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1920 Persian Brass Jewelry Box in Mamluk Revival Damascene Moorish Islamic Style
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Antique Persian Islamic Brass Jewelry Footed Box in Mamluk Revival Damascene style.
A Middle Eastern Moorish Damascene Brass Box circa 1910-1920s.
A fine antique handcrafted etched hammered Syrian Damascene brass jewelry box.
Octagonal shape lidded antique Moorish Persian footed trinket brass box, handcrafted and chased with calligraphy Islamic Arabic design writing.
The Box decorated with etched Arabic inscription and lotus flowers with a very fine Arabesque design.
Middle Eastern jewelry brass box with eight small feet, hinged lid, lined in a Moroccan red velvet.
Great Moorish Mamluke Revival brass decorative Islamic metal art object.
Dimensions 6.75" W × 5" D × 5.25" H.
In the Mamluk Style (Mamluk Revival).
Origin: Middle East.
Date: Circa 1900-1920s.
Hand-hammered and engraved, this beautifully incised brass box Islamic...
Category
Early 20th Century Asian Islamic Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
EGG Large Jar, Cream Onyx & Alpaca Silver
By AIREDELSUR
Located in Buenos Aires, AR
Salta province is called the beautiful, and this adjective introduces us to its profound beauty. Its fertile valleys, windy desert, colorful mountains and blue sky are the images tha...
Category
2010s Argentine Organic Modern Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Stone, Onyx, Metal
Funky Antique Bronze Jewlry Box
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Beautiful novelty bronze box with lovely theme of two love bird.
Exquisite addition to any room.
Category
20th Century European Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
18th Century Decorative Lacquered Portrait Figures Wood Tobacco Snuff Box Black
Located in Brescia, IT
This antique and fine lacquered wood box, is painted on both the sides with an elegant portrait of a woman and on the other side a dancer.
The piece will be delivered with its certi...
Category
Mid-18th Century Austrian Neoclassical Antique Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood, Lacquer
Pill Box Hand Painted Miniature Enamel Louis XVI Style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular rounded pill box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with hand painted miniature fire-enamelled in Louis XVI style, second half of the 18th century, and fine hand-eng...
Category
1960s Italian Louis XVI Vintage Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
EGG Small Jar, Cream Onyx & Alpaca Silver
By AIREDELSUR
Located in Buenos Aires, AR
Salta province is called the beautiful, and this adjective introduces us to its profound beauty. Its fertile valleys, windy desert, colorful mountains and blue sky are the images tha...
Category
2010s Argentine Organic Modern Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Stone, Onyx, Metal
18th Century/Older Italian Renaissance Style Carved Verdigris Marble Table Box
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
18th Century or Older Italian Renaissance Style Carved Verdigris Marble Table Box
This exquisite 18th-century or older carved Verdigris marble table box epitomizes Italian Renaissa...
Category
18th Century Italian Renaissance Antique Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Marble
Table Box Fired Enamel on Guillochè Arab-Style Ornament Sterling Silver Salimben
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular box with rounded corners in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè with hand-engraved and enamelled Arab-style ornament. Dimensio...
Category
1990s Italian Modern Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Antique Chinese Lunch Box with Carved Handle
Located in Miami, FL
An antique Chinese lunch box from the early 20th century, with a carved handle.
Crafted in China during the early years of the 20th century...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Round Favor Box with Lid in 925/1000 Sterling Silver Green Enamel Art Nouveau St
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 Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Pill Box monochrome hand-painted miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Octagonal pillbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired asu guillochè enamel also on all sides and monochrome hand-painted miniature on the lid. Dimensions c...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Moroccan Berber Tuareg Metal Tribal Flask Overlay
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Great decorative Moroccan Berber Tuareg metal brass powder flask. African decorative brass with front richly decorated with Moorish embossed brass ocverlay. Moroccan tribal powder fl...
Category
20th Century Moroccan Folk Art Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Stunning 19th Century French Antique Napoleon III Jewelry Box in Burl Wood Chest
Located in Ijzendijke, NL
Amazing French antique 19th century Napoleon III Jewelry box made from Burl Wood.
What an amazing look this polished burl wood made with high quality craftsmanship
This jewelry b...
Category
Mid-19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood, Burl
19th Century Black Forest Carved Liquor Box
Located in High Point, NC
19th Century Black Forest carved liquor set. The exterior of the box is hand-carved in design as a wood log cabinet, the rectangular Black Forest tantalus is decorated on the top wi...
