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Maitland Smith Tessellated Marble and Tortoise Shell Box
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Maitland Smith tessellated stone box with a mother of pearl finial handle. The interior of the box is lined with a black felt and has a removable lid. The box rests on sterling silver ball and claw feet as well as the entirety of the box is framed with a sterling silver border.
History and craftsmanship for nearly four decades Maitland-Smith has been in the business of creating exquisite and unique decorative accessories, lighting and accent furniture and elegant mirrors from our La Barge Collection. Founded by a London antiques dealer with the eye of a connoisseur, Maitland-Smith has carried on the tradition of creating stunning accents for the home of the highest quality. From the beginning, our many workrooms have been artisan based and employ time-honored techniques developed before the machine age. Many of these skills date back to the world’s earliest civilizations, and are associated with Fine quality furniture and decorative arts. Maitland-Smith is well-known for many handcrafted specialties, including hand carved tropical mahogany, handcut and inlaid exotic wood veneers, lost wax cast metal mounts and decorative objects, as well as, traditional vegetable tanned and hand-tooled leather. Other areas of expertise include finely executed porcelains, sophisticated finishing techniques, and detailed hand painting. Maitland Smith draws inspiration from great works from the 18th, 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries and in collaboration with design partners Tony Duquette Studios and its president, Hutton Wilkinson and also Celerie Kemble, Donald Bustraan...
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Late 20th Century Philippine Modern Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Stone, Marble, Sterling Silver
$1,840 Sale Price
20% Off
Fine French Sterling Art Deco Ram Motif Square Table Box, Circa 1925
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Fine French Sterling Art Deco Ram Motif Square Table Box, Circa 1925
French Silver hallmark Minervas Head with #3 and Silversmith mark of KISS F
An Extraordinary example of signed ...
Category
20th Century French Art Deco Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
$1,516 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique Sterling Silver Gilt Engraved Vinaigrette Birmingham Edward Smith 1839
By Edward Smith
Located in Portland, OR
A fine antique engraved sterling silver vinaigrette, Edward Smith, Birmingham, 1839.
The vinaigrette is finely engine turned to the hinged top and the undersaide, the lid is monogram...
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1830s English Early Victorian Antique Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Snuff Box round in Art Nouveau style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Round snuff box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamels on guillochè and hand-painted floral miniature, surrounded by a frame with leaves on a blue bac...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
X-Small Egg style Faberge Sapphire Blue Enamel Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
X-Small egg in 925/1000 gilded silver with translucent enamel on fire on guilloché in Russian Art Nouveau style, inspired by the eggs of Carl Fabergé late 19th century, early 20th c...
Category
1960s Italian Empire Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
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 Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal, Silver
Pill Box Sterling Silver Hand Painted Miniature Enamel on Guillochè Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Shaped pillbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with hand-painted miniature in Louis XVI style, second half of the 19th century, and fine hand engravings. Measure cm. 3,5 x 4,...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
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 Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
1940s Art Déco Silver-Plated Metal Cylindrical Container by Jean Després, France
By Jean Despres
Located in North Miami, FL
1940s Art Déco silver-plated metal cylindrical container with twisted rope ornamentation by Jean Després, France
By: Jean Després
Material: metal, silver, silver plate
Technique: ca...
Category
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal, Silver, Silver Plate
Sterling Silver Hinged octagonal box
Located in VALENZA, IT
Octagonal box completely handmade, starting from a sterling silver plate and shaped.
The octagonal lid has been hinged. The body of the box and the lid have been engraved and chisele...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Other Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Ottaviani Italian Mid-Century Sterling Silver Lidded Box with Shell Décor, 1960s
By Ottaviani
Located in Wien, AT
Wonderful Italian Mid-Century Modern wooden box with Sterling silver lid.
The sterling silver lid 925 is masterfully decorated with an abstract view of the shore – you see the wave...
