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Period: Late 20th Century
Material: Silver
Snuff Box hand engraving, black “niello” type Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Snuff Box rectangular in 925/1000 sterling silver with fine hand engraving, black fired enameled “niello” type, in early 19th century “Rococo” style. Snuff Box measurements cm. 4.5 x...
Category
1980s Italian Rococo Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Pill Box Yellow floral miniature in Art Nouveau style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Pill Box Yellow floral miniature in Art Nouveau style Sterling Silver Salimbeni.Round pillbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Snuff Box Black enamel Baroque style engraving Sterling Silver 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 Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
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
20° Century Italian Solid Silver oval biscuit or candy box
Located in VALENZA, IT
The box was made from an 800 silver plate and subsequently shaped into an oval shape.
The external band has been engraved faithfully reproducing the o...
Category
1990s Italian Other Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
Hermes Vanity Box
By Hermès
Located in Autonomous City Buenos Aires, CABA
Embody the French elegance and sophistication with this exquisite Hermes Vanity Box. Melding both function and design, this circular-shaped vanity box fe...
Category
1970s French Neoclassical Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal, Silver
Pill Box White Enamel Art Nouveau style Sterling Silver 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 Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Pill box big size Florentine Renaissance Sterling Silver 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 Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Box Art Deco style designed for Cartier USA Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Round table box in 925/1000 sterling silver with fire-enamelled Art Deco design. Dimensions diameter cm. 14.5 cm high. 3. Weight gr. 648. With clear amethyst of cts. 15.40, set on the lid, cut in the shape and size of the "Hortensia", one of the hundred most famous diamonds in the world...
Category
1980s Italian Art Deco Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Cigarette Case Romantic couple Art Nouveau Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular desk cigarette case with rounded corners in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated with fine hand-painted fire-enameled miniature depicting a romantic couple in Art Nouveau...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Japanese Kazaribako Glass Box Rare Hagoromo Kyohei Fujita
Located in Atlanta, GA
A brilliant Kazaribako "Ornamented Box" made of glass by Japanese artist Kyohei Fujita (1921-2004) circa 1990s. The hand-blown green glass box features an unusual form in rectangular...
Category
1990s Japanese Modern Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
Stuart Devlin Commemorative box with Royal wedding Charles & Diana
Located in Braintree, GB
Stuart Devlin commemorative silver and parcel gilt box with Royal Wedding Charles & Diana portraits.
The box is in circular drum form, applied with a cast double portrait bust and f...
Category
1980s British Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
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 Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
Table Box Squared Green Enamel with oval miniature Sterling Silver 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 Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Large Faux Tortoise Mid Century Cellarette
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Dramatic in scale and proportion and fitted with 4 fine decanters in the style of Maitland Smith. The cellarette is further decorated with silvered filigree
applied accents.
Stellar...
Category
1980s Asian Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver Plate
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
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
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
Table Box Green in French Empire Louis XVI style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Table Box Green in French Empire Louis XVI style Sterling Silver Salimbeni.
Table box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel inserted in a very fine ha...
Category
1970s Italian Louis XVI Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Vintage Silver Plate, Brass and Ebonized Wood Hinged Box Italian
Located in North Miami, FL
This stunning vintage Italian silver-plate, brass and wood hinged box is a beauty. The twisted brass rope design on the bottom is an interesting element that refines and raises the b...
Category
1970s Italian Modern Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver Plate, Brass
Pill Box oval with floral miniature Art Nouveau style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Pill Box oval with floral miniature Art Nouveau style Sterling Silver Salimbeni in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with hand-painted fire-enamel...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Gold Plate, Enamel
Vintage Signed Silver Plate Textural Hinged Box
Located in North Miami, FL
This lovely vintage silver plate hinged textural small box is signed Raimond. We were advised it was French. It has a black velvet interior. It was re- silver plated and then recentl...
Category
1970s French Modern Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver Plate
20th Century Italian Sterling Silver Oblong Box
Located in VALENZA, IT
Hinged Sterling Silver Box.
The box is embossed and chiselled with diagonal lines, leaving the central part smooth and shiny to interpose a different space between the workings.
The ...
Category
1990s Italian Other Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Rare Georg Jensen 18kt Gold Egg Bonbonnière
By Georg Jensen
Located in Hellerup, DK
The rare 18kt gold Georg Jensen bonbonnière is an exquisite piece of hollowware/jewelry designed to adorn the home with elegance and charm. Th...
Category
1970s European Art Nouveau Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Pill Box Baroque shaped with pastoral miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Pill Box Baroque shaped with pastoral miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni .Baroque shaped pill-box with hand engravings and green fire enamel, with hand painted enameled miniature of...