Category
19th Century Swiss Black Forest Antique Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Fruitwood
19th Century Anglo-Indian Mughal Box
Located in North Hollywood, CA
19th century Anglo-Indian Mughal wood box, inlaid and hand carved with the Taj Mahal and some flowers all around.
Jewelry box, Anglo-Raj box from India in great condition.
Nice Mughal Bombay Box...
Category
Late 19th Century Indian Anglo Raj Antique Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sandalwood
Pill Box very fine hand-engraving in baroque style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Square pill box with rounded corners and curved sides in 925/1000 sterling silver with very fine hand-engraving in baroque style, fire-enamelled with black enamel also on the sides. ...
Category
1980s Italian Baroque Vintage Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Anglo-Indian Vizagapatam Bombay Mughal Style Footed Box With Bone Overlay
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Nice and unusual Indian Mughal style large decorative box, filigree and carved horn.
Anglo-Indian footed domed box with exceptional engraved details throughout with filigree and carved veneered bone plaques with arabesque carving.
Vizagapatam, late 19th century.
History of the Anglo-Indian Boxes
Beginning in the early part of the 18th century, Indian artisans made what came to be known as Anglo-Indian boxes for the English residents living in India, who eventually brought or sent them back to England. At the beginning of the 19th century, India began exporting these boxes commercially, although not in any significant numbers until the 1850s. People valued them so highly that manufacturers of tins copied the designs on them in the late 19th and early 20th century.
Anglo-Indian boxes fall into four groups: Rosewood or ebony boxes inlaid;
sandalwood boxes veneered; sandalwood boxes covered with Sadeli mosaic; and carved boxes often combined with Sadeli mosaic/
The first two categories came from Vizagapatam in East India while the last two came from Bombay in West India.
English traders discovered the rich woods and intricate workmanship of Indian artisans, so colonial government officials began to recognize the work of the Indian artists and craftsmen as a source for satisfying the need for furniture and boxes, which would both serve to enhance English households in India. This gave rise to the cabinetmaking workshops in Vizagapatam between Calcutta and Madras.
Craftsmen made the first boxes to be decorated with Sadeli mosaic of rosewood or ebony, incised to give further definition to the decoration, directly inlaid into the wood. The shape of the early boxes was either sloping at the front with a flatter section at the back, reminiscent of English writing slopes, or rectangular. Artisans inlaid the borders with stylized floral scrolls and the centers with a single floral motif following a circular or oval symmetrical or asymmetrical pattern. The edging was ornamental and protective, both helped protect the end grain against the weather.
Made in Vizagapatam, situated on the south east coast of India, near Madras
These exotic boxes...
Category
Late 19th Century Indian Anglo Raj Antique Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Contemporary Carved Walnut Natural Finish Tray with Brass Accent
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Contemporary tray by Vincent Pocsik
Carved walnut tray with natural finish.
Vincent Pocsik finds the balance between old and new fabrication techniques working in conjunction to find an anatomical form that creates its own presence. Series 001 is about finding that point in each piece, personifying it, letting it find itself in the scale and figure, then stopping it at the place where it seems most stable.
All furniture pieces are made inside his shop in Los Angeles. All glass, metal and upholstery work is done with local Los Angeles...
Category
2010s American Organic Modern Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Walnut
Art Nouveau jewelry box in sculpted wood, France ca. 1915
Located in Meulebeke, BE
France / 1900 / sewing box / wood / Art Deco / Art Nouveau
An elegant jewelry box in sculpted wood. Crafted around 1900 in France.
A beautiful box to keep your small treasures saf...
Category
1910s French Art Nouveau Vintage Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Box Black Red Art Deco style designed for Cartier USA Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table box with rounded corners in 925/1000 sterling silver with fire-enamelled Art Deco design. Dimensions cm. 10.4 x 13.4 x 3.2. Weight gr. 530. Designed by Giorgio Sali...
Category
1970s Italian Art Deco Vintage Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Tronador Square Black Onyx Stone Box
By AIREDELSUR
Located in Buenos Aires, AR
The shape of the inactive Tronador volcano reminded us of the pyramid shaped idea of our boxes that make up this collection. With a rectangular or square base, the box is a reflectio...
