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Place of Origin: Italian
1960s Astonishing Box in Onyx. Made in Italy
Located in Milano, IT
1960s Astonishing box in onyx. Made in Italy. This box is amazing and in excellent condition.
Dimension:
6,29 x 4,33 x 1,57 H inches
16 x 11 x 4 H cm
Category
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Onyx
Large Jewelry Music Box Made in Italy by Reuge 1960s
By Reuge Ste-Croix
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Elegant large footed wooden music box with top finely hand painted and inlaid with foliages floral decor.A Sorrento Italy Romance Inlayed Wood Music Box Handcrafted in Italy, upon opening, the music box begins to play a theme.
Elegant large footed wooden music box with top finely hand painted with foliages.
The box is made in Italy stamped in the bottom.
The musical movement...
Category
Mid-20th Century Moorish Italian Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Fruitwood
Rectangular Marble Jewelry Trinket Box with Two Love Birds
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Small Italian Rectangular Trinket Box with Two Carved Cuddling Love Birds On the Lid.
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Italian Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Marble
1960s Gorgeous Box in Onyx. Made in Italy
Located in Milano, IT
1960s Gorgeous Box in Onyx. Made in Italy. This box is in excellent condition.
Dimension:
5,31 x 3,74 x 1,57 H inches
13,5 x 9,5 x 4 H cm
Category
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Onyx
Round favor Box with lid in 925/1000 Sterling Silver Light Blue Enamel Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Round favor Box with lid in 925/1000 Sterling Silver Light Blue Enamel Salimbeni. Favor or small container in cut crystal and lid in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translu...
Category
1960s Art Nouveau Vintage Italian Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Sterling Silver, Gold Plate
Late 20th Century Handmade Jewelry Box with Malachite
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Late 20th century handmade jewelry box with malachite, gold threads and mohair velvet fabric. Made in Italy, 20th Century.
Dimensions:
8"H x 13.5"W x...
Category
20th Century Other Italian Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Malachite
Pill Box fired Enamel Miniature Louis XVI style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Shaped pill box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with hand painted miniature with fire enamelling in Louis XVI style, second half of the 19th century, and fine hand engravings...
Category
1970s Louis XVI Vintage Italian Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Lucite and Silver Metal Squared Italian Decorative Box, Gabriella Crespi, 1970s
By Gabriella Crespi
Located in Roma, IT
Beautiful midcentury decorative box in clear lucite and steel. This item was designed in the 1970s in Italy in the style of Gabrielle Crespi.
This ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Italian Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Metal, Steel
Vintage Italian Modernist Alabaster Trinket Box by Nordstrom
By Jonathan Adler, N. Nordstrom 1
Located in San Diego, CA
Beautiful and sculptural alabaster trinket box. This beautiful piece comes from Italy and dates to the 1970s. The alabaster marble is translucent and softly glows with the light in the room. The box has a modernist design with hardware in black that delineates the piece. The top of the box includes a double inlay “L” design that adds personality and modernist cool factor. This piece was made in Italy for Nordstrom. This piece is special and sculptural. Multipurpose and incredibly luxurious at the same time...
Category
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Alabaster
Pill Box Yellow floral miniature in Art Nouveau style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Pill Box Yellow floral miniature in Art Nouveau style Sterling Silver Salimbeni.Round pillbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent...
Category
1970s Art Nouveau Vintage Italian Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Art Deco Style Lucite Trinket Box
By Max Kahn
Located in Albano Laziale, Rome/Lazio
Here we have a unique box in Art Deco style but produced during the late 1960's. The material is black lucite/plexiglass with decor in gold. Underneath it is marked Max Kahn. The sty...
Category
20th Century Art Deco Italian Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Lucite, Plexiglass
Round favor Box lid in Sterling Silver Light yellow floral miniature Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Round favor Box lid in Sterling Silver Light yellow floral miniature Salimbeni.
Wedding favor or small container in cut crystal and lid in 925/1000 sterl...
Category
1960s Art Nouveau Vintage Italian Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver
Italian Burl Jewelry Box
Located in New York, NY
An Italian jewelry box in the modern style, circa late-20th century, Italy. Box is wood with a burl veneer and velvet lining. Box has two compartments,...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Italian Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Velvet, Wood, Burl
Italian Brown Leather Jewelry Box
Located in New York, NY
An Italian brown leather cylindrical jewelry box with gold embossing, circa mid-20th century, Italy. Box can hold jewelry or other items on a desk, vanity, walk-in-closet, etc. Dimensions: 4" Diameter x 3.38" Height.
Tray with horse also available, search 1stDibs ref. #: LU1314230770952
For leather and hide tray, search ref. #: LU1314230694692
Agate dish...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Leather
Pill Box oval with floral miniature Art Nouveau style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Giorgio Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Pill Box oval with floral miniature Art Nouveau style Sterling Silver Salimbeni in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with hand-painted fire-enamel...
