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Art Deco Dunhill Eggshell and Enamel Cigarette Case
By Dunhill
Located in Red Lion, PA
Rare Art Deco Dunhill Silver-Plated & Lacquered Cigarette Case with Coquille d’Œuf Inlay – Circa 1930
This stunning Art Deco Dunhill cigarette case is a masterpiece of elegant desig...
Category
1920s British Art Deco Vintage Metal Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver, Enamel
Dutch silver pill box, 1869
Located in Delft, NL
Dutch silver pill box, 1869
A Dutch silver small cartouche-shaped pill box with engraved floral decor on the lid. The silver box has a hinged lid. The box is Dutch silver hallmarked...
Category
19th Century Dutch Antique Metal Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
Silver Plated and Enameled Bat Matchsafe
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Silver plated and enameled bat matchsafe, realistically cast and chased, with enameled wings, unmaked.
Category
20th Century English High Victorian Metal Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver Plate
Snuff Box Black enamel Art Deco style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Snuff Box Silver is in 925/1000 sterling.
Snuff Box Silver has black fired enamels on guilloché.
Snuff Box Silver has a lid with geometric design ...
Category
1970s Italian Art Deco Vintage Metal Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Chinese Bronze Opium Box, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
A petite bronze canister once used to store a smoker's personal supply of opium paste. A keepsake from a bygone era, the small box dates to the early 20th century and provided an air...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Qing Metal Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Antique German Silver and Erotica Enamel Cigarette Case
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique German 800 standard silver and erotica enamel cigarette case; an addition to our diverse range of continental silverware
This exceptional antique German 800 standard silver cigarette case has a plain rectangular form with rounded corners.
The anterior cover is embellished with an impressive enamel panel depicting a nude woman with long curling brown hair, grasping a stemmed rose and lounging against a sheer flowing fabric wrap.
The posterior cover and rounded sides of this cigarette case are plain and unembellished.
This case is fitted with a plain rounded thumbpiece and push fit catch, which when released reveals two hinged compartments.
This impressive example of antique silverware retains the original gilt interior.
The hallmarks struck to the interior of this antique German silver cigarette case include:
Maker's mark: LR (untraced)
National mark/reichsmark: Crescent moon and crown (Halbmond und Krone)
Silver quality/purity mark: 800 (800/1000)
Antique cigarette cases such as this are highly desirable.
Condition
This antique German silver cigarette case is an exceptional gauge of silver for its type, exceptional quality and in exceptional presentation condition in keeping with age.
The enamel is in perfect condition.
There are some signs of wear and discolouration to the orignal gilding, as to be expected in keeping with age and use.
The hallmarks struck to the interior of theis German cigarette case...
Category
Early 1900s German Antique Metal Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver, Enamel
CARL HIESS, Antique Silver & Gold Snuff Box with Blue Spinel, Austria, C.1880
Located in Chatham, ON
CARL HEISS - Antique - finest quality - silver and rose gold hinged snuff box with delicate diamond tooled surface - reverse painted French Bulldog on Rock Crystal Intaglio...
Category
Late 19th Century Austrian Victorian Antique Metal Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Rock Crystal, Sterling Silver
Mid-Late 18th Century English Cast Brass Tobacco Box
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Mid-late 18th century cast brass tobacco box, English. Eight sides with conforming cover with bell metal finial.
5 1/8" x 3 5/16" x 4.5" h.
Whitehall Antiques is a family business t...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Georgian Antique Metal Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Brass
1950s Aldo Tura Mid-Century Modern Goatskin and Brass Pipe Shaped Tobacco Box
By Aldo Tura
Located in Aci Castello, IT
A Goatskin and Brass tobacco box designed by Aldo Tura and manufactured by Macabo in the Fifties, it's in lovely vintage condition with brass in original patina. This exquisite tobac...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Metal Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Brass
Antique 19th Century German Three-Colour 18K Gold Snuff Box, Hanau c.1820
Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Antique early 19th Century German three-coloured 18k gold snuff box, of rectangular shape with elegantly rounded corners, featuring a lid that is intricately adorned with a chased fl...
