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Creator: Franco Salimbeni
Egg style Faberge Blue Enamel Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Large egg on smooth tripod with 8-day mechanical skeletal Swiss movement with alarm, in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guilloché with Russian E...
Category
1960s Italian Empire Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Egg style Faberge Blue Ocean Enamel Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Egg on engraved tripod in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guilloché, Russian Empire style inspired by the eggs of Carl Fabergé, late 19th centur...
Category
1960s Italian Empire Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Snuff Box fine hand engraving, fire enamelled, in “Rococo” style Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fine hand engraving, fire enamelled, in “Rococo” style from the early 19th century. Measurements cm. 4.5 x 7.7 x 2. ...
Category
1980s Italian Rococo Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold Plate
Egg style Faberge Aquamarine Enamel Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Egg on tripod engraved in 925/1000 gilded silver with translucent enamel on fire on guilloché, Russian Empire style inspired by the eggs of Carl Fabergé late 19th century, early 20th...
Category
1960s Italian Empire Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Egg style Faberge Enamel Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Large egg on smooth tripod with 8-day mechanical skeletal Swiss movement with alarm, in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guilloché and hand-paint...
Category
1960s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Egg style Faberge folding photo holder Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Egg on engraved tripod with octagonal folding photo holder for 6 photos inside, in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated, with translucent fired enamels on guilloché and pure gold “pa...
Category
1960s Italian Empire Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold
Table Box mechanical musical movement and miniature fired enamel Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Large rectangular table box with concave corners, with mechanical musical movement with 3 different motifs by the Swiss company Reuge S.A. in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated wit...
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Cigarette Box like lapis lazuli stone enamel on guilloche Salimbeni.
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular with rounded corners table box for cigarettes in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent enamels on a radial guilloché an...
Category
1970s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Pill Box pocket engraved and enamel Silver Sterling Enamel Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Large square pocket pill box with rounded corners and sides, in 925/1000 sterling silver with very fine hand engraving in baroque style, fire enamell...
Category
1970s Italian Baroque Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Egg on Tripod Hand Painted Sterling Silver Enamel on Guillochè Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco 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 Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Snuff box perforated, embossed and hand-engraved lid and miniature Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Shaped snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with perforated, embossed and hand-engraved lid, with fine oval miniature cm. 3.2 x 4.5 hand painted in tempera on vegetable i...
Category
1970s Italian Rococo Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Cigarette Box Rectangular for table blue enamel on guilloche Salimbeni.
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular with rounded corners table box for cigarettes in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent enamels on a radial guilloché an...
Category
1970s Italian Modern Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Rectangular table cigarette case two-tone fire-enamelled stripes Salimbeni.
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table cigarette case with rounded upper long sides, in 925/100 sterling silver and two-tone fire-enamelled stripes in a modern contemp...
Category
1970s Italian Modern Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box in Malachite with Hinged Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Large rectangular table box in malachite with hinged frame in 925/1000 sterling Silver gold plated. The malachite is a large single whole slab on the lid and the stone design becomes...
Category
1970s Italian Art Deco Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Malachite, Sterling Silver
Snuff Box Perforated Lid, Embossed and Engraved Miniature Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Square snuff box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with perforated lid, embossed and engraved by hand, with fine round miniature diameter cm. 3.8 hand painted in tempera on veg...
Category
1970s Italian Renaissance Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Snuff Box Oval curved Green Enamel Guilloche Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Oval curved snuff-box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold-plated with translucent fired enamels on guilloché, above and below. Modern contemporary style. Size cm. 4.5 x 6.5 x 2.3. Weigh...
Category
Early 2000s Italian Modern Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Snuff Box perforated, with a fine round miniature Salimbeni.
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Shaped snuff box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with perforated, embossed and hand-engraved lid, with a fine round miniature, diameter 3.8 cm, hand-painted in tempera on veg...
