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Place of Origin: Italian
Silvered Bronze and Etched Glass Box
Located in Tarrytown, NY
Sculptural foliate motif cast and silvered bronze box with interior etched glass.
Category
1950s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Round Box in Thick Heavy Crystal Italian Design 1950s Midcentury Wisteria Color
Located in Palermo, Sicily
Round Box in Thick Heavy Crystal Italian Design 1950s Midcentury Wisteria Color.
Category
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal
$585 Sale Price
30% Off
Pill Box White Enamel Art Nouveau style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco 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 Art Nouveau Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
1750 Venezia Italy Lacquered Dark Blue Wooden Box with Golden Decoration
Located in Brescia, IT
This is a refined and exquisite lacquered wooden box, with polychrome and golden decoration on dark blue background. The dark blue color could seems a dark green. On the lid bright red and ivory volutes with lace inserts meticulously painted. Inside an exotic garden are depicting two Oriental human figures dressed in golden clothes. Band decorated with floral and volute motifs. It could be a magnificent jewelry case.
One of the distinctive characteristics of Venetian Baroque and Rococo furniture and decorative objects is the skilful use of lacquers. Lacquer is a natural resin that was very rare in the past, imported from the East and used to create smooth and colored surfaces on furniture, ready to be finely decorated with refined floral designs or exotic animals.
Venetian artisans became masters in lacquer processing which required time and patience because it was made with many steps.
The Venetian style deeply influenced furniture design throughout Europe, but none reached the Venetian level in terms of beauty. The skillful use of lacquer and carvings defined Venice's unique style during the Rococo period, its Golden Age.
Referring bibliography:
A similar shaped and lacquered wooden box is presentin the Cà Rezzonico, in Venice and it is featured in
S. Levy Lacche veneziane settecentesche II, Milano 1967, tav. 444.
The piece is in excellent state of maintenance and it is guaranteed original in every parts. The surface was only cleaned not restored and it is original. The wooden dark blue lacquered box...
Category
Mid-18th Century Rococo Antique Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood, Lacquer
Hand Blown Murano Glass Box in Crystal with Bubbles and Chrome Fittings
Located in West Hollywood, CA
This Pulegoso Murano glass box is a captivating fusion of artistry and functionality, crafted on the renowned Venetian Island of Murano. Distinctive for its unique texture, the Puleg...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Chrome
$2,550 Sale Price
25% Off
Table Box Heart shape Red passion fire-enameled on guilloche Salimbeni.
By Salimbeni, Giorgio 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 Modern Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Yellow Quartz Brass Box
Located in Milan, IT
Bridging innovative craftsmanship with refined materials, this elegant box is a sculptural object of understated luxury. The square silhouette, made of polished gilt-plated brass, features a distinctive lid in vibrant yellow quartz...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Other
$1,311 / item
Italian Handmade Maple Leaf Shaped Centerpiece, Aldo Tura for Macabo, 1950s
By Macabo, Aldo Tura
Located in Roma, IT
Wonderful midcentury handmade birchwood maple leaf-shaped centrepiece. This beautiful piece is signed by Macabo on the back and it was probably designed by Aldo Tura in the 1950s in ...
Category
1950s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood, Birch
Group Of Matching Decorative Italian Toleware Boxes
Located in Bridgeport, CT
Group of Italian toleware comprised of a hinged box, covered and footed compote and a covered oval box. The pieces in yellow/cream and decorated with ...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Provincial Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal
Giant Hand-Blown Murano Glass Box in Onyx Black with Bubbles and Brass Fittings
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Impressive in its scale alone, this stunning hand-blown Murano glass box exudes luxury and refinement. This Pulegoso Murano glass box is a captivating fusion of artistry and function...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Chrome
$4,800 Sale Price
25% Off
Italian 19th Century Florentine St. Ebony and Pietra Dura Marble Box
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A charming and extremely decorative Italian 19th century Florentine st. Ebony and Pietra Dura marble box. The box is raised by an elegant stepped mottled base with striking wonderful...
Category
19th Century Antique Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Marble
Bruno Gambone Ceramic Italian Modernist Design Covered Box Desk Set
By Bruno Gambone
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Ceramic covered box with target design and cup desk set created by Bruno Gambone of Florence, Italy. Box measures 5.5" in diameter by 3.5" in heigh...
Category
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
$845 Sale Price / set
32% Off
Contemporary Decorative Box Handmade Crystal and Boise De Rose by Ghirò Studio
By Ghirò Studio
Located in Pieve Emanuele, Milano
2023 Collection of Decorative boxes by Ghiró Studio.
The type of craftsmanship and the materials used for the production make this box a unique object, in fact it is impossible to...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Glass, Rosewood
Contemporary Jewelry Box Handmade Black Wood and Engraved Glass by Ghirò Studio
By Ghirò Studio
Located in Pieve Emanuele, Milano
2022 Collection of Jewelry boxes by Ghirò Studio.
This box is perfect synthesis of timeless style, innovative design and Italian craftsmanship excellence. This box is entirely in wood with a matte black finish. The lid is embellished with carefully crafted glass with the utmost precision.