Category
1970s Art Nouveau Vintage Italian Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Gold Plate, Enamel
Pill Box Floral miniature and fine hand-engravings Art Nouveau style Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco 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 Art Nouveau Vintage Italian Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Gold Plate, Enamel
Agresti Notte Di Gioie Shiny Black Men's Jewelry Box
By Agresti
Located in New York, NY
Polished ebony men’s box, removable tray.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Italian Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Ebony
Agresti Cassette Del Tempo Chest for 9 Watches
By Agresti
Located in New York, NY
Chest for 9 watches. Available in elm briar or polished ebony.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Italian Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Wood
Agresti Oro Jewelry Chest
By Agresti
Located in New York, NY
Lockable jewelry chest with 5 drawers, two pullout / pull-out necklace bars, and lined in ultra-suede. Accessories in 24 karats gold plated brass...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Italian Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Brass
Midcentury Green Onyx Marble Box, Italy
Located in Albano Laziale, Rome/Lazio
Discover a captivating handmade trinket or jewelry box, crafted with utmost care from exquisite onyx. Its hinged lid and gilded feet exude a timeless elegance. This versatile masterp...
Category
20th Century Mid-Century Modern Italian Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Onyx
Pill Box Baroque shaped with pastoral miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Pill Box Baroque shaped with pastoral miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni .Baroque shaped pill-box with hand engravings and green fire enamel, with hand painted enameled miniature of...
Category
1990s Baroque Italian Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Egg on Tripod with folding frame for 6 photos Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Egg on tripod with folding photo frame for 6 photos, inside, in 925/1000 sterling Silver gold plated, with translucent fired enamels on guillochè. ...
Category
1960s Empire Vintage Italian Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Powder Case Art Deco style designed for Cartier USA Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Giorgio Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Powder case for handbag in 925/1000 sterling silver with black and red fired enamel. Opening with spring button. Ground mirror and retina inside. Measure cm. 7.3 x 7.3 x 1.5. Weight gr.250. Created in the Art Deco style for Cartier USA in the 1980s, inspired by designs by Louis Cartier from the early 1900s. Manufactured in Florence in the Salimbeni company headquarters 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 Art Deco Vintage Italian Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Original Italian Aldo Tura Goatskin Jewelry Chest circa 1950's
By Aldo Tura
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
A fabulous vintage Aldo Tura Goatskin Jewelry Chest. The quality is impeccable. The beautiful goatskin with 6 drawers in fine wood and 5 have the original green velvet to lay your je...
Category
1950s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Brass
Onyx Box, Decorative, or Jewelry Box Green, 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 Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Onyx
Watch Box for Nine Watches in Briar with Leather Detail by Agresti
By Agresti
Located in New York, NY
Elm briar and striped mahogany for your collectable watches. Leather handles. Briar box for nine watches.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Italian Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Leather, Wood
Italian Sorrento Inlaid Musical Jewelry Box
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Hand made Italian inlaid lacquered "musical instrument" theme music jewelry box. Expertly crafted with fine inlay detailing on outer lid cover. When ...
Category
1980s Vintage Italian Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Wood
19th Century Italian Carved Box
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Heavily and finely carved with leaves and fruit, Has four drawers with inlaid interior. Could possibly be French.
Category
19th Century Neoclassical Antique Italian Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Wood
Set of Two Midcentury White Opaline Cenedese Glass Box with Bronze Mounts Italy
Located in Nuernberg, DE
A set of two beautiful jewelry boxes with glass lids made of opal glass. This type of jewelry box was mainly made in France, Italy and earlier in Bohemia. They were made from the early 19th century to the mid 20th century. However, the heyday of opal boxes...
Category
1950s Empire Vintage Italian Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Rectangular Deep Forrest Green Marble and Bronze Jewelry Box, Italian circa 1930
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Vintage Deep Forrest Green Marble Jewelry Box on Bronze Feet, Italy.
This rectangular box has vintage blue velvet interior and the original bronze hardw...
Category
Early 20th Century Empire Italian Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Pill Box Hand Painted Miniature Enamel Louis XVI Style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco 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 Louis XVI Vintage Italian Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Round Favor Box with Lid in 925/1000 Sterling Silver Green Enamel Art Nouveau St
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Round favor box with lid in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè and hand-painted miniature of a bouquet of flowers in Art Nouveau style. B...
Category
1960s Art Nouveau Vintage Italian Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Sterling Silver, Enamel
21st Century Leather Cigar Ashtray Handcrafted in Italy
By Pinetti
Located in Bagnatica, Lombardia
For poker nights. A Compact design with a single cigar rest, this piece serves both as an ashtray and support for the cigar. It is made out of polished stee...
Category
2010s Modern Italian Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Metal
Dior Mid-Century Lucite Tortoiseshell Effect and Brass Jewelry Box, Italy 1970s
By Christian Dior
Located in Roma, IT
Amazing mid-century lucite and brass decorative jewelry box. This fantastic piece was designed in Italy during the 1970s for Christian Dior.
This piece, is in its unique elegance,...
Category
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Brass
Leather Upholstered Jewellery Box Attributable to Peter Church for Fontana Art
By Pietro Chiesa
Located in Catania, IT
Magnificent rectangular shaped wooden jewellery box covered with leather, topped by a Nile green glass plate that gives perfect visibility from the outside to the inside of the box. ...
