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Place of Origin: Italian
1950s Italo Casini Mid-Century Modern Italian Pink and Gold Ceramic Box
By Italo Casini
Located in Aci Castello, IT
A Pink and gold ceramic box manufactured in Sesto Fiorentino in the 1950s, good conditions overall, normal signs of the time and use. It's marked on the bottom. A lovely example of h...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
Selene Box in Glossy Black Lacquered Wood with Corno Italiano Inlays, Mod. 5310s
By Arcahorn Srl.
Located in Recanati, Macerata
Distinguished by plush materials and essential lines, our Selene box showcases a rectangular wooden structure with a polished black lacquer finish. Enhanced by an elegant edging in C...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Chrome
Christian Dior Tortoiseshell Lucite Square Italian Decorative Jewelry Box, 1970s
By Christian Dior
Located in Roma, IT
Stunning Mid-Century jewelry or decorative square box in a beautiful combination of tortoiseshell effect and clear lucite. This stylish object was made in Italy during the 1970s and is attributed to a Christian Dior Home production.
In amazing conditions, with no chips. The contrast between the clear and the tortoiseshell effect lucite is incredibly elegant and makes this box unique. The way this item reflects the light is just magnificent and makes this item ideal to store jewels.
An unique box...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Acrylic, Lucite, Plexiglass
Treasure Rectangular Brass Box
Located in Firenze, FI
Organize your small items in style with our elegant rectangular-shaped brass box. Made from high-quality brass, its unique and stylish design adds sophistication to any space. Perfec...
Category
2010s Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Octagonal Jewelry Music Box, Made in Italy
By Reuge Ste-Croix
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Elegant octagonal wooden music box in thuya wood.
Thuya tree is famous for rich gold and brown shades of its grain and unique exotic fragrance, simila...
Category
1950s Moorish Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Fruitwood
Set of Two Italian Rectangular Florentine Gilt Wood Boxes
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Set of 2 charming Italian Mid-Century Florentine hand crafted boxes. These gilt-wood boxes can be used to store your favorite pieces of jewelry as well as stand alone pieces on a cof...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Giltwood, Paint, Paper
Pill Box Silver Sterling light blue Enamel sliding lid for sweetener Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Giorgio Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Pill Box Silver is in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated 24carats.
Pill Box Silver has light blue translucent fired enamels on guilloché.
Pill Box Silver has a sliding lid and hole...
Category
1990s Louis XVI 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
21st Century, Animal Box Collection, Crystal Box with Flamingo
By Oggetti D'Arte
Located in Calenzano, FI
Hand carved crystal box with Flamingo in brass made with the artisan lost wax technique with dark burnished finish. Each object is handcrafted and the care for every detail makes each item unique in its kind.
The style of this box is a modern reinterpretation of an object from the second half of the 18th century in France.
Also Oggetti d'Arte will follow with the same passion the request of the most qualified studies of interio architecture from around the world, helping them in achievement of their most ambitious projects.
This box, at the customer's request, can be made with different metal finishes and with different crystal colors so that it can be inserted in the best possible way within your furniture. This box is included in Animal Box...
Category
2010s Louis XVI Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Table Cigar Box two-tone stripes enamel Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Giorgio Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
This divine Table Box is in 925/1000 sterling silver.
Table Box hand-painted miniature has a Rectangular shape with rounded corners.
On the cover there is a beautiful hand-engraved...
Category
1970s Empire Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Gabriella Crespi Lucite and Chrome Decorative Box, Italy 1970s
By Gabriella Crespi
Located in Rome, IT
Rare box in lucite and chrome in the shape of a rhombus signed by the Italian designer Gabriella Crespi as shown in photos. Made in Italy in the 1970s.
Conditions are good consid...
Category
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal, Chrome
Montagnani Gilded and Marquetry Box, circa 1970
By Montagnani
Located in Atlanta, GA
Montagnani Firenze, Italy designed this luxury decorative box. The piece was crafted in Italy circa 1970. Its Mid-Century modernist form boasts an elongated rectangular flat shape, w...