Category
19th Century German Other Antique Metal Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Gold
Louis XV French Gold Snuffbox by Germain Chayé
Located in New Orleans, LA
This luxurious Louis XV-period gold snuffbox was crafted by master French goldsmith Germain Chayé. Formed of 18-karat yellow gold, this exceptional box d...
Category
18th Century French Louis XV Antique Metal Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Gold
Antique Victorian Sterling Silver Combination Sovereign or Vesta Case
By Thomas Hayes
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique Victorian English sterling silver combination sovereign or vesta case, an addition to our diverse box and case collection.
This exceptional antique Victorian English sterling silver combination vesta or sovereign case has a subtly domed rectangular, rounded form.
The anterior and posterior surfaces of this silver case are plain and unembellished.
This antique Victorian sterling silver sovereign case is fitted with a hinged hallmarked push fit cover allowing access to the hallmarked sprung sovereign holders...
Category
Early 1900s British Victorian Antique Metal Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Silver
Antique French Neoclassical 18K Gold Snuffbox
Located in New York, NY
French Neoclassical 18k gold snuffbox, ca 1800. Oval with straight sides; cover hinged. On cover top is garden with lush vegetation and flower baskets inhabited by an alert dog eyeing up the birds; on underside is vase. Both have leafing scroll surround. On sides same alternating with cornucopias...
Category
Early 19th Century French Neoclassical Antique Metal Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Gold
Antique Sterling Silver Book Vinaigrette
By John Tongue
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique Victorian English sterling silver vinaigrette modelled in the form of a book; an addition to our silver boxes collection.
This exceptional antique Victorian sterling silver vinaigrette has been realistically modelled in the form of a book.
The body of this antique silver vinaigrette...
Category
1840s British Victorian Antique Metal Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
A silver gilt and Imperial Yellow guilloche enamel singing bird box
Located in London, GB
A very fine silver gilt and Imperial Yellow guilloche enamel singing bird box with timepiece, by C. A. Marguerat, with a Nightingale on the lid. The Nightingale has appeared in many...
Category
1920s Swiss Vintage Metal Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver, Enamel
Sterling Silver Box Striped Fire Enameled Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Sterling silver Jewel box with Rectangular rounded corners gold plated with translucent fire enamel stripes on guilloche and hand engraved with late Russian Empire style ornament app...
Category
1980s Italian Empire Vintage Metal Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Late 18th Century Enamelled and Gilt Metal Circular Table Snuff Box
Located in Firenze, IT
SHIPPING POLICY:
No additional costs will be added to this order.
Shipping costs will be totally covered by the seller (customs duties included).
The cover set with an enamel panel...
Category
1790s English Georgian Antique Metal Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Enamel
RIPLEY & GOWAN 1920 Art Deco Guilloche Enamel Box In .925 Sterling Silver
Located in Miami, FL
Art deco case designed by Ripley & Gowan Company.
Beautiful early 20th century enamel box, created by the Ripley & Gowan Company circa 1920. This beautiful art deco box was carefull...
Category
1920s American Art Deco Vintage Metal Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Snuff Box "Soap" Shaped with Horse's Head Sterling Silver Enamel Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Oval rounded "soap" shaped snuff box in 925/1000 sterling silver with fired enamels above and below and hand-painted miniature of a horse's head, English "Art Nouveau" style, early 1900s. Measurements cm. 4.7 x 6.7 x 2. Weight gr. 96. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1980 and manufactured in Florence in the headquarters of the Salimbeni company with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for withstanding numerous enamelled firings at high heat at about 800° C.
Miniature is a very ancient technique which consists of painting works in small proportions.
It was born for the decoration of the first letter of the paragraph of the books.
Over the years, however, this technique is refined and enriched, then moving on to precious personal items.
