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Enamel Box Gilt Inside Painted Flowers Garlands Lady's Portrait, France
Located in Vienna, AT
Superb enamel box with flowers garlands and a lady's portrait.
Specifications:
1. The surface of round box is made of white enamel. Additionally, it is stunningly decorated with nicest multicolored flowers' garlands running along the surface / mentioned garlands are hung up at bows.
2. The round bowl's lid is topped with a nicest enamel painted picture, depicting an elegant lady:
The lady's style and appearance is similar to ladies of period of Angelika Kauffmann...
Category
Late 19th Century French Victorian Antique Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass, Enamel
French Limoges Heart Shaped Floral Trinket Box
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Charming Vintage Limoges heart trinket box hand-painted. The underside of the box is marked Limoges France. This piece would certainly make a...
Category
Mid-20th Century French French Provincial Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Brass
French Style Enameled Holly Motif Frosted Iridescent Box, Style of Daum Nancy
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
French Style Enameled Holly Motif Frosted Iridescent Box, Style of Daum Nancy, France, circa early 20th century
A stunning French style Enameled Holly Motif Frosted Iridescent Box, ...
Category
Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Egg style Faberge Dark Brown Enamel Small Size Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Small egg in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guilloché, Russian Empire style inspired by the eggs of Carl Fabergé, late 19th century, early 20th...
Category
1960s Italian Empire Vintage Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
19th Century Italian Handmade Tuscan Siena Yellow Food Storage Box for Beans
Located in Milano, MI
An Italian 19th century lidded beechwood box, an antique food storage container suitable for dried legumes, as per the Italian inscription FAVE GRECHE, meaning Greek Beans, a common ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Italian Country Antique Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Belt real black python buckle Sterling Silver Art Deco Style Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Belt in real black python reptile with rectangular buckle in 925/1000 gold-plated silver with columns, with Art Deco design fire-enamelled in 3 colors enriched with pure gold sequins...
Category
1990s Italian Art Deco Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold, Gold Plate
Rare baroque 18th Century Hatbox Lid: Authentic Wall Decoration for Rustic Homes
Located in Hamburg, DE
Step back in time with this exquisite find: the lid of a rare hatbox dating back to the early 18th century, circa 1740. Crafted from solid wood and ado...
Category
1740s German Baroque Antique Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
19th Century Folk Art Box With Inlaid Hearts
Located in Stamford, CT
19th century American folk art box with decorated with inlaid hearts, diamonds, triangles and shields. Possibly sailor made, this sweet little box was likely a valentine or keepsake ...
Category
Late 19th Century American Antique Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Flowers Red Egg Box
Located in Paris, FR
Box Flowers Red Egg all in hand-crafted porcelain,
hand-painted porcelain with lid. With solid brass base
with green bird in porcelain.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
$826 / item
Large French Limoges Green Floral Round Box with Lid
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
As found in Paris, an impressive Limoges hand painted box with removable lid. The colors on this box are fantastic, featuring green, yellow and white. The underside of the box is ma...
Category
Mid-20th Century French French Provincial Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Porcelain, Paint
Early 19th Century painted pine blanket box
Located in Debenham, Suffolk
Early 19th century painted pine blanket box circa 1828.
Fine example of the traditional method of storage in Sweden, utilising the plentiful pine and hand decorating.
Rectangular b...
Category
Early 19th Century Swedish Rustic Antique Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Pine, Paint
Anglo Indian Decorative Box with Painted Figures of Dancers
Located in Stamford, CT
Very decorative hand painted in the Anglo-Indian style. Painted back and gold with each framed panel filled with female dancers and male flower bearing suiters. A colorful and fun, a...
Category
Mid-20th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
19th Century English Painted Wine Cooler
Located in Los Angeles, CA
19th century English painted box on original four casters. This box was used as a wine cooler.
Category
19th Century English Other Antique Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal
$720 Sale Price
70% Off
Vintage "Day of the Dead" Miniature Mexican Diarama
Located in San Diego, CA
Vintage "Day of the Dead" miniature Mexican diarama, circa 1970s. The box displays a scene skeletons in a bar playing pool; it is in very good vintage ...
Category
20th Century Mexican Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
$220 Sale Price
20% Off
Vintage Mounted Mailbox with Turnkey to Open and Removable Large Paper holder
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A vintage Metal mountable mailbox with key turn to open and close the box. The flap keeps mail safe and dry. There are removable rear bars that can be added for news paper, periodi...
