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Place of Origin: Italian
Belt with Napoleon III style enameled Sterling silver decoration Salimbeni
By Giorgio Salimbeni, 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
Italina Solid 800 Silver Table Box
By Arval Argenti Valenza
Located in VALENZA, IT
Round box in 800 silver.
The sweets box is round and rounded.
The body has been worked with a diamond or rhombus pattern.
This type of workmanship makes the object very bright and sh...
Category
2010s Other Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
Snuff Box races miniature fire-enameled guilloche and engraved drawing Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Octagonal table snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with black fired enamel inserted in a hand engraved drawing and with fired enamelled miniature, hand painted by the p...
Category
1970s Art Nouveau Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Aldo Tura Box Ice Goatsking Brown Italian Mid-Century Modern Design 1950s Cube
By Aldo Tura
Located in Palermo, Sicily
Aldo Tura box ice goatsking brown Italian Mid-Century Modern design 1950s cube.
Category
1950s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal
$418 Sale Price
30% Off
Antique Renaissance Style Italian Wood Lacquered Apothecary Box
Located in Firenze, IT
This lovely antique lacquered apothecary box was crafted in Italy in late 19th century in the style of medicinal herbs casket in use in pharmacies during the Middle Age and Renaissan...
Category
19th Century Renaissance Antique Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Venice Blown Contemporary Smooth and Striped Glass Minimal Container 'Innesti L'
By Gumdesign, Hands On Design
Located in Milan, IT
Innesti L is a container in borosilicate glass masterfully blown in Venice by Soffieria for Hands on Design. Designed by GumDesign this piece is characterized by the contrast between striped glass of the bottom and the smooth finish of the top; this element, combined to the simple shape, makes this container beautiful even when it's empty and suitable for many spots of the house. The Innesti collection, which includes a small container...
Category
2010s Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Glass
XXI Century Italian Sterling decorative brick-shaped box
By Arval Argenti Valenza
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 Other Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Table Box transparent brown fired enamel over hand-engraved wood grain Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table box in gold-plated 925/1000 sterling silver with fine hand-engraved ornaments in late Napoleon III Empire style and transparent brown fired enamel over hand-engrave...
Category
1970s Napoleon III Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Midcentury Italian Handmade Birch Wood Maple Leaf Shaped Centerpiece, 1950s
By Macabo, Aldo Tura
Located in Roma, IT
Wonderful midcentury handmade birchwood maple leaf-shaped centrepiece. Aldo Tura probably designed this piece during 1950s for Macabo.
This piece is special as it has a curved map...
Category
1950s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood, Birch
Set of 4 Italian Yellow Siena Marble 1970s Bowls and Boxes
Located in Varese, Lombardia
This set consists of 4 pieces made of yellow marble (I think it is the so-called "Giallo Siena"):
1 bowl, 1 soap dish, 2 boxes.
All the pieces are in excellent condition: the soap ...
Category
1970s Hollywood Regency Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Siena Marble
Salimbeni Cigarette Case Art Nouveau Style Hand-Painted Miniature Pheasant
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular cigarette case with rounded corners in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fire-enameled and hand-painted miniature by painter Renato Dainelli depicting a pheasant....
Category
1970s Art Deco Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
XXI Century Italian Sterling Silver Lipstick Box
By Arval Argenti Valenza
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 Other Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Pill box light green hand-painted floral miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco 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 Art Nouveau Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Italian Modernist "Apple" Lidded Trinket Box in Gold and Silver Aluminum
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Petite apple-form box for holding small items in gold aluminum with silver banding and orb handle (ca. 1960s, Italy).
Luxurious decorative item in very good, newly polished condition...
Category
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Aluminum
Ghidini 1961 Knotted Cherry Small Box in Copper-Plated Brass by Nika Zupanc
By Ghidini 1961, Nika Zupanc
Located in Villa Carcina, IT
Fiasco. Guilt. Fear of love. A place to hide all the things we secretly desire yet are too scared to utter. The luscious things the perfect lover knows are never to be told. She drea...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Copper
Murano Barovier & Toso Glass Box, Gold, Brass, Hinged.
