"Black Nasty" Soap Box Car

Large Rectangular Hand Painted Tin Bin Box by Chicago Globe Soap Company. The box is decorated with dancing Nymphs Fairies Nudes holding musically instruments.

A fine antique silver box. By Tiffany & Co. In sterling silver. With a gilt interior and engraved foliate swags to the lid. Monogrammed 'AMB' to the center of the lid. Fully mar...

1933 Victorian style Folk Art soap box / keepsake box composed of an oval wooden lid and box in original green paint. Intricate wood-burning detail present (reminiscent of leather ha...

Description A very nice box. Its marked on the base. Condition Lid Restored. Size: 20cm Period 19th century 20th century Meiji Periode (1867-1912)

Porcelaine de Paris (Décor - Chasses Royales). Hand decorated Bowl with cheetahs.

Oval rounded "soap" shaped snuff box in 925/1000 sterling silver with fired enamels above and below and hand-painted miniature of a horse's head, English "Art Nouveau" style, early 1900s. Measurements cm. 4.7 x 6.7 x 2. Weight gr. 96. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1980 and manufactured in Florence 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 high heat 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...

Art Deco Chrome Streamlined Car Trinket Box 1930s Brass casting Good Art deco Streamlined shaped car Chrome Plated Hinged top trinket box/desk tidy Enamel badge on top Reads WESTON.S...

A fixture of the Chinese scholars' studio, the inkstone was among the "Four Treasures of the Study" and was used in calligraphy and landscape painting along with paper, ink and brush...

These hand-carved marble soap dishes are crafted by traditional artisans in Rajasthan State, India. Their shape derives from lily pads, and they drain excellently, sparing one's soap from getting soggy. DESIGNER Michael W...

A sculptural Italian marble soap tray from the 1970s, elegantly carved with a minimalist sensibility. The rectangular form is softened by gently rounded corners and a shallow concave...