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Box Black Red Art Deco style designed for Cartier USA Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table box with rounded corners in 925/1000 sterling silver with fire-enamelled Art Deco design. Dimensions cm. 10.4 x 13.4 x 3.2. Weight gr. 530. Designed by Giorgio Sali...
Category
1970s Italian Art Deco Vintage Metal Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Victorian Period Sterling Silver and Peach Enamel, Mounted Crystal Dresser Jar
Located in New York, NY
Victorian Period, sterling silver and peach guilloche enamel - mounted dressing table jar, Providence, Rhode Island, Ca. 1895, Foster and Bailey - makers. Sterling silver lid is bord...
Category
1890s American Victorian Antique Metal Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Antique Wooden Bucket
Located in New York, NY
Antique wooden milk farm bucket. Wooden bucket pail having heavy hand forged iron banding. Two solid wooden handles specifically for titling the bucket t...
Category
1890s Chinese Country Antique Metal Decorative Boxes
Materials
Iron
$1,200
1890s European Sterling Silver Bumble Bee Box
Located in Tarrytown, NY
European box, 2.8 ounces of solid silver. Bumble bee pulling a chariot.
Category
1890s Antique Metal Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Shagreen Leopard Pattern Box with Shell and Brass Details by Kifu Paris
Located in New York, NY
The Paris based label has distinguished themselves since their launch, with their iconic use of shagreen mixed with brass and other exotic materials. All furniture is handcrafted by ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Philippine Art Deco Metal Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Asian Silver Metal Hand Carved Peacock Sitar Veena Form Box 1950
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Vintage Asian Silver Metal Hand-Carved Sitar Veena Box.
Elevate your decor with this stunning vintage box, featuring intricate hand-carved designs of a sitar and peacock. The ornate ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Indian Anglo Raj Metal Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal, Silver
Two Russian Silver Gilt and Cloisonné Enamel Easter Eggs on Stands
Located in London, GB
Two Russian silver gilt and cloisonné enamel Easter eggs on stands
Russian, 20th Century
Height 9.5cm, diameter 5cm
The two silver gilt and cloisonné enamel eggs showcase Russi...
Category
20th Century Russian Metal Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver, Enamel
Large Japanese Kazaribako Glass Box Ancient Captial Kyohei Fujita
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Kazaribako "Ornamented Box" made of glass by Japanese artist Kyohei Fujita (1921-2004) circa 1990s. The hand-blown glass box is substantial in size and weight. It features a hexago...
Category
1990s Japanese Modern Metal Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
Victorian Military Campaign Burr Walnut Brass Bound Writing Slope With Key
Located in Reading, Berkshire
19th Century Victorian Military Campaign Burr Walnut Brass Bound Writing Slope With A Tooled Black Leather Scriver
Slope will include
A Single Glass Inkwell
A vintage pen
S moder...
Category
19th Century British Campaign Antique Metal Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Antique White Opaline Glass Box with Blue Floral Enamel Decoration, 1890
Located in Hamburg, DE
Luxurious and rare antique opal glass box. This kind of jewelry boxes was mainly made in France, Italy and formerly Bohemia. They were made from the early 19th century to the early 2...
Category
1880s Italian Belle Époque Antique Metal Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal
Classic Burl Walnut with Inlaid Brass Swiss Music Box
Located in Lambertville, NJ
This beautiful burl walnut music box with elegant brass inlaid top plays four different tunes. The rich sound resonated richly and has the workings made in Switzerland. The on and of...
Category
20th Century Swiss Metal Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
England 1810 Georgian Battersea Enamel Neoclassical Decorated Box
Located in Miami, FL
Early 19th century Georgian Battersea enamel box.
A beautiful antique English Battersea Bilston table snuff box, created in the district of Ba...
Category
1810s English George IV Antique Metal Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze, Enamel
$836 Sale Price
30% Off
rare carl auböck box
Located in Munich, DE
rare piece from the carl auböck workshop.
Category
1950s Austrian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Metal Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal
Copper Box by Rebajes
Located in St.Petersburg, FL
A charming copper box by Rebajes, signed.