Category
2010s Argentine Modern Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Stone, Onyx
Pair Honey Calcite Onyx Box 4" Square
Located in Somis, CA
This exquisite pair is crafted from the finest rare honey calcite onyx sourced from Pakistan, using only single boards (full one piece slab) of stones for all sides of the boxes. Han...
Category
2010s Italian Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Onyx
A Rosso Antico Marble Model of the Sarcophagus from the Tomb of the Scipios
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Large Rosso Antico Marble Model of the Sarcophagus from the Tomb of the Scipios. Attributed To The Workshop Of Benedetto Boschetti.
The lid with palm-scrolled ends, is inscribed ...
Category
19th Century Italian Neoclassical Antique Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Marble
Swedish Folk Art Hunting Box Dated 1802 in Oak
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
A Swedish oak-wood box from the Gustavian period dated 1802. The richly carved box with scenes of a dog hunting a deer, doves flying and black grouses. Decorated with a pattern of ro...
Category
Early 1800s Swedish Folk Art Antique Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass, Iron
Large Honey Calcite Onyx Box 6" Square
Located in Somis, CA
This exquisite creation is crafted from the finest rare honey calcite onyx sourced from Pakistan, using only single boards (full one piece slab) of stones for all sides of the box. H...
Category
2010s Italian Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Onyx
Pill Box Floral miniature and fine hand-engravings Art Nouveau style Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Pill Box Floral miniature and fine hand-engravings Art Nouveau style Salimbeni.Shaped pillbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucen...
Category
1980s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Enamel, Sterling Silver
Snuff Box Monocrome Miniature Hand Painted Sterling Silver Enamel 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 Italian Baroque Vintage Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
21st Century, Hand-Carved Green and Amber Crystal and Bronze Box
Located in Calenzano, FI
Amber and green crystal box with cut engravings embellished with brass detail made with the artisan lost wax technique with patinated silver finish. Each object is handcrafted and th...
Category
2010s Italian Louis XVI Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Tafi Medium Onyx Oval Box
By AIREDELSUR
Located in Buenos Aires, AR
Tafi oval box, it is made entirely by hand in alpaca metal and onyx stone. It comes in three different sizes and you can choose between four different onyx stone colors: black, white/cream, blue or bordeaux
Our pieces are made by hand. One of a kind.
All natural stones may vary in color.
About AIREDELSUR:
With its rustic chic personality and the elegant designs of Marcelo Lucini...
Category
2010s Argentine Modern Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Stone, Onyx
Art Deco sewing box with sculpted roses and red velvet top, France ca. 1900
Located in Meulebeke, BE
France / 1900 / sewing box / wood, fabric / Art Deco / Mid-century / Vintage
Elegant wooden box with sculpted roses and red velvet top. Crafted around 1900 in France.
This timeles...
Category
Early 1900s French Art Deco Antique Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Fabric, Wood
Oversized Tunbridge Ware Writing Slope
Located in Northampton, GB
View of Bayham Abbey with Writing Implements
From our Tunbridge Ware collection, we are delighted to offer this unusual and large-sized Tunbridge Ware Writing Slope, in the manner ...
Category
Late 19th Century English High Victorian Antique Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Velvet, Wood
19th Century Chinese Canton Export Lacquered Giltwood Tea Caddy on Shishi Feet
Located in Haarlem, NL
Clover or quartreform shaped mid-19th century Chinese canton export tea caddy in gold lacquered wood on a black background.
Decorated with palace scenes...
Category
Mid-19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Pewter
Early 19th Century Persian Wooden Box
Located in London, GB
Early 19th century Persian wooden box
A large Persian wooden box and marquetry called "Khatam Kari" with mosaic decoration of stars and geometric patterns, Middle East origin, early-19th century. This box is in overall good condition considering its age and use, it still has its original silk insert fabric firmly attached which is rare. Khatam kari is a fine and meticulous marquetry work, the oldest examples of which date back to the Safavid era: khatam was then so appreciated by the court that certain princes learned the technique as well as music, painting, or calligraphy. The “Khatam-kari” is therefore the “work of inlays”. This technique consists of making patterns, most often star shapes, by inlaying fine wooden sticks (ebony, Teak, jujube, orange tree, rose), brass (for the golden parts), and camel bone (white parts). The decorated objects are legion: boxes, chess or backgammon games, frames, pipes, desks, or even musical instruments. The khatam can also be associated with the famous Persian miniatures, thus realizing works of art. Coming from techniques imported from China and magnified by Persian know-how, this craft has existed for over 700 years.
