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Period: 1980s
Material: Silver
Snuffbox with English Queen Anne style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Octagonal snuff box in gilded 925/1000 silver with English Queen Anne style borders and sides with fired enamels painted like lapis lazuli stone. On the lid, a very fine fire-enamell...
Category
1980s Italian Queen Anne Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Snuffbox two-tones enamel stripes Guilloche Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with two-tone translucent stripes fired enameled on guillochè and fine hand-engraved on all sides, French Empire Napoleon...
Category
1980s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Egidio Broggi Milano, Oversized Silver Plate Swirled Box
Located in Atlanta, GA
A fantastic silverplate-lidded decorative box created by Italian designer Egidio Broggi, Milano. This impressive box features an oversized round shape with a swirled design like a gi...
Category
1980s Italian Modern Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal, Silver Plate
Japanese Kazaribako Glass Box Kyohei Fujita
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Kazaribako "Ornamented Box" made of glass by Japanese artist Kyohei Fujita (1921-2004) circa 1980s. The hand-blown glass box with fitting lid is of an oval shape, slightly irregula...
Category
1980s Japanese Modern Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
Vintage Christian Dior Round Silver Plate Talcum Pouch Box 'Poison', 1980s
Located in Brescia , Brescia
Elevate your vanity with this exquisite vintage Christian Dior Round Talcum Pouch Box, adorned with the iconic "Poison" motif. Dating back to the glamorous 1980s, this luxurious acce...
Category
1980s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver Plate
Pill Box Silver Sterling Enamel Art Nouveau style Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Pill Box Silver is in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated 24carats.
Pill Box Silver is with translucent fired enamels on guilloché.
Pill Box Silver has a hand-painted floral miniatu...
Category
1980s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Silver Plate and Wood Box with Agate Stone Slab Decor, Italy 1980s
By Studio Italia Design
Located in Atlanta, GA
This lovely 1980s Italian modernist silver-plate lidded box has a design reminiscent of Gabriella Crespi's elegant production. The minimalist rectangular shape has Macassar wood side...
Category
1980s Italian Modern Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Agate, Metal, Silver Plate
Table Cigar Box two-tone stripes enamel Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
This superb Table Cigar Box two-tone stripes enamel is in 925/1000 sterling silver.
it has a rectangular shape with rounded sides Table Cigar Box has hand engraving, with orange and ...
Category
1980s Italian Empire Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Enamel, Sterling Silver, Gold Plate
Top Quality Modernist Walnut Pill Box In English Sterling Silver - 1985
Located in Bath, GB
A truly fine piece of modern silver, hefty and beautifully made from English solid Sterling Silver in the form of a walnut.
The hinged box has a little cut-out in the front to help...
Category
1980s British Modern Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
20th Century Rare Solid Silver Miniature Watercolour Box
Located in London, GB
A rare piece in solid silver by British silversmith Sarah Jones.
A miniature box poured with 12 individual watercolour paints and a small natural fibre brush.
Novelty item for the ...
Category
1980s British Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
Box Tortoiseshell Effect Lucite and Silver Christian Dior Style, Italy, 1980s
Located in Rome, IT
Squared decorative jewelry box in tortoiseshell-effect lucite and Silver in Christian Dior style.
Made in Italy in the 1980s.
Perfect desk object or gift idea.
Category
1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal, Silver
20th Century Sterling Silver Italian Gilded and Enameled Table Box
By Salimbeni
Located in VALENZA, IT
Round haped silver gilded 925/1000 table box with translucent enamels on guilloche with hand-painted floral miniatures and gold paillons
Made in Italy
1.400 grams
The Miniatures are hand-painted on a usually white homogeneous enamel base. The same colored glazes are used, but ground much finer, which are mixed with special oils to form an infinite palette of colors. The paint must be gradually dried on electric stoves...
Category
1980s Italian Other Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling 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 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
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
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
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 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 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
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
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
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
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
Snuff Box Sterling Silver Green and Sky Stripes Guilloche Enamel Box Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with two-tone translucent stripes fired enamelled on guillochè and fine hand-engraved on all sides, French Empire Napoleo...
Category
1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Snuff Box "Soap" Shaped with Horse's Head Sterling Silver Enamel Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Oval rounded "soap" shaped snuff box in 925/1000 sterling silver with fired enamels above and below and hand-painted miniature of a horse's head, English "Art Nouveau" style, early 1900s. Measurements cm. 4.7 x 6.7 x 2. Weight gr. 96. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1980 and manufactured in Florence in the headquarters of the Salimbeni company with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for withstanding numerous enamelled firings at high heat at about 800° C.
Miniature is a very ancient technique which consists of painting works in small proportions.
It was born for the decoration of the first letter of the paragraph of the books.
Over the years, however, this technique is refined and enriched, then moving on to precious personal items.
Hand-painted miniatures can be done with multiple different techniques.
The most important that we use on our articles are of three kinds:
1) Fire enamel.
2) Water tempera on an ivory plate.
3) Painted on mother-of-pearl.
Fire enameled miniatures:
On a first layer of enamel generally white or very clear or even transparent suitably liquefied at a temperature of about 750 ° C, the chosen subject is painted using miniature colors which are as many colored crystals, ground and reduced to a very fine, almost impalpable powder washed and purified in distilled water with the addition of small quantities of deoxidizing acids which, diluted with essential oils (usually essential oil of solder), can be mixed to form a palette of colors.