Category
20th Century Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal, Iron
X-Small Egg style Faberge Sapphire Blue Enamel Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
X-Small egg in 925/1000 gilded silver with translucent enamel on fire on guilloché in Russian Art Nouveau style, inspired by the eggs of Carl Fabergé late 19th century, early 20th c...
Category
1960s Italian Empire Vintage Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Antique Swedish Wooden basket 1800's Handmade Folk Craft Blue and black
Located in Forest, BE
Swedish antique pine and birch wooden storage box. It was painted blue with black edges. Fine quality of bentwood. It is a true piece from the early 19 century. More units could be f...
Category
Early 19th Century Swedish Folk Art Antique Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Birch, Pine
1940s Antique Fine Micro Mosaic Moorish Inlaid Decorative Box
By Mamluke
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Handcrafted marquetry Moorish wood inlay micro mosaic with miniature hand painted scene.
Handcrafted khatam wooden box with very delicate micro mosaic marquetry from the ancient Pers...
Category
20th Century Indian Moorish Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Snuff Box round in Art Nouveau style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Round snuff box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamels on guillochè and hand-painted floral miniature, surrounded by a frame with leaves on a blue bac...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
19th Century Signed Wavecrest Opal Glass Putti Motif Table Box
By CF Monroe
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
19th Century Signed Wavecrest Opal Glass Putti Motif Table Box
C.F. Monroe Company, Meriden, Connecticut, circa 1890
This 19th-century signed Wavecrest opal glass putti motif table box, created by the C.F. Monroe Company in Meriden, Connecticut, circa 1890, is a stunning example of fine craftsmanship and artistry. Standing 4 inches high with a 6-inch diameter, this exquisite piece features a beautifully painted putti motif, showcasing the delicate and intricate detailing characteristic of Wavecrest opal glass. The box is in fantastic, well-cared-for antique condition, with its gilt mounts and original silk lining remarkably well preserved. Raised on four elegant gilt feet, this table box embodies both functionality and decorative appeal. The piece is signed 'Wavecrest,' attesting to its authenticity and heritage. This charming table box is a rare and valuable addition to any antique glass...
Category
Late 19th Century North American High Victorian Antique Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Swedish 'Timplåda' Wooden Box, dated 1824
Located in Farsta, SE
Swedish 'Timplåda' Wooden Box, dated 1824
A 'timplåda' is a traditional Swedish wooden box, handcrafted with care. Popular during the 18th and 19th centuries, these boxes were used ...
Category
1820s Swedish Folk Art Antique Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Birch
$1,129 / item
Vintage South Asian Folk Art Hand Painted Wooden Box - India - Mid 20th Century
Located in Chatham, ON
Vintage South Asian hand painted wooden box with removeable lid - featuring a full length portrait of an Indian woman in a pink sari to the lid...
Category
Mid-20th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Softwood, Paint
Large Midcentury Majolica Red Fish Pottery Ceramic Tureen Box, Portugal, 1950s
Located in Coimbra, PT
A magnificent big size hyper realistic glazed ceramic fish tureen in shades of vibrant red and grey with dark accents manufactured in Portugal, 1950s. Beautiful to use as a wall deco...
Category
Mid-20th Century Portuguese Mid-Century Modern Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic, Earthenware, Majolica, Pottery
Pill Box Silver Sterling Enamel hand-painted Louis XVI style miniature Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Shaped pill box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with hand-painted miniature fire enamelled in Louis XVI style, second half of the 19th century, and fine hand engravings. Siz...
Category
1980s Italian Louis XVI Vintage Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
19C Anglo Indian Vizagapatam Bone and Shell Domed Stationery Box
Located in Dallas, TX
PRESENTING A LOVELY 19C Anglo Indian Vizagapatam Bone and Shell Domed Stationery Box – ‘Alice’s Box’.
Made in Vizagapatam, India, circa 1860-80.
We call this one: “Alice’s Box”! It has lived ‘a hard, well used and traveled life’, as is evident from the number of losses and repairs, as is obvious from the photos, especially to the faux ivory panels and bands to the top. The bonus to the loss of the frieze panels to the dome has a ‘bonus’, however, as their loss has revealed the most GORGEOUS faux blonde tortoiseshell underneath!
