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Don Shoemaker Exotic Wood Inlaid Decorative Briefcase for Señal, circa 1970
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Exquisitely crafted slim decorative briefcase designed by Don Shoemaker for Señal of Mexico. Taking advantage of the expertise provided by Mexican artisans, shoemaker founded Señal...
Category
Mexican Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1960s Boxes
Materials
Jacaranda, Rosewood, Cocobolo
Gucci Vintage Tobacco Container Glass Box 1960s
By Gucci
Located in Munich, DE
Gucci Vintage tobacco container or candy box made in glass and stitched leather and the typical green red fabric stripes and made by Gucci in the 1960s...
Category
Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1960s Boxes
Materials
Leather, Fabric, Glass
Bengt Berglund Stonewar Jar Gustavsberg Sweden 1960s Relief Lid
Located in Basel, BS
Rare stoneware jar by Bengt Berglund, hand-crafted stoneware, made at Gustavsberg factory in Sweden in the 1960s.
Diameter: 9.5 cm
Height: 6.5 cm
Bengt Berglund was a student ...
Category
Swedish Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1960s Boxes
Materials
Stoneware
Exquisite Vintage Murano Glass Box by Pagnin & Bon Murano, Gold 24k, 1960s
Located in Brescia , Brescia
Indulge in the timeless elegance of this stunning Murano Glass Box, meticulously crafted by the renowned artisans Pagnin & Bon, Vetri Murano. Created in the 1960s, this exquisite pie...
Category
Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1960s Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate
Cigarette Case fired Enamel stripes in Art Deco style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Large rectangular table box with long rounded sides in 925/1000 sterling silver with fire-enamelled stripes in Art Deco style. With “lost” hinge, i.e. semi-invisible. Dimensions cm. 10.5 x 15 x 2.3. Weight gr. 548. Inspired by drawings by Louis Cartier from the early 1900s in Art Deco style and recreated for Cartier USA in the 1980s, manufactured in Florence in the Salimbeni company headquarters with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick and thick slabs reinforcements suitable for supporting numerous high-fire enamelled firings at about 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 catalogue...
Category
Italian Art Deco Vintage 1960s Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box Sterling Silver Striped Paillons in pure Gold and flowers Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Round table box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fired enamels, with “paillons” in pure gold on the upper circle, fine floral miniature fired enamelled by the painter Ren...
Category
Italian Napoleon III Vintage 1960s Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold
Rosewood, Silver and Enamel Box by Silversmith Ottaviani
By Ottaviani
Located in Brussels, BE
Rosewood box decorated with a sterling silver and enamel plaque by the Italian silversmith Ottaviani, circa 1960s. Signed with the maker’s signature and “925”.
Notes: Ottaviani (194...
Category
Italian Vintage 1960s Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Carved Wooden Box
Located in New York, NY
Studio artisan handcrafted, carved and polished wood wooden lidded box having a multitude of uses. Unique organic inspired shape. Warm natural graining and color variations seen in t...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1960s Boxes
Materials
Hardwood
Mid-Century Modern Egg Shaped Box Made by Lalique France, Boîte Angelots
By Lalique
Located in Casteren, Noord-Brabant
A beautiful crystal box, shaped like an egg, made by the French maker Lalique. Beautifully decorated with a decoration of angels, satin-finished crystal. The original name of this bo...
Category
French Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1960s Boxes
Materials
Crystal
1960s Teak File Box Tambour Door Sectioned Storage
Located in National City, CA
1960s Teak Tambour Door Storage Sectioned File Box
9.75 w x 10.63 d x 5.63 H
Center partition
Original vintage condition.
See all images.
Category
Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1960s Boxes
Materials
Teak
Mid-Century Modern Ice Bucket by Aldo Tura, circa 1960, Italy
By Aldo Tura
Located in Brussels, BE
Mid-Century Modern Ice Bucket by Aldo Tura, circa 1960, Italy.
Category
Italian Vintage 1960s Boxes
Materials
Wood
Maria Pergay, Metal Box and Agathe, France, 1970
By Maria Pergay
Located in Catonvielle, FR
Maria Pergay (1930), Large flat box in silver metal, France 1970. A red-veined Agathe stone is set on the lid, the interior is dressed in exotic wood. Excellence of the realization, ...
