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Material: Silver
Pill Box Silver Sterling Enamel Miniature Louis XVI style Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Elevate your collection with this exquisite oval pill box, crafted from 925/1000 gold-plated sterling silver. This piece is adorned with a hand-painted fire-enameled miniature, echoi...
Category
1970s Italian Louis XVI Vintage Silver Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Antique Silver Card Case, Birmingham 1910, Adie and Lovekin
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Antique silver card case, Birmingham 1910, Adie and Lovekin. The card case in the form of a purse with chain attached and ring finger loop. Ri...
Category
1910s English Vintage Silver Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
$440 Sale Price
20% Off
Snuffbox female face wearing Art Nouveau style clothing Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rounded rectangular snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fine hand-painted fire-enamelled miniature depicting a female face wearing Art Nouveau style clothing, hand-...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Silver Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
20th Century Silver Box, Hungary, circa 1980
By Artex
Located in Cagliari, IT
Magnificent box in sterling silver and wood. On the lid are set reproductions of ancient coins of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
In fact the producer of this article, Artex, was a bra...
Category
1980s Hungarian Modern Vintage Silver Boxes
Materials
Silver
Elegant Scent box in Silver with gilt crown in Rococo dated 1775
Located in Knivsta, SE
Elegant Scent box in Silver with gilt crown in Rococo dated 1775. Probably made in Denmark. Inside in gilded silver. Very period Rococo design.
Wear consistent with age and use
Category
1770s Danish Rococo Antique Silver Boxes
Materials
Silver
Box Black Red and White Art Deco style designed for Cartier USA Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Box Black White and Red enamel is Inspired by drawings by Louis Cartier from the 1920 in Art Deco style and recreated for Cartier USA in the 1976.
It is in 925/1000 Sterling Silver.
...
Category
1970s Italian Art Deco Vintage Silver Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Austrian 18th or Early 19th Century Gilt Silver Box with Shell Motifs
Located in New York, NY
Austrian 18th or early 19th century gilt continental silver box, beautifully adorned with curvilinear and shell motifs, measuring 7'' in length by 5 1/3'' in depth by 3 2/3'' in heig...
Category
18th Century Austrian Antique Silver Boxes
Materials
Silver
19th Century Sterling Lidded Dresser Jar
Located in High Point, NC
19th century glass dresser jar with a marked sterling lid. The jar was made by R Wallace and Sons of Connecticut. this is a wonderful example of fine 19th century American craftsma...
Category
19th Century American Victorian Antique Silver Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Small Oval Dutch Silver Gold Plated Box with a Scene of the Birth of Venus
Located in Delft, NL
A small oval Dutch silver gold plated box with a scene of the birth of Venus
A silver box, gold plated with a style-carved cameo in stone. The stone with a scene of a mythological...
Category
20th Century Dutch Silver Boxes
Materials
Silver
Austrian silver and gilt with guilloche box by Alexander Sturm, Co.
Located in Delft, NL
Austrian silver and gilt with guilloche box by Alexander Sturm, Co.
A silver-plated and gilt box with a guilloche pattern outside the box and a movable ...
Category
20th Century Austrian Silver Boxes
Materials
Silver
Louis Kuppenheim 1900 Germany Neo Classic Vesta Oval Box In .900 Silver Pill Box
Located in Miami, FL
Neo classic vesta box by Louis Kuppenheim.
A beautiful vesta box, created in Germany in the turn of the 20th century, back in the 1900. This superb pocket oval box was carefully crafted with neo classical patterns in solid .900/.999 silver. Show exceptional workmanship with remarkably details as you expect from the iconic jewelry workshop of Louis Kuppenheim. It is fitted with a hinge and a tension element for fastening opening and closing. Actually this box can be easily used as a pill box.
Weight: 24.3 Grams, (15.58 Dwt).
Measurements: 46 mm by 25 mm by 17 mm (1.81 x 0.98 x 0.67 Inches).
Hallmarks: Stamped with German pre 1922 marks, the maker's mark LK inside an oval cartouche associated to the workshop of Louis Kuppenheim, the mark for the silver assay 900 and signed in the border rim, "LK .900".