The crystal has an amber color finish rich in gold reflections that highlight the various hand-made engravings...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Glass, Wood
Italian Arte Povera Box, Mid-18th Century
Located in Spencertown, NY
The papier mâché box depicting a landscape scene on a white ground with red trim on all sides.
Category
Mid-18th Century Rococo Antique Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Paper
$1,440 Sale Price
20% Off
Large Hand Blown Murano Glass Box in Onyx Black W/24 Karat Gold Flecks
Located in New York, NY
This stunning modernist decorative box was realized in Murano, Italy- the island off the coast of Venice renowned for centuries for its superlative glass production. It features a vo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Murano Glass
Scatola dell'Allegria Ceramic Centerpiece
By Giuseppe Mazzotti
Located in Milan, IT
This collector's item is part of a line of ceramic vessels designed in 2009 by Tullio Mazzotti in honor of the centenary of the founding of the Futurist Movement. Scatola dell'allegr...
Category
2010s Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
Kingdom exagonal kleenex box
Located in Firenze, FI
Add a touch of elegance to your home decor with our hexagonal brass kleenex box. Made from high-quality brass, its unique and stylish design adds sophistic...
Category
2010s Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
$179 / item
Box by Sirio Pellegrini, 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Painted Terracotta sculture realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s.
Good condition.
Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome on March 1, 1922, of Abruzzo origins (Capestrano), spent his child...
Category
1960s Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Terracotta
Dior Style Jewel Box in Tortoiseshell Lucite and Chrome, API Italy, 1970s
By Christian Dior
Located in Roma, IT
Lovely Midcentury box in Christian Dior style produced by API in Italy in the 1970s.
This charming box is made in a gorgeous tortiseshell effect lucite and chrome.
A fantastic it...
Category
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal
Bitossi for Raymor Box, Ceramic, Fused Glass, White, Orange, Blue, Signed
By Bitossi, Raymor
Located in New York, NY
Bitossi for Raymor Box, ceramic and fused glass, white, orange and blue, signed. Small scale white glazed box with a lid decorated in an abstract pattern of...
Category
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
Vintage Italian Travertine and Brass Decorative Cube Box by Passeri for Ark Line
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Unique travertine 'cube' decorative box with brass dome lid and hollowed out cylindrical interior storage compartment suitable for small objects designed by P. Passeri for Ark-Line (...
Category
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Travertine, Brass
Lino Sabattini Made in Italy Decorative Box in Silver Metal, 1960s
By Lino Sabattini
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 Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal, Silver Plate
$698 Sale Price
20% Off
Italian Mid Century Modern Murano Sommerso Art Glass Jewelry Trinket Casket
By Murano Glass Sommerso
Located in Englewood, NJ
An Italian Mid Century Modern Murano clear art glass "Sommerso" jewelry square casket trinket box fitted with gold plated brass fittings. The brass is signed. "G.S.E. ottone galvan...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
$2,200 Sale Price
20% Off
Italian Baroque Walnut Box
Located in Essex, MA
Hinged top, decorated overall with incised carving, lock plate and side handles.
Category
1670s Baroque Antique Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Walnut
Pill Box fired Enamel Miniature Louis XVI style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco 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 Louis XVI Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Table Box portrait of Natalia Nikolaevna Pushkina Lanskaja Salimbeni.
By Franco Salimbeni, 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 Art Nouveau Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Hand Blown Murano Glass Box in Black with Bubbles and Chrome Fittings
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Discover the epitome of elegance with this exquisite Pulegoso technique box, meticulously crafted in Murano and signed for MOGUL. This box, available in both large and giant sizes, e...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Chrome
$2,550 Sale Price
25% Off
Salimbeni Pillbox Semi-Invisible Lid Sterling Silver Natural
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
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 Modern Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Midcentury Travertine and Brass Rectangular Box, Italy, 1970s
By Fratelli Mannelli
Located in Rome, IT
Amazing rectangular box in travertine and brass.
Made in Italy in the 1970s.
Category
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Travertine, Metal, Brass
Set of Three Box Vase Ceramic & Wood by Franco Pozzi Gallarate, Italy 1970s
By Franco Pozzi
Located in Rome, IT
Set of three box vases in ceramic with wooden cover by the Italian designer Franco Pozzi.
Made in Italy in the 1970s.
The original signature is still visible on the bottom of...
