubilee Sterling Silver 1977 Artist Box
Located in GB
We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely one of a kind Winsor & Newton 1977 Queen Elizabeth Jubilee presentation with sterling silver ...
Category
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Materials
Crystal, Sterling Silver
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