Louis Kuppenheim
The company was grounded in 1854 by Louis Kuppenheim (1824-1889) and Heinrich Witzenmann, specialized in silver and gold and -enameled artefacts. On the World Exhibition in 1900 the firm received a gold medal for a letter opener. In that same year the company opened a branch in the Rue Richelieu 67 in Paris. In these years some designs by Hans Christiansen were executed, amongst them very delicately enameled silver cigarette cases. The enamels on the several silver and gold pieces was of very high standard, and sometimes even gems like rubies were applied. Very famous were the ladies silver vanity cases with cute animals like cats and monkeys...
Category
Early 20th Century German Neoclassical Silver Boxes
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
$619 Sale Price
30% Off
925 Sterling Silver & Enamel Box with Strap Detail Italy circa 1960
Located in London, GB
An Italian 925 sterling silver & enamel box circa 1960
This box features both stunning quality and design. Both the silver & enamel are in immaculate condition and the buckle deco...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Silver Boxes
Materials
Silver, Enamel
Fine French Sterling Art Deco Ram Motif Square Table Box, Circa 1925
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Fine French Sterling Art Deco Ram Motif Square Table Box, Circa 1925
French Silver hallmark Minervas Head with #3 and Silversmith mark of KISS F
An Extraordinary example of signed ...
Category
20th Century French Art Deco Silver Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
$1,516 Sale Price
20% Off
Small Antique Tobacco Tin, English, Copper, Silver Plate, Lidded Box, Edwardian
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is a small antique tobacco tin. An English, copper and silver plate lidded box, dating to the Edwardian period, circa 1910.
Pleasingly time ...
Category
Early 20th Century British Edwardian Silver Boxes
Materials
Silver Plate, Copper
Lee Barnes & Naomi Peck lidded Jewelry Box
Located in South Charleston, WV
Circa 1965-1975 by Lee Barnes Peck and his wife Naomi Peck. Both were highly trained and skilled craftsmen of the modernist era and Lee Barnes was an instructor as well a jeweler. Hi...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Silver Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Silver Plate, Copper
1904 Sterling Silver Cigar Casket – A Gentleman’s Edwardian Essential
Located in London, London
This exceptional sterling silver cigar box, hallmarked in London in 1904, is a refined example of Edwardian craftsmanship by the esteemed silversmith William Comyns. Elegantly propor...
Category
Early 1900s English Edwardian Antique Silver Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Maitland Smith Tessellated Marble and Tortoise Shell Box
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Maitland Smith tessellated stone box with a mother of pearl finial handle. The interior of the box is lined with a black felt and has a removable lid. The box rests on sterling silver ball and claw feet as well as the entirety of the box is framed with a sterling silver border.
History and craftsmanship for nearly four decades Maitland-Smith has been in the business of creating exquisite and unique decorative accessories, lighting and accent furniture and elegant mirrors from our La Barge Collection. Founded by a London antiques dealer with the eye of a connoisseur, Maitland-Smith has carried on the tradition of creating stunning accents for the home of the highest quality. From the beginning, our many workrooms have been artisan based and employ time-honored techniques developed before the machine age. Many of these skills date back to the world’s earliest civilizations, and are associated with Fine quality furniture and decorative arts. Maitland-Smith is well-known for many handcrafted specialties, including hand carved tropical mahogany, handcut and inlaid exotic wood veneers, lost wax cast metal mounts and decorative objects, as well as, traditional vegetable tanned and hand-tooled leather. Other areas of expertise include finely executed porcelains, sophisticated finishing techniques, and detailed hand painting. Maitland Smith draws inspiration from great works from the 18th, 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries and in collaboration with design partners Tony Duquette Studios and its president, Hutton Wilkinson and also Celerie Kemble, Donald Bustraan...
Category
Late 20th Century Philippine Modern Silver Boxes
Materials
Stone, Marble, Sterling Silver
$1,840 Sale Price
20% Off
Sterling Silver Rectangular Biscuit Boxr with 24kt gold plated interior
Located in VALENZA, IT
Large biscuit box entirely handmade starting from a raw sheet of 925 silver.
The body was hammered into a rectangular shape and then the bottom was soldered.
A leaf and berry motif w...