Category
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic, Wood
Table Box Fired Enamel on Guillochè Arab-Style Ornament Sterling Silver Salimben
By Salimbeni, Giorgio Salimbeni
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 Modern Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Unusual Italian Box in Brass and Lapis Lazuli
Located in St.Petersburg, FL
An elegant Italian box made of brass and lapis lazuli, ca' 1970's.
Category
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Midcentury Benaglia Silver Plate Italian Decorative Box for Cleto Munari, 1970s
By Cleto Munari
Located in Roma, IT
Elegant box midcentury silver plate decorative box. This wonderful piece was designed in Italy during the 1970s by Benaglia for Cleto Munari.
The master combination of silver plat...
Category
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass, Silver
Hand Blown Murano Glass Box in Amber with Brass Fittings
Located in West Hollywood, CA
The exquisite octagonal jewel box in brilliant amber is a captivating blend of traditional craftsmanship and luxurious aesthetics. Handcrafted on the historic island of Murano, this ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
$2,550 Sale Price
25% Off
Table Box Octagonal Black Enamel with light Blue Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Giorgio 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 Art Deco Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
1750 Venezia Italy Lacquered Wooden Yellow Box with Flowers and Birds
Located in Brescia, IT
This is an elegant lacquered and shaped wooden box, with fine and polychrome flowers decoration on yellow background. In the center of the lid a bouquet of flowers has been painted and on the top of this one, rests a little bird with a long tail framed by a flowery ramage and crossed by a red ribbon.
This brighting piece hails from the Mid-18th Century in Venezia and masterfully shows the lacquered Venetian style.
This Venetian lacquered box is a precious jewelry case and it has an intense beauty that could matches with the elegance of every timeless home.
One of the distinctive characteristics of Venetian Baroque and Rococo furniture and decorative objects is the skilful use of lacquers. Lacquer is a natural resin that was very rare in the past, imported from the East and used to create smooth and colored surfaces on furniture, ready to be finely decorated with refined floral designs or exotic animals.
Venetian artisans became masters in lacquer processing which required time and patience because it was made with many steps.
The Venetian style deeply influenced furniture design throughout Europe, but none reached the Venetian level in terms of beauty. The skillful use of lacquer and carvings defined Venice's unique style during the Rococo period, its Golden Age.
The iron little key is not working.
The piece is in very good state of maintenance and it is guaranteed original in every parts. The surface was only cleaned not restored and it is original.
The wooden yellow lacquered box...
Category
Mid-18th Century Rococo Antique Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood, Lacquer
Giant Hand Blown Murano Glass Box in in Crystal with Bubbles and Chrome Fittings
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Impressive in its scale alone, this stunning hand-blown Murano glass box exudes luxury and refinement. This Pulegoso Murano glass box is a captivating fusion of artistry and function...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Chrome
$4,800 Sale Price
25% Off
Italian Metal Vermeil Square Compact Case with Lipstick
Located in Guaynabo, PR
This is an Italian metal vermeil square compact with a hand painted pastoral scene of a romantic couple. It depicts a sheperdess resting in the lap of a shepherd in a garden with a f...
Category
20th Century Romantic Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal
$360 Sale Price
20% Off
Vintage Watch Case, Italian, Giltwood, Decorative, Jewellery Box, Mid Century
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is a vintage watch case. An Italian, giltwood decorative jewellery box, dating to the mid 20th century, circa 1950.
Eye-catching golden hues a...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Giltwood
Belt real black python buckle Sterling silver fire enamel hand painted Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Giorgio 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 Modern Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Metal Ice Bucket Pineapple Sculpture 1970 Manetti Design Italian Florence Silver
By Mauro Manetti
Located in Palermo, Sicily
Metal ice bucket pineapple sculpture 1970 Manetti design Italian florence silver.
Category
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal
$753 Sale Price
30% Off
Vintage Carlo Moretti 1980 Round Apple Mint Murano Crystal Glass Bowl with Cover
By Carlo Moretti
Located in New York, NY
Vintage decorative vase with cover or jar made in blown apple green Murano crystal glass, designed and signed by Carlo Moretti. Can be accompanied by the same item in amethyst color ...
Category
1980s Organic Modern Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Art Glass, Blown Glass, Murano Glass
Italy 1980 Abstract Sculpture Sphere in Brass Natural Wood and Metal Chrome
Located in Brescia, IT
This is a unique piece and prototype of this interesting artwork of Filippo Panseca, an Italian artist that it is considered, together with Laurence Gartel, the father of the Computer Art.
Friend of Renato Guttuso, later he created the Biodegradable Art. His artworks were shown at Art Basel and the Biennale of Art in Venice.
In this piece we can see the investigation of the artist of the Cosmic world and Cinetic art...
