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Place of Origin: Italian
Vintage Gucci Makeup Box Lipstick Vault Beveled Mirror
By Gucci
Located in Chula Vista, CA
Gucci Lipstick Vault Box Beveled mirror
19.5 w x 9.5 d x 2.5 h
Box only. Worn used preowned vintage condition
Refer to images
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Italian Boxes
Materials
Mirror, Paper
18th Century Italian Florentine Giltwood Engraved Box
Located in Milano, MI
Italian antique gilded Florentine box, octagonal shape realized in white walnut, engraved on each side and the top and with bulin scrolling decor...
Category
Late 18th Century Neoclassical Antique Italian Boxes
Materials
Walnut
Italian Brown Leather Red Velvet Lined Jewelry Box
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Brown Oval Leather Lined Decorative Jewelry Box, 1950-60's Italy
Vintage decorative box in brown leather with gold embossed decoration. This Mid-Century box was handcrafted in Italy...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Italian Boxes
Materials
Leather, Velvet
Bath England Bathroom Boxes Set #1
By Creart
Located in Milan, IT
A glorious showcase of craftsmanship, this magnificent bathroom set is comprised of a small basket and box entirely handmade of brass preciously finished with 24k galvanized gold. Br...
Category
2010s Italian Boxes
Materials
Gold, Brass
Italian Embossed Bronzed Metal Rectangular Trinket/ Jewelry Music Box
Located in Guaynabo, PR
This is an Italian bronzed metal square hinged lidded music box. It depicts a lid decorated in the center with a 19th century hand painted portrait of Madame Recamier adorned with a ...
Category
Early 20th Century Belle Époque Italian Boxes
Materials
Metal
Gucci Vintage Leather Box Tom Ford, 1990s
By Tom Ford, Gucci
Located in Munich, DE
Gucci vintage black leather jewellery box with aluminium brushed frame and stitched leather rims designed by Tom Ford. Signed with Gucci. Ver...
Category
1990s Mid-Century Modern Italian Boxes
Materials
Aluminum
Italian Mid Century Modern Jatoba and Silver Plated Cigarette Box
By Ottaviani
Located in Weesp, NL
Introducing the epitome of sophistication: the Italian Mid Century Modern Jatoba Wood and Floral Decorated Silver Plated Cigarette Box by Ottaviani. Crafted with utmost precision and...
Category
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Boxes
Materials
Silver Plate
Snuff Box Round Guilloche Enamel Box Gold Paillons Stars of Sky Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Round table snuffbox 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 a starry sky effect. With turquoise enamel circle with hand-engraved motif. Late 1600s Baroque style. Diameter cm. 7.7 cm high. 2.3. Weight gr. 226. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1967 and produced in Florence in several specimens in the Salimbeni company headquarters with manual workmanship by skilled artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for withstanding numerous enamelled firings at high heat at about 800° C -
The Paillons processing, now almost disappeared, and a rare technique recognized as a craft. Several layers of enamel are applied to the object, baked one by one in the oven.
Afterwards, the designs cut out of thin gold leaves, the paillons foils, are applied one by one by hand to form the desired figure. These sheets are then in turn coated...
Category
1960s Baroque Vintage Italian Boxes
Materials
Gold, Enamel, Sterling Silver
Small Vintage Red Leather Jewelry Box Fleur-De-Lis, Italy
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Charming Mid-Century Italian hand crafted box in red leather and gold embossed with fleur-de-lis decoration. This box can be used to store your favorite pieces of jewelry as well a s...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Italian Boxes
Materials
Gold Leaf
Romeo Rega Vintage Brass Large Pyramid Step Box Sculpture Desk Accessory Italian
By Romeo Rega
Located in North Miami, FL
This amazing and very special heavy large vintage brass stepped pyramid box and or sculpture designed by Romeo Rega is Italian and now rare. This is from the 70s. It is unmarked but ...
Category
1970s Modern Vintage Italian Boxes
Materials
Brass
Italian Porcelain Hand Painted Trinket or Jewelry Box, Circa 1970
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
Ceramic box, in exellent condition, never used. It has been made in Italy circa 1970. Birds and plants pattern decoraton.
Category
20th Century Colonial Revival Italian Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
Vintage Richard Ginori Porcelain Jewelry Box
By Richard Ginori
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful vintage Italian porcelain jewelry box with flower rose detail, by designer Richard Ginori, circa mid-20th century, Italy. Box has a beautiful, detailed gold rose flower a...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Boxes
Materials
Porcelain
Italian Mid-Century Modern Silver Box
By Bartolini Bartolozzi
Located in New York, NY
Italian Mid-Century Modern 800 silver box. Rectangular with straight sides and thumb rest. Cover flat and hinged with tab. Allover engine-turned curvili...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Italian Boxes
Materials
Silver
Round Tobacco Box Art Decò Italian Design 1930 Solid Brass
Located in Palermo, Sicily
Round Tobacco Box Art Deco Italian Design 1930 Solid Brass
Category
1930s Art Deco Vintage Italian Boxes
Materials
Brass
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 Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Supersport Double Ashtray
By Maccarrone
Located in Milan, IT
From the Yacht collection, our Dolcevita double Ashtray is the perfect detail for any luxurious enviroment. The ashtray is total high gloss varnished ...
