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Tall Silver & Guilloche Enamel Lidded Jar by Goldsmith's and Silversmith's Co.
Located in Bath, GB
A stunning tall vanity / dressing table jar, probably used for either hatpins or a toothbrush, hence the little cork lining to the interior of the base.
The glass is channel cut...
Category
1930s British Art Deco Vintage Sterling Silver Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Antique Victorian Sterling Silver and Enamel Vesta Case by Lawrence Emanuel
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique Victorian English sterling silver and enamel vesta case; an addition to our range of collectable silver cases.
This exceptional antique...
Category
1890s British Victorian Antique Sterling Silver Boxes
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Antique George I Sterling Silver Tobacco Box
By Edward Cornock 1
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional antique early Georgian English sterling silver tobacco box; an addition to our smoking related silverware collection
This dine antique George I sterling silver tobacco box has a plain oval rounded form.
The surface of the box is plain and embellished with fine engraved circular motifs and leaf decoration to the cover hinge.
The flush hinged hallmarked cover is ornamented with the contemporary engraved inscription ‘Richard Smart’ to the centre, in addition to a simplified engraved shell and scrolling leaf design to the shaped thumbpiece.
This impressive Georgian tobacco box has an exceptional color and patination.
This antique tobacco box...
Category
1720s English Georgian Antique Sterling Silver Boxes
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Antique Victorian English Sterling Silver Vinaigrette
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
A fine antique Victorian English sterling silver vinaigrette; an addition to our silver boxes collection
This fine antique Victori...
Category
Early 1900s English Victorian Antique Sterling Silver Boxes
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Art Deco Style 1960s Sterling Silver Cigarette Box
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive vintage Elizabeth II English sterling silver cigarette box in the Art Deco style; an addition to the ornamental silverware collection.
This exceptional vintage Elizabeth II sterling silver cigarette box has a plain rectangular form onto four bracket style feet.
The surface of this impressive silver box is embellished with impressive engine turned decoration.
The box is fitted with two hallmarked hinged covers each embellished with further panels of engine turned decoration in addition to an applied leaf border which continues across a central plateau.
The interior of each solid silver cover features a paralleling band of engine turned decoration in addition to the part hallmarks; decoration to the posterior surface of a cover is an indication of the fine quality of a piece.
The central plateau is surmounted with an impressive shaped handle, in the Art Deco style.
The body of this exceptional box features the original cedar wood lining.
This antique Art Deco cigarette box has a weighted base and retains the original leatherette covering to the underside.
The box is supported by four impressive cast silver, Art Deco style stepped bracket feet.
By virtue of its size this versatile vintage cigarette box could be used for a multitude of functions.
Note: The majority of such boxes have a wood lining to the cover; it is a sign of quality when boxes have an unlined, solid silver covers.
Condition
This vintage silver cigarette box...
Category
1960s British Vintage Sterling Silver Boxes
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Sterling Silver Boxes, Antique George IV '1823'
By John Reily
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive, rare pair of antique George IV English sterling silver boxes; an addition to our 19th century silverware collection.
These exceptional and rare antique George IV sterling silver boxes have a plain rectangular form.
The surface of each silver box is plain and unembellished, with applied thread decoration to the lower rim.
Each box is fitted with a plain hinged hallmarked cover, ornamented with further applied thread decoration to the upper rim.
The upper plateaus of the covers are individually embellished with an impressive contemporary bright cut engraved crest: one bears out of a ducal coronet a wyvern below the motto 'Avi Numerantur Avorum' - The forefathers of our forefathers are numbered and to the other an eagle regardant with wings extended grasping an escutcheon charged with a lion's head, below the 'Virtute et Robore' - By Virtue and Strength.
By virtue of its size these versatile 19th century boxes could be used for a multitude of functions.
Such original boxes of this period and size are becoming increasingly difficult to locate.
Condition
These antique silver dressing table...
Category
19th Century English George IV Antique Sterling Silver Boxes
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Garrard & Co. - Sterling Silver Tea Caddy - London 1926
Located in London, London
Hallmarked in London in 1926 by Garrard & Co., this handsome, Sterling Silver Tea Caddy, is oval in shape, with panelled detailing.
The tea caddy measures 3.25"(8cm) tall, by 4.25"...
