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Material: Sterling 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 Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
$17,129 Sale Price
20% Off
American Cut Glass and Silver Tobacco Jar
Located in New Orleans, LA
This resplendent tobacco jar by Bailey, Banks & Biddle of Philadelphia features a beautiful sterling silver lid atop a body of elegant cut-to-clear glass. The lid is adorned with a wonderful Rococo repoussé decoration which contrasts beautifully with the green and cranberry cut glass...
Category
Late 19th Century American Other Antique Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
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 Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
1880s, European Sterling Silver Box
Located in Tarrytown, NY
Solid sterling European box. 4.25 ounces. Sun, basket of fruit, flowers adorn the top of the box. Gold wash inside.
Category
1880s Antique Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Silver Swan Sugar Bowl
Located in New York, NY
Silver Swan Sugar Bowl. Italian neoclassical sterling silver lidded sugar bowl with swan/goose finial and lion head ring handles. Italian sterling ...
Category
Early 19th Century Italian Neoclassical Antique Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
$2,450
Table Box portrait of Empress Eugenia de Montijo miniature Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
More than a kilo of sterling silver was needed to create this stunning rectangular tabletop box.
Worked with the very complicated guilloche technique, it was then enamelled at high heat with translucent enamel to make the superb workmanship shine through.
The fine rectangular miniature cm. 7.5 x 10.7 on vegetable ivory.
The small masterpiece handmade by the painter Anna Maria Manfriani reproduces the famous portrait of Empress Eugenia de Montijo, by the painter Franz Xaver Winterhalter.
The unenamelled sterling silver parts were then gilded with a 24-carat galvanic bath.
In Art Nouveau style, with a “lost” zip, i.e. semi-invisible. Dimensions cm. 15 x 18 x 3.5. Weight gr. 1095. Designed by Giorgio Salimbeni in 1980 and manufactured in Florence at the Salimbeni company headquarters with completely manual execution by artisan artists with a very thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for supporting numerous enamelling firings at around 800°
Doña María Eugenia Ignacia Agustina de Palafox y Kirkpatrick, 19th Countess of Teba, 16th Marquise of Ardales known as Eugénie de Montijo was Empress of the French from her marriage to Napoleon III on 30 January 1853 until the fall of the Emperor on 4 September 1870. From July 28 to September 4...
Category
1980s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Sterling 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 Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Belt real black python buckle Sterling Silver Art Deco Style Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Belt in real black python reptile with rectangular buckle in 925/1000 gold-plated silver with columns, with Art Deco design fire-enamelled in 3 colors enriched with pure gold sequins...
Category
1990s Italian Art Deco Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold, Gold Plate
LEVI & SALAMAN 1902 Birmingham Desk Chest With Mirror In .925 Sterling Silver
Located in Miami, FL
Decorative chest with mirror designed by Levi & Salaman.
This is a beautiful and very decorative miniature chest created in Birmingham England by the silversmiths of Lévi & Salaman,...
Category
Early 20th Century English Edwardian Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Vintage Conus Seashell Box, Sterling Mounts, Hallmarked, Italy, 20th Century
Located in Chatham, ON
Vintage Conus seashell box with sterling silver mounts - side hinge - unidentified hallmarks to the interior (.925 silver) - Italy (Florence - likely) - m...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Georgian Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
$385 Sale Price
30% Off
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 Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Gold Plate, Enamel
George Reevers, Dutch .934 Silver Biscuit Box, Rope Borders, Holland, C.1838
Located in Chatham, ON
GEORGE REEVERS (Maker - Silversmith) - Extraordinary and rare Dutch fine silver round biscuit box - 934/1000 silver - finest quality and timeless design (nearly 200 years old) - classic rope twist borders (two to the top and one to the base) - indent to the edge of the hinged lid for easy opening and grip - original green wool felt base liner (not photographed...