Category
2010s Modern Italian Boxes
Materials
Gold
1950s Rare Piero Fornasetti Smocking Box
By Fornasetti
Located in Water Mill, NY
Midcentury rare size P.Fornasetti smocking box.
Category
1950s Vintage Italian Boxes
Materials
Metal
Table Box blue and gold with handpainted miniature fire-enameled on guilloche Sa
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Octagonal table box in 800/1000 silver gold plated with translucent enamel on guilloché and beautiful enamel miniature hand painted by the painter Renato Dainelli in early 1900s Engl...
Category
1980s Empire Vintage Italian Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Modernist Italian 800 Silver Desk/Jewellery Box c.1960
Located in Bath, GB
A great looking box, Italian in origin made from 800 silver wrapped around a wooden interior.
Both the base and lid are hallmarked "800" together with an additional mark "833 F1"....
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Italian Boxes
Materials
Silver
Small Victorian Gilt Metal Dresser or Ring Box with a Pietra Dura Plaque
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A superb small gilt Victorian dresser box with a Pietra Dura plaque to the top.
It retains a (torn) note with a dedication dated 1876.
Leng...
Category
Late 19th Century Belle Époque Antique Italian Boxes
Materials
Stone, Metal
Dunhill Ceramic Container - Made in Italy
Located in Fairfield, CA
A vintage ceramic lidded container by Dunhill. Made in Italy. Square shape with a beautiful brown, pink, and white marble pattern to the glaze. Rubber gasket along the interior rim o...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
Pill Box Sterling Silver with Sailboat Hand-Painted with Fired Enamel
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Portapillole rotondo in argento sterling 925/1000 placcato oro.
Portapillole in Argento Sterling con miniatura di barca a vela smaltata e dipinta a mano. Stile inglese primi del XX ...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Italian Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
1930s by Emma Bonazzi and Fortunato Depero Futurist Art Deco Box
By Fortunato Depero, Emma Bonazzi
Located in Brescia, IT
Rare futurist box
Bakelite and silver metal.
Literature on request
Category
1930s Futurist Vintage Italian Boxes
Materials
Metal
Bitossi Box, Ceramic, Geometric, Red, Yellow, White, Orange, Signed
By Bitossi, Aldo Londi
Located in New York, NY
Bitossi box, ceramic, geometric, red, yellow, white and orange, signed. A small scale box from Aldo Londi's Líneas Rotas (Broken Lines) series. The lid is decorated with a puzzle pie...
Category
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
Mid Century White Murano Glass Box
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Exceptional Mid Century White Murano Glass Box in very good condition.
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Boxes
Materials
Murano Glass
18th Century Italian Painted and Parcel Gilt Reliquary Box
Located in Houston, TX
18th century Italian painted and parcel gilt reliquary box.
This lovely large Italian Baroque box is made of painted and parcel gilt wood surrounded by ...
Category
18th Century Baroque Antique Italian Boxes
Materials
Glass, Wood
Fornasetti Playing Cards Box
By Fornasetti
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Vintage poker playing cards box in walnut wood that holds two packs of cards / designed by Piero Fornasetti, made in Italy in the 1970s
Length: 7 inches ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Italian Boxes
Materials
Wood
Midcentury Glass and Vienna Straw Wicker Italian Box 1970s Christian Dior Style
By Christian Dior
Located in Roma, IT
Beautiful Mid-Century decorative round box made in clear crystal glass with a stylish lid in brass and Vienna straw.
This elegant box was designed in Italy in the 70s following the...
Category
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Boxes
Materials
Wicker, Straw, Lucite
Pocket Pill Box like Egg sea color Enamel Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Pocket pill box shaped like a small egg.
Pocket pill box like egg hinged opening.
Pocket pill box like egg in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated 24ca...
Category
1960s Empire Vintage Italian Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Box shaped enamel hand painted, engraved and miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco 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 Baroque Vintage Italian Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Italian Wood Carved Casket Box
Located in Bradenton, FL
19th century Italian wooden carved casket box in the baroque style. Features gothic faces and lions paw feet. Can be used as a jewelry or trinket box or ...