With very fine sable hair brushes you draw the subject starting from the perimeter and then gradually adding various layers of color.
It is necessary to carry out various firings very often so that the colors harden and are not absorbed by the underlying glaze as, during the subsequent firings at 750 ° C, during liquefaction, it would spread irremediably. Hence the need to form the painting a little at a time, cooking it numerous times.
Therefore it is necessary to proceed with numerous retouching, often overlapping different colors that only the painter's experience knows. A beautiful miniature needs from 20 to over 50 firings and is finished when the painter deems he does not have to further intervene.
Some colors must have darker tones than others because then, by superimposing the transparent enamel placed at the end of the miniature, they fade. This transparent layer, called “fondant” in jargon, must be smoothed and polished like all other translucent enamel colors.
The miniatures with water tempera colors are painted on real ivory...
Category
1980s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box Octagonal Light Blue Fired Enamel and Miniature Madame Drouais on Sali
Located in Firenze, FI
Octagonal table box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè and beautiful hand-painted enamelled miniature by the painter Beatrice Mellana reproducing the portrait of Madame Drouais painted by her husband Francois Hubert in 1785 and conserved in the Louvre Museum. Fine hand-engravings on the sides. French Empire style. Measure cm. 8x8x3.7. Weight gr. 285. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1989 and manufactured in Florence in the headquarters of the Salimbeni company with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for withstanding numerous eamelled firings at high heat at about 800° C.
Miniature is a very ancient technique which consists of painting works in small proportions.
It was born for the decoration of the first letter of the paragraph of the books.
Over the years, however, this technique is refined and enriched, then moving on to precious personal items.
Hand-painted miniatures can be done with multiple different techniques.
The most important that we use on our articles are of three kinds:
1) Fire enamel.
2) Water tempera on an ivory plate.
3) Painted on mother-of-pearl.
Fire enameled miniatures:
On a first layer of enamel generally white or very clear or even transparent suitably liquefied at a temperature of about 750 ° C, the chosen subject is painted using miniature...
Category
1980s Italian Other Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Enamel, Sterling Silver
English Art Deco Sterling Silver Box
Located in New York, NY
Elizabeth II sterling silver box. Made by Harman Bros. in Birmingham in 1982. Excellent condition. Rectangular with straight sides. Cover flat and hinged. Engine-turned wave ornament in plain frames...
Category
1980s English Art Deco Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
1980s Decorative Blue Box
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Beautiful decorative box with blue glass top and silver plated base.
Category
1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver Plate
20th Century Italian Sterling Silver Decorative Box
Located in VALENZA, IT
Completely handmade solid sterling silver decorative box of oblique shape.
The lower part of the body has fluted embossed and chiseled
The smooth, glossy lid is hinged in the center...
Category
1980s Italian Edwardian Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
"Dynasty" 100th Episode Silver Plated Table Box
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
"Dynasty" 100th Episode Silver Plated Table Box
Step into the world of luxury with the Dynasty 100th Episode Silver Plated Table Box. This unique keepsake, presented to the Dynasty ...
Category
1980s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver Plate
20th Century Italian Sterling Silver Round Box with Painted Porcelain
Located in VALENZA, IT
Smooth round 925 sterling silver box.
The lid was modeled to be able to apply a Limoges porcelain, subsequently hand painted in polychrome with a female figure picking flowers.
On ...
Category
1980s Italian Other Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
20th Century Silver Box, Hungary, circa 1980
By Artex
Located in Cagliari, IT
Magnificent box in sterling silver and wood. On the lid are set reproductions of ancient coins of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
In fact the producer of this article, Artex, was a bra...
Category
1980s Hungarian Modern Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
20th Century Italian Solid Silver Warmer with Wooden Handle
Located in VALENZA, IT
Round conical shape warmer in 800 solid silver. The silver sheet is hammered.
The hinged lid has been pierced by hand with holes in the shape of a rhombus and triangle.
The wooden handle is fixed to the body of the warmer with a silver support reproducing the classic fixing nails.
The item can be used as a home fragrance...
Category
1980s Italian Other Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
20th Century Italian Sterling Silver Round Box with Natural Horn Body
Located in VALENZA, IT
Sterling silver box with natural horn body.
The box has been completely handmade.
The hinged smooth lid, the ring and the base with feet have been shaped by hand on the shape of th...
Category
1980s Italian Other Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
20th Century Italian Sterling Silver, Natural Horn Oval Table Box
Located in VALENZA, IT
Sterling silver box with natural horn body.
The box has been completely handmade.
The hinged smooth lid, the ring and the base with feet have been shaped by hand on the shape of th...
Category
1980s Italian Other Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
20th Century Sterling Silver Gilted Enameled Table Box
By Salimbeni
Located in VALENZA, IT
Round shaped box Made in Italy Silver Gilted 925/1000 with translucent enamels on guilloche with hand painted floral miniatures and gold paillons
The Miniatures are hand-painted on a usually white homogeneous enamel base. The same colored glazes are used, but ground much finer, which are mixed with special oils to form an infinite palette of colors. The paint must be gradually dried on electric stoves...
Category
1980s Italian Other Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
20th Century Italian Sterling Silver Ceased Table Box
Located in VALENZA, IT
Oblong sterling silver hinged table box.
The body of the box is smooth. The lid is smooth with embossed bellflowers
The lid is embossed and chiseled with bellflowers-shaped motifs
Th...
Category
1980s Italian Other Vintage Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
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