Category
French Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1960s Boxes
Materials
Metal
Vintage Wooden Box, Suitcase, 1960s
Located in Praha, CZ
In fair condition
new painted
only for decoration
have damages and scratches.
Category
Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1960s Boxes
Materials
Metal
Vintage Wooden Box, Suitcase, 1960s
Located in Praha, CZ
In fair condition
new painted
only for decoration
have damages and scratches.
Category
Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1960s Boxes
Materials
Metal
Los Castillo Turquoise Lapis Lazuli and Malachite Inlay Silver Plate Box
By Los Castillo
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An exquisite silver-plated hinged box adorned with Malachite, Lapis Lazuli, and Turquoise. Crafted by the renowned Los Castillos in Taxco, Mexico. The box features intricate figural ...
Category
Mexican Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1960s Boxes
Materials
Lapis Lazuli, Malachite, Silver Plate, Brass
Ottaviani Silver and Enamel Rosewood Box, Italy. 1960s
By Ottaviani
Located in Milan, IT
ottaviani silver and enamel rosewood box, Italy, 1960s.
Category
Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1960s Boxes
Materials
Silver, Enamel
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
Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1960s Boxes
Materials
Alabaster
Baroque Style Green Table Box with Miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Baroque style shaped table box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fine hand engraving interspersed with spaces with translucent fired enamels on guillochè and a beautiful h...
Category
Italian Baroque Vintage 1960s Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Pill Box Hand Painted Miniature Enamel Louis XVI Style Sterling Silver 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
Italian Louis XVI Vintage 1960s Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Glass Pot with a Lid Box or Bottle, Transparent Color, France, circa 1960
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
These Glass pot are in Glass. They have a glass lid too. The condition is Good It has been done in France, circa 1970.
Canbe used as bottle, boxes or Pot.
Category
French French Provincial Vintage 1960s Boxes
Materials
Art Glass
Decorative Wood Metal and Stone Box
Located in grand Lancy, CH
Decorative wood metal and stone box.
Category
European Vintage 1960s Boxes
Materials
Stone, Metal
Decorative Wood Metal and Stone Box
Located in grand Lancy, CH
Decorative wood metal and stone box.
Category
European Vintage 1960s Boxes
Materials
Stone, Metal
Vintage Italian Nickel Plated Metal & Plastic 1960s Small Box
Located in Varese, Lombardia
This metal & plastic box was produced in the 1960s. It is made from nickel plated brass frame and plastic faces.
The box shows the engraved logo of a well-known Italian company ( A...
Category
Italian Space Age Vintage 1960s Boxes
Materials
Brass, Nickel
Paul Evans Riveted Copper Clad Box
By Paul Evans
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A small copper clad box by Paul Evans
Original felt bottom with stamped signature
Original cork lined interior
very nice.
Category
American Vintage 1960s Boxes
Materials
Metal
Danish Midcentury Rosewood Cigarette Box by Torben Ørskov & Co
Located in Esbjerg, DK
High-quality desk cigarette or decorative box composed of solid rosewood linned with black formica to the base. Made by Torben Ørskov and co who made the box for Novo Nordisk (the la...
Category
Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1960s Boxes
Materials
Rosewood
Beate Kuhn Abstract Ceramic Bowl 1960s
By Beate Kuhn
Located in Munich, DE
Wonderful early work of the famous German ceramic Artist Beate Kuhn from the 1960s. The bowl is designed in red, white and black glazed ceramic with an abstract forms. Artist signatu...
Category
German Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1960s Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
1960s Snake Skin Covered Box
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Beautiful snake skin covered box lacquered in a natural bone color. Wonderful vintage condition.
Category
Modern Vintage 1960s Boxes
Materials
Wood
Large English Modern Sterling Silver Box
Located in New York, NY
Elizabeth II sterling silver box. Made by Padgett & Braham Ltd in London in 1963. Rectangular with straight sides. Cover hinged with gently curved top and tapering tab. Interior ceda...
Category
English Modern Vintage 1960s Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Mid-Century Glass Box by Val St Lambert
Located in Waddinxveen, ZH
Beautiful glass box. Purple box with transparent lid.
Category
Belgian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1960s Boxes
Materials
Glass
Hand Painted Entertaining Dispenser
Located in New York, NY
midcentury metal canister, hand painted with a Japanese style flowering tree motif.