Category
Early 2000s Italian Other Silver Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Tapio Wirkkala Commissioned Cigar Box In Silver and Teak, 1970s
Located in Helsinki, FI
Very rare and unique cigar box in teak and silver. Designed by Tapio Wirkkala. Very sleak and elegant piece for someone who appreciates the "finer things" in life.
The item is mark...
Category
1970s Finnish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Silver Boxes
Materials
Silver
Hexagonal art deco sterling silver biscuit box made in 1928 by James Dixon & Son
Located in London, London
Hallmarked in Sheffield in 1928 by James Dixon & Sons, this stylish, George V period, Sterling Silver Biscuit Box, is in the art deco taste and hexagonal in shape. The biscuit box me...
Category
1920s English Art Deco Vintage Silver Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Table Box for Cigarettes Art Deco style designed for Cartier USA Sterling Silver
Located in Firenze, FI
Square table box for cigarettes with rounded corners in 925/1000 sterling silver with black fired enamel. Measure cm. 12.7 x 12.7 x 3.2. Weight gr. 640. Created in the Art Deco style...
Category
1980s Italian Art Deco Vintage Silver Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Dutch Silver knitting needle case by Meinardus Wilhelmus Warren, 1836-1864
Located in Delft, NL
Dutch Silver knitting needle case by Meinardus Wilhelmus Warren, 1836-1864
A Dutch Silver knitting needle case with turned rib pattern and decora...
Category
Early 19th Century Dutch Antique Silver Boxes
Materials
Silver
Novelty Solid Silver Box by Theo Fennell - 1986
Located in Bath, GB
A highly collectable heavy, solid sterling silver box signed on the underside by the famed London silversmith and Jeweller, Theo Fennel.
The box is hand crafted in the form of a tru...
Category
1990s British Modern Silver Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Vintage Cut Crystal and Sterling Silver Box, Birmingham, 1931
Located in Bath, GB
A magnificent large box made from a hefty piece of English crystal with a variety of intricate cutting creating an impressive and truly glamorous piece.
The hinged rims are made f...
Category
Early 20th Century English Art Deco Silver Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Sterling Silver
$982 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique Japanese Silver Incense Box Signed, 19th-20th Century
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
An extremely fine quality antique heavy gauge Japanese silver incense box, the cover inset with a copper and inlaid metal panel depicting a seated figure drinking from a large bowl a...
Category
20th Century Japanese Silver Boxes
Materials
Silver
Scandinavian Modern Silver Box from C. G. Hallberg, Sweden -1937
By CG Hallberg
Located in Örebro, SE
Beautiful Scandinavian Modern box in silver from C. G. Hallberg, Sweden -1937.
Decorated with a beautiful monogram RG.
Signed with makers mark.
Good vintage con...
Category
1930s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Silver Boxes
Materials
Silver
Table Box floral miniature fire-enameled on guilloche and stripes Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Oval table box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fired enamel, with fine floral miniature fire-enamelled on guilloche, enamelled edge with vertical stripes. Viennese Art N...
Category
1960s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Silver Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold Plate
Antique Twisted Three Handled Glass and Silver Plate Biscuit Box, circa 1890
Located in Bath, GB
A really unusual biscuit box (it would make the most wonderful ice bucket too); made from glass and silver plate which is marked EPNS and 1/0 which I believe is made from the famous ...
Category
1890s German Late Victorian Antique Silver Boxes
Materials
Silver Plate
Table Box hand-engraved and enamelled ornament in Arabic style Salimbeni.
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular box with rounded corners in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on a guilloché with hand-engraved and enamelled ornament in Arabic style. D...
Category
1990s Italian Islamic Silver Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold, Gold Plate
Snuff Box with 2 slightly rounded sides Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table snuff box with 2 slightly rounded sides in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamels on guillochè and hand-painted floral miniature; oute...
Category
1970s Italian Other Vintage Silver Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
ENGLAND 1787 George III Tobacco Round Desk Box In Carved Wood And Silver
Located in Miami, FL
A George III tobacco round desk box made in England.
This is a beautiful round desk box created in England during the period of king George III, back in 1787. The box was finely car...
Category
1780s English George III Antique Silver Boxes
Materials
Silver
$1,188 Sale Price
30% Off
Antique Silvered Jewelry Box, Tavern Scene, France, 1880s
Located in Greven, DE
Beautiful silver-plated brass jewelry box, France, 1880s.