Category
1960s Mexican Mid-Century Modern Vintage Metal Decorative Boxes
Materials
Copper
Ghidini 1961 Knotted Cherry Medium Box in Brass by Nika Zupanc
Located in Villa Carcina, IT
Fiasco. Guilt. Fear of love. A place to hide all the things we secretly desire yet are too scared to utter. The luscious things the perfect lover knows are never to be told. She drea...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Metal Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Pumpkin Decorative Box
Located in Milan, IT
This exquisite decorative object can be used to store small personal objects or small food items. It was crafted entirely in silver by skilled artisans in the shape of a pumpkin, whi...
Category
2010s Italian Other Metal Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
$2,214 / item
Chinese Canton Enamel Round Stacking Boxes and Cover, circa 1900, China
Located in Austin, TX
An absolutely lovely Chinese export pink Canton enamel round stacking box and cover, late Qing Dynasty, circa 1900, China.
The circular stacking box consists of a bowl form base, ...
Category
Early 1900s Chinese Qing Antique Metal Decorative Boxes
Materials
Copper, Enamel
Salimbeni Cigarette Case Art Nouveau Style Hand-Painted Miniature Pheasant
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 Metal Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Cenedese Murano Jewelry Box, 1950s
By Cenedese
Located in Catania, IT
Murano jewelry box by Giovanni Cenedese.
Label is still on the box: Murano Cenedese Vetri.
This absolutely gorgeous jewelry box showcases blue Murano gl...
Category
1950s Italian Hollywood Regency Vintage Metal Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
$576 Sale Price
66% Off
Mid-century decorative Box, Italy, ca. 1960s
Located in Firenze, IT
Midcentury decorative Box
Italy, ca. 1960s
Brass, glass, mother of pearl
H 3 cm x 12 × 30 cm
Conditions: very good, slight defects
Category
1960s Italian Hollywood Regency Vintage Metal Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Early Heavily Embossed Brass Box This is a large and heavy chest
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
Early Heavily Embossed Brass Box
This is a large and heavy chest is made in Brass with a wooden lining, the beaten brass is embossed with decorativ...
Category
Early 1800s Gothic Antique Metal Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
18th-Century French Gold Etui
Located in New Orleans, LA
A marvelous objet d'art is this exquisite Louis XVI-era étui. Crafted entirely of green and yellow gold, this stunning octagonal vessel bears an exceptional, engraved Neoclassical de...
Category
18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Metal Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold
Renaissance Revival Style Bronze Box
Located in Tampa, FL
A renaissance revival style solid bronze box of the highest quality. The deep blue velvet interior has a ring holder. The interior depth is two and a half inches. No key. Austria, ci...
Category
1880s Austrian Antique Metal Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Set of 2 Boxes in Grey Shagreen with Bronze Patina Brass by R&Y Augousti
Located in West Hollywood, CA
The “Peacock Box” set by R&Y Augousti is a true masterpiece of modern luxury, where organic form meets exceptional craftsmanship. The distinctive, fluid shapes of these boxes create ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Philippine Art Deco Metal Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Misiones Medium Alpaca Silver & Agate Stone Box
By AIREDELSUR
Located in Buenos Aires, AR
Misiones agate & alpaca silver collection is inspired in our Iguazu falls were we get this beautiful stone.
In our boxes and photoframes the star is a big natural piece of this beaut...
Category
2010s Argentine Organic Modern Metal Decorative Boxes
Materials
Stone, Agate, Metal
Unusual English Iron Strong Box by W. Graham & Son, London
Located in Essex, MA
Paneled case with top lifting handle and side handles. Signed on top with working lock and key.
Category
Early 19th Century English Antique Metal Decorative Boxes
Materials
Iron
19th C. Italian Grand Tour Micro-Mosaic "Doves of Pliny" Box After Antiquity
By Vatican Mosaic Studio
Located in Atlanta, GA
Italian, likely Circa 1880.
This beautiful box has an exceptional Grand Tour Micro-mosaic plaque depicting the Capitoline Doves or Doves of Pliny after the Roman antiquity. Also by ...