Category
Japanese Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1960s Boxes
Materials
Metal
Snuffbox Fired Enamel Miniature on Lid Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rounded rectangular snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with hand-painted fire-enamelled miniature on the lid. Early 1900s English Art Nouveau style. Measurements cm. 5....
Category
Italian Art Nouveau Vintage 1960s Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Art Deco Style Sterling Silver Engine-Turned Footed Table Box with Hinged Lid
Located in New York, NY
Art Deco style, engine-turned, footed table box with hinged lid, Birmingham, England, year-hallmarked for 1960, Jay Richard Attenborough and Co., Ltd. - makers. Measures 6 1/2 inches...
Category
English Art Deco Vintage 1960s Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Set of 6 Pine Boxes by Jordi Vilanova, circa 1960
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Set of 6 pine boxes by Jordi Vilanova.
In original condition with minor wear consistent of age and use, preserving a beautiful patina.
Materials:
Wood
Dimensions:
L: D ...
Category
Spanish Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1960s Boxes
Materials
Wood
Piero Fornasetti, Occhi Box, Milan Italy, circa 1960
Located in Firenze, IT
Piero Fornasetti, “Occhi” midcentury Box
Wood and lacquered aluminium, Milan Italy, circa 1960
20 x 8 x 4.5 cm
Conditions: good consistent with age and use, signs of wear.
Category
Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1960s Boxes
Materials
Aluminum
Brazilian Modern Ice Bucket in Two Woods, 1960, Brazil
Located in New York, NY
Available today, this Mid-Century Modern Ice bucket made in wood in the sixties in Brazil is one of a kind!
This beautiful wooden ice bucket is made with two hardwood Imbuia and B...
Category
Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1960s Boxes
Materials
Hardwood
Two Decorative Boxes by Piero Fornasetti, Italy, 1960
Located in Brussels, BE
Two decorative boxes ( one for jewelry and the other for tobacco) from the studio Fornasetti in Milani. One box is labelled "Pistole" oro su rosso.
Italy around 1960.
Category
Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1960s Boxes
Materials
Mahogany, Lacquer
Vintage Wood and Malachite Resin Mayan Backgammon Set
Located in San Diego, CA
This oversize backgammon set is vintage and certainly very unique. Set is complete with game pieces and dice. The board is large when open and ready for play and has the Mayan Calend...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1960s Boxes
Materials
Resin, Wood
Jewelry box "Oiseau" by Mithé Espelt, circa 1960s
By Mithé Espelt
Located in QUINTIN, FR
"Bird" jewelry box by Mithé Espelt (1923-2020)
Lunel, France.
Magnificent and rare median round jewelry box by Mithé Espelt from 1960s, in stamped and enamelled clay. A bird, on ...
Category
French Vintage 1960s Boxes
Materials
Gold, Enamel
Table Box “The Great Odalisque” Fired Enamel on Guilloche Uillochè Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
table box in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated with edges with fire - enamelled stripes and upper frame with insertion of paillons in pure gold and beautRectangular iful fire-enam...
Category
Italian Empire Vintage 1960s Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
1960s Green Onyx Box, Made in Italy
Located in Milano, IT
Green onyx box. Made in Italy. This box is amazing and in excellent condition.
Dimension:
6,10 x 3,93 x 1,96 H inches
15,5 x 10 x 5 H cm.
Category
Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1960s Boxes
Materials
Onyx
Silver and Ebony William Spratling Dominoes Set
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
Amazing Wiliam Spratling Dominoes set made of ebony wood and silver inlay.
William Spratling (September 22, 1900–August 7, 1967) was an Americ...
Category
Mexican Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1960s Boxes
Materials
Silver
Barbara Delfosse French Incised Ceramic Bird Box, circa 1950-1960
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Very special incised box by Barbara Delfosse, box in two parts, with russet glaze.
Category
French Brutalist Vintage 1960s Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
Italian Cigar Case in Leather and Solid Signed Silver, Italy 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Beautiful four-seater cigar case in leather with a stunning 925 silver decorated accent. The cigar case was made in Florence around 1950s.