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Pill Box Silver Sterling Enamel hand-painted Louis XVI style miniature 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 Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Gabriella Crespi Tortoiseshell 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
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 Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Wilhelmina Wendt, box with silver inlay, Sweden 1954
Located in Stockholm, SE
A rare decorative (cigarette) box in isolite (early plastic material) and decor of ship in silver inlay. Made by silversmith Wilhelmina Wendt, Perstorp, dated 1954 (D9). Swedish Art...
Category
1950s Swedish Art Deco Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
Antique Japanese Meiji Silver Box with Birds & Blossoming Branches
Located in New York, NY
Japanese Meiji silver box, ca 1890. Rectangular with curved corners. Box sides have chased and engraved birds amidst blossoming branches and bamboo in rectangular frames. Cover top h...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
Mid-20th Century Wooden Box with Silver Knot Lid by the French Firm Hermès Paris
By Hermès
Located in North Miami, FL
Mid-20th century wooden box with silver bow/knot lid by french brand Hermès Paris
By: Hermès Paris
Material: fabric, silver, wood, leather, metal, silver plate
Technique: cast, plat...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver, Metal, Silver Plate
Antique Japanese Silver Incense Box Signed, 19th-20th Century
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
An extremely fine quality antique heavy gauge Japanese silver incense box, the cover inset with a copper and inlaid metal panel depicting a seated figure drinking from a large bowl a...
Category
20th Century Japanese Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
$1,287 Sale Price
55% Off
19th Century English Silver Mounted Macassar Ebony Box
Located in New York, NY
Beautiful antique box crafted from macassar ebony or coromandel wood with sterling silver mounts by Mappin and Webb of London. With maker's mark and small h in lobed cartouche which...
Category
Early 20th Century English Gothic Revival Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Pill Box Floral miniature and fine hand-engravings Art Nouveau style Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Pill Box Floral miniature and fine hand-engravings Art Nouveau style Salimbeni.Shaped pillbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucen...
Category
1980s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Gold Plate, Enamel
Victorian Sterling Silver Coin Purse
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique Victorian English sterling silver coin purse; an addition to our silver boxes collection.
This exceptional antique Victorian sterling silver coin purse has a tapering rounded form.
The rounded surface of this antique purse is embellished with textured details reproducing the fine definition of the purse's fabric.
The upper portion of the body is embellished with a sterling silver gilt border, replicating the formation of the rivets and fleur-de-lis design.
This impressive case/purse is fitted via two silver gilt ring loops with the original impressive sterling silver round link chain, incorporating a ring loop attachment to the apex.
The silver case secures with a push fit catch and opens to reveal the original segmented coin purse interior.
This exceptional antique silver coin purse...
Category
1870s British Late Victorian Antique Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Italian solid 800 Silver Handmade Box
Located in VALENZA, IT
Large Italian Box in solid 800 silver.
The handmade box is cylindrical in shape. The body and lid have been embossed with a torchon design.
The knob is in embossed plate with a strip...
Category
Early 2000s Italian Other Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
Italian Silver Box Raised, 1970s
Located in Delft, NL
Italian silver box raised on 4 feet, 1970s
Italian silver box in curvy octagonal shape with repousse design of flowers and scrolls
The purity de...
Category
20th Century Italian Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
Unusual Victorian All Sterling Silver Gilt Dresser or Trinkets Jar
Located in New York, NY
Unusual, Victorian, beautiful, all sterling silver gilt dresser jar, Dominick and Haff, New York, year dated for 1890. Lovely interlocking script m...
Category
1890s American Victorian Antique Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Pill Box Silver Sterling Enamel Miniature Louis XVI style Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Elevate your collection with this exquisite oval pill box, crafted from 925/1000 gold-plated sterling silver. This piece is adorned with a hand-painted fire-enameled miniature, echoi...
Category
1970s Italian Louis XVI Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Garrard English Modern Sterling Silver Box, 1947
Located in New York, NY
George VI sterling silver box. Made by Garrard & Co. Ltd in London in 1947. Rectangular with straight engine-turned sides. Cover flat, tabbed, and hinged; top has geometric pattern w...