Category
1990s Italian Baroque Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
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
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 Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
English Art Deco Sterling Silver & Purple Enamel Box, 1972
Located in New York, NY
Art Deco sterling silver and enamel box. Made by Harman Brothers in Birmingham in 1972. Rectangular with straight sides. Cover hinged and tabbed; top gently curved with rectangle (va...
Category
1970s English Art Deco Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Lino Sabattini, Italy Silver Plate Geometric Box, 1980s
Located in Atlanta, GA
Lino Sabattini for Sabattini Argenteria designed this elegant silver plate decorative box circa 1980. This tall-lidded box has a minimalist geometric design and can be displayed as a...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Modern Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal, Silver Plate
Snuff Box Fine Hand-Engraving Baroque Style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fine hand-engraving Baroque style on the lid, with fired enamel black type “niello”. Measurements cm. 4,3 x 7 x 2. W...
Category
1970s Italian Baroque Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
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
Snuff Box Perforated Lid, Embossed and Engraved Miniature 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 Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Snuff Box with 2 slightly rounded sides Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table snuff box with 2 slightly rounded sides in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamels on guillochè and hand-painted floral miniature; oute...
Category
1970s Italian Other Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
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
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
Table Box in Malachite with Hinged Sterling Silver 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 Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Malachite, Sterling Silver
Table Box Blue and Light Blue Stripes Guillochè and Enamel Sterling Silver Salim
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table box with rounded corners in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with two-tone translucent fired enamels with guillochè stripes and hand-engraved motifs. George V E...
Category
1970s Italian George IV Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box Magnificent Arabian Horse Fired Enamel Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Shaped rectangular table box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fine hand-etched fire-enameled engraving painted like lapis lazuli stone and...
Category
1970s Italian Islamic Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Snuff Box Light Blue Ornament in Relief, Empire Style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular pocket snuff box with oval section in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè, with laurel ornament in relief in Empire style. Wit...
Category
1970s Italian Empire Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box Fired Enamel Guillochè and Hand Engravings Sterling Silver 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 Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Enamel, Sterling Silver
Pill Box Brown and Turquise Stripes Enamel Guilloche Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Square pill box with oval section in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with two-tone translucent fired enamels with guillochè stripes and hand-engraved motifs on all sides. George...
Category
1970s Italian George IV Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Italian New Old Stock 1980s Decorative / Jewelry Silver Art Nouveau Box
By Ottaviani
Located in Weesp, NL
Introducing the Exquisite 1980s Black Lacquered Wooden Box by Ottaviani: A Timeless Treasure of Elegance and Craftsmanship!
Are you in search of a truly unique and stunning piece th...
Category
1980s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver Plate, Enamel
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
Table Box Art Deco Style Inspired by Louis Cartier Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular Table Box with rounded corners in 925/1000 sterling silver with fire Enamel Art Deco design. Dimensions cm. 9 x 11 x 2.8. Weight gr. 324. Designed by Giorgio Salimbeni in 1976 inspired by objects designed by Louis Cartier around 1920 and manufactured in Florence in various specimens, also in parure with other objects, in the headquarters of the Salimbeni Company with completely manual execution by artisan artists with top quality slab thickness and large reinforcements suitable for supporting numerous high-fire enamelled firings at about 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
1970s Italian Art Deco Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
20th Cebtury Italian Solid Silver Vintage Decorative Box
Located in VALENZA, IT
Decorative pumpkin-shaped 800 solid silver box.
The body of the box is round and has been embossed and chiseled with the typical stripes of the pumpkin.
The knob is cast and has th...
Category
1970s Italian Other Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Snuffbox Head of the Statue of Liberty in New York hand painted Sterling Silver
Located in Firenze, FI
Rounded rectangular snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling silver with fine hand-painted fire-enamelled miniature depicting the Head of the Statue of Liberty in New York. Dimensions cm. 5.5 x 7 x 1.8. Weight gr. 105. Designed by Giorgio Salimbeni in 1975 in Art Deco style and executed in numerous specimens, at the specific request of the firm Tiffany & Co., in Florence in the headquarters of the Salimbeni firm with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for sustaining 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...
Category
1970s Italian Art Deco Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Christofle, Paris, Ribbed Solid / Sterling Silver Card Case
By Christofle
Located in Bath, GB
A smart twentieth century card case made from sterling / 925 silver, fully marked and signed by this luxury French silversmith.
Beautiful condition measuring 3 5/8" x 2 3/8" x 1/4...
Category
1980s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
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