Category
1830s Dutch Neoclassical Antique Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
$2,730 Sale Price
30% Off
Box with wedges Enamel Sterling Silver black and white Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Octagonal wedge box in 925/1000 sterling silver with black and white colors fire enameled in Art Deco style. Measures 7.8 x 7.8 x 6 cm. Weight gr. 281. Designed by Giorgio Salimbeni ...
Category
1970s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
1890s Chinese Export Silver Locking Box
By Heng Li
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique Chinese export silver box with lock; an addition to our oriental silver collection.
This exceptional antique Chinese Export Silver (CES) locking box has a rectangular form.
The surface of this antique box with lock is embellished with a chased decorated matte texture with a variety of embossed and chased decorated stemmed floral and foliate designs to the sides, including cherry blossom and iris arrangements.
The upper surface of the cover is ornamented with an embossed and chased decorated scene depicting a grassy terrain surrounding a tree with fan shaped leaves by the side of a winding stream, with a traditional Chinese crane...
Category
1890s Chinese Antique Sterling 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 Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Hawkes Sterling Silver and Crystal Rectangular Box, 1950's
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
T.G. Hawkes & Co. was founded in 1880 by Thomas Gibbons Hawkes in Tiffin Ohio. This impressive cut crystal and sterling silver box by Hawkes features a classic sterling lid. The inte...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Sterling Silver
Antique English Glass & Sterling Silver String / Twine Jar or Box, 1899
Located in Bath, GB
A most unusual late Victorian fine string or twine box made from glass with a star cut base, the base mounted with a sterling silver foot and fitted with a solid silver lid topped wi...
Category
1890s British Late Victorian Antique Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
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 Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Mappin & Webb English Modern Sterling Silver Box, 1965
Located in New York, NY
Elizabeth II sterling silver box. Made by Mappin & Webb in Birmingham in 1965. Rectangular with straight sides. Cover hinged with flat top and scalloped tab. Interior cedar-lined and...
Category
1960s British Modern Vintage Sterling 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 Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
German Pforzheim 1915 Art Deco Guilloché Enameled Box In .935 Sterling Silver
Located in Miami, FL
A guilloche enameled round box with flowers
Beautiful enameled box, created in Pforzheim Germany, during the art deco period back in the 1915-20 This beautiful box was carefully cra...
Category
1910s German Art Deco Vintage Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver, Enamel
$698 Sale Price
30% Off
XXI Century Italian Sterling decorative brick-shaped box
Located in VALENZA, IT
Sterling silver box in the shape of a perforated brick.
The box was made entirely by hand starting from a raw sheet of sterling silver and shaped into the shape of a brick.
Round bus...
Category
2010s Italian Other Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Mid-20th Century Tiffany & Co. Sterling Shell and Dolphin Box
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Tiffany & Co. rectangular sterling silver cigarette box rests on four inverted cabriole feet. Top of the box features a seashell detail handle and is initialed "MBH." Interior of the...
Category
Mid-20th Century Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Antique Georgian English Sterling Silver Purse Vinaigrette
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
A fine and impressive antique Georgian English sterling silver vinaigrette in the form of a purse, an addition to our silver boxes collection
This antique Georgian silver vinaigrette...
Category
1810s English George III Antique Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Table Box fired enamels and round cameo Salimbeni.
Located in Firenze, FI
Behold the epitome of elegance and craftsmanship: a square table box, meticulously crafted from gold-plated 925/1000 sterling silver. This masterpiece features exquisite engravings a...
Category
1960s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
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 Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Gold Plate, Enamel
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 Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
XXI Century Italian Sterling Silver Lipstick Box
Located in VALENZA, IT
Sterling Silver Lipstick Box with Mirror and Velvet Interior in a Triangular Shape, Practically a Miniature of a Small Purse.
The lid is hinged. The box is worked with hand-engraved ...
Category
2010s Italian Other Sterling 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 Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Large English Sterling Silver Cigarette Case Birmingham 1956 H. Pidduck
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Large English sterling silver cigarette case Birmingham 1956, H. Pidduck and Sons. Unusual engine turned decoration design both exterior and ...