The box is dome/casket shaped.
The top has 3 bands, with the center one being the original. The 2 side bands are later ivorine.
The faux ivory and hand-painted medallions on the domed lid, have been saved and they depict Hindu Gods, Vishnu and Shiva.
The front and side panels are still in pretty good shape and are decorated with lac ink (indelible ink made from crushed beetles) depicting lovely floral designs.
The domed lid open to reveal a series of open compartments for envelopes, writing paper etc. and one lidded panel for stamps.
Inside the box are 2 paper labels: one probably being the original item ticket and the other with:
” Alice’s address is 272 Ashworth Ave, Toronto 4, Ontario”.
Probably, the original owner? Hence, we call it ‘Alice’s Box’.
What a journey/life this box has had!
Made in India, made its way to Canada, back to Ireland and then to Texas!
This is why, WE LOVE ANTIQUES...
Category
19th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Antique Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bone, Shell, Sandalwood
Antique Swedish Wooden basket backpack 1800's Handmade Folk Craft
Located in Forest, BE
Swedish antique pine and birch wooden backpack storage box. It was use to pickup the berries in the woods. Fine quality of birch bentwood. It is a true piece from the early 19 centur...
Category
Early 19th Century Swedish Folk Art Antique Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Birch, Pine
1890s Louis Philippe Red and Blue Lacquered Wood Sicilian Box
Located in Catania, Sicilia
This wood Sicilian box is a unique and culturally rich artifact, combining elements of 19th-century design, regional influence, and artistic craftsmanship. The box is crafted from wo...
Category
Late 19th Century Sicilian Louis Philippe Antique Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Fruitwood, Lacquer
Salt Sugar and Coffee Boxes Kitchen wall set in Ceramic and Wood France 1960
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
This wall Decoration is a Kitchen boxes set, for Coffee, Salt and Sugar boxes.
You haved hanged some ceramic and wood fork and spoons, hand painted.
It has ...
Category
1960s French French Provincial Vintage Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic, Wood
$333 Sale Price
20% Off
Box shaped enamel hand painted, engraved and miniature Sterling Silver 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 Italian Baroque Vintage Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Art Deco Small Colorful Box In Polsky Porcelain
Located in Prato, Tuscany
We kindly suggest you read the whole description, because with it we try to give you detailed technical and historical information to guarantee the authenticity of our objects.
A pretty and delicate little box of purple and white color in fine Polsky porcelain; the shape is unusual and pleasant; it has a multi-purpose functionality. Produced in Art Deco style between 1930 and 1934 by the company Tillowitz - Reinhold Schlegelmilch...
Category
Mid-20th Century Polish Art Deco Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Porcelain
Mid-Century Modern Bjorn Wiinblad Rosenthal Lidded Box, Quatre Couleurs
Located in Bochum, NRW
Bjorn Wiinblad Porcelain box, Quatre Couleurs, designed for Rosenthal, Germany, 1981
A white porcelain lidded box, decorated with a liquid gold painted motif, in four shades of gold....
Category
1980s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Porcelain
$223 Sale Price
20% Off
19th Century Royal Worcester Biscuit Box with Under Tray
Located in High Point, NC
A gorgeous Victorian Royal Worcester melon shaped biscuit box featuring a gorgeous floral design embellished with gilt detailing. The rim of the jar is embellished with bats wing flu...
Category
1880s English Victorian Antique Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Porcelain
1890s Louis Philippe Brown and Green Lacquered Wood Sicilian Box
Located in Catania, Sicilia
This wood Sicilian box is a unique and culturally rich artifact, combining elements of 19th-century design, regional influence, and artistic craftsmanship. The box is crafted from wo...
Category
Late 19th Century Sicilian Louis Philippe Antique Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood, Lacquer
Antique Lidded Box in Hand Painted Porcelain with Flowers and Gold Decoration
Located in København, Copenhagen
Antique lidded box in hand painted porcelain with flowers and gold decoration on a purple background.
Sevres style, early 20th century.
Measures:...
Category
Early 20th Century Unknown Rococo Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Gold and Black Lacquer Games Box, Early 19th Century
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
An exceptional antique Chinese gold and black lacquer games box raised on four paw feet with a domed lift off cover decorated with figural landscape panels in gilded lacquer colours on a black ground. The cover lifts off to reveal five lidded removable counter boxes...