Hand-painted miniatures can be done with multiple different techniques.
The most important that we use on our articles are of three kinds:
1) Fire enamel.
2) Water tempera on an ivory plate.
3) Painted on mother-of-pearl.
Fire enameled miniatures:
On a first layer of enamel generally white or very clear or even transparent suitably liquefied at a temperature of about 750 ° C, the chosen subject is painted using miniature colors which are as many colored crystals, ground and reduced to a very fine, almost impalpable powder washed and purified in distilled water with the addition of small quantities of deoxidizing acids which, diluted with essential oils (usually essential oil of solder), can be mixed to form a palette of colors.
With very fine sable hair brushes you draw the subject starting from the perimeter and then gradually adding various layers of color.
It is necessary to carry out various firings very often so that the colors harden and are not absorbed by the underlying glaze as, during the subsequent firings at 750 ° C, during liquefaction, it would spread irremediably. Hence the need to form the painting a little at a time, cooking it numerous times.
Therefore it is necessary to proceed with numerous retouching, often overlapping different colors that only the painter's experience knows. A beautiful miniature needs from 20 to over 50 firings and is finished when the painter deems he does not have to further intervene.
Some colors must have darker tones than others because then, by superimposing the transparent enamel placed at the end of the miniature, they fade. This transparent layer, called “fondant” in jargon, must be smoothed and polished like all other translucent enamel colors.
The miniatures with water tempera colors are painted on real ivory...
Category
1980s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Metal Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
VAN CLEEF & ARPELS 1935 Paris Art Deco Geometric Box In Solid .925 Sterling Silv
Located in Miami, FL
An art deco box designed by Van Cleef & Arpels.
This is an amazing and rare geometric box, created in Paris France by the jewelry house of Van Cleef & Arpels, back in the 1935. The ...
Category
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Metal Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
KARL NEUDOLT 1922 Art Deco Guilloche Blue Enamel Case Box In .900 Silver
Located in Miami, FL
An art deco guilloche enamel box designed by Karl Neudolt.
This is a fabulous rectangular antique case-box, created in Vienna Austria by the silversmith Karl Neudolt, back in the 19...
Category
1920s Austrian Art Deco Vintage Metal Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Gold, Silver, Enamel, Sterling Silver
Snuffbox two-tones enamel stripes Guilloche Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with two-tone translucent stripes fired enameled on guillochè and fine hand-engraved on all sides, French Empire Napoleon...
Category
1980s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Metal Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Art Deco Cigarette container in Brass made in the 1920's from Austria
Located in Vienna, Austria
A unique brass cigarette container from the 1920's hand made in Austria.
On top of the lid is a glass stone in turquoise colour. the lid fits tightly into the container.
From the bot...
Category
1920s Austrian Art Deco Vintage Metal Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Brass
Snuff Box White Fire Enamel with Miniature of Bird Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Round snuff box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fire enamel on guilloche and hand-painted miniature of stylized blue bird, late 19th-century Viennese Art Nou...
Category
1970s Italian Art Deco Vintage Metal Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Antique Silver Enameled Ring Container Box from Kabylie, Algeria
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Antique Berber Kabyle box container to hold rings and pins small jewelry or khol.
Made of silver wash with filigree enamel in pagoda shape.
Enamel and rhinestone made of silver tone ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Algerian Moorish Metal Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Metal
Petite Oval Opium Box, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
A petite 19th-century canister once used to store a smoker's personal supply of opium paste. Perfecting line and form, the small box has a balanced, oval form shaped of white brass (...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Minimalist Metal Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Brass, Copper
19th Century Sterling Silver Snuffbox Birmingham 1848 by Rolason Bros
Located in Dallas, TX
Lovely little sterling silver snuffbox, fully hallmarked with gold plated interior.
Lovely chasing on lid and sides, classic high Victorian repousse w...