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Grand Tour Antique Metal Decorative Boxes
Materials
Slate, Bronze
$1,196 Sale Price
20% Off
Art Nouveau Moser Glass Dresser Box, Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
An elegant and rare Art Nouveau Glass Dresser Box by Moser, Austria.
Realized in the early years of 1900, with gold inlays.
Very good condition.
Category
Early 20th Century Austrian Art Nouveau Metal Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold
European Sterling Silver and Enamel Singing Bird Box - Circa 1900
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique European sterling silver and enamel singing bird box; an addition to our ornamental silverware collection.
This exceptional antique sterl...
Category
Early 1900s European Antique Metal Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Chest. Carved wood, metal. Spanish school, 16th century.
Located in Madrid, ES
Chest. Carved wood, metal. Spanish school, 16th century.
Rectangular casket with a flat lid decorated on the outside with a series of figurative reliefs in a symmetrical arrangemen...
Category
16th Century Spanish Renaissance Antique Metal Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal, Other
Squared Box in Green Goatskin and Brass Attributed to Aldo Tura, Italy, 1960s
By Aldo Tura
Located in Rome, IT
Squared box in green goatskin with brass details attributed to the Italian designer Aldo Tura.
Made in Italy in the 1960s.
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Metal Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal, Brass
20th Century Italian Silvered Bronze Mounted Clear-over-red Domed Crystal Box
Located in New York, NY
An Unusual 20th Century Italian Silvered Bronze Mounted Clear-Over-red crystal box The box is composed of two sections of Italian clear-over-red crysta...
Category
Early 1900s Italian Art Nouveau Antique Metal Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Dior Style Jewel Box in Tortoiseshell Lucite and Chrome, API Italy, 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Lovely Midcentury box in Christian Dior style produced by API in Italy in the 1970s.
This charming box is made in a gorgeous tortiseshell effect lucite and chrome.
A fantastic it...
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Metal Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal
English Black Lacquered and Gilt Stenciled Figural Pagoda Sewing Box, C. 1810
Located in Charleston, SC
English octagonal black lacquered and gilt stenciled figural pagoda hinged one drawer sewing box with exterior gilt stenciled dragon motif, interior gilt stenciled floral motif, orig...
Category
1810s English George III Antique Metal Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Two Victorian Style Brass & Wood Pug Dog Boxes, by Arthur Court, 1979
By Arthur Court
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Two Victorian Style Brass & Wood Pug Dog Boxes, by Arthur Court, 1979
*Sold individually, please specify the 'Brown' Pug on the left or the 'Brindle' Pug on the right or purchase b...
Category
Late 20th Century Victorian Metal Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
$1,036 Sale Price / item
20% Off
Archibald Knox for Liberty & Co box in Pewter and enamel # 0194
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Nice and elegant pewter / enamel box by the well UK designer/artist Archibal Knox . marked Made in England 0194
Category
Early 20th Century British Arts and Crafts Metal Decorative Boxes
Materials
Enamel
Antique Napoleon III Game box with Brass and Burl Wood Marquetry
Located in Casteren, Noord-Brabant
Beautiful antique game box from the French Napoleon III period. The box is made of various types of wood marquetry inlaid with brass trims. This box s...
Category
1880s French Napoleon III Antique Metal Decorative Boxes
Materials
Copper
Japanese Silver Fan-Form Box
Located in Chicago, IL
This lovely silver box exemplifies Japanese refinement in all crafts. Precious in the hand, the petite bonbonnière is formed of high quality silver in the shape of a paper folding fa...
Category
20th Century Japanese Metal Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
George Betjemann Art Deco Sterling Silver Mounted White Onyx and Lapis Box
By George Bentjemann
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
George Betjemann & Sons George V Art Deco Sterling Silver Mounted White Onyx Box with stepped Lapis Lazuli corners.
Box features three compartments. Imp...
Category
1930s English Art Deco Vintage Metal Decorative Boxes
Materials
Onyx, Sterling Silver
Rectangular Decorative Box in Solid Brass and Lacquered Wood, Italy 1970s
Located in Rome, IT
Rectangular box in solid brass embellished with decorative engravings and lacquered black wood.
Made in Italy in the 1970s.
Total weight of 3.3 kg.