Category
Italian Vintage 1960s Boxes
Materials
Metal, Silver
Pill Box Fired Enamel with Hand Painted Horse Head Sterling Silver 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
Italian Art Nouveau Vintage 1960s Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Midcentury Jewelry Box, 1960s.
Located in Praha, CZ
Made in Czechoslovakia
Made of wood, fabric
Good original condition.
Category
Czech Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1960s Boxes
Materials
Fabric, Wood
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
Italian Art Deco Vintage 1960s Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
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
Italian Baroque Vintage 1960s Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Cigarette Case Fired Enamel on a Fine Hand-Engraved Mountain Landscape Sterling
Located in Firenze, FI
Rounded rectangular snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with beautiful fire enamelled miniature hand painted by the painter Simone Dainelli inspired by the paintings of Boris Vallejo, in fantastic contemporary style, with hand-engraved frame. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1967 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 high-fire 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
Italian Modern Vintage 1960s Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Prismatic Clear Lucite Box, Italy 1960s
By TMS
Located in Atlanta, GA
This stunning geometric Lucite decorative trinket-lidded box, made in the 1960s, features a modernist shape with an incredible carved prismatic desig...
Category
Italian Modern Vintage 1960s Boxes
Materials
Acrylic, Lucite, Plexiglass
Paul Evans Brutalist Patchwork Metal Cube Box
By Paul Evans
Located in Pasadena, CA
Patinated copper, steel and brass handmade cube box created by Paul Evans (1931-1987). Box measures 5" high by 4.5" by 4.5". In very good vintage 1960s condition showing some stainin...
Category
American Brutalist Vintage 1960s Boxes
Materials
Metal
Vintage Ormolu Jewelry Box Sugar Casket Cut Glass Crystal Gilt French Brass Trim
By Baccarat
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Good weight, has brass trim, and cast brass feet. Lid clicks in when completely shut.
Category
French Victorian Vintage 1960s Boxes
Materials
Brass
Decorative Cigar Box in Brass, Malachite and Wood, Mexico, 1960s
Located in Rome, IT
Beautiful hinged inlaid malachite and sodalite (or lapis lazuli) brass metal box with wood interior.
Two roosters grace the lid. The metalsmiths of Taxco, Mexico were known for p...
Category
Mexican Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1960s Boxes
Materials
Malachite, Metal, Brass
Egg on Tripod hand painted Sterling Silver Enamel on Guillochè Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Egg on tripod in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè, Russian Empire style inspired by Carl Fabergè eggs ...
Category
Italian Other Vintage 1960s Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Egg on Tripod Hand Painted Sterling Silver Enamel on Guillochè Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Egg on tripod in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè, Russian Empire style inspired by Carl Fabergè eggs ...
Category
Italian Other Vintage 1960s Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Porcelain Caket Box, Poland, 1960s
Located in Chorzów, PL
Porcelain box for jewelley - small damage seen at the picture!.
Made in Poland in the 1960s.
Dimensions: height 11 cm / width 16 cm / depth. 16 cm.
Category
Polish Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1960s Boxes
Materials
Porcelain
Spanish Mid-Century Wood and Multicolor Enamel Box by J. Capo Esmaltes, 1960s
Located in Atlanta, GA
Beautiful Spanish 1960s Mid-Century-Modern decorative lidded box designed by J. Capo Esmaltes. Rectangular shape with carved wood container base in a very organic flair. Enamel on co...
Category
Spanish Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1960s Boxes
Materials
Metal, Copper, Enamel
Bitossi for Rosenthal Netter Italian Ceramic Box and Ashtray, Catchall, a trio
Located in Atlanta, GA
This is a striking 1960s Mid-Century Modern Aldo Londi for Bitossi ceramic set of three pieces, a box, and ashtrays or catchalls. This set is imported and distributed in the United S...
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Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1960s Boxes
Materials
Ceramic, Faience
Snuff Box Monocrome Miniature Hand Painted Sterling Silver Enamel Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Round snuff box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fired enamel on the enameled edge with vertical stripes and fine monochrome miniature hand painted by the painter Renato Dainelli. Diameter cm. 6.2 cm high. 3.4. Weight gr. 222. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1967 and produced in Florence in the Salimbeni company headquarters with manual workmanship by skilled artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for withstanding numerous high-fire enamelled firings at approximately 750 < 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
Italian Baroque Vintage 1960s Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
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