Category
1960s Italian Art Deco Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Snuffbox with miniature of Venice, English Queen Anne style, 925 silver Salimben
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Octagonal snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with English Queen Anne style borders and sides with translucent fired enamel on hand engraving similar to wood grain. On t...
Category
1980s Italian Queen Anne Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Snuff Box Black enamel Baroque style engraving Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Shaped table snuff box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fine fire-enamelled baroque style engraving. Very fine hand engraving on all surfaces. Dimensions cm. 6.2 x 7.8 cm...
Category
1970s Italian Baroque Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Cigarette Case Black and White Art Deco Style Fire Enamel Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Ladies’ cigarette case rectangular convex “olive” shape in 925/1000 sterling silver with black and white fire enamel with Art Deco style design. With “lost” hinge, that is semi-invis...
Category
1970s Italian Art Deco Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Cigarette Case enamel and hand-engraved in Napoleon III style Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Table cigarette case in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guilloché with hand-engraved engravings in the Frenc...
Category
1970s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Pill Box Silver Sterling Enamel hand-painted Art Nouveau style floral miniature
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Discover an authentic artisanal treasure with this refined oval pill box. Made of gold-plated 925/1000 silver, this piece is embellished with translucent enamels fired on guilloché ...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Sterling Silver Big Oval Jewel Box Baroque Style, with Miniature Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Jewel box Baroque style, in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated.
Jewel Box has fine hand engravings around fired enameled spaces with lapis lazuli type painting.
Jewel Box Baroqu...
Category
Early 2000s Italian Baroque Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box floral miniature fire-enameled on guilloche vertical stripes Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Round table box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fired enamels, with “paillons” in pure gold on the upper circle, fine fired enamelled miniature with hand-painted floral ...
Category
1960s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Cigarette Case red lines and and hand-engraved finishing Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Vertical cigarette case in 925/1000 sterling silver with fire-enameled red stripes and hand-engraved finishing. In a modern contemporary style. Measurements cm. 6 x 2.3 cm high. 11. ...
Category
1980s Italian Modern Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Cigar Box Cylindrical for table blue enamel on guilloche Salimbeni.
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Cylindrical table cigar box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamels on guilloché, with hinged lid. Modern contemporary style. Diameter cm. 5 height cm....
Category
1990s Italian Modern Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box for Cigarettes in Sterling Silver Sterling Enamel Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table box for cigarettes in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated with hand-engraved design in Baroque style with two-tone fired enamels. Measure cm. 6.5 x 10.2 x 2. Weigh...
Category
1970s Italian Baroque Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold Plate
Table Box miniature fire-enameled Aleksej Nikolaevic Romanov Salimbeni.
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table box with inward corners in gold-plated 925/1000 sterling silver with translucent enamel fired on guilloche and a fine round miniature in the centre, diameter cm. 4....
Category
1970s Italian Empire Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Salimbeni Cigarette Case with Hand-Painted Fired Enamelled Flowers
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
925/1000 Sterling silver cigarette case with hand-painted fired enamelled floral miniatures inserted in frames with hand-engraved borders, above and below. Jugendstil. Spring-loaded ...
Category
1970s Italian Art Deco Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box pure gold paillons and fired enamel miniature Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Round table box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fire enamels, with pure gold “paillons” on the upper circle, fine fire enamelled miniature hand painted by the painter Br...
Category
1960s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box table box with finely embossed and hand-chiseled Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular shaped table box with finely embossed and hand-chiseled lid in Baroque style. Velvet interior. Dimensions cm. 11.7 x 21 x 4.5. Weight gr. 1000. Designed by Giorgio Salimb...
Category
1970s Italian Baroque Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Table Box floral miniature fire-enameled on guilloche and stripes Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Oval table box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fired enamel, with fine floral miniature fire-enamelled on guilloche, enamelled edge with vertical stripes. Viennese Art N...
Category
1960s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold Plate
Table Cigarette Box fine hand-engraved and two-colour fire-enamelled. Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Octagonal table cigarette box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold-plated with a fine hand-engraved design and two-colour fire-enamelled with other fi...