Category
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal, Brass
Lucite and Silver Squared Italian Decorative Box, 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Amazing Lucite and silver squared decorative box. This item was designed in the 1970s.
This piece is made of a crystal Lucite and silver with a crystal Lucite removable top, the way...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
Italian modern brown ABS wall organizer Utensilo by Maurer and Becker, 1970s
By Ingo Maurer
Located in MIlano, IT
Italian modern ABS wall organizer Utensilo by Ingo Maurer and Dorothee Becker, 1970s
Wall organizer or display model Utensilo, entirely in brown ABS plastic. On the front it has seve...
Category
1970s Modern Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal
Travertine Box Pier Alessandro Giusti and Egidio Di Rosa for Up & Up Italy 1970s
By Up & Up
Located in Rome, IT
Midcentury amazing round box in travertine marble attributed to the Italian designers Pier Alessandro Giusti and Egidio Di Rosa for Up & Up.
Made in Italy in the 1970s.
Category
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Travertine, Marble
Dior Tortoiseshell Lucite and Brass Decorative Octagonal Box, Italy 1970s
By Christian Dior
Located in Roma, IT
Stunning Mid-Century jewelry or decorative octagonal box in a beautiful tortoiseshell effect lucite and brass. This stylish object was made in Italy during the 1970s and is attribute...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Acrylic, Lucite, Plexiglass
1970s Mid-Century Modern Fake Tortoise Shell Lucite Round Jewelry Box
By Dior Home
Located in Aci Castello, IT
This lucite jewelry box designed and manufactured in Italy in the Seventies embodies the mid-century modern style with its sleek, minimalist form and use of synthetic materials. The ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Lucite
Priora Box in glossy ivory lacquer with detail in Corno Italiano, Mod. 2404
By Arcahorn Srl.
Located in Recanati, Macerata
The Priora box is a versatile and elegant accessory, crafted to store your cherished items with the utmost care. Fashioned from glossy ivory lacquered wood, the box is distinguished ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood, Lacquer
Table Box Magnificent Arabian Horse Fired Enamel Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Giorgio Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Shaped rectangular table box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fine hand-etched fire-enameled engraving painted like lapis lazuli stone and...
Category
1970s Islamic Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
21st Century Leather Rectangular Tissue Box with Chrome Profile Made in Italy
By Pinetti
Located in Bagnatica, Lombardia
Masterful artisanal craftsmanship.
Pinetti rectangular tissue box, made in ABS with chrome or gold finishing is covered with genuine waterproof leather and is available with gold ...
Category
2010s Modern Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Chrome
Italian Mid-Century Small Rectangular Leather Embossed Box
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Beautifully molded Italian leather box with a raised style and features crests of coat of arms with lions and fleur de lis on the top. Additionally this piece has been enhanced with ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Leather
Table Box shaped tiles of the Baptistery of Florence Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Shaped box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with painted fire enamels like lapis lazuli stone and beautiful miniature hand painted by the painter Beatrice Mellana reproducing ...
Category
1970s Renaissance Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
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
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
Doge Green Tall Glass Box with Lid
By Creart
Located in Milan, IT
This glass box will add a colorful accent to any vanity table in a bedroom or powder room. Exquisitely decorated by hand, it is distinguished by a vertically etched pattern that crea...
Category
2010s Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Glass
Possibly Buccellati Gilt Silver Tablebox
By Buccellati
Located in New York, NY
Possibly Buccellati, Italian gilt silver tablebox adorned with engraved floral and geometric motifs, from the 20th century. It measures 8 3/4'' by 6'' by 1 1/2'', weighs 19.8 troy ou...
Category
20th Century Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
Whippet Jewelry Box
Located in New York, NY
Whippet jewelry box. Vintage Italian leather bound velvet lined box with bronze patinated whippet. Italy, 1940’s.
Dimensions: 8.5” H X 8.75" W x 5.75...