Category
1940s British Mid-Century Modern Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Small Oval Dutch Silver Gold Plated Box with a Scene of the Birth of Venus
Located in Delft, NL
A small oval Dutch silver gold plated box with a scene of the birth of Venus
A silver box, gold plated with a style-carved cameo in stone. The stone with a scene of a mythological...
Category
20th Century Dutch Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
Rare Christofle Laque de Chine Box - Sienna.
By Christofle
Located in Bath, GB
A rarely found piece of Christofle "Laque de Chine", part of the Talisman range by the creme de la creme of French silversmiths, Christofle of Paris.
The body is made from silver ...
Category
1980s French Modern Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver Plate
Snuff Box Venetian landscape miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Snuff Box Snuff Box Venetian landscape is in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated 24 carats..
Snuff Box Snuff Box Venetian landscape has translucent fired enamel on guilloche and min...
Category
1960s Italian Baroque Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Large and Heavy American Modern Sterling Silver Box by Tiffany
Located in New York, NY
Large and heavy sterling silver desk box. Made by Tiffany in New York. Rectangular with straight sides. Cover flat and hinged with molded rim. Cedar lined and partitioned. Fully mark...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Pill Box fired Enamel Miniature Louis XVI style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Shaped pill box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with hand painted miniature with fire enamelling in Louis XVI style, second half of the 19th century, and fine hand engravings...
Category
1970s Italian Louis XVI Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
1950s Italian Decorative Box in Silver
Located in Catania, IT
This mid-century decorative box displays the best of Italian craftmanship The exterior features a textured Sterling silver 800 surface reflecting the Italian meticulous attention t...
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
$1,692 Sale Price
30% Off
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
Elegant Scent box in Silver with gilt crown in Rococo dated 1775
Located in Knivsta, SE
Elegant Scent box in Silver with gilt crown in Rococo dated 1775. Probably made in Denmark. Inside in gilded silver. Very period Rococo design.
Wear consistent with age and use
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1770s Danish Rococo Antique Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
Snuff Box perforated, with a fine round miniature 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 Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
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
Vintage Cut Crystal and Sterling Silver Box, Birmingham, 1931
Located in Bath, GB
A magnificent large box made from a hefty piece of English crystal with a variety of intricate cutting creating an impressive and truly glamorous piece.
The hinged rims are made f...
Category
Early 20th Century English Art Deco Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Sterling Silver
$989 Sale Price
20% Off
1870s Antique Chinese Export Silver Card Case
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique Chinese Export Silver card case; part of our diverse Asian silverware collection
The anterior surface of this rare Chinese silver card case is ornamented with chased oriental figures amidst bamboo and foliate designs, accented with a fenced area and simplified structures, all on a matte background.
The ornamentation incorporates a vacant shield shaped cartouche.
The posterior surface of this silver card case is embellished with an exceptional chased decorated segmented iconic Chinese dragon design amidst clouds, also all on a matte background.
The rounded sides of this antique silver cigarette case...
Category
1870s Chinese Antique Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
Indian 19th Century Round Silver Plated Metal Box with Pierced Foliage Motifs
Located in Yonkers, NY
An Indian silver plated metal box from the 19th century with pierced foliage motifs. Created in India during the 19th century, this silver plated metal box attracts our attention wit...
Category
19th Century Indian Antique Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver Plate, Copper
Box with fired enamels painted like lapis lazuli stone and horse racing Salimben
Located in Firenze, FI
Shaped table box in 925/1000 sterling Silver gold plated with fired enamels painted like lapis lazuli stone and with fired enameled oval miniature, hand painted by the painter Renato...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box Octagonal Black Enamel with light Blue Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Octagonal table box in 925/1000 sterling silver with fire-enamelled Art Deco design. Dimensions diameter cm. 15.8 high cm . 8.2. Weight gr. 974. Designed by Giorgio Salimbeni for Cartier USA in the 1980s, inspired by objects designed by Louis Cartier around 1920 and manufactured in Florence in various specimens, also in parure with other objects and in different colors, in the headquarters by the Salimbeni firm with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for withstanding numerous high-fire enamelled firings at about 750°<800° C.