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Metal Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal, Brass
Small Antique Seamstress' Button Box, Japanese, Brass, Decorative, Victorian
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is a small antique seamstress' button box. A Japanese, brass decorative tin, dating to the early Victorian period, circa 1850.
Delicately crafted bo...
Category
Mid-19th Century Japanese Japonisme Antique Metal Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Ghidini 1961 Knotted Cherry Small Box in Brass by Nika Zupanc
Located in Villa Carcina, IT
Fiasco. Guilt. Fear of love. A place to hide all the things we secretly desire yet are too scared to utter. The luscious things the perfect lover knows are never to be told. She drea...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Metal Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Vintage MCM Small Brass Chinoiserie Trinket Box
Located in San Diego, CA
Beautiful MCM small brass lidded coffret style trinket box with chinoserie detail. The box depicts engraved scenes with a main motif of a sea ship on the upper lid and other scenes ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinoiserie Metal Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Antique South Asian Mughal Round Tinned Copper Box with Lid India 19th Century
By Rajhastani
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Beautiful handcrafted decorative round tinned copper Mughal Indian box with lid, latch and handle.
Antique South Asian Mughal Round Tinned Copper Box with L...
Category
Early 20th Century Indian Agra Metal Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal, Copper
Contemporary Rocco Egg Box in Antique Copper by Robert Kuo, Limited Edition
By Robert Kuo
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Rocco design egg box
Antique copper
Hand repoussé
Contemporary
Each piece is individually crafted and is unique.
Repoussé is the traditional art of hand-hammering decorative re...
Category
2010s Modern Metal Decorative Boxes
Materials
Copper
Pill Box Hand Painted Miniature Enamel Louis XVI Style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular rounded pill box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with hand painted miniature fire-enamelled in Louis XVI style, second half of the 18th century, and fine hand-eng...
Category
1960s Italian Louis XVI Vintage Metal Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
JUDAICA SILVER ETROG BOX DESIGNED BY LUDWIG WOLPERT. New York, 20th century
Located in Tel Aviv - Jaffa, IL
This charming piece of jewish history in front of you is a one of kind modern Judaica object,
This box used to hold the Etrog To protect the it during the holiday of Sukkot, it is traditionally Wrapped in silky flax fibers and stored in a special decorative box, mostly made from silver.
Wolpert designed this amazing hand hammered Bauhaus style box in 1963-1964 while he was Working in New York. all of the boxes we could found from this design made by Wolpert have The upper part inscribed in a simple engraving with the phrase "Pri Etz Hadar"
In Hebrew ״פרי עץ הדר״. the box in front of you is the only example in existence as far as we Know where the letters are also repoussé and also engraved, such a beautiful and hard to get Combination, the rest of the box is shaped as a modernistic Etrog, all the body of the box is Skillfully hand hammered in a way it reflects the light in a warm and calm way, a true Masterpiece of modern judaica by the great and important artist Ludwig Yehuda Wolpert.
One of the the two great masters of 20th century Judaica.
the Box is marked "WOLPERT" AND "STERLING" and the base has the engraved inscription :
"ALAN WECHSLER GENERAL CHAIRMAN, ALLIED JEWISH APPEAL OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY 1978"
Similar boxes can be find in museum collections around the world
In the Jewish Museum New York
In the North Carolina Museum of Art
In The Derfner Judaica Museum
Another similar box was featured in the Israel Museum exhibition
"Forging Ahead, Wolpert and Gumbel, Israeli Silversmiths for the Modern Age"
Ludwig Yehuda Wolpert was born in Hildesheim, Germany, to an Orthodox family. In 1916-1920, He began his studies in sculpture at the Frankfurt School of Art. In 1925-1928, he studied Goldsmithing at the Frankfurt School of Art.
Following the presentation of the works in the 1930 exhibition "Kult und Form" ("Ritual and Form") at the Jewish Museum in Berlin, his works became well known in the German Jewish World. His works were greatly influenced by Modernist design, especially the Bauhaus Movement. Wolpert's works avoid decoration, relying on clean, geometric shapes. In 1933, Following the Nazi rise to power in Germany, he immigrated to the Mandatory Palestine with His family. There he worked for two years in the workshop of Bernhard Friedländer, where he Designed and produced silverware and Jewish ceremonial art.Together with Victor Solomon...