Size in inches: H 5” x W 15” x D 9.5”
Age: 1830 - 1850
Origin: Persia
Material: Mixed material
Completely solid in structure and form, aged naturally across all the surfaces. This box does not have a key and therefore cannot be locked, it has had old repairs in blue ink as shown. With one replacement leg...
Category
Early 19th Century Unknown Antique Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Snuff Box White with noble coat of arms Baroque style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Snuff Box noble coat of arms is in 925/1000 sterling silver.
Snuff Box noble coat of arms has White fired enamels on guilloché and handpainted miniature of arabesques with noble coat...
Category
1990s Italian Baroque Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
1950s Fine And Densely Carved Anglo-Indian Style Box
Located in Tarrytown, NY
1950s Fine And Densely Carved Anglo-Indian Style Box
Drawer at outside base of box
South-Indian or Anglo-Indian style
Lacking keys
Decoration adorned on all sides depicting birds amo...
Category
1950s Anglo-Indian Vintage Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Biedermeyer Sewing Box
Located in Vienna, AT
Beautiful antique Biedermeyer sewing box
Category
20th Century Austrian Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Shell, Wood
Anglo-Indian Footed Box with Lidded Compartments, 19th Century
Located in North Hollywood, CA
19th century Anglo-Indian wooden box fitted with various compartments finely hand carved.
The top is finely hand carved with the Taj Mahal.
The interior with removable hand carved nine-lidded compartments, the front cover has a mirror, the whole exhibiting very fine workmanship.
This fine late Victorian Anglo-Indian box from India is in great condition for it age.
A beautiful example of an Anglo-Indian fine art...
Category
Late 19th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Antique Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sandalwood
Egg on Tripod hand painted Sterling Silver Enamel on Guillochè Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Egg on tripod in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè, Russian Empire style inspired by Carl Fabergè eggs ...
Category
1960s Italian Other Vintage Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
18th Century Domed and Studded Leather, Brass, and Wood Trunk from France
Located in Dallas, TX
Beautifully designed and highly portable, this French domed top trunk was constructed by hand with a wooden body enveloped in chocolate-colored leather. The trunk, which dates to the...
Category
18th Century French Antique Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal, Brass
Snuff Box Parrotlets on Flowering Branches. Art Nouveau Style Sterling Silver En
Located in Firenze, FI
Square snuff box with rounded sides in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè and hand painted miniature parrotlets on flowering branches. Ar...
Category
1990s Italian Mid-Century Modern Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
RARE IBERIAN SAFE from the first half of the 17th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
RARE IBERIAN SAFE
from the first half of the 17th Century
in painted and gilded carved wood decorated with plant motifs.
Small defects. Dim.: 34 x 43 x 35 cm
Category
17th Century Portuguese Baroque Antique Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
19th Century Anglo-Indian Sadeli Mosaic Jewelry Box with Lidded Compartments
Located in North Hollywood, CA
19th century Anglo-Indian sandal wood box, Sadeli mosaic box fitted with various compartments finely hand-carved with the Taj Mahal.
Of sarcophagus form ...
Category
Late 19th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Antique Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sandalwood
Tafi Large Onyx Oval Box
By AIREDELSUR
Located in Buenos Aires, AR
Tafi oval box, it is made entirely by hand in alpaca metal and onyx stone. It comes in three different sizes and you can choose between four different onyx stone colors: black, white/cream, blue or bordeaux
Our pieces are made by hand. One of a kind.
All natural stones may vary in color.
About AIREDELSUR:
With its rustic chic personality and the elegant designs of Marcelo Lucini...
Category
2010s Argentine Modern Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Stone, Onyx
Set Tronador Large Mini Boxes, Onyx Stone and Silver Alpaca
By AIREDELSUR
Located in Buenos Aires, AR
The shape of the inactive Tronador volcano reminded us of the pyramid shaped idea of our boxes that make up this collection. With a rectangular or square base, the box is a reflectio...
