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Antique French 18-Karat Gold and Hand Painted Enamel Snuff Box, circa 1770

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    Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
    Antique mid 19th century French 18k gold snuff box, of lobed design with chased scroll and foliate decoration, the hinged cover inset with a circula...
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  • 20th Century Russian 14-Karat Gold and Enamel Pill Box, Moscow, circa 1900
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  • 19th Century Victorian Solid Silver & Enamel Cigar Box, Sampson Mordan, c.1892
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  • 19th Century Thai Solid Silver & Enamel Box, Xiang He, Bangkok, c.1880
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    Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
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  • 20th Century British Backgammon & Draughts Game Box, circa 1950
    Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
    Mid-20th century British made backgammon and draughts game box. A superb gift and a must have item during the festive holidays, that will make a real conversation piece and a superb ...
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  • Antique French 20k Gold Snuff Box, Circa 1870
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  • Snuff Box Monocrome Miniature Hand Painted Sterling Silver Enamel Salimbeni
    By Salimbeni, Franco 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...
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