By Barovier
Located in New York, NY
Murano Barovier & Toso Glass Box, Gold, Brass, Hinged. Finely handcrafted rectangular translucent glass box, decorated with gold bubble inclusions.
Category
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Snuffbox Miniature Pastoral Image Sterling Silver Enamel Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Round snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling Silver gold plated with hand-painted miniature pastoral image fired enamelled. 18th century French style. Diameter cm. 8 cm high. 1.8. Weight gr. 171. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1968 on inspiration from previous boxes also manufactured in the Salimbeni company headquarters with manual workmanship by talented artisan artists with a thick plate suitable for supporting numerous glazing firings at high heat at around 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
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
1970s Italian Bamboo Handle Box in Metal and Plexiglass
Located in Milan, IT
A Beautiful 1970s Faux Bamboo handle box in Nickeld Brass and Plexiglass.
A Gem from the 1970s Bling Disco period.
Category
1970s Modern Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Nickel
1970's Semi-precious stone decorative boxe
Located in New York, NY
1970's Semi-precious stone decorative boxe
Hand made
Italy
Category
1970s Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Stone
Salimbeni Box with Swiss Musical Mechanism by Maison Reuge Art Deco Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Round box with Swiss musical mechanism (music box) by Maison Reuge. In 925/1000 sterling silver with black and white fired enamels in Art Deco style. Diameter cm. 7.4 total height cm...
Category
1970s Art Deco Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Quartz and Marble Square Box
Located in Paris, FR
Box Quartz and marble square in black
marble with lid. With natural quartz on
lid's top.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Quartz, Marble
Vintage Venetian Murano Bright Orange Italian Art Glass Covered Bowl
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Vintage venetian murano bright orange Italian hand blown Art glass covered bowl.
Hand blown art glass candy dish shade in orange, red, and clear color....
Category
Late 20th Century Post-Modern Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Art Glass, Blown Glass
Table Box Enamel two-tone ruby red and emerald green Salimbeni.
By Giorgio Salimbeni, 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 Modern Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold
Pair Italian Midcentury Porcelain Figural Dove Boxes, circa 1960s
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Pair Italian midcentury Porcelain Figural Dove Boxes, circa 1960s
Italy, circa 1960s
This pair of Italian midcentury porcelain figural dove boxes from the 1960s is a delightful and ...
Category
20th Century Mid-Century Modern Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Porcelain
$760 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Pill Box Fired Enamel with Hand Painted Horse Head Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rounded square pill box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with white fired enamel, above and below, with hand painted horse head. Dimensions cm. 5.2 x 5.2 x 2.3. Weight gr. 117. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1966 on the inspiration of previous artefacts made in the English Art Nouveau style of the early 1900s and manufactured in the Salimbeni company headquarters in Florence in numerous specimens also with different subjects, with completely manual execution by artisan artists with a slab of high thickness suitable for supporting numerous enamelled firings at around 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
1960s Art Nouveau Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Vintage Set of 5 1970's Tortoise Plexiglass & Brass Desk Accessories
Located in Vis, NL
dint vintage set of 5 mid century faux tortoise plexiglass and brass desk accessories consisting in :
2 different sized trays.
1 small trash bin
1...
Category
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Box with fired enamels and fine horse racing miniature Salimbeni.
By Salimbeni, Franco 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 Art Nouveau Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Murano Glass Centerpiece by Michael Red for Vistosi, Italy, 1970s
By Michael Red, Vistosi
Located in Milan, IT
Large glass box by Michael Red for Vistosi.
Two pieces that can also be used separately.