About cooperation Salimbeni and Cartier.
Our first meetings with the Cartier USA Company took place through the Giorgini Company, the first "Buying Office" set up in Florence immediately after the Second World War, which had the purpose of bringing together Florentine, and also Italian, producers with American buyers, who especially appreciated the artistic objects still manufactured by artisans who still took inspiration from the Italian Renaissance, using techniques handed down from generation to generation.
Mrs. Gina Pestelli, wife of a Florentine retail jeweller, was in charge of contacts with Cartier USA, above all an employee, while her daughter, also for Giorgini, took care of the fashion that in those years was affirmed in Florence with the events of "Pitti ".
With their help, we began to supply frames and boxes in sterling silver gold plated with malachite and other semi-precious stones.
At the same time, the official buyer of Cartier, Mr. William Smith, began to appreciate and commission the first objects with fired enamels, a process of which we have always been specialists.
In 1975 we began exhibiting at the prestigious New York Jewellery Association Show, which we participated in both the February and July editions, for a good 26 years until 2001.
In New York in those years the "Art deco style" was still very much appreciated, still mindful of the beautiful early 20th century architecture of the great buildings such as the "Crysler" or the "Empire State".
We then began to produce frames, boxes, evening bags, "objets de vertu" and other objects in "art deco style" which were very popular with Mr. Smith who gave us some photocopies of Louis Francois Cartier drawings to reproduce them. Thus, numerous cigarette cases, powder compacts, evening bags, frames and table boxes were created exclusively for Cartier USA which, at the time, had the prestigious "Silver Department" on the first floor of the Cartier store on Fifth Avenue.
An evening bag, with matching cigarette case and powder compact, were redone on the design created for a gift given to Mary Pickford at the time. In a 1986 Cartier...
Category
1980s Italian Art Deco Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Large Antique German Rococo Classical Sterling Silver Box
Located in New York, NY
Large German Rococo Classical sterling silver box, ca 1910. Lobed and oval with straight sides and four ball supports; cover hinged and raised. Chased and engraved ornament. On cover...
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Early 20th Century German Rococo Revival Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
20th Century oriental silver plate bamboo decorated tobacco box
Located in Debenham, Suffolk
20th century oriental silver plate bamboo decorated tobacco box circa 1925.
Fine quality chinese silver plate box, signed and dated 1925. Profusely cast and decorated with bamboo an...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Art Deco Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver Plate
English Silver Plate Art Deco Style Round Shape Covered Cigarette Box
Located in Tarry Town, NY
Here is this English silver plate art deco style round shape covered cigarette / tobacco box, a must have accessory for the discerning aficionado. This exquisite box seamlessly com...
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Early 1900s English Art Deco Antique Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver Plate
Antique Twisted Three Handled Glass and Silver Plate Biscuit Box, circa 1890
Located in Bath, GB
A really unusual biscuit box (it would make the most wonderful ice bucket too); made from glass and silver plate which is marked EPNS and 1/0 which I believe is made from the famous ...
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1890s German Late Victorian Antique Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver Plate
Antique Kirk Baltimore Small Sterling Silver Box with Pastoral Scene
Located in New York, NY
Edwardian sterling silver box. Made by S. Kirk & Son Co. in Baltimore, ca 1910. Round with straight sides. Cover raised and overhanging with pictorial pastoral scene: A watermill in ...
Category
Early 20th Century American Edwardian Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Lino Sabattini Made in Italy Decorative Box in Silver Metal, 1960s
Located in Reggio Emilia, IT
Italian Mid-Century Modern design cylindrical container for breadsticks or decorative box in silver metal designed by Lino Sabattini, engraved Sabattini Made in Italy under the base,...
