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Place of Origin: Italian
Cartier Large Art Deco Sterling Silver Box
By Cartier
Located in Miami, FL
Heavy Cartier sterling silver reeded table box from the mid-century modern era. Rectangular with domed and ribbed top; straight sides; ribbed front and ba...
Category
Mid-20th Century Art Deco Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Venezia Mestre SC1 Jewerly Box
By Morici
Located in Recanati, IT
This jewelry box will be a refined statement on any modern or traditional vanity. Lined with beige Alcantara, it features a ring holder, an open compartment, and two watch holders. E...
Category
2010s Other Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
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, Enamel, Sterling Silver
Pill Box Brown and Turquise Stripes Enamel Guilloche Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Giorgio Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Square pill box with oval section in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with two-tone translucent fired enamels with guillochè stripes and hand-engraved motifs on all sides. George...
Category
1970s George IV Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Venezia Rialto SC1 Pen Box
By Morici
Located in Recanati, IT
A splendid piece of functional decor fit for a private office or studio, this pen case is distinguished by an exquisite handmade inlay work of a series of colorful rectangles of mode...
Category
2010s Other Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Venezia Laguna Sc2 Pen Box
By Morici
Located in Recanati, IT
A splendid piece of functional decor fit for a private office or studio, this pen case is distinguished by an exquisite handmade inlay work of a series of colorful rectangles of mode...
Category
2010s Other Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Lucite and Chrome Decorative Box, Italy, 1970s
Located in Naples, IT
Oval decorative box made of acrylic glass and brass. Good condition, patina of time. Also perfect for jewellery, for your desk or for collecting small items. Made in Italy in the 1970s.
Category
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Chrome
Snuff Box Light Blue Ornament in Relief, Empire Style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular pocket snuff box with oval section in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè, with laurel ornament in relief in Empire style. Wit...
Category
1970s Empire Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Noel BC Chrome and Brass Metal Desk Set and Box, Italy 1970s
By Noel BC
Located in Atlanta, GA
Italian designer Noel BC Italy designed this modernist desk accessory set in the 1970s. The set is built with a rectangular box and a contact book. The pieces boast a geometric shape with chrome and gilt brass design in silver and gold colors. The interior of the box is in black Lucite or acrylic. The contact book is in immaculate condition and has never been used. The best way to keep your contacts in a safe place is the old-fashioned way.
The desktop set...
Category
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal, Brass, Chrome
Venezia Mestre SC2 Pen Box
By Morici
Located in Recanati, IT
A splendid piece of functional decor fit for a private office or studio, this pen case is distinguished by an exquisite handmade inlay work of a series of colorful rectangles of mode...
Category
2010s Other Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Venezia Rialto SC2 Pen Box
By Morici
Located in Recanati, IT
A splendid piece of functional decor fit for a private office or studio, this pen case is distinguished by an exquisite handmade inlay work of a series of colorful rectangles of mode...
Category
2010s Other Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Italian New Old Stock 1980s Decorative / Jewelry Silver Art Nouveau Box
By Ottaviani
Located in Weesp, NL
Introducing the Exquisite 1980s Black Lacquered Wooden Box by Ottaviani: A Timeless Treasure of Elegance and Craftsmanship!
Are you in search of a truly unique and stunning piece th...
Category
1980s Art Nouveau Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver Plate, 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 Blue and Light Blue Stripes Guillochè and Enamel Sterling Silver Salim
By Giorgio Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table box with rounded corners in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with two-tone translucent fired enamels with guillochè stripes and hand-engraved motifs. George V E...
Category
1970s George IV Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Venezia Cannaregio SC2 Pen Box
By Morici
Located in Recanati, IT
A splendid piece of functional decor fit for a private office or studio, this pen case is distinguished by an exquisite handmade inlay work of a series ...
Category
2010s Other Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Venezia Sestiere Sc2 Pen Box
By Morici
Located in Recanati, IT
A splendid piece of functional decor fit for a private office or studio, this pen case is distinguished by an exquisite handmade inlay work of a series ...
Category
2010s Other Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Baroque Style Green Table Box with Miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, 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
19th Century Italian Voting Box Tuscan Confraternity Carved Barrel Ballot Box
Located in Milan, IT
19th century Italian Confraternity Voting Urn of Tuscan origin realized with turned and carved poplar wood. The barrel-shaped central body, in which hands were inserted to insert the ballot ball into one of the two holes connected to the small drawer below, where on the front we find the inscription YES and NO related to voting, SI and NO, in order to distinguish for and against votes on paper, then collected in two separate small drawers, just below. Standing on four curly feet, it has a beautiful curved handle and carved parts at both ends, highlighted by ebonized details.