Category
Mid-20th Century English Art Deco Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Salimbeni Pillbox Semi-Invisible Lid Sterling Silver Natural
Located in Firenze, FI
Salimbeni Pillbox in 925/1000 sterling Silver, oval section with lid with lost hinge, that is, semi-invisible.
Salimbeni Pillbox has guilloche with Art Deco early 20th century styl...
Category
1970s Italian Modern Vintage Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Antique Victorian Scottish Sterling Silver and 15k Yellow Gold Box
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique Scottish sterling silver and 15 karat gold box; an addition to our diverse silver box collection.
This exceptional Scottish sterling silv...
Category
1850s Scottish Victorian Antique Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Sterling 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 Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Rosewood, Silver and Enamel Box by Silversmith Ottaviani
By Ottaviani
Located in Uccle, BE
Rosewood box decorated with a sterling silver and enamel plaque by the Italian silversmith Ottaviani, circa 1960s. Signed with the maker’s signature and “925”.
Notes: Ottaviani (1945-contemporary) is a jewelry and silver firm located in the small seaside...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Box with fired enamels and fine horse racing miniature Salimbeni.
Located in Firenze, FI
Large shaped table box in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated with translucent fired enamels on guilloche and large fire enamelled rectangular miniature hand painted by the painter ...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Sterling 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. ...
Category
1920s English Art Deco Vintage Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Silver Box by Emilie Langlois Gilded inside made in France, around 1940 Stamped
Located in Paris, FR
Sterling silver box by Emile Langlois, France, 1888-1924. Weight 170 g.
Border around rim of lid, wavy decoration with dots. Decoration of cabochon-cut purple stone. Gilt interior. L...
Category
Mid-20th Century Sterling 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 Sterling 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 Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
$1,046 Sale Price
20% Off
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 Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Pill box light green hand-painted floral miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Round domed pill box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent enamel fired on guilloche above and below, and hand-painted floral miniature. Viennese Art Nouveau style...
Category
1960s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Cigarette Case Fired Enamel with Still Life Miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table cigarette case with rounded corners in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated with beautiful miniature fire enamelled and hand painted by the painter Beatrice Mellana reproducing a "still life" by the Flemish painter Willem Claes Heda. Dimensions cm. 5.7 x 9 x 1.7. Weight gr. 174. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1969 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 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
1960s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold
Pillbox Queen Victoria English style Shaped Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Shaped pillbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with hand-painted fired enameled miniature. Queen Victoria English style second half of the 19th century. Measurements cm. 2.2 ...
Category
1980s Italian Queen Anne Vintage Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Belt real black python buckle Sterling silver fire enamel hand painted Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Belt in genuine black python reptile with oval buckle in 925/1000 silver with translucent fire enamel on sunburst guilloche and hand-painted miniature depicting a branch of peach blo...
Category
Early 2000s Italian Modern Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Art Deco Two Compartment Sterling Silver Footed Table Box with Hinged Lids
Located in New York, NY
Unusual, Art Deco Period, sterling silver, two-compartment table box on bun feet and having two hinged lids and a handle, The Watrous Division of The International Silver Co., Meride...
Category
1920s American Art Deco Vintage Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Table Box floral miniature fire-enameled on guilloche and stripes Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Oval table box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fired enamel, with fine floral miniature fire-enamelled on guilloche, enamelled edge with vertical stripes. Viennese Art N...
Category
1960s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold Plate
OTTAVIANI 1960 Modernist Cedar Box With Enameled Designs .925 Sterling Silver
Located in Miami, FL
Modernist box designed by Giovanni Ottaviani.
Fabulous modernist rectangular box decorated with "smalto". It was designed by Giovanni Ottaviani during the post-war period in the cit...
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver, Enamel
$1,118 Sale Price
30% Off
4 Piece Cut Crystal Dresser Set
Located in High Point, NC
4 piece cut crystal dresser set. The bottle measures 2 x 4.25, and has a lovely lid which has an inscription 30 April 1897. The hallmark is dated...