Category
1920s English Art Deco Vintage Sterling Silver Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
1940s German Silver and Enamel Card Case
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
A fine vintage German silver and enamel card case; part of our boxes and cases collection.
This fine German vintage card case has a rectangular book ...
Category
1940s German Other Vintage Sterling Silver Boxes
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Rare Important Estate Hand Hammered STERLING Silver Frank M Whiting Dish Bowl
Located in New York, NY
The Following Item is A Spectacular and Very Beautiful Hand Hammered and Etched Scrolled Sterling Silver Frank M Whiting Candy Dish. Beautifully done with Exquisite Sterling Silver ...
Category
20th Century English Sterling Silver Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Art Deco Oval Sterling Silver Biscuit Box by Hukin & Heath Birmingham, 1927
Located in London, London
Hallmarked in Birmingham in 1927 by Hukin & Heath, this handsome, Art Deco, sterling silver biscuit box, is oval in shape, plain in style and features a hinged lid and reed borders. ...
Category
1920s English Art Deco Vintage Sterling Silver Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
1940's Sterling Silver Hinged Box with Bamboo Pattern
Located in Los Angeles, CA
An elegant, sterling silver (935 grams), hinged box with bamboo pattern.
Category
1940s Italian Vintage Sterling Silver Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
John Prip Sterling Silver and Granite River Stone Lidded Box
By John Prip
Located in Brooklyn, NY
A sublime box handcrafted by American silversmith, John Prip, comprising a hollowed and polished granite river stone inset with rim and finished with a handwrought lid, both in sterl...
Category
20th Century American Organic Modern Sterling Silver Boxes
Materials
Granite, Sterling Silver
Japanese Cloisonné Covered Jar by Ando Jubei
By Ando Jubei
Located in Atlanta, GA
Japanese cloisonné enamels are known as shippo-yaki and the mid-19th century saw the production of very high quality wares in the early centers Nagoya. One of the most renowned works...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Japonisme Sterling Silver Boxes
Materials
Metal, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Sterling Pillbox
Located in Brooklyn, NY
We are delighted to offer this sterling silver English pillbox. The lid is made of sterling and has an enamel cameo design. Two hounds are seen next to each...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Sterling Silver Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Art Deco George V Sterling Silver Cigar Box by Thomas Bradbury & Sons in 1924
Located in London, London
Hallmarked in Birmingham, in 1924, by Thomas Bradbury & Sons, this handsome, George V Sterling silver cigar box, has smooth, softened edges and a hinged swing lid, revealing the doub...
Category
1920s English Vintage Sterling Silver Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Leather and Silver Decorative Box
Located in Miami, FL
Designed exclusively by Urban Art, offered is a decorative box comprised of a black python exterior and embellished with sterling silver hardware and an Afghani silver and Lapis Lazu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Thai Campaign Sterling Silver Boxes
Materials
Lapis Lazuli, Sterling Silver
Antique Sterling Silver Gilt Engraved Vinaigrette Birmingham Edward Smith 1839
By Edward Smith
Located in Portland, OR
A fine antique engraved sterling silver vinaigrette, Edward Smith, Birmingham, 1839.
The vinaigrette is finely engine turned to the hinged top and the undersaide, the lid is monogram...
Category
1830s English Early Victorian Antique Sterling Silver Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Table Cigar Box two-tone stripes enamel Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
This superb Table Cigar Box two-tone stripes enamel is in 925/1000 sterling silver.
it has a rectangular shape with rounded sides Table Cigar Box has hand engraving, with orange and ...
Category
1980s Italian Empire Vintage Sterling Silver Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
20th Century Sterling Silver Gilted Enameled Table Box
By Salimbeni
Located in VALENZA, IT
Round shaped box Made in Italy Silver Gilted 925/1000 with translucent enamels on guilloche with hand painted floral miniatures and gold paillons
The Miniatures are hand-painted on a usually white homogeneous enamel base. The same colored glazes are used, but ground much finer, which are mixed with special oils to form an infinite palette of colors. The paint must be gradually dried on electric stoves...
Category
1980s Italian Other Vintage Sterling Silver Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Antique Sterling Silver Miniature Vinaigrette Locket James Fenton Birmingham
Located in Portland, OR
A very elegant & charming antique sterling silver miniature locket vinaigrette by James Fenton, Birmingham, 1872.