Category
1970s Italian Baroque Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Snuff box Enamel Stripes and miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Shaped snuff box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fire-enameled stripes and fine oval enameled miniature in center cm. 3 x 4 hand-painted by ...
Category
1970s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box Squared Green Enamel with oval miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Square table box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamels on sunburst guillochè and Louis XVI French Empire style ornaments. External measurements cm. 12 x 12 x 2.5. Weight gr. 636- Fine oval miniature cm. 3.2 x 4.2 hand painted in tempera on a vegetable ivory plate by the painter Anna Maria Manfriani reproducing a portrait of a Flemish lady...
Category
1990s Italian Louis XVI Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Cigar Box two-tone stripes on the lid fire-enameled on guilloche Salimbeni.
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Large rectangular table cigar box with rounded sides in 925/1000 sterling Silver gold plated with translucent fired enamels on guilloche and hand engraving, with two-tone stripes on ...
Category
1980s Italian Modern Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold Plate
Pill Box Silver Sterling Enamel hand-painted Louis XVI style miniature Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Shaped pill box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with hand-painted miniature fire enamelled in Louis XVI style, second half of the 19th century, and fine hand engravings. Siz...
Category
1980s Italian Louis XVI Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Snuff Box with 2 slightly rounded sides and erotic miniature Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Snuff Box Snuff Box with 2 slightly rounded sides is in 925/1000 sterling silver.
Snuff Box Snuff Box with 2 slightly rounded sides has fire-enamelled miniature hand-painted by the ...
Category
1970s Italian Romantic Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold, Gold Plate
Table Box Fired Enamel Guillochè and Hand Engravings Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table box in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated with very fine hand-engraving Baroque style on the lid, fire-enamelled in 2 colours. In the center an ancient oval plate...
Category
1970s Italian Baroque Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Salimbeni Cigarette Case Art Nouveau Style Hand-Painted Miniature Pheasant
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular cigarette case with rounded corners in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fire-enameled and hand-painted miniature by painter Renato Dainelli depicting a pheasant....
Category
1970s Italian Art Deco Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Pill Box White Enamel Art Nouveau style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Round rounded pillbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè and hand-painted floral miniature on the lid. Viennese Art Nouveau style. Dia...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box Enamel on Guilloche Hand Painted Miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, 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 Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Egg White with blue garlands in Russian Art Nouveau style Sterling Silver Salimb
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Egg White with blue garlands is in 925/1000 sterling silver.
Egg White with blue garlands has fired enamels on guilloché and design engraved by hand.
Egg White with blue garlands i...
Category
1960s Italian Empire Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box Baroque style with two-tone fired enamels Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
This awesome Table Box Baroque style is in 925/1000 sterling silver.
it has a Rectangular shape with hand-engraved intricate design Black and Green color fire enameled.
Table Box Bar...
Category
1970s Italian Baroque Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box shaped tiles of the Baptistery of Florence Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Shaped box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with painted fire enamels like lapis lazuli stone and beautiful miniature hand painted by the painter Beatrice Mellana reproducing ...
Category
1970s Italian Renaissance Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Snuff Box Round Guilloche Enamel Box Gold Paillons Stars of Sky Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Round table snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent blue fired enamel on guillochè and with the insertion of pure gold “paillons” in the shape of stars to create a starry sky effect. With turquoise enamel circle with hand-engraved motif. Late 1600s Baroque style. Diameter cm. 7.7 cm high. 2.3. Weight gr. 226. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1967 and produced in Florence in several specimens in the Salimbeni company headquarters with manual workmanship by skilled artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for withstanding numerous enamelled firings at high heat at about 800° C -
The Paillons processing, now almost disappeared, and a rare technique recognized as a craft. Several layers of enamel are applied to the object, baked one by one in the oven.