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal, Silver Plate
$697 Sale Price
20% Off
Sterling Silver and Bone Box
Located in New York, NY
Sterling silver and bone box. Antique Continental dark bone/horn fitted case with sterling silver mounts and central oval for monogram; originally a t...
Category
Mid-19th Century European Antique Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Table Box Heart shape Sky tone fire-enameled on guilloche Salimbeni.
Located in Firenze, FI
Heart-shaped table box in 925/1000 sterling silver with translucent fired enamel on guilloché above and below. Modern contemporary style. Dimensions cm. 8 x 8.8 high cm. 2.8. Weight ...
Category
1990s Italian Modern Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Art Deco Period Sterling Silver Footed Engine-Turned Table Box with Hinged Lid
Located in New York, NY
Art Deco Period, sterling silver, paw-footed, engine-turned-designed table box with with hinged lid, Birmingham, England, year-hallmarked for 1926, Hollings and Hutchinson - makers. ...
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1920s English Art Deco Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Dutch Silver knitting needle case by Meinardus Wilhelmus Warren, 1836-1864
Located in Delft, NL
Dutch Silver knitting needle case by Meinardus Wilhelmus Warren, 1836-1864
A Dutch Silver knitting needle case with turned rib pattern and decora...
Category
Early 19th Century Dutch Antique Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
20th Century Italian Solid Silver Table SHIP Box embossed completely by hand
Located in VALENZA, IT
Rectangular solid silver 800°°/°°° table box.
The box is embossed by hand with flowers, leaves and fruits.
At the center of the hinged lid is embossed and engraved a sailing ship in ...
Category
1970s Italian Other Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
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...
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1960s Italian Modern Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Snuffbox female face wearing Art Nouveau style clothing Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rounded rectangular snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fine hand-painted fire-enamelled miniature depicting a female face wearing Art Nouveau style clothing, hand-...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box portrait of Natalia Nikolaevna Pushkina Lanskaja Salimbeni.
Located in Firenze, FI
Spectacular table box with inward corners in gold-plated 925/1000 sterling silver with translucent enamel fired on guilloche, in Art Nouveau style, and in the center a fine rectangul...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Snuff Box Round Guilloche Enamel Box Gold Paillons Stars of Sky 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 Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Sterling Silver, Enamel
$2,272 Sale Price
20% Off
Table Box Heart shape Red passion fire-enameled on guilloche Salimbeni.
Located in Firenze, FI
Heart-shaped table box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold-plated with translucent fired enamel on guilloché above and below. Modern contemporary style. Dimensions cm. 8.8 x 8 cm high....
Category
1990s Italian Modern Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Antique German Rococo Small Silver Box
Located in New York, NY
German Rococo 800 silver box, ca 1910. Round with straight sides; chased garland with musical trophies and imbricated bud and flowerhead band. Cover hinged and raised with cherub fro...
Category
Early 20th Century German Rococo Revival Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
19th Century Sterling Lidded Dresser Jar
Located in High Point, NC
19th century glass dresser jar with a marked sterling lid. The jar was made by R Wallace and Sons of Connecticut. this is a wonderful example of fine 19th century American craftsma...
Category
19th Century American Victorian Antique Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Novelty Solid Silver Box by Theo Fennell - 1986
Located in Bath, GB
A highly collectable heavy, solid sterling silver box signed on the underside by the famed London silversmith and Jeweller, Theo Fennel.
The box is hand crafted in the form of a tru...
Category
1990s British Modern Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
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Paper Mache Flower
Porcupine Quill
Quill Box
Tissue Box Holder
Tortoise Mother Of Pearls
Venetian Jewelry Box
Anglo Indian Sandalwood Box
Antique Brides Box
Antique Makeup Box
Asprey Antique Boxes
Betel Nut Boxes
Carl Aubock Box
Cloisonne Trinket
Hanau Silver Box
Islamic Pen
Jewel Casket
Napoleonic Box
Painted Wedding Box