Category
Mid-19th Century English High Victorian Antique Metal Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
18th Century South Staffordshire Writing Box
Located in Basildon, GB
An 18th Century South Staffordshire Writing Box, decorated with serpentine front, pink ground reserved with a riverscape panel, the interior retaining 3 glass jarlets with metal moun...
Category
18th Century English Rococo Antique Metal Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Enamel
A Mennecy Silver Mounted Soft Paste Porcelain Snuff Box of a Dromedary
Located in Spencertown, NY
The dromedary in overall good condition with scattered light black pitting overall, wear to floral relief decoration on lid where it sits, possible loss/repairs to ears.
Provenance
T...
Category
Mid-18th Century French Rococo Antique Metal Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
Brass Tobacco Jar with Hand Painted Blue Delft Lid
Located in Esbjerg, DK
Small container for cigarettes or tobacco. Its made from Solid patinated brass and its screw-of lid is decorated with a small hand-painted porcelain pl...
Category
1950s European Mid-Century Modern Vintage Metal Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Brass
Sterling Silver Victor Emanuel Pill Box
Located in New York, NY
Sterling silver Victor Emanuel pill box. Antique blue enameled silver pill box with the crowned initials of King Victor Emanuel and House of Savoy rope emblem, stamped Masenza Rome. ...
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Metal Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
English silver horse racing snuff box, Birmingham 1829
Located in Delft, NL
English silver horse racing snuff box, Birmingham 1829
A silver snuff box with a scene from horse racing on top of the hinged lidded box. On the sides a guilocche pattern and inside...
Category
Early 19th Century English Antique Metal Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
St. Cloud Style Hen and Chicken Snuff Box by Samson
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
St. Cloud style hen and chicken snuff box, by Samson. Large size, beautifully decorated.
Category
Early 20th Century French Metal Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Chinese Copper Coin Opium Box, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
A petite 19th century canister once used to store a smoker's personal supply of opium paste. A keepsake from a bygone era, the small box is formed of antique coins and copper and pro...
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Metal Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Copper
19th C Victorian Solid Silver & Antelope Horn Gimble Cigar Lighter, c.1895
Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Antique late-19th century Victorian solid silver & horn mounted table "gimble" cigar lighter. The large Blackbuck antelope horn is mounted with a silver orb-shaped burner on gimble w...
Category
19th Century British Victorian Antique Metal Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Mid Century 5" Hammered Copper Tin Lined Humidor by Revere Rome N.Y
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Art Deco era humidor features a hand-hammered copper exterior, giving it a distinctive appearance with a textured surface.
Inside. It includes a pull air-tight lid and is signed Reve...
Category
1950s American Vintage Metal Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Copper
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
1960s Italian Baroque Vintage Metal Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Japanese Gilt Takamaki-E Tabako-Bon, C. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
This box with many drawers is a Japanese tabako-bon, or 'tobacco tray,' used to store tobacco and smoking accessories. Believed to have evolved from the t...
Category
Mid-19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Metal Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Brass
Snuff Box White with noble coat of arms Baroque style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Snuff Box noble coat of arms is in 925/1000 sterling silver.
Snuff Box noble coat of arms has White fired enamels on guilloché and handpainted miniature of arabesques with noble coat...
Category
1990s Italian Baroque Metal Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Snuff Box Parrotlets on Flowering Branches. Art Nouveau Style Sterling Silver En
Located in Firenze, FI
Square snuff box with rounded sides in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè and hand painted miniature parrotlets on flowering branches. Ar...
Category
1990s Italian Mid-Century Modern Metal Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Antique French 20k Gold Snuff Box, Circa 1870
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique French 20 karat tri-coloured gold snuff box; an addition to our 19th century collection.
This exceptional antique French 20k yellow gold snuff box has an oval shaped form.
The body of this antique box is embellished with panels of engine turned and tooled decoration, incorporating circular and floral motifs.
Each incurved cornered panel is encompassed with applied simplified foliate festoon and column style borders, accented with tri-colored gold highlights.
This impressive antique 20ct gold box...
Category