Category
1940s Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal
1950 Felice Galbiati Fornasetti Italian Midcentury Design Metal Play Card Box
By Felice Galbiati
Located in Brescia, IT
Playpen
Felice Galbiati _ Milan
Italy, 1950
Serigraph metal and wood
Very good condiction
Category
1950s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal
Onyx Box Decorative or Jewelry Box Brown Color Made in Italy circa 1970
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
Box in onyx, in a green color. It is a decorative or jewelry box, made in Italy circa 1970.
Category
1970s Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Onyx
Square Italian Yellow Floral Alabaster Trinket Box, Italy
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
A beautiful square yellow alabaster trinket box with a floral design. With a hinged lid, a lovely floral motif in purple and green decorates the ...
Category
20th Century Bohemian Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Alabaster, Metal
Small Decorative Round Brass Box by Gabriella Crespi, 1960s, Signed
By Gabriella Crespi
Located in Bagnolo Mella, Brescia
A beautifully crafted small round box by the renowned Italian designer Gabriella Crespi, dating back to the 1960s. This exquisite piece is crafted in brass, showcasing Crespi's signa...
Category
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Veletta Tissue Box Holder in Ivory Lacquered Wood and Corno Italiano, Mod. 2429
By Arcahorn Srl.
Located in Recanati, Macerata
The Veletta tissue box holder blends functionality and sophistication and offers an elegant solution to keep tissues within easy reach without sacrificing style. Crafted from glossy ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood, Lacquer
1970 Italian Decorative Box Decorative box in wood
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
1970 Italian Decorative Box
Decorative box in wood and inox.
Italy. 1970
H. 6 cm W. 30 cm D. 20 cm
Category
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Monkey Ceramic Box Sculpture by Vivai del Sud, Italy, 1970s
By Vivai del Sud
Located in Rome, IT
White ceramic box animal sculpture in the shape of a monkey by Vivai del Sud. Made in Italy in the 1970s.
The original label is still attached on ...
Category
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
Italian Mid-Century Acrylic Faux Tortoise and Brass Decorative Box, 1970s
Located in Morazzone, Varese
Italian Mid-Century Acrylic Faux Tortoise and Brass Decorative Box, 1970s
Gorgeous Italian crafted jewelry box made of acrylic with brass details.
Can be used as a jewelry box as we...
Category
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Midcentury Squared Decorative Box in Lucite and Chrome, Italy 1970s
Located in Rome, IT
Midcentury beautiful squared decorative box in lucite and chrome in the style of Gabriella Crespi.
Made in Italy in the 1970s.
Perfect desk object or gift idea.
Category
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal, Steel, Chrome
Stunning Blue Murano Glass Ormolu Mounted Round Table Box
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Stunning Blue Murano Glass Ormolu Mounted Round Table Box
Italy, mid-20th century
This beautiful Blue Murano Glass Ormolu Mounted Round Table Box, made in Italy during the mid-20t...
Category
20th Century Neoclassical Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ormolu
19th Century Mosaic Inlaid Marquetry Jewelry Box Sorrento Napoli, C1880
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Amazing Marquetry and inlay on this Sorrento Napoli Box C1880. There is craftsmanship of the highest caliber all over this box. Box front drops down to reveal inside completely cover...
Category
1880s Baroque Antique Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Set of Three Small Vintage Italian Leather Jewelry Boxes
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Three small Mid-Century jewelry or trinket boxes, Italy, Circa 1930's. The boxes, two oval and one round, are hand crafted in leather and gold embossed. One is embossed around the to...
Category
Early 20th Century Mid-Century Modern Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Leather
Vintage Gucci Makeup Box Lipstick Vault Beveled Mirror
By Gucci
Located in Chula Vista, CA
Gucci Lipstick Vault Box Beveled mirror
19.5 w x 9.5 d x 2.5 h
Box only. Worn used preowned vintage condition
Refer to images
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Mirror, Paper
Veletta Tissue Box Holder in Ivory Lacquered Wood and Corno Italiano, Mod. 2429
By Arcahorn Srl.