Category
2010s Argentine Modern Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Stone, Onyx
English Georgian Tortoise Shell Sewing Box with Silver Winged Paw Feet, C. 1810
Located in Charleston, SC
English Georgian Tortoise shell hinged sewing box with a gadrooned molded edge lid, fitted tufted interior, and resting on the original silver plate winged paw feet. Early 19th Century
Category
1810s English Georgian Antique Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
Pill Box Hand Painted Miniature of a Lady with Small Dog, Art Nouveau Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Domed round 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated pillbox with fire enamels above and below, and hand-painted miniature of a lady with small dog, in Viennese Art Nouveau style second ...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
1960s Vintage Asian Large Hand Carved Wooden Humidor Footed Box
Located in North Hollywood, CA
1950s Vintage Asian Large Hand Carved Wooden Humidor Box.
Hand-carved Kashmiri style Mid 20th century wood box richly decorated overall with s...
Category
Mid-20th Century Indian Folk Art Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Vintage Handcrafted and Carved Wood Box House Motif, Trinket Box, Keepsake Box
Located in Miami, FL
Vintage handmade beautifully carved wooden trinket box, jewelry box or keepsake box.
Depicting a village scene with Houses & Palm Trees.
Folk Art ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Peruvian Folk Art Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood, Walnut
Tafi Small Onyx Oval Box
By AIREDELSUR
Located in Buenos Aires, AR
Tafi oval box, it is made entirely by hand in alpaca metal and onyx stone. It comes in three different sizes and you can choose between four different onyx stone colors: black, white/cream, blue or bordeaux
Our pieces are made by hand. One of a kind.
All natural stones may vary in color.
About AIREDELSUR:
With its rustic chic personality and the elegant designs of Marcelo Lucini...
Category
2010s Argentine Modern Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Stone, Onyx
Vintage Italian Genuine Hand Carved Gold and Green Round Alabaster Trinket Box
Located in Miami, FL
Vintage Italian genuine hand carved tan and green alabaster box, trinket, made in Italy.
Round lidded hinged trinket jewelry box, rich gold and bro...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Stone, Alabaster
Fantastic 19th Century French Dore Bronze Mounted Blue Opaline Crystal Box
By Baccarat
Located in New York, NY
A Fantastic 19th Century French Louis XVI Style Dore Bronze Mounted Blue Opaline Crystal Box. The box is composed of two sections of French opaline crystal which are mounted to a fa...
Category
1890s French Louis XVI Antique Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Snuffbox Vessel Miniature Hand-Painted Sterling Silver Enamel Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Shaped snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fired enamel inserted in a fine hand engraving and with round miniature diameter cm. 3.3 hand painted always with fire enamels depicting a sailing ship. Early 19th century Viennese Baroque style. Fine hand engraving on all sides and bottom. Measurements cm. 7.5 x 7.5 x 2. Weight gr. 151. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1976 on inspiration of ancient original artifacts and manufactured in Florence at the Salimbeni company headquarters in several specimens, also with different colors and miniatures, with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick slabs and large reinforcements suitable for supporting 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
1970s Italian Baroque Vintage Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
19th Century Belgian Bleached Oak Box
Located in High Point, NC
Introducing the 19th Century Belgian Bleached Oak Box, a testament to the enduring beauty of antique craftsmanship. This exquisite piece carries with it the weight of history, with e...
Category
19th Century Belgian Antique Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Oak
Snuff Box Octagonal English Queen Anne style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Octagonal snuff box in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated with borders in the English Queen Anne style and sides with translucent fired enamels on ...
Category
1980s Italian Queen Anne Vintage Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
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 Italian Modern Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Brass
Late 19th Century Qing Carved Lacquer and Varnished Wood Decorative Box, China
Located in North Miami, FL
Late 19th century Qing lacquer and hand-carved varnished wood decorative box, China
By: unknown
Material: wood, lacquer
Technique: carved, hand-carved, hand-crafted, lacquered, varn...
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood, Lacquer
Antique French Bronze Ormolu Interior Lined Casket With Wedgewood Inserts
Located in Swedesboro, NJ
Dimensions - H: 5 in W: 8 3/4 in D: 3 1/2 in
This beautiful antique 19th century bronze ormolu interior fitted jewelry casket with Wedgewood plaque inserts is made of the highest qu...
Category
19th Century French Louis XV Antique Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
Set Tronador Medium Mini Boxes, Onyx Stone and Silver Alpaca
By AIREDELSUR
Located in Buenos Aires, AR
The shape of the inactive Tronador volcano reminded us of the pyramid shaped idea of our boxes that make up this collection. With a rectangular or square base, the box is a reflectio...
Category
2010s Argentine Modern Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Stone, Onyx