Category
1960s Vintage Metal Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
Marble and Nickel Box
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Super chic veined marble and nickel-plated box. The bottom and top are 1/2" marble slab while the sides are nickel-plated metal. A handsome box to be sure.
Category
1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Metal Decorative Boxes
Materials
Marble, Metal
$1,500
Sewing Box in Rosewood Veneer, Gold and Silver, Restoration Period
Located in Paris, FR
Precious rectangular sewing box in rosewood veneer called. Uncovered, it presents a mirror with braids on the back of the lid. This charming sewing set is lined with moire and pink velvet and is composed of two small square porcelain bottles with openwork polychrome flowers, marked "L" on the bottom, a removable rectangular pad supporting two spools of gold thread and finely chiseled with a central chiseled cartridge-shaped, overhung by a button. A central tray on a raised base holds five sewing items...
Category
19th Century French Restauration Antique Metal Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Silver
Fantastic 19th Century French Dore Bronze Mounted Blue Opaline Crystal Box
By Baccarat
Located in New York, NY
A Fantastic 19th Century French Louis XVI Style Dore Bronze Mounted Blue Opaline Crystal Box. The box is composed of two sections of French opaline crystal which are mounted to a fa...
Category
1890s French Louis XVI Antique Metal Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Large 19th Century Crystal Box with Blue Enamel Decoration
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Gorgeous Large 19th Century Crystal Box with Blue Enamel Decoration and gilt fittings. Box is raised on paw feet and come with a key. Gilt fittings show signs of oxidation that can e...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Metal Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Bronze, Enamel
Large 19th C. Antique French Baccarat Crystal and Ormolu Mounted Covered Box
By Baccarat
Located in New York, NY
A Very Large 19th Century Antique French Baccarat Crystal and Ormolu Mounted Covered Box, Attributed to Baccarat. This incredible large crystal box is all hand-diamond cut and attri...
Category
1860s French Louis XVI Antique Metal Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Ormolu
Pair of Vintage British Colonial Style Faux Zebra Boxes on Stands
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Standout pair of mid century boxes on stands having hand decorated faux vellum interiors, set on brass stands with custom acid washed finishes. Signed Hart Associates on a brass label.
Category
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Metal Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
French 19th century Louis XVI st. Cranberry Glass and Gilt Metal box
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A charming and most elegant French 19th century Louis XVI st. Cranberry Glass and Gilt Metal box. The wonderful square lidded box is raised by four Gilt Metal butterfly shaped feet s...
Category
19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Metal Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ormolu
Japanese Cloisonne Lidded Trinket Box with Bun Feet from the Meiji Period
Located in San Diego, CA
An exquisite Japanese cloisonne lidded box with brass bun feet from the Meiji period, circa late 1800's. The box has a great inticate geometric de...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Metal Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass, Enamel
$960 Sale Price
20% Off
Box shaped enamel hand painted, engraved and miniature Sterling Silver 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 Metal Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
A set of two silver-plated metal boxes France 1970
Located in SOTTEVILLE-LÈS-ROUEN, FR
A set of two elegant silver-plated metal boxes, each featuring a hinged lid. Their surface is adorned with a beautiful patina that adds character and depth to their aesthetic. These ...
Category
1970s French Rococo Revival Vintage Metal Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver Plate
$825 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique Chinese Champlevé Enamel Scarab Jewelry Box
Located in New York, NY
Finely detailed champlevé scarab shape box with gilt wash interior. Traces of antique mirror on inner top. Rich colors of blue, turquoise purple finely enameled all around box.
Category
19th Century Chinese Chinoiserie Antique Metal Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Japanese Lacquer Incense Box, Kogo, Momoyama or Edo Period, 16th/17th Century
Located in Austin, TX
A wonderful Japanese lacquer incense box, kogo, with a design of plovers in flight, late Momoyama or early Edo Period, circa 1600, Japan.
The small box, called a kogo, was used to s...
Category
Early 17th Century Japanese Edo Antique Metal Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Pewter
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 Metal Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
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