Located in Recanati, Macerata
The Veletta tissue box holder blends functionality and sophistication and offers an elegant solution to keep tissues within easy reach without sacrificing style. Crafted from glossy ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood, Lacquer
Table Box Enamel on Guilloche Hand Painted Miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Square box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè also on the sides. In the center, a beautiful hand painted tempera miniature on a vegetable ivory plate depicting the portrait of a 19th century lady, signed by the painter Anna Maria Manfriani. Dimensions cm. 12 x 12 x 2.5. Weight gr. 618. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1976 and manufactured in Florence in some specimens with various subjects and different colors, in the headquarters of the Salimbeni Company with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for withstanding numerous enamelled firings at about 800° C.
Miniature is a very ancient technique which consists of painting works in small proportions.
It was born for the decoration of the first letter of the paragraph of the books.
Over the years, however, this technique is refined and enriched, then moving on to precious personal items.
Hand painted miniatures can be done with multiple different techniques.
The most important that we use on our articles are of three kinds:
1) Fire enamel.
2) Water tempera on an ivory plate.
3) Painted on mother-of-pearl.
Fire enameled miniatures:
On a first layer of enamel generally white or very clear or even transparent suitably liquefied at a temperature of about 750 ° C, the chosen subject is painted using miniature colors which are as many colored crystals, ground and reduced to a very fine, almost impalpable powder washed and purified in distilled water with the addition of small quantities of deoxidizing acids which, diluted with essential oils (usually essential oil of solder), can be mixed to form a palette of colors.
With very fine sable hair brushes you draw the subject starting from the perimeter and then gradually adding various layers of color.
It is necessary to carry out various firings very often so that the colors harden and are not absorbed by the underlying glaze as, during the subsequent firings at 750 ° C, during liquefaction, it would spread irremediably. Hence the need to form the painting a little at a time, cooking it numerous times.
Therefore it is necessary to proceed with numerous retouching, often overlapping different colors that only the painter's experience knows. A beautiful miniature needs from 20 to over 50 firings and is finished when the painter deems he does not have to further intervene.
Some colors must have darker tones than others because then, by superimposing the transparent enamel placed at the end of the miniature, they fade. This transparent layer, called “fondant” in jargon, must be smoothed and polished like all other translucent enamel colors.
The miniatures with water tempera colors are painted on real ivory...
Category
1970s Modern Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Totem Cat Round Box
By Richard Ginori
Located in Milan, IT
A gem of fine porcelain inspired by the symbolic, animal-dedicated decorations gracing nobles' cups in the 18th century, this round box from the Totem Collection praises the cat's ar...
Category
2010s Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Porcelain
Table Box Baroque style with two-tone fired enamels Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
This awesome Table Box Baroque style is in 925/1000 sterling silver.
it has a Rectangular shape with hand-engraved intricate design Black and Green color fire enameled.
Table Box Bar...
Category
1970s Baroque Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
18th Century Italian Florentine Giltwood Engraved Box
Located in Milano, MI
Italian antique gilded Florentine box, octagonal shape realized in white walnut, engraved on each side and the top and with bulin scrolling decor...
Category
Late 18th Century Neoclassical Antique Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Walnut
Italian Brown Leather Red Velvet Lined Jewelry Box
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Brown Oval Leather Lined Decorative Jewelry Box, 1950-60's Italy
Vintage decorative box in brown leather with gold embossed decoration. This Mid-Century box was handcrafted in Italy...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Leather, Velvet
Priora Box in glossy black lacquer with detail in Corno Italiano, Mod. 2411
By Arcahorn Srl.
Located in Recanati, Macerata
The Priora box exudes refined aesthetic and meticulous attention to detail, making it the ultimate accessory to store your personal belongings. Crafted from glossy black lacquered wo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Box by Arnaldo Pomodoro for Edizioni Ars D, Milan
By Arnaldo Pomodoro
Located in Conversano, IT
Stunning box made by Arnaldo Pomodoro for Edizioni Ars D Milano commissioned by Ciga Hotels in the early 1980s.