Category
1970s Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Murano Glass
Cigarette Case Romantic couple Art Nouveau Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Giorgio 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 Art Nouveau Vintage Italian 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 Other Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
$4,592 Sale Price
20% Off
Snuff Box Monocrome Miniature Hand Painted Sterling Silver Enamel Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Round snuff box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fired enamel on the enameled edge with vertical stripes and fine monochrome miniature hand painted by the painter Renato Dainelli. Diameter cm. 6.2 cm high. 3.4. Weight gr. 222. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1967 and produced in Florence in the Salimbeni company headquarters with manual workmanship by skilled artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for withstanding 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
1960s Baroque Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Art Deco Style Lucite Trinket Box
By Max Kahn
Located in Albano Laziale, Rome/Lazio
Here we have a unique box in Art Deco style but produced during the late 1960's. The material is black lucite/plexiglass with decor in gold. Underneath it is marked Max Kahn. The sty...
Category
20th Century Art Deco Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Lucite, Plexiglass
$478 Sale Price
20% Off
Nathalie Du Pasquier Gravieux Accueil Box from Objects for the Electronic Age
By Nathalie du Pasquier
Located in Chicago, IL
Memphis Milano designer, Nathalie du Pasquier, Gravieux Accueil Box for Arc 74, 1983. Signed with decal studio label to lid: [Objects for the Electonic Age Mi...
Category
1980s Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Stainless Steel
Italian Jewelry or Decorative Box, Early 20th Century
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Early 20th Century Italian jewelry box. This sweet petite box is a perfect piece to hold jewelry or any small collectibles. Sitting atop a vanity, d...
Category
Early 20th Century Folk Art Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Table Box autumn colours, Art Nouveau style Sterling Silver, Enamel and Coral Sa
By Salimbeni, Giorgio Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table box with rounded corners in 925/1000 sterling silver brossè with very fine hand engraving, also on the sides, of “ramage” with leaves and bunches of grapes fire-ena...
Category
1960s Art Deco Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
1980 Italian Crystal & Black Murano Glass Round Box Worked with 24Kt Gold Dust
Located in New York, NY
1980s Venetian high-quality decorative trinket jewel glass box of imposing size and Hollywood Regency style, entirely handcrafted and blown in black Murano glass, extensively worked ...
Category
1980s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Leaf
Wood, Red, White & Black enameled 1960s box by Siva
Located in Varese, Lombardia
Decorative box in enameled metal and wood produced by Siva from Poggibonsi, Italy. Good condition: a visible chip at the base.
Category
1960s Space Age Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal, Enamel
Studio Del Campo Enamel on copper sculpted box, Italy 1960s
By Studio Del Campo
Located in Milan, IT
Studio Del Campo Enamel on Copper sculpted box.
Italy 1960s
Signed "del campo"
Category
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Copper, Enamel, Chrome
Italian Tortoiseshell & Enamel Dresser Box
Located in Bradenton, FL
Late 19th / early 20th Century Italian trinket/dresser box. Box features embossed brass frame with tortoiseshell panels. Hinged lid with inset outdoor...
Category
Late 19th Century Neoclassical Antique Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass, Enamel
Venice Blown Contemporary Smooth and Striped Glass Minimal Container 'Innesti S'
By Gumdesign, Hands On Design
Located in Milan, IT
Innesti S is a container in borosilicate glass masterfully blown in Venice by Soffieria for Hands on Design. Designed by GumDesign this piece is characterized by the contrast between striped glass of the bottom and the smooth finish of the top; this element, combined to the simple shape, makes this container beautiful even when it's empty and suitable for many spots of the house. The Innesti collection, which includes a large container...
Category
2010s Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Glass
Snuffbox basket with flowers, in Florentine Renaissance style, Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, 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 Renato Dainelli of a basket with flowers, in ...
Category
1960s Napoleon III Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Rino Pirovano for Rexite, Italy. 900 Multiplor. Container in red plastic
Located in København, Copenhagen
Rino Pirovano for Rexite, Italy. 900 Multiplor.