Category
Early 1900s English Edwardian Antique Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Sterling Silver
$595 / set
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 Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Pill Box Silver Sterling Enamel hand-painted Louis XVI style miniature Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Pill Box Silver is in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated 24carats.
Pill Box Silver is Round with translucent fired enamels on guilloché.
Pill Box Silver has a hand-painted miniatur...
Category
1970s Italian Louis XVI Vintage Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Baroque Style Green Table Box with Miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Baroque style shaped table box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fine hand engraving interspersed with spaces with translucent fired enamels on guillochè and a beautiful h...
Category
1960s Italian Baroque Vintage Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Snuff Box White with noble coat of arms Baroque style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Snuff Box noble coat of arms is in 925/1000 sterling silver.
Snuff Box noble coat of arms has White fired enamels on guilloché and handpainted miniature of arabesques with noble coat...
Category
1990s Italian Baroque Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Victorian Greyhound Sterling Silver Cigarette Case
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique Victorian English sterling silver and enamel cigarette case; an addition to our range of silver boxes and cases.
This exceptional antique Victorian sterling silver cigarette case has a plain rectangular form with rounded corners.
This antique cigarette case has a subtly curved form proffering a comfortable fit in the majority of pockets.
The anterior cover is embellished with an exceptional hot enamel scene depicting two greyhound style canines in a rural setting.
The posterior surface of the case is ornamented with the contemporary engraved initials 'G.W.C.R' and the date '11th Feby 1886'
The rounded sides of this cigarette case are plain and unembellished.
This antique enamel cigarette case...
Category
1880s English Victorian Antique Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
American Midcentury Modern Sterling Silver Jewelry Box
By Schroth Jewelers
Located in New York, NY
Midcentury Modern sterling silver box. Rectangular with straight sides. Cover hinged with straight tab. Box interior velvet lined. Cover interior gilt. Fully marked including maker’s...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Garrard English Modern Sterling Silver Box, 1947
Located in New York, NY
George VI sterling silver box. Made by Garrard & Co. in London in 1947. Rectangular with straight sides. Cover flat, tabbed, and hinged. Sides have reeded wrapround bands. Cover top ...
Category
1940s British Modern Vintage Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Table Box Enamel two-tone ruby red and emerald green Salimbeni.
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table box in 925/1000 gold-plated sterling silver with translucent fired enamel stripes on guilloche, two-tone ruby red and emerald green, in a modern contemporary style....
Category
Early 2000s Italian Modern Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold
Table Box Enamel on Guilloche and Hand Painted Miniature Sterling Silver Salimb
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular box with inward corners in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated with beautiful miniature fire enameled and hand painted by the painter Beatrice Mellana depicting the painting "The Turkish slave" by Francesco Mazzola known as "il Parmigianino" (National Gallery of Parma). Dimensions cm. 8.5 x 11.5 x 3. Weight gr. 345. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1965 and manufactured in Florence in numerous specimens with various different subjects, 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 enameled 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
1960s Italian Baroque Vintage Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Victorian antique sterling silver & glass biscuit box made by Walker & Hall 1895
Located in London, London
Hallmarked in Sheffield in 1895 by Walker & Hall, this attractive, Antique Sterling Silver & Glass Biscuit Box, features engraved decoration to the silver lid and base, and a hobnail...
Category
1890s English Victorian Antique Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Spain 1960 Barcelona Mid Century Modernist Enameled Box In Wood And 915 Sterling
Located in Miami, FL
Enameled center piece made in Barcelona
An extraordinary piece of Spanish silversmith, created in the city of Barcelona during the post war and the mid century periods, back in the ...
Category
1960s Spanish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold Leaf
$1,575 Sale Price
30% Off
Salimbeni Table Box Art Nouveau Painting Pre-Raphaelite School Fired Enamel
Located in Firenze, FI
This rectangular table box is a masterpiece of craftsmanship. Crafted from 925/1000 sterling silver and gold-plated, it features a hand-painted fire-enameled miniature by Beatrice Me...
Category
1980s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
$3,195 Sale Price
20% Off
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