This miniature vinaigrette would have been worn as a locket on a chain...
Category
Late 19th Century English High Victorian Antique Sterling Silver Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
William & Mary Snuff Box Made in London, circa 1690
Located in London, GB
A Very Rare William & Mary Snuff Box Made in London circa 1690. Maker's Mark of Ah With a Crown Above and a Cinquefoil Below.
The Snuff Box is of escutcheon form with plain sides an...
Category
17th Century English William and Mary Antique Sterling Silver Boxes
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
X-Small Egg style Faberge Yellow Enamel hand painted wreaths Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
X-Small egg in 925/1000 gilded silver with translucent enamel on fire on guilloché and hand-painted miniature of garlands in Russian Art Nouveau style, inspired by the eggs of Carl F...
Category
1960s Italian Empire Vintage Sterling Silver Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
XXI Century Italian Sterling Silver Cigar Box
By Pampaloni
Located in VALENZA, IT
925 Sterling Silver Box for Cigars.
The body of the box is completely smooth with sharp corners.
A small silver protrusion allows the opening of the box.
The interior of the box is m...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Sterling Silver Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Two-handled antique cylindrical silver box & cover
Located in London, GB
Substantial two-handled, cylindrical, antique silver container with a pull off cover and mounted on four cast scroll and acanthus leaf suppor...
Category
1910s British Art Deco Vintage Sterling Silver Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
19th Century Russian silver and nickel plated tobacco box "sultan on horseback"
Located in Autonomous City Buenos Aires, CABA
19th Century Russian silver and nickel plated tobacco box "sultan on horseback"
Measures:
Height: 1.5 centimeters
Length: 10.5 centimeters
Depth: 7 centimeters
Category
19th Century Russian Belle Époque Antique Sterling Silver Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Table Box Enamel Miniature Moscow Kremlin and Red Square Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular shaped table box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fine hand-engravings fire enameled hand-painted like lapis lazuli stone and beautiful hand-painted enameled ...
Category
1970s Italian Empire Vintage Sterling Silver Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Fine Dutch Colonial Indonesian Casket with Silver Mounts, circa 1706
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A fine Indonesian Ambonya burl, ebony and teak casket with silver mounts
Jakarta (Batavia), circa 1706 (year letter W (1705-1710), marked DV, probably Dirck Vooght
The outer ri...
Category
Early 18th Century Indonesian Dutch Colonial Antique Sterling Silver Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Vintage 20th Century Cartier Solid Silver Jewellery / Trinket Box
By Cartier
Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
A mid 20th Century Cartier jewellery box crafted from solid silver, adorned with a exquisite gold plated lid handle. This item epitomises luxury in...
Category
20th Century French Other Sterling Silver Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Baroque Style Italian Sterling Silver Jewelry Box
By Pampaloni
Located in VALENZA, IT
Sterling silver box completely handmade with brown velvet interior.
The structure is rectangular and shaped. On the body, slight elevations have been made that make the box typical o...
Category
2010s Italian Baroque Sterling Silver Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Antique Portuguese Sterling Silver Box With Stand
Located in New York, NY
An antique Portuguese sterling silver box with a stand. Exact silver guarantee mark used in the Lisbon Assay Office from 1887 to 1932 on the bottom. The box is modeled in the form of...
Category
Late 19th Century Portuguese Antique Sterling Silver Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
20th century sterling silver handbag-shaped box
Located in Autonomous City Buenos Aires, CABA
20th century sterling silver handbag-shaped box
Beautiful decorative silver box, with a central design of a rose and a frame of bows on both sides. Sealed
Measures:
Height: 7.5 centi...
Category
20th Century English Art Nouveau Sterling Silver Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Very Good 19th Century Sterling Silver Snuff Box, Hallmarked Birmingham 1839
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
A very good 19th century Victorian sterling silver snuff box of oblong form, showing a hinged lid engraved with machined undulating wavy motifs, centred by a monogrammed shield-shaped cartouche, opening to a richly gilded interior with both the lid & base bearing Birmingham hallmarks...
Category
Mid-19th Century British Victorian Antique Sterling Silver Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Fine 17th Century Dutch Colonial Armorial Tortoiseshell & Silver Box, Dated 1691
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A dutch tortoiseshell box with two engraved silver plaques
Amsterdam, 1691, with maker's mark of Steven des Rousseaux (1654-1733)
H. 5 cm
Diam. 12.5 cm
Note:
Steven des ...