Afterwards, the designs cut out of thin gold leaves, the paillons foils, are applied one by one by hand to form the desired figure. These sheets are then in turn coated...
Category
1960s Italian Baroque Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Gold, Enamel, Sterling Silver
Pill Box Fired Enamel with Hand Painted Horse Head Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
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...
Category
1960s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Box shaped enamel hand painted, engraved and miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Box shaped enamel is in 925/1000 sterling.
Box shaped enamel has handpainted fired enamels miniature.
Box shaped enamel is engraved and fire-enamelled ornaments.
Box shaped enamel is...
Category
1970s Italian Baroque Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Pocket Pill Box like Egg sea color Enamel Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Pocket pill box shaped like a small egg.
Pocket pill box like egg hinged opening.
Pocket pill box like egg in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated 24ca...
Category
1960s Italian Empire Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box blue and gold with handpainted miniature fire-enameled on guilloche Sa
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Octagonal table box in 800/1000 silver gold plated with translucent enamel on guilloché and beautiful enamel miniature hand painted by the painter Renato Dainelli in early 1900s Engl...
Category
1980s Italian Empire Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Pill Box Sterling Silver with Sailboat Hand-Painted with Fired Enamel
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Portapillole rotondo in argento sterling 925/1000 placcato oro.
Portapillole in Argento Sterling con miniatura di barca a vela smaltata e dipinta a mano. Stile inglese primi del XX ...
Category
Early 2000s Italian Modern Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Snuffbox with English Queen Anne style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Octagonal snuff box in gilded 925/1000 silver with English Queen Anne style borders and sides with fired enamels painted like lapis lazuli stone. On the lid, a very fine fire-enamell...
Category
1980s Italian Queen Anne Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Egg Purple Red enamel with tripod Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Egg Purple Red enamel is in 925/1000 sterling silver.
Egg Purple Red enamel has fired enamels on guilloché has fired enamels on guilloché and design engraved by hand.
Egg Purple Red...
Category
1960s Italian Empire Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Egg on Tripod with folding frame for 6 photos Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Egg on tripod with folding photo frame for 6 photos, inside, in 925/1000 sterling Silver gold plated, with translucent fired enamels on guillochè. ...
Category
1960s Italian Empire Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Gold, Enamel, Sterling Silver, Gold Plate
Egg “music box” mechanism by the Swiss Maison Reuge Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Egg “music box” is in 925/1000 sterling silver.
Egg “music box” has fired enamels on guilloché and design engraved by hand.
Egg “music box”on smooth tripod containing a “music box”...
Category
1960s Italian Empire Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Pill box big size Florentine Renaissance Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Large round pillbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fine fire-enamelled engraving in two colours, in Florentine Renaissance style. Diameter cm. 5 cm high. 2. Weight gr. ...
Category
1980s Italian Renaissance Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Salimbeni Pillbox Semi-Invisible Lid Sterling Silver Natural
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Salimbeni Pillbox in 925/1000 sterling Silver, oval section with lid with lost hinge, that is, semi-invisible.
Salimbeni Pillbox has guilloche with Art Deco early 20th century styl...
Category
1970s Italian Modern Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Egg Plum enamel with tripod Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Egg Plum enamel is in 925/1000 sterling silver.
Egg Plum enamel has fired enamels on guilloché has fired enamels on guilloché and design engraved by hand.
Egg Plum enamel is Russian...
Category
1960s Italian Empire Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Franco Salimbeni boxes for sale on 1stDibs.
Franco Salimbeni boxes are available for sale on 1stDibs. These distinctive items are frequently made of sterling silver and are designed with extraordinary care. There are many options to choose from in our collection of Franco Salimbeni boxes, although gold editions of this piece are particularly popular. Many of the original boxes by Franco Salimbeni were created in the Art Nouveau style in italy during the 20th century. Prices for Franco Salimbeni boxes can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — on 1stDibs, these items begin at $417 and can go as high as $14,212, while a piece like these, on average, fetch $2,410.