Fine flower tendrils and blossom decorations on all sides. The lid shows a scene from an taverne, the landlady pouring wine from a carafe for a musician. Beautiful attention to detail on the surrounding utensils, such as wine troughs...
Category
19th Century French Antique Silver Boxes
Materials
Silver, Brass
Antique Silver Plated Octagonal Tea Caddy with Lapis Lazuli Colored Detail
Located in Tilburg, NL
Antique silver plated tea caddy with Lapis Lazuli colored detail. First half of the 20th century.
Beautiful and wonderfully patinat...
Category
Early 20th Century Silver Boxes
Materials
Silver, Silver Plate
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 Silver Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold, Gold Plate
Gabriella Crespi Tortoiseshell and Sterling Silver Box
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 Italian Mid-Century Modern Silver Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Edwardian Golf English Sterling Silver Vesta Case
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
A fine and impressive antique Edwardian English sterling silver vesta case with golfing interest; an addition to our sports related silverware colle...
Category
Early 1900s English Edwardian Antique Silver Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
A set of two silver-plated metal boxes France 1970
Located in SOTTEVILLE-LÈS-ROUEN, FR
A set of two elegant silver-plated metal boxes, each featuring a hinged lid. Their surface is adorned with a beautiful patina that adds character and depth to their aesthetic. These ...
Category
1970s French Rococo Revival Vintage Silver Boxes
Materials
Silver Plate
$815 Sale Price
20% Off
20th Century Italian 800/1000 Silver Jewelry box
Located in VALENZA, IT
The jewelry box is shiny with a hinged opening and resembles a trunk. Bands made with the casting technique and decorated with floral motifs have been welded onto the body and lid of...
Category
1990s Italian Other Silver Boxes
Materials
Silver
$2,513 Sale Price
28% Off
Georgian Louis XVI 18th Century Dutch Silver Snuff Box Scent Box 1782
Located in Wommelgem, VAN
18th century Dutch silver scent box
On top a Depiction of Vice Admiral Zoutman
The victor of the Dogger Bank Battle
Made by Dirk Hoep 178...
Category
18th Century Dutch Georgian Antique Silver Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Box with wedges Enamel Sterling Silver black and white Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Octagonal wedge box in 925/1000 sterling silver with black and white colors fire enameled in Art Deco style. Measures 7.8 x 7.8 x 6 cm. Weight gr. 281. Designed by Giorgio Salimbeni ...
Category
1970s Italian Art Deco Vintage Silver Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Snuff Box Perforated Lid, Embossed and Engraved Miniature Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Square snuff box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with perforated lid, embossed and engraved by hand, with fine round miniature diameter cm. 3.8 hand painted in tempera on veg...
Category
1970s Italian Renaissance Vintage Silver Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Japanese Silver Fan-Form Box
Located in Chicago, IL
This lovely silver box exemplifies Japanese refinement in all crafts. Precious in the hand, the petite bonbonnière is formed of high quality silver in the shape of a paper folding fa...
Category
20th Century Japanese Silver Boxes
Materials
Silver
Antique German Biedermeier Footed Silver Sugar Chest or Box
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This antique German sugar box is composed of .875 silver and dates to circa 1850 in the Biedermeier style. The box sits on ornately crafted feet and features clam shell relief decora...
Category
Mid-19th Century German Biedermeier Antique Silver Boxes
Materials
Silver
Table Cigar Box two-tone stripes enamel Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
This divine Table Box is in 925/1000 sterling silver.
Table Box hand-painted miniature has a Rectangular shape with rounded corners.
On the cover there is a beautiful hand-engraved...
Category
1970s Italian Empire Vintage Silver Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
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 Silver Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Italian Futurist Crystal Enameled Box with Silver Sculpture, Italy, 1933
Located in Roma, IT
Incredible futurist multifaceted crystal glass box, this stunning piece was produced in Italy in 1933, as it features the 800 silver engraving that w...
Category
1930s Italian Futurist Vintage Silver Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Silver
GERMANY 1900 Orivit Jugendstil Covered Centerpiece In Gilded Bronze With Crystal
By Orivit
Located in Miami, FL
Jugendstil Covered Centerpiece designed by Orivit in Germany.