In a fraternity, this ballot box was used to collegially adjudicate community choices. In good age related condition, with sogns of wear and use. This antique Italian ballot wooden box, carved and painted, coming from Tuscany, in Central Italy. This ballot urn is an excellent example of a 19th century wooden voting box...
Category
Mid-19th Century Neoclassical Antique Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Poplar
Oltrarno Big Grey Box Organizer
By Cassigoli
Located in Milan, IT
Wooden handmade box dressed in soft genuine leather and microfiber internal. Available in 14 different colors. Please, ask the Concierge for further details.
Category
2010s Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Leather
Arlecchino Polychrome Marble Box
By Raffaello Romanelli
Located in Milan, IT
Precious memories impressed on polaroids or jewelry favorites will be luxuriously treasured within this rectangular-cut box. Black Belgio marble is featured to craft its general stru...
Category
2010s Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Malachite, Marble
Roberto Cavalli Lucite Jewelry Box with Tortoise Effect, Italy, 1970s
By Roberto Cavalli
Located in Roma, IT
Wonderful midcentury lucite jewelery box by Roberto Cavalli, with a stunning tortoiseshell effect. This gorgeous piece was produced in Italy in the 1970s.
This object is timeless ...
Category
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Lucite, Plexiglass
Venezia Sestiere SC1 Watch Box
By Morici
Located in Recanati, IT
A splendid piece of functional decor fit for a private office or studio, this watch case is distinguished by an exquisite handmade inlay work of a serie...
Category
2010s Other Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Venezia Cannaregio SC1 Watch Box
By Morici
Located in Recanati, IT
A splendid piece of functional decor fit for a private office or studio, this watch case is distinguished by an exquisite handmade inlay work of a serie...
Category
2010s Other Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Venezia Sestiere SC1 Empty Box
By Morici
Located in Recanati, IT
A stylish and practical design suited for safekeeping cherished items, this rectangular box will add an accent of sophistication to a vanity desk, console or nightstand. Masterfully ...
Category
2010s Other Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Venezia Cannaregio SC1 Empty Box
By Morici
Located in Recanati, IT
A stylish and practical design suited for safekeeping cherished items, this rectangular box will add an accent of sophistication to a vanity desk, console or nightstand. Masterfully ...
Category
2010s Other Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Venezia Cannaregio SC1 Pen Box
By Morici
Located in Recanati, IT
A splendid piece of functional decor fit for a private office or studio, this pen case is distinguished by an exquisite handmade inlay work of a series of colorful rectangles of mode...
Category
2010s Other Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Table Box Magnificent Arabian Horse Fired Enamel Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Giorgio Salimbeni, 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
Venezia Mestre SC1 Pen Box
By Morici
Located in Recanati, IT
A splendid piece of functional decor fit for a private office or studio, this pen case is distinguished by an exquisite handmade inlay work of a series of colorful rectangles of mode...
Category
2010s Other Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Table Box Art Deco Style Inspired by Louis Cartier Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular Table Box with rounded corners in 925/1000 sterling silver with fire Enamel Art Deco design. Dimensions cm. 9 x 11 x 2.8. Weight gr. 324. Designed by Giorgio Salimbeni in 1976 inspired by objects designed by Louis Cartier around 1920 and manufactured in Florence in various specimens, also in parure with other objects, in the headquarters of the Salimbeni Company with completely manual execution by artisan artists with top quality slab thickness and large reinforcements suitable for supporting numerous high-fire enamelled firings at about 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
1970s Art Deco Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Venezia Cannaregio SC1 Jewerly Box
By Morici
Located in Recanati, IT
This jewelry box will be a refined statement on any modern or traditional vanity. Lined with beige Alcantara, it features a ring holder, an open compartment, and two watch holders. E...
Category
2010s Other Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Venezia Laguna SC1 Jewerly Box
By Morici
Located in Recanati, IT
This jewelry box will be a refined statement on any modern or traditional vanity. Lined with beige Alcantara, it features a ring holder, an open compartment, and two watch holders. E...
Category
2010s Other Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Venezia Sestiere SC1 Jewerly Box
By Morici
Located in Recanati, IT
This jewelry box will be a refined statement on any modern or traditional vanity. Lined with beige Alcantara, it features a ring holder, an open compartment, and two watch holders. E...
Category
2010s Other Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Italian Bronze Rectangular Portrait Jewelry/Vanity Box
Located in Guaynabo, PR
This is an Italian bronze small rectangular jewelry/vanity portrait box. It depicts an embossed bronze lid decorated in the center with a hand painted 19th century round portrait of ...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
20th Cebtury Italian Solid Silver Vintage Decorative Box
By Arval Argenti Valenza
Located in VALENZA, IT
Decorative pumpkin-shaped 800 solid silver box.