Category
Early 19th Century Chinese Antique Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Lacquer
$3,040 Sale Price
20% Off
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 Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Gold Plate, Enamel
Japanese Hand-Painted Porcelain Lidded Serving Dish, Trinket or Jewelry Box
Located in Miami, FL
Beautiful Japanese hand painted porcelain decorative trinket, pill or jewelry box or serving dish of Meiji period.
The decoration cons...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Porcelain
Rare 19th Century Antique Bronze Mounted KPM Hand Painted Porcelain Casket
Located in Casale Monferrato, IT
Truly rare, this finely decorated antique rectangular casket, German porcelain manufacturer KPM, circa 1870. The KPM brand is engraved on the inside. Made with a finely chiseled bron...
Category
1870s German Antique Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
$15,223 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique Red Tole Metal Tea Coffee Countertop Storage Bin
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Wonderful patina on this antique general store tea or coffee canister. Certainly a unique piece that could used on a kitchen counter or in a reta...
Category
Early 20th Century American Folk Art Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal
Red Lacquer Wedding Chest with Hand-Painted Décor, Qing Dynasty
Located in Yonkers, NY
An antique Chinese Qing Dynasty period dark red lacquer wooden wedding chest from the 19th century with unusual shape, hand-painted floral décor and brass hardware. Created in China ...
Category
19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Antique Porcelain Hand Painted Powder Box by Limoges
By Limoges
Located in San Diego, CA
Beautiful antique porcelain hand painted powder box by Limoges, circa 1898. The piece is in very good vintage condition with no chips or cracks...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Porcelain
19Thc Original Brown Painted Box W/ Drawer & Handle
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is either a 19thc hardware drawer box or a cash drawer of sorts.The construction is early cut nails and a dovetailed drawer.There is a brass & iron handle on the side of the box...
Category
1890s American Adirondack Antique Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass, Iron
Vintage Limoges 22k Gold Trinket Ashtray Louis XVI Courtesan Scene
By Limoges
Located in BILBAO, ES
Elegant vintage Limoges 22-karat gold trinket ashtray
French vintage Limoges porcelain in cobalt royal blue with fine gold decor.
Marked on base as “Limog...
Category
Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Enamel, Gold Leaf
Snuff Box Venetian landscape miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Snuff Box Snuff Box Venetian landscape is in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated 24 carats..
Snuff Box Snuff Box Venetian landscape has translucent fired enamel on guilloche and min...
Category
1960s Italian Baroque Vintage Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Antique Renaissance Style Italian Wood Lacquered Apothecary Box
Located in Firenze, IT
This lovely antique lacquered apothecary box was crafted in Italy in late 19th century in the style of medicinal herbs casket in use in pharmacies during the Middle Age and Renaissan...
Category
19th Century Italian Renaissance Antique Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Scandinavian Antique Wooden Chest Box Shrine Handpainted, Love Gift Dated 1846
Located in Silkeborg, Silkeborg
Original Scandinavian antique chest box from 1846, most likely from Sweden where we found it.
The chest box is made from pine wood and is ...
Category
1840s Scandinavian Country Antique Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Chinese Wooden Small Rectangular Chest with Hand Painted Exotic Birds
Located in Queens, NY
Chinese Mid-Century small rectangular hinged chest with metal latch and two side ring handles, hand painted featuring two exotic birds (depicted on the top and front), pine, berries,...
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Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Snuff Box perforated, with a fine round miniature Salimbeni.
Located in Firenze, FI
Shaped snuff box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with perforated, embossed and hand-engraved lid, with a fine round miniature, diameter 3.8 cm, hand-painted in tempera on veg...
Category
1960s Italian Art Deco Vintage Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
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 Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Red/Black-Lacquered Fan-Shape Five-Case Lunch Box, Ric.00034
Located in Norton, MA
Red/Black-lacquered Fan-shape Five-case Lunch Box, China, 19th century, with three bamboo splint handles converging to form a broad strap handle over the t...
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Lacquer
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 Italian Rococo Antique Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood, Lacquer
Antique Swedish Wooden basket 1800's Handmade Folk Craft natural color
Located in Forest, BE
Swedish antique pine and birch wooden storage box. It was left with the natural wood who now have a charming patina. Fine quality of bentwood. It is a true piece from the early 19 ce...