Category
17th Century Dutch Antique Sterling Silver Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
American Modern Sterling Silver Box by Ubaldo Vitali for Cartier
Located in New York, NY
Modern sterling silver box. Long and rectangular with straight sides and sharp corners; cover hinged with overhanging rim and gently curved top. Box interior cedar lined and partitio...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Sterling Silver Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Art Deco Sterling Silver and Enamel Freedom Box, 1941 Arms of Borough of Slough
Located in London, GB
An impressive Art Deco solid Silver Freedom Box embellished with the arms of the Borough of Slough in deep rich enameled colors. The interior of the base i...
Category
20th Century English Art Deco Sterling Silver Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Cigarette Case Fired Enamel with Still Life Miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table cigarette case with rounded corners in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated with beautiful miniature fire enamelled and hand painted by the painter Beatrice Mellana reproducing a "still life" by the Flemish painter Willem Claes Heda. Dimensions cm. 5.7 x 9 x 1.7. Weight gr. 174. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1969 and manufactured in Florence in numerous specimens with various subjects and different colors, in the headquarters of the Salimbeni Company with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for withstanding numerous enamelled firings at about 800° C.
Miniature is a very ancient technique which consists of painting works in small proportions.
It was born for the decoration of the first letter of the paragraph of the books.
Over the years, however, this technique is refined and enriched, then moving on to precious personal items.
Hand-painted miniatures can be done with multiple different techniques.
The most important that we use on our articles are of three kinds:
1) Fire enamel.
2) Water tempera on an ivory plate.
3) Painted on mother-of-pearl.
Fire enameled miniatures:
On a first layer of enamel generally white or very clear or even transparent suitably liquefied at a temperature of about 750 ° C, the chosen subject is painted using miniature colors which are as many colored crystals, ground and reduced to a very fine, almost impalpable powder washed and purified in distilled water with the addition of small quantities of deoxidizing acids which, diluted with essential oils (usually essential oil of solder), can be mixed to form a palette of colors.
With very fine sable hair brushes you draw the subject starting from the perimeter and then gradually adding various layers of color.
It is necessary to carry out various firings very often so that the colors harden and are not absorbed by the underlying glaze as, during the subsequent firings at 750 ° C, during liquefaction, it would spread irremediably. Hence the need to form the painting a little at a time, cooking it numerous times.
Therefore it is necessary to proceed with numerous retouching, often overlapping different colors that only the painter's experience knows. A beautiful miniature needs from 20 to over 50 firings and is finished when the painter deems he does not have to further intervene.
Some colors must have darker tones than others because then, by superimposing the transparent enamel placed at the end of the miniature, they fade. This transparent layer, called “fondant” in jargon, must be smoothed and polished like all other translucent enamel colors.
The miniatures with water tempera colors are painted on real ivory...
Category
1960s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sterling Silver Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold
Antique Sterling Silver Table Lighter 1901 Regimental, Cigars, Cigarettes
Located in London, GB
An exceptional antique Edwardian solid Silver Table Lighter on a black stone plinth. This ball shaped Table Lighter is supported on three double scroll feet. The Lighter has a centra...
Category
Early 20th Century English Edwardian Sterling Silver Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Enamel Egg with Tripod Sterling Silver Gold Paillons Stars of Sky Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Egg with tripod in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent blue fired enamel on guillochè and with the insertion of pure gold “paillons” in the shape of stars to create...
Category
1960s Italian Other Vintage Sterling Silver Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Gold, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Heintz Arts & Crafts Sterling Silver on Bronze Humidor or Cigarette Box
Located in South Bend, IN
A gorgeous Arts & Crafts period humidor or cigarette box
By Heintz Art Metal Shop
USA, Early 20th Century
Sterling silver inlay on patinated bronze, with cedar lined interior.
Me...
Category
Early 20th Century American Arts and Crafts Sterling Silver Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Bronze
Pair of George III Cased Tea Caddies, London, 1793, William Frisbee
Located in London, GB
The Faulkbourne hall cased tea caddies. An important and very unusual pair of George III tea caddies made in London in 1793 by William Frisbee, all contained within a contemporary velvet and silk lined satinwood case. The hinges and handle also hallmarked for 1793.
The pair of tea caddies are of an unusual oval form with upwardly curved rim. The sides are beautifully engraved with an upper and lower band of bright cut scrolls and foliate motifs on a scratch engraved and prick dot ground. Each side is engraved with an unusual bright cut cartouche with incuse corners. One cartouche is vacant and the other is engraved with a contemporary Scottish Crest with the motto "Nil Conscrire Sibi - Consious of no Wrong " above. The curved, slightly domed, cover is engraved with an outer band identical to those shown on the sides and terminates in a Neo Classical urn finial, also engraved with bright cut designs. The caddies are most unusual as they open from the side, not in the usual manner from the front. The caddies are each in excellent condition and are fully marked in the foot and with the maker's mark and sterling mark on the cover.
The pair of caddies are contained within a most breathtaking satinwood case with hallmarked hinges and escutcheon shaped handle and reeded oval mounts. It is most unusual to find fully hallmarked hinges, and handle, which accurately date the case, as the same date as the caddies. The interior is lined with the original silk, velvet and gold braid.
The Crest and Motto are those of Lieut-Col Jonathan Bullock of Faulkbourne Hall, County Essex. He was M.P. for Essex in many parliaments and, in 1763, married Miss Elizabeth Lante. He died without issue in 1809 and his estates devolved upon his nephew Jonathan Joshua Christopher Watson who, in 1810, assumed the surname and Arms of Bullock by Royal Licence. The Bullock family were descended from Robert Bullock of Herburghfield, County Berkshire. He was Sheriff of County Berks and Oxford under Richard II. He died in 1405.
Faulkbourne Hall is a Grade 1 listed Manor House in the village of Faulkbourne in Essex, the manor being first mentioned under Edward the Confessor. The earliest surviving parts of the Hall, a red brick building with turrets, date from the 15th century. Sir Edward Bullock, Knight, purchased the Hall and Manor of Faulkbourne in 1637. The hall is considered a fine specimen of early Tudor red...
Category
1790s English George III Antique Sterling Silver Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
20th Century Italian Sterling Silver Oblong Box
Located in VALENZA, IT
Hinged Sterling Silver Box.
The box is embossed and chiselled with diagonal lines, leaving the central part smooth and shiny to interpose a different space between the workings.
The ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Other Sterling Silver Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Pill Box fired Enamel Miniature Louis XVI style Sterling Silver 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 Italian Louis XVI Vintage Sterling Silver Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Table Box Enamel two-tone ruby red and emerald green Salimbeni.
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table box in 925/1000 gold-plated sterling silver with translucent fired enamel stripes on guilloche, two-tone ruby red and emerald green, in a modern contemporary style....
Category
Early 2000s Italian Modern Sterling Silver Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold
Charles II Confit Box Made in London, circa 1670
Located in London, GB
An Extremely Rare Charles II Confit Box Made, Most Probably, in London circa 1670, Maker's Mark of M With a Crown Above
This very rare piece is circular in form and plain in design ...
Category
17th Century English Charles II Antique Sterling Silver Boxes
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Salimbeni Purse Cigarette Case Two-Color Enamel Stripes Blue and White
By Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Purse cigarette case, oval section in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with two-color enameled stripes. Early 20th century English style. Measures 9 x 4.3 x 2.6 cm. Weight 96 g. ...
Category
1970s Italian International Style Vintage Sterling Silver Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Set of two Sterling Silver Cigarette Cases 19th and 20 Century, Mario Buccellat
Located in North Miami, FL
A set of two Italian Sterling silver cigarette cases from the 19th and 20th century. They have hand-stamped details and are engraved with flowers and scrolling acanthus. One of them ...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Sterling Silver Boxes
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Hammered Sterling Pill Box
Located in Richmond, VA
Hammered sterling pill box, stamped on the interior MEX 925.
Category
20th Century Sterling Silver Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Rare English Novelty "Paint Tin" Tea Caddy / Canister by Asprey & Co. - 1929
Located in Bath, GB
These novelty solid sterling silver boxes or Canisters are always highly sought-after in the form of a paint tin with a lift off lid.
This one is made by the creme de la creme of si...
Category
1920s British Vintage Sterling Silver Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Italian Modern Sterling Silver Box
Located in New York, NY
Modern sterling silver box. Cube; cover hinged with vertically ribbed rim. Interior has detachable frame for holding cigars and cigarettes. Post-1967 Italian marks including maker’s ...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Modern Sterling Silver Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Evening Bag with fire enamelled stripes in Art Deco style Salimbeni.
Located in Firenze, FI
Oval evening bag in 925/1000 sterling silver with fire enamelled stripes in Art Deco style. Measurement cm. 5.5 x 10 x 14.8, interior with ground mirror. Weight gr. 748. Created in 1...
Category
1970s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sterling Silver Boxes
Materials
Gold, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Victorian Burl Walnut Gentlemans Dressing Box
Located in Essex, MA
Rectangular hinged top opening to a box fitted with sterling capped jars and tools. One lid is damaged.
Category
1850s English Victorian Antique Sterling Silver Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
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 Sterling Silver Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
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 Sterling Silver Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold, Gold Plate
Table Box Enamel on Guilloche and Hand Painted Miniature Sterling Silver Salimb
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular box with inward corners in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated with beautiful miniature fire enameled and hand painted by the painter Beatrice Mellana depicting the painting "The Turkish slave" by Francesco Mazzola known as "il Parmigianino" (National Gallery of Parma). Dimensions cm. 8.5 x 11.5 x 3. Weight gr. 345. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1965 and manufactured in Florence in numerous specimens with various different subjects, in the headquarters of the Salimbeni company with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for withstanding numerous high-fire enameled firings at about 800° C.
Miniature is a very ancient technique which consists of painting works in small proportions.
It was born for the decoration of the first letter of the paragraph of the books.
Over the years, however, this technique is refined and enriched, then moving on to precious personal items.
Hand-painted miniatures can be done with multiple different techniques.
The most important that we use on our articles are of three kinds:
1) Fire enamel.
2) Water tempera on an ivory plate.
3) Painted on mother-of-pearl.
Fire enameled miniatures:
On a first layer of enamel generally white or very clear or even transparent suitably liquefied at a temperature of about 750 ° C, the chosen subject is painted using miniature colors which are as many colored crystals, ground and reduced to a very fine, almost impalpable powder washed and purified in distilled water with the addition of small quantities of deoxidizing acids which, diluted with essential oils (usually essential oil of solder), can be mixed to form a palette of colors.
With very fine sable hair brushes you draw the subject starting from the perimeter and then gradually adding various layers of color.
It is necessary to carry out various firings very often so that the colors harden and are not absorbed by the underlying glaze as, during the subsequent firings at 750 ° C, during liquefaction, it would spread irremediably. Hence the need to form the painting a little at a time, cooking it numerous times.
Therefore it is necessary to proceed with numerous retouching, often overlapping different colors that only the painter's experience knows. A beautiful miniature needs from 20 to over 50 firings and is finished when the painter deems he does not have to further intervene.
Some colors must have darker tones than others because then, by superimposing the transparent enamel placed at the end of the miniature, they fade. This transparent layer, called “fondant” in jargon, must be smoothed and polished like all other translucent enamel colors.
The miniatures with water tempera colors are painted on real ivory...
Category
1960s Italian Baroque Vintage Sterling Silver Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Sterling Silver and Wood Mirrored Jewelry Box by Marcello Giorgio
Located in San Diego, CA
Italian sterling silver and wood (high gloss - possibly cherry or walnut) mirrored jewelry box by Marcello Giorgio, circa 1990s. The box is in very go...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Sterling Silver Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Box In Sterling Silver And Hard Stones
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Sterling silver box on four ball feet, the lid set with nine hard stones
South American work
Length: 22.2 cm
Width: 16.1 cm
Height: 6.5 cm
800 silver hallmark
Weight: 1592 grams
Category
1970s South American Vintage Sterling Silver Boxes
Materials
Stone, Sterling Silver
Cigarette Case Romantic couple Art Nouveau Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular desk cigarette case with rounded corners in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated with fine hand-painted fire-enameled miniature depicting a romantic couple in Art Nouveau...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Sterling Silver Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Novelty Antique English Sterling Silver Jewelry Box, 1921
Located in Bath, GB
A wonderfully handsome and unusual jewelry box in the form of a bow fronted drawers on legs or a dressing table with two solid silver knobs to the fron...
Category
1920s English Art Deco Vintage Sterling Silver Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