The body of the box is round and has been embossed and chiseled with the typical stripes of the pumpkin.
The knob is cast and has th...
Category
1970s Other Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
Venezia Laguna SC1 Empty Box
By Morici
Located in Recanati, IT
A stylish and practical design suited for safekeeping cherished items, this rectangular box will add an accent of sophistication to a vanity desk, console or nightstand. Masterfully ...
Category
2010s Other Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Venezia Mestre SC1 Empty Box
By Morici
Located in Recanati, IT
A stylish and practical design suited for safekeeping cherished items, this rectangular box will add an accent of sophistication to a vanity desk, console or nightstand. Masterfully ...
Category
2010s Other Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Venezia Laguna SC1 Watch Box
By Morici
Located in Recanati, IT
A splendid piece of functional decor fit for a private office or studio, this watch case is distinguished by an exquisite handmade inlay work of a serie...
Category
2010s Other Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Venezia Mestre SC1 Watch Box
By Morici
Located in Recanati, IT
A splendid piece of functional decor fit for a private office or studio, this watch case is distinguished by an exquisite handmade inlay work of a serie...
Category
2010s Other Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Italian Art Deco Petite Alabaster Trinket or Jewelry Box, circa 1920's
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Italian Art Deco Petite Alabaster Trinket or Jewelry Box, circa 1920's. Gorgeous hand painted alabaster box with intricate painted lid of a female fi...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Deco Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Alabaster
Venezia Laguna SC1 Pen Box
By Morici
Located in Recanati, IT
A splendid piece of functional decor fit for a private office or studio, this pen case is distinguished by an exquisite handmade inlay work of a series of colorful rectangles of mode...
Category
2010s Other Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Venezia Sestiere SC1 Pen Box
By Morici
Located in Recanati, IT
A splendid piece of functional decor fit for a private office or studio, this pen case is distinguished by an exquisite handmade inlay work of a series of colorful rectangles of mode...
Category
2010s Other Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Small Italian Mid-Century Modern Lapis & 800 Silver Dresser Box or Table Casket
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine small sized Italian Mid-Century Modern dresser or table box.
With sheets of lapis lazuli on black marble and mounted with a fine 800 silver mount and hinge.
Simply a won...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Lapis Lazuli, Silver
Vintage Italian Nickel Plated Metal & Plastic 1960s Small Box
Located in Varese, Lombardia
This metal & plastic box was produced in the 1960s. It is made from nickel plated brass frame and plastic faces.
The box shows the engraved logo of a well-known Italian company ( A...
Category
1960s Space Age Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass, Nickel
Bronze Jewelry Box Ancient Sarcophagus Reliefs Greek Roman Caesar Gladiator
By Line Vautrin
Located in Hyattsville, MD
A wonderful heavy cast bronze, hinged/lidded box, lightly polished, and glowing. Depicting ancient relief scenes / characters of Ancient Roman or Greek...
Category
1920s Greek Revival Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Treasure Round Brass Box
Located in Firenze, FI
Organize your small items in style with our elegant circular-shaped brass box. Made from high-quality brass, its unique and stylish design adds sophisticatio...
Category
2010s Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Italian 1920 Renaissance Revival Enameled Octagonal Box in .800 Silver
Located in Miami, FL
An Italian enamelled snuff box.
Colorful box, created in Italy, back in the 1920. It was crafted in an octagonal shape with neoclassical and renaissance Revival motifs in solid .8...
Category
1920s Renaissance Revival Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver, Enamel
Cigarette Case Fired Enamel with Still Life Miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table cigarette case with rounded corners in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated with beautiful miniature fire enamelled and hand painted by the painter Beatrice Mellana reproducing a "still life" by the Flemish painter Willem Claes Heda. Dimensions cm. 5.7 x 9 x 1.7. Weight gr. 174. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1969 and manufactured in Florence in numerous specimens with various subjects and different colors, in the headquarters of the Salimbeni Company with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for withstanding numerous enamelled firings at about 800° C.
Miniature is a very ancient technique which consists of painting works in small proportions.
It was born for the decoration of the first letter of the paragraph of the books.
Over the years, however, this technique is refined and enriched, then moving on to precious personal items.
Hand-painted miniatures can be done with multiple different techniques.
The most important that we use on our articles are of three kinds:
1) Fire enamel.
2) Water tempera on an ivory plate.
3) Painted on mother-of-pearl.
Fire enameled miniatures:
On a first layer of enamel generally white or very clear or even transparent suitably liquefied at a temperature of about 750 ° C, the chosen subject is painted using miniature colors which are as many colored crystals, ground and reduced to a very fine, almost impalpable powder washed and purified in distilled water with the addition of small quantities of deoxidizing acids which, diluted with essential oils (usually essential oil of solder), can be mixed to form a palette of colors.