The print run is very limited to 520 pieces, made of solid wood with s...
Category
1980s Brutalist Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Capricia Square Box in Pebbled Leather with Handle in Corno Italiano, Mod. 4471
By Arcahorn Srl., Filippo Dini
Located in Recanati, Macerata
With its refined appearance, our Capricia square box can easily fit both traditional and contemporary décor. Its clean traditional shape is enriched by a lining in Ice-cream color pe...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Leather, Wood
Bath England Bathroom Boxes Set #1
By Creart
Located in Milan, IT
A glorious showcase of craftsmanship, this magnificent bathroom set is comprised of a small basket and box entirely handmade of brass preciously finished with 24k galvanized gold. Br...
Category
2010s Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Brass
Italian Embossed Bronzed Metal Rectangular Trinket/ Jewelry Music Box
Located in Guaynabo, PR
This is an Italian bronzed metal square hinged lidded music box. It depicts a lid decorated in the center with a 19th century hand painted portrait of Madame Recamier adorned with a ...
Category
Early 20th Century Belle Époque Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal
Gucci Vintage Leather Box Tom Ford, 1990s
By Gucci, Tom Ford
Located in Munich, DE
Gucci vintage black leather jewellery box with aluminium brushed frame and stitched leather rims designed by Tom Ford. Signed with Gucci. Ver...
Category
1990s Mid-Century Modern Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Aluminum
Snuff Box Round Guilloche Enamel Box Gold Paillons Stars of Sky Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Round table snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent blue fired enamel on guillochè and with the insertion of pure gold “paillons” in the shape of stars to create a starry sky effect. With turquoise enamel circle with hand-engraved motif. Late 1600s Baroque style. Diameter cm. 7.7 cm high. 2.3. Weight gr. 226. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1967 and produced in Florence in several specimens in the Salimbeni company headquarters with manual workmanship by skilled artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for withstanding numerous enamelled firings at high heat at about 800° C -
The Paillons processing, now almost disappeared, and a rare technique recognized as a craft. Several layers of enamel are applied to the object, baked one by one in the oven.
Afterwards, the designs cut out of thin gold leaves, the paillons foils, are applied one by one by hand to form the desired figure. These sheets are then in turn coated...
Category
1960s Baroque Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Enamel, Sterling Silver
Romeo Rega Vintage Brass Large Pyramid Step Box Sculpture Desk Accessory Italian
By Romeo Rega
Located in North Miami, FL
This amazing and very special heavy large vintage brass stepped pyramid box and or sculpture designed by Romeo Rega is Italian and now rare. This is from the 70s. It is unmarked but ...
Category
1970s Modern Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Italian Porcelain Hand Painted Trinket or Jewelry Box, Circa 1970
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
Ceramic box, in exellent condition, never used. It has been made in Italy circa 1970. Birds and plants pattern decoraton.
Category
20th Century Colonial Revival Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
Italian Mid-Century Modern Silver Box
By Bartolini Bartolozzi
Located in New York, NY
Italian Mid-Century Modern 800 silver box. Rectangular with straight sides and thumb rest. Cover flat and hinged with tab. Allover engine-turned curvili...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
Pill Box Fired Enamel with Hand Painted Horse Head Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco 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
Table Box blue and gold with handpainted miniature fire-enameled on guilloche Sa
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Octagonal table box in 800/1000 silver gold plated with translucent enamel on guilloché and beautiful enamel miniature hand painted by the painter Renato Dainelli in early 1900s Engl...
Category
1980s Empire Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Modernist Italian 800 Silver Desk/Jewellery Box c.1960
Located in Bath, GB
A great looking box, Italian in origin made from 800 silver wrapped around a wooden interior.
Both the base and lid are hallmarked "800" together with an additional mark "833 F1"....
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
Small Victorian Gilt Metal Dresser or Ring Box with a Pietra Dura Plaque
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A superb small gilt Victorian dresser box with a Pietra Dura plaque to the top.