Container in red plastic with four compartments.
1970s/80s.
Designed in 1977.
In very good condition, lid with two interior chips.
Mar...
Category
1970s Modern Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Plastic
Snuff Box hand engraving, black “niello” type Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco 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 Rococo Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Italian 1960s pewter monkey shaped box
Located in Milan, IT
Splendid pewter monkey-shaped box.
Signed F.M.C Italy
yellow fabric lining.
Category
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Pewter
$777 / item
Italian Renaissance Walnut Box
Located in Essex, MA
A dwarf cassone with hinged top with chip carved edge over a paneled case with central keyhole, arcaded carved base.
Category
Late 17th Century Renaissance Antique Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Walnut
Heart table box Yellow enamel Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Giorgio Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Heart-shaped table box in 925/1000 sterling silver with translucent enamel fired on guilloche above and below. Contemporary modern style. Dimensions cm. 9 x 9.5 cm high. 3.Weight gr....
Category
1990s Modern Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Italian Marble Box
Located in Studio City, CA
Red Italian marble box. Measures 6"W x 4"D x 1"H
Category
1920s Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Marble
Contemporary Iridescent Pearl Crystal Bowl, Brass and Gold 24 Kt by Ghirò Studio
By Ghirò Studio
Located in Pieve Emanuele, Milano
2021 Collection of covered bowls by Ghirò Studio.
This covered bowl is one of a kind. The material used and the artisanal and artistic workmanship make it unrepeatable. In fact, two...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Brass
Paon Stone Box
Located in Paris, FR
Box Paon Stone in white stone, box
with lid with gilded metal peacock on
the lid.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Stone, Metal
$346 / item
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 Other Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
Italian Box In Brass And Tiger's Eye
Located in St.Petersburg, FL
An elegant Italian box made of brass and tiger's eye, ca' 1970's.
Category
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Baroque Style Green Table Box with Miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco 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 Baroque Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Round Favor Box with Lid in 925/1000 Sterling Silver Green Enamel Art Nouveau St
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Round favor box with lid in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè and hand-painted miniature of a bouquet of flowers in Art Nouveau style. B...
Category
1960s Art Nouveau Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Sterling Silver, Enamel
21° Century Italian 800 Solid Silver Decorative Box
By Argenteria Auge
Located in VALENZA, IT
Oval box in solid 800 silver with embossed daisies and 24kt golden interior.
This box was made entirely by hand giving it an oval shape.
The lid, finely embossed with flower motifs...
Category
2010s Other Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
Table Box Enamel on Guilloche and Hand Painted Miniature Sterling Silver Salimb
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
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 Baroque Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Decorative Box Leather Stephane Parmentier Giobagnara Atari Box Long Rectangular
By Stephane Parmentier
Located in New York, NY
Atari Box Long Rectangular -- Stephane Parmentier x Giobagnara
Grey box in front is the Atari Box Long Rectangular. Product available only in saddle leather. See photo for recommend...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Leather
21st Century Coffee Round Paper Bin with Lid Waste Bin Handmade in Italy
By Pinetti
Located in Bagnatica, Lombardia
Nothing like a sleek waste bin in calfskin leather to keep your bathroom looking chic. The cylindrical body is entirely covered by hand with fine calfskin leather in a woven pattern....
Category
2010s Modern Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Leather
Table Box Fired Enamel Guillochè and Hand Engravings Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco 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 Baroque Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box “The Great Odalisque” Fired Enamel on Guilloche Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
table box in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated with edges with fire - enamelled stripes and upper frame with insertion of paillons in pure gold and beautRectangular iful fire-enam...
Category
1960s Empire Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Wedding Favor Box Art Noveau hand painted on lid Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Round wedding favor with lid in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fine manual engraving of flower shoots, fire-enamelled with various colours, in early 1900s Art Nouveau styl...
Category
1960s Art Nouveau Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver
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