Category
Late 20th Century Post-Modern Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal, Brass
$3,396 Sale Price
39% Off
Hand Blown Murano Box in Amber with Bubbles and Brass Fittings
Located in West Hollywood, CA
This exquisite Murano glass box features a luxurious amber color that radiates warmth and sophistication. The piece is meticulously handcrafted by master artisans in Murano, Italy, s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Murano Glass
$2,550 Sale Price
25% Off
Art Deco Vase, Bowl in Carved Crystal Color Amber and Silver 800, Italy, 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Beautiful bowl in circular crystal and handcut silver, the glass is thick, cut deep and evenly, without a single thread or a flow of glass inside. No chipping or scratches.
Bowl in ...
Category
1930s Art Deco Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Silver
Pill Box Silver Sterling Enameled Rectangular Louis XVI style Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Pill Box Silver is in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated 24 carats.
Pill Box Silver is Rectangular with translucent fired enamels on guilloché.
Pill Box Silver has a hand-painted m...
Category
1970s Louis XVI Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Bitossi Box, Ceramic, Sgraffito, Blue, Black, Abstract, Geometric, Signed
By Bitossi
Located in New York, NY
Bitossi box, ceramic, blue black, sgraffito, abstract, geometric, signed. Small scale lidded box with geometric sgraffito decoration, glazed in blue and black. Signed on underside of...
Category
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
Pair of Cylindrical Box in Chrome, Brass and Lucite by Romeo Rega, Italy 1970s
By Romeo Rega
Located in Rome, IT
Amazing pair of cylindrical box in chrome, brass and lucite by the Italian designer Romeo Rega.
Made in Italy in the 1970s.
His signature is engraved on the pair of box as shown in...
Category
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal, Brass, Chrome, Steel
Large Murano 24k Gold On Black Glass Rectangular Box, Contemporary
Located in Westport, CT
One of a kind Murano handcrafted large rectangular shaped clear blown glass box with floating 24k gold on black orb center creating a beautiful sculptural bronze color, each box wi...
Category
2010s Art Deco Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Murano Glass
talian Florentine Domed Top Box
Located in Clearwater, FL
Italian gilt gesso wood Florentine domed top box in vibrant green and gold. From Italy.
Category
1970s Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Cigarette Case Fired Enamel on a Fine Hand-Engraved Mountain Landscape Sterling
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
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...
Category
1960s Modern Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Egg 4 Picture frames in Dark Red enamel with tripod Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Egg 4 Picture frames is in 925/1000 sterling silver.
Egg 4 Picture frames has fired enamels on guilloché has fired enamels on guilloché and design engraved by hand.
Egg 4 Picture fr...
Category
1960s Empire Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Vintage Italian painted ceramic jewel box or casket
By Midcentury Italian school
Located in Milano, IT
In the midst of the 1970s, in the heart of the enchanting Italian island of Sicily, artisans crafted a masterpiece of elegance and sophistication—a jewel of a jewelry box, if you wil...
Category
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
$1,722 Sale Price
20% Off
Hand Blown Murano Box in Amber with Bubbles and Brass Fittings
Located in West Hollywood, CA
This exquisite Murano glass box features a luxurious amber color that radiates warmth and sophistication. The piece is meticulously handcrafted by master artisans in Murano, Italy, s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
$2,550 Sale Price
25% Off
Snuffbox with miniature of Venice, English Queen Anne style, 925 silver Salimben
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Octagonal snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with English Queen Anne style borders and sides with translucent fired enamel on hand engraving similar to wood grain. On t...
Category
1980s Queen Anne Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
20th Century Italian Solid 800 Silver Bread-Shaped Box
By Arval Argenti Valenza
Located in VALENZA, IT
Solid 800 silver box in the shape of a bread completely made and embossed by hand.
Its shape faithfully reproduces the shape of bread.
The lid is hinged.
Category
1960s Other Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
$1,425 Sale Price
24% Off
Decorative Cork and Bronze Box
By Laboratorio Avallone
Located in Miami, FL
Designed and created exclusively by Urban Art Home, offered is a handsome handcrafted decorative box comprised of wood, tooled and textured cork, and embellished with a bronze alliga...
Category
2010s Organic Modern Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Set of Twelve Black Shagreen Napkin Rings by Fabio Ltd
By Fabio Ltd.
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Italian black shagreen and stainless steel napkin rings with matching black leather boxes designed by Fabio Bergomi for Fabio Ltd / Made in Italy
Each ring has diameter 1.5 inches a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Stainless Steel
$720 Sale Price / set
40% Off
Belt with Napoleon III style enameled Sterling silver decoration Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Giorgio Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Belt in real black lizard reptile with rectangular buckle in gilded 925/1000 silver with translucent fired enamel on guilloche surrounded by engraving of enamelled leaves, in French ...
Category
1990s Napoleon III Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
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