It retains a (torn) note with a dedication dated 1876.
Leng...
Category
Late 19th Century Belle Époque Antique Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Stone, Metal
Dunhill Ceramic Container - Made in Italy
Located in Fairfield, CA
A vintage ceramic lidded container by Dunhill. Made in Italy. Square shape with a beautiful brown, pink, and white marble pattern to the glaze. Rubber gasket along the interior rim o...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
A red Venini Murano glass box with "murrine" glass lid from the late 1960ties
By Ludovico Diaz de Santillana, Venini
Located in Aachen, DE
A Venini Murano glass box with a "murrine" glass lid from the late 1960ties. The vessels base is white "lattimo" glass, cased red to give it a nice opaque appearance and a strong red...
Category
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Glass, Murrine, Murano Glass, Blown Glass, Art Glass
Veletta Tissue Box Holder in Black Lacquered Wood and Corno Italiano, Mod. 2430
By Arcahorn Srl.
Located in Recanati, Macerata
The Veletta tissue box holder is a practical accessory that will add a touch of elegance to any environment. Its wooden structure boasts clean lines and a glossy black lacquer finish...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood, Lacquer
Genuine Italian Pink Carved Alabaster or Opaline Decorative Trinket Box, Italy
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
A lovely hand-carved round Italian alabaster or opaline glass trinket box in pink. This piece will be fabulous to display on a coffee table or dressing table. The exterior is a peach...
Category
20th Century Art Nouveau Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Alabaster
Pill Box Sterling Silver with Sailboat Hand-Painted with Fired Enamel
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Portapillole rotondo in argento sterling 925/1000 placcato oro.
Portapillole in Argento Sterling con miniatura di barca a vela smaltata e dipinta a mano. Stile inglese primi del XX ...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
1930s by Emma Bonazzi and Fortunato Depero Futurist Art Deco Box
By Fortunato Depero, Emma Bonazzi
Located in Brescia, IT
Rare futurist box
Bakelite and silver metal.
Literature on request
Category
1930s Futurist Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal
Bitossi Box, Ceramic, Geometric, Red, Yellow, White, Orange, Signed
By Bitossi, Aldo Londi
Located in New York, NY
Bitossi box, ceramic, geometric, red, yellow, white and orange, signed. A small scale box from Aldo Londi's Líneas Rotas (Broken Lines) series. The lid is decorated with a puzzle pie...
Category
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
Mid Century White Murano Glass Box
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Exceptional Mid Century White Murano Glass Box in very good condition.
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Murano Glass
Midcentury Glass and Vienna Straw Wicker Italian Box 1970s Christian Dior Style
By Christian Dior
Located in Roma, IT
Beautiful Mid-Century decorative round box made in clear crystal glass with a stylish lid in brass and Vienna straw.
This elegant box was designed in Italy in the 70s following the...
Category
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wicker, Straw, Lucite
18th Century Italian Painted and Parcel Gilt Reliquary Box
Located in Houston, TX
18th century Italian painted and parcel gilt reliquary box.
This lovely large Italian Baroque box is made of painted and parcel gilt wood surrounded by ...
Category
18th Century Baroque Antique Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Glass, Wood
Fornasetti Playing Cards Box
By Fornasetti
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Vintage poker playing cards box in walnut wood that holds two packs of cards / designed by Piero Fornasetti, made in Italy in the 1970s
Length: 7 inches ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Pocket Pill Box like Egg sea color Enamel Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Pocket pill box shaped like a small egg.
Pocket pill box like egg hinged opening.
Pocket pill box like egg in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated 24ca...
Category
1960s Empire Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Box shaped enamel hand painted, engraved and miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Box shaped enamel is in 925/1000 sterling.
Box shaped enamel has handpainted fired enamels miniature.
Box shaped enamel is engraved and fire-enamelled ornaments.
Box shaped enamel is...
Category
1970s Baroque Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