This is a beautiful and very decorative covered centerpiece created in Germany during the art-nouveau Jugendstil period...
Category
Early 1900s German Jugendstil Antique Silver Boxes
Materials
Silver, Bronze
$1,225 Sale Price / set
30% Off
Georgian Sterling Silver Set of Two Tea Caddies
By Samuel Taylor
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive pair of antique Georgian English sterling silver tea caddies; an addition to our silver teaware collection.
These exceptional antique George II sterling silver tea caddies have a circular baluster shaped form.
The surface of each antique tea caddy is embellished with very sharp, finely chased floral and foliate decoration, incorporating a scroll bordered vacant cartouche to either side.
The ornamentation to the body of each piece incorporates a plain applied moulded girdle.
These caddies are fitted with a cylindrical push fit covers encircled with leaf decorated textures.
The covers are surmounted with the original cast sterling silver leaf decorated finials.
These impressive antique tea caddies...
Category
Mid-18th Century English George II Antique Silver Boxes
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
French Silver Plate Lined Deco Box
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Lovely silver plate box with a suede interior. the box has an unknown emblem on the top front center and the Waffle pattern on top makes this box unique and a compliment to any cockt...
Category
20th Century French Art Deco Silver Boxes
Materials
Silver Plate
Exclusive Bonboniere / Sugar Lidded box 800 Silver Germany gilded, Flowers Putto
Located in Berlin, DE
Antique 800 Silver Bonboniere / Sugar- Lidded box
Half moon & crown - Germany - 800 Silver
Flowers, Putto & Children ornament - inside gilded
stand on 4 feet
Weight: 372 grams
The...
Category
19th Century German Antique Silver Boxes
Materials
Silver
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 Silver Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Cigarette Box hand painted in tempera on a vegetable ivory Salimbeni.
Located in Firenze, FI
Square table box for cigarettes in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guilloché also on the sides. In the center beautiful miniature hand painted i...
Category
1970s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Silver Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Christofle K&T Silver-Plate 3 Tier Cantilever Box Desk Accessory 90's
Located in North Miami, FL
This fabulous signed Christofle 3-tiered silver-plate box, desk accessory, cocktail table addition and or barware, serving piece cantilevers out. It was designed by KT Studio in 1998...
Category
1990s French Modern Silver Boxes
Materials
Silver Plate
$3,150 Sale Price
25% Off
Table Box Squared Green Enamel with oval miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Square table box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamels on sunburst guillochè and Louis XVI French Empire style ornaments. External measurements cm. 12 x 12 x 2.5. Weight gr. 636- Fine oval miniature cm. 3.2 x 4.2 hand painted in tempera on a vegetable ivory plate by the painter Anna Maria Manfriani reproducing a portrait of a Flemish lady...
Category
1990s Italian Louis XVI Silver Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
1940s Hand Carved Mahogany Box Silver Aztec Indian
Located in Chula Vista, CA
From Mexico, finely crafted small wood box hand carved in exotic mahogany.
Beautifully polished with elegant curves.
Cover Lid has Mexican Aztec warrior...
Category
1940s Mexican Mid-Century Modern Vintage Silver Boxes
Materials
Silver
Snuff Box reproducing the painting of a Roman glimpse late 1800s Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Snuffbox Rectangular for table with rounded corners in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated with very fine fire-enamelled miniature hand-painted by the painter Renato Dainelli repro...
Category
1990s Italian Baroque Silver Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Gold Plate, Enamel
Continental German Neo-Classic Silver Box
Located in Queens, NY
Continental German (19/20th Century) rectangular sterling silver box with Neo-classic figures in relief (signed: S. SCHNAUFFEN, DRESDEN)
Category
19th Century German Neoclassical Antique Silver Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Snuff Box "Soap" Shaped with Horse's Head Sterling Silver Enamel Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Oval rounded "soap" shaped snuff box in 925/1000 sterling silver with fired enamels above and below and hand-painted miniature of a horse's head, English "Art Nouveau" style, early 1900s. Measurements cm. 4.7 x 6.7 x 2. Weight gr. 96. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1980 and manufactured in Florence 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 high heat 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
1980s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Silver Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
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 Silver Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
21° Century Italian 800 Solid Silver Decorative Box
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 Italian Other Silver Boxes
Materials
Silver
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