With very fine sable hair brushes you draw the subject starting from the perimeter and then gradually adding various layers of color.
It is necessary to carry out various firings very often so that the colors harden and are not absorbed by the underlying glaze as, during the subsequent firings at 750 ° C, during liquefaction, it would spread irremediably. Hence the need to form the painting a little at a time, cooking it numerous times.
Therefore it is necessary to proceed with numerous retouching, often overlapping different colors that only the painter's experience knows. A beautiful miniature needs from 20 to over 50 firings and is finished when the painter deems he does not have to further intervene.
Some colors must have darker tones than others because then, by superimposing the transparent enamel placed at the end of the miniature, they fade. This transparent layer, called “fondant” in jargon, must be smoothed and polished like all other translucent enamel colors.
The miniatures with water tempera colors are painted on real ivory...
Category
1960s Art Deco Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Enamel, Sterling Silver
Lapis with White Marble Box
Located in Tampa, FL
A 1970s or earlier lapis box with a white marble interior. The quality is beautiful.
Category
1970s Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Lapis Lazuli, Marble
Decorative Box in Polished Steel, Brass and Wood by Rue Royale, France 1970s
Located in Rome, IT
Amazing rectangular decorative box in polished steel and brass with a wooden interior arrangement.
Its style resembles contemporary products by Romeo Rega.
Made in France in th...
Category
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal, Brass, Steel, Chrome
Brutalist Signed Hand Made Dresser Box
Located in Palm Springs, CA
A large lidded box with natural black tourmaline crystals. Purchased in Sicily. We think the metal used is nickel, it is non magnetic. Beautifully han...
Category
1970s Modern Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Rock Crystal, Nickel
21st Century, Animal Box Collection, Porcelain Box with Golden Bronze Penguin
By Oggetti D'Arte
Located in Calenzano, FI
Porcelain box with cut engravings embellished with brass detail made with the artisan lost wax technique with patinated golden finish. Each object is handcrafted and the care for eve...
Category
2010s Louis XVI Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Firenze 3 Drawers Black
By Morici
Located in Recanati, IT
A charming accent to a refined desk in a living room, office, or home study, this pen box will complement any decor with its timeless elegance. Featuring a wooden structure finished ...
Category
2010s Other Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Sculpture Storage Box in Solid Brass Tortoise Italian Design 1950s Gold
Located in Palermo, Sicily
Sculpture storage box in Solid Brass Tortoise Italian Design 1950s gold.
Category
1950s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Gabriella Crespi Tortoise and Sterling Silver Box
By Gabriella Crespi
Located in New York, NY
Gabriella Crespi tortoise and sterling silver box. Vintage Crespi cylindrical cigarette case with engraved Gabriella Crespi logo monogram and original ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Cassetti, Large Sterling Silver Box, Jewelry/ Decorative, with Wood Lining
By Cassetti
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Beautiful large sterling silver box by Cassetti, marked. Nice wood lining.
Category
Late 20th Century Post-Modern Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Oval Pill Box Monochrome Fired Enamel Landscape Miniature Art Nouveau Style Ster
By Giorgio Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Oval pillbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with hand painted fine monochrome fire enamelled miniature depicting a landscape in Art Nouveau style. Dimensions cm. 4.5 x 5.5 x 1.4. Weight gr. 70. Designed by Giorgio Salimbeni in 1977 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 Art Nouveau Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Fasano Torino Luxury Desk Box in 18kt Yellow Gold with Rare Blue Hawk Eye Quartz
By Francesco Fasano
Located in Miami, FL
Exceptional desk box designed by Fasano.
A beautiful and one-of-a-kind piece, created in Torino Italy by the master esteemed jeweler, Genesio Fasano. This rare luxury desk box was carefully crafted in solid yellow gold of 18 karats and is completely embellished with inlaid of rare blue hawk's eye.
Weight: 1,534.83 Grams, (983.53 Dwt).
Measurements: 175 mm by 175 mm by 37.5 mm (7.10 x 7.10 x 1.5 inches).
Hallmarks: Stamped with the maker's mark, the Italian gold assay mark and signed ".750 *26AL FASANO"
Note: This can be used for cigar humidor, letters or just as a decorative desk item...
Category
1970s Post-Modern Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Multi-gemstone, Gold
Snuffbox Fired Enamel Miniature on Lid Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Giorgio Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rounded rectangular snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with hand-painted fire-enamelled miniature on the lid. Early 1900s English Art Nouveau style. Measurements cm. 5....
Category
1960s Art Nouveau Vintage Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
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