Category
Early 19th Century Swedish Folk Art Antique Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Birch, Pine
Box with fired enamels painted like lapis lazuli stone and horse racing Salimben
Located in Firenze, FI
Shaped table box in 925/1000 sterling Silver gold plated with fired enamels painted like lapis lazuli stone and with fired enameled oval miniature, hand painted by the painter Renato...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
19th Century English Victorian Hand Painted Letter Box, Dated 1890
Located in Stamford, CT
Unusual 19th century letter box with whimsical ink decoration inside and out, signed and dated 1890. With wonderfully naive ink decoration, inc...
Category
Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Art Deco Period Box Japanese
Located in New York, NY
A very beautiful Japanese papier-mâché round box with a colorful geometric design and black lacquer finish, Art Deco period, circa early-20th century, Japan. Marked "Made in Japan" o...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Art Deco Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Paper
Table Box Octagonal Black Enamel with light Blue Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Octagonal table box in 925/1000 sterling silver with fire-enamelled Art Deco design. Dimensions diameter cm. 15.8 high cm . 8.2. Weight gr. 974. Designed by Giorgio Salimbeni for Cartier USA in the 1980s, inspired by objects designed by Louis Cartier around 1920 and manufactured in Florence in various specimens, also in parure with other objects and in different colors, in the headquarters by the Salimbeni firm with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for withstanding numerous high-fire enamelled firings at about 750°<800° C.
About cooperation Salimbeni and Cartier.
Our first meetings with the Cartier USA Company took place through the Giorgini Company, the first "Buying Office" set up in Florence immediately after the Second World War, which had the purpose of bringing together Florentine, and also Italian, producers with American buyers, who especially appreciated the artistic objects still manufactured by artisans who still took inspiration from the Italian Renaissance, using techniques handed down from generation to generation.
Mrs. Gina Pestelli, wife of a Florentine retail jeweller, was in charge of contacts with Cartier USA, above all an employee, while her daughter, also for Giorgini, took care of the fashion that in those years was affirmed in Florence with the events of "Pitti ".
With their help, we began to supply frames and boxes in sterling silver gold plated with malachite and other semi-precious stones.
At the same time, the official buyer of Cartier, Mr. William Smith, began to appreciate and commission the first objects with fired enamels, a process of which we have always been specialists.
In 1975 we began exhibiting at the prestigious New York Jewellery Association Show, which we participated in both the February and July editions, for a good 26 years until 2001.
In New York in those years the "Art deco style" was still very much appreciated, still mindful of the beautiful early 20th century architecture of the great buildings such as the "Crysler" or the "Empire State".
We then began to produce frames, boxes, evening bags, "objets de vertu" and other objects in "art deco style" which were very popular with Mr. Smith who gave us some photocopies of Louis Francois Cartier drawings to reproduce them. Thus, numerous cigarette cases, powder compacts, evening bags, frames and table boxes were created exclusively for Cartier USA which, at the time, had the prestigious "Silver Department" on the first floor of the Cartier store on Fifth Avenue.
An evening bag, with matching cigarette case and powder compact, were redone on the design created for a gift given to Mary Pickford at the time. In a 1986 Cartier...
Category
1980s Italian Art Deco Vintage Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box Heart shape Sky tone fire-enameled on guilloche Salimbeni.
Located in Firenze, FI
Heart-shaped table box in 925/1000 sterling silver with translucent fired enamel on guilloché above and below. Modern contemporary style. Dimensions cm. 8 x 8.8 high cm. 2.8. Weight ...
Category
1990s Italian Modern Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Two Japanese Lacquer Lunch Boxes
Located in Norton, MA
Japan, 19th/20th century, one red-lacquered with an inner compartment; one black-lacquered with an inner compartment.
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Lacquer
Spanish Colonial Gilt Wood Vargueno With Red and Black Paint
Located in Stamford, CT
Spanish Colonial style painted and gilt wood table top vargueno, a chest with eight drawers and four doors with iron drop pulls. A sweet little chest with a lot of personality, decor...
Category
Early 20th Century Baroque Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Iron
19th Century Italian Ruby Glass Box with Miniature of Basilica
Located in Dallas, TX
Lovely little 19th century ring jar or pill box made of a thick wine colored ruby glass.
It has a miniature of a Basilica on top, gilt metal mounts with beautiful filigree on the si...
Category
Early 19th Century Vatican Grand Tour Antique Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal
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