Category
1960s Vintage Italian Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Leather, Glass, Wood
Miniature Walnut Commode
Located in Greenwich, CT
Early 19th Century walnut commode, the inlaid top with cookie corners over turned and fluted legs flanking three inlaid drawers and standing on turned turnip feet, French or Italian ...
Category
Early 19th Century Directoire Antique Italian Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Ebony, Fruitwood, Walnut, Pine
1960s Beautiful Brown Alabaster Box, Handmade, Made in Italy
Located in Milano, IT
1960s Beautiful alabaster brown box handmade carved. Made in Italy. Not easy to find it in these color. This vintage box is amazing and in excellent condition.
Dimension:
3,14" x 3...
Category
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Alabaster
Vintage Italian Jewelry Box in Burgundy Leather, Circa 1950's
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Amazing Rectangular Burgundy leather jewelry box with gold Embossing and Bevelled Lei With Multiple Code of Arms. Signed / Marked Made in Italy and Genuin...
Category
Mid-20th Century Baroque Italian Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Gold Leaf
21st Century, Clear Crystal and Golden Bronze Box
By Oggetti D'Arte
Located in Calenzano, FI
Hand carved clear crystal and patinated golden bronze box. Each object is handcrafted and the care for every detail makes each item unique in its kind.
The style of this box is a mo...
Category
2010s Louis XVI Italian Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Pill Box Sterling Silver Hand Painted Miniature Enamel on Guillochè Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Shaped pillbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with hand-painted miniature in Louis XVI style, second half of the 19th century, and fine hand engravings. Measure cm. 3,5 x 4,...
Category
1970s Art Nouveau Vintage Italian Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Sterling 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 Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Kountess Vase by Purho
Located in Geneve, CH
Kountess vase by Purho
Dimensions: D 25 x H 18 cm
Materials: glass
Other colours and dimensions are available.
Purho is a new protagonist of made i...
Category
2010s Post-Modern Italian Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Glass
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 Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
21st Century Kelly Decorative Hexagonal Box in Leather Handcrafed in Italy
By Pinetti
Located in Bagnatica, Lombardia
The refinement of resin meets the softness of italian leather.
An elegant lid with a mother of pearl look beautifully complete the hexagonal bases fully covered inside and outside...
Category
2010s Modern Italian Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Leather, Wood, Resin
Tommaso Barbi, Wood and Brass Cigars Box, Italy, 1970
By Tommaso Barbi
Located in Firenze, IT
Wood and brass cigars box.
Tommaso Barbi, Italy 1970
H 5 cm - 30.5 x 11.5 cm
Conditions: excellent consistent with age and use.
Category
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Brass
21st Century Lily Decorative Box in Nubuck Leather Handcrafed in Italy
By Pinetti
Located in Bagnatica, Lombardia
The sophistication of nubuck leather inspired this collection.
Lily is our new family of decorative boxes embellished by tone on tone embroidery. Two finishing, three sizes and f...
Category
2010s Modern Italian Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Metal
Arca Grey Watch Box
By Cassigoli
Located in Milan, IT
Wooden handmade box, with plateau, dressed in fine and soft genuine leather and with decorative soft stitching and internal microfiber fabric. Available in 14 different colors. Pleas...
Category
2010s Italian Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Leather
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 Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Lucite, Plexiglass
Arca Brown Watch Box
By Cassigoli
Located in Milan, IT
Wooden handmade box, with plateau, dressed in fine and soft genuine leather and with decorative soft stitching and internal microfiber fabric. Available in 14 different colors. Pleas...
Category
2010s Italian Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Leather
Arca Beige Watch Box
By Cassigoli
Located in Milan, IT
Wooden handmade box, with plateau, dressed in fine and soft genuine leather and with decorative soft stitching. Available in 14 different colors. Please, ask the Concierge for furthe...
Category
2010s Italian Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Leather
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 Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Makio Hasuike Midcentury Set of Make-Up and Storage Italian Boxes for Gedy, 1970
Located in Roma, IT
Wonderful midcentury set of spherical plastic make-up and storage boxes. Makio Hasuike designed this set during the 1970s, as a part of the Roberta collection, and produced Gedy it.
The set is composed of a stunning rare vintage make...
Category
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Glass, Mirror, Plastic
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 Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Metal, Brass, Steel, Chrome
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 Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
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 Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Bronze
21st Century, Animal Box Collection, Porcelain Box with Golden Bronze Lizard
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 Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Alessandro Albrizzi Italian White Perspex Boxes 1990s
By Alessandro Albrizzi
Located in Reggio Emilia, IT
Italian perspex plexiglass jewelry or storage boxes designed by Franco Albrizzi,
with engraved mark under base, Italy 1990s.
Please note that ...
Category
Late 20th Century Post-Modern Italian Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Plexiglass
Midcentury Lucite, Brass and Vienna Straw Box, Christian Dior Style, Italy 1970s
By Christian Dior
Located in Roma, IT
Amazing midcentury box in clear Lucite and Vienna straw wicker with a brass frame.
This marvelous jewelry box was designed in Italy during 1970s, following the style of Christian D...
Category
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Brass
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