Category
19th Century Baroque Antique Italian Boxes
Materials
Wood
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 Boxes
Materials
Ebony
20th Century Italian Sterling Silver Ceased Table Box
By Argenterie Lala
Located in VALENZA, IT
Oblong sterling silver hinged table box.
The body of the box is smooth. The lid is smooth with embossed bellflowers
The lid is embossed and chiseled with bellflowers-shaped motifs
Th...
Category
1980s Other Vintage Italian Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Sibilla Humidor in Glossy Ebony and Corno Italiano, Mod. 2458
By Arcahorn Srl.
Located in Recanati, Macerata
Tailored for discerning smoking enthusiasts, the Sibilla cigar humidor blends exquisite materials with sophisticated design. Crafted with the utmost care, the humidor features an ext...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Boxes
Materials
Wood
Solo Lui Black Armoire with 18 Watch Winders
By Agresti
Located in New York, NY
Armored armoire in polished ebony, brass accessories in Ruthenium. Safe with biometric opening device, drawers and trays lined for watches and jewelry. Available with 18 Swiss made watch...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Italian Boxes
Materials
Ebony
Italian Murano Faceted Glass & Brass Hinged Box / Jewelry Box
Located in North Miami, FL
This beautiful hinged Murano glass box in pristine clear faceted glass and brass trim and original decorative key and tassel. It is a wonderful desk or...
Category
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Metal
Vintage Italian Raymor Ceramic Lidded Flower Box Turquoise and White
By Raymor
Located in North Miami, FL
This lovely vintage Italian hallmarked lidded ceramic flower box by Raymor is from the 60's. The colors are turquoise, white with outlines of gray charcoal. The hallmarks read 03529 ...
Category
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
Wooden casket with polychrome and gilded "pastiglia" relief decor, Italy 15th c.
Located in Gorssel, GE
A wooden box with polychrome and gilded "pastiglia" relief decor.
Italy, XV century, decorated with scenes from the life of a martyr.
Length: 15.5 x 10.4 x 9 cm.
Provenance: Dutch private collection
Overall in good condition for its age, some small defects to the decor and possibly some retouching to the polychromy, ball feet presumably of later date.
Pastiglia [paˈstiʎʎa], an Italian term meaning "pastework", is low relief decoration, normally modelled in gesso or white lead, applied to build up a surface that may then be gilded or painted, or left plain. The technique was used in a variety of ways in Italy during the Renaissance.
White lead pastiglia was a north Italian speciality, produced between about 1450 and 1550. Six workshops were identified by Patrick M. De Winter, although their location remains uncertain; the Workshop of the Love and Moral Themes, whose products seem the most numerous, was possibly at Ferrara, where the painter Cosimo Tura began his career gilding caskets. Venice is also thought to have produced them. Other workshops identified by De Winter include the "Workshop of the main Berlin casket" and "Workshop of the Cleveland Casket".
The subjects were typically classical, drawn from both mythology and Ancient Roman history (especially the early period covered by Livy), but biblical ones are also found. Compositions can often be shown to be borrowed from another medium, such as prints or bronze plaquettes...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Renaissance Antique Italian Boxes
Materials
Gesso, Wood
Elegant Brown Marble Box from Italy, with Brass Hinges.
Located in Stockholm, SE
This elegant little box in brown marble, with brass details and beautifully crafted hinges, is the perfect blend of form and function. Made in Italy, it exudes a timeless charm that ...
Category
1960s Hollywood Regency Vintage Italian Boxes
Materials
Marble, Brass
Low Large Square Box in Solid Italian 1970s Brass with Lid
Located in Palermo, Sicily
Low large square box in solid Italian 1970s brass with lid.
Category
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Boxes
Materials
Brass
Armored Jewel Safe Polished Carbon Fiber Front and 3 Watch Winders
By Agresti
Located in New York, NY
Armored jewelry safe covered in polished carbon front. Drawers in white leather, , inside is lined for jewelry and watches with pull out necklace holder...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Italian Boxes
Materials
Steel
18th Century Italian Box
Located in Atlanta, GA
This stunning 18th-century Italian box is a fine example of Baroque artistry, embodying the period's characteristic grandeur and attention to detail. Crafted from rich walnut, the bo...
Category
18th Century Baroque Antique Italian Boxes
Materials
Walnut
Wood Box Bowl by Aldo Tura for Macabo Italy 1950s Art Deco
By Aldo Tura, Macabo
Located in Rome, IT
Decorative wooden box with metal handle in the shape of acorns by the Italian designer Aldo Tura for Macabo Cusano Milanino. Made in Italy, circa 1950.
On the bottom the original s...
Category
1950s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Boxes
Materials
Metal
Ceramic Box by Aldo Londi Bitossi, Italy, C 1960, Orange with Gold Decoration
By Bitossi
Located in New York, NY
Decorative ceramic box by Aldo Londi Bitossi, Italy, circa 1960. Signed at the bottom, 79/11, Italy.
Organic designs on the lid with gold decorations.
Category
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
Rectangular Art Deco Walnut and Walnut-Root Box, Italy
Located in Bresso, Lombardy
Made in Italy, 1930s - 1940s.
Made in walnut and walnut-root.
It is a vintage piece, but it's been recently restored, therefore it can be considered as in excellent condition and re...
Category
1940s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Boxes
Materials
Walnut
Honey Onyx Box 4" Rectangular
Located in Somis, CA
This exquisite 1.2-lb creation is crafted from the finest rare honey calcite onyx sourced from Pakistan. Hand made by a master artisan in Italy, showcasing beautiful patterns and ban...
Category
2010s Italian Boxes
Materials
Onyx
Hand Blown Murano Glass Box in Onyx Black w/ 24Karat Gold Flecks
Located in New York, NY
This elegant and impressive modernist decorative box was realized in Murano, Italy- the island off the coast of Venice renowned for centuries for its superlative glass production. It...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Italian Boxes
Materials
Murano Glass
Malachite Box Turkey Tail Hexagonal
Located in Somis, CA
This extraordinary fine-grade malachite hexagonal box showcases the coveted turkey tail pattern, a rare and highly prized formation within the stone. Malachite, renowned for its capt...
Category
20th Century Italian Boxes
Materials
Malachite
Squared Box in Green Goatskin and Brass Attributed to Aldo Tura, Italy, 1960s
By Aldo Tura
Located in Rome, IT
Squared box in green goatskin with brass details attributed to the Italian designer Aldo Tura.
Made in Italy in the 1960s.
Category
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Boxes
Materials
Metal, Brass
A 1930s Art Deco Futurist Italian Movement Ceramic Box
By Galvani 2
Located in Aci Castello, IT
The 1930s Art Deco Futurist Italian Movement Ceramic Box is a beautifully crafted, decorative, and functional object. Its blend of geometric design, symbolic figurine, and quality ma...
Category
Mid-20th Century Art Deco Italian Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
Small Italian Oval Vintage Leather Jewelry Box
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Charming Mid-Century Italian hand crafted box. Green interior fabric lined. This box can be used to store your favorite pieces of jewelry as well a stand alone piece on a coffee tabl...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Italian Boxes
Materials
Gold Leaf
Midcentury Round Box in Brass, Lucite & Rattan Christian Dior Style, Italy 1970s
By Christian Dior
Located in Rome, IT
Midcentury beautiful round decorative box in brass, lucite and rattan in the style of Christian Dior Home.
Made in Italy in the 1970s.
Perfect desk object or gift idea.
Category
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Boxes
Materials
Metal, Brass
Large Honey Calcite Onyx Box 6" Rectangular
Located in Somis, CA
This exquisite 2-lb creation is crafted from the finest rare honey calcite onyx sourced from Pakistan. Hand made by a master artisan in Italy, showcasing beautiful patterns and bands...
Category
2010s Italian Boxes
Materials
Onyx
Piero Fornasetti Mahogany Painted Wood Box 1950
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Paris, IDF
Beautiful Piero Fornasetti decorative box made in Italy in the 1950s. This box is carved from mahogany wood, with painted varnished wood on both sides of the top, and brass side hing...
Category
1950s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Boxes
Materials
Brass
Rare Signed Gabriella Crespi Gold Cigarette / Pill Box Desk, 1970s, Italy
By Gabriella Crespi
Located in Vis, NL
Rare signed Gabriella Crespi gold brass cigarette, pill box for a stylish desk.
1970s, made in Italy.
This piece is new, unused, in excellent, nearly new condition.
Comes ...
Category
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Boxes
Materials
Brass
Rectangular brass kleenex box
Located in Firenze, FI
Kleenex brass rectangular box with captivating artistic lion feet. Crafted with meticulous attention to detail, this elegant accessory seamlessly blends functionality with aesthetics...
Category
2010s Italian Boxes
Materials
Brass
Murano Orange Gold Fleck Bubbles Pear Top Italian Art Glass Container Vanity Jar
By Barovier&Toso, Alfredo Barbini
Located in Kissimmee, FL
Beautiful vintage Murano hand blown rich persimmon orange over white, controlled bubbles and gold flecks Italian art glass candy container or vanity jewelry box. The piece has a beau...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Italian Boxes
Materials
Gold Leaf
Fratelli Toso, Murano Glass Millefiori Lidded Box, Italy, Early 20th Century
By Fratelli Toso
Located in Chatham, ON
FRATELLI TOSO - Rare antique Murano art glass Millefiori lidded box - striking red, white and blue color combination - frosted / satin finish ...
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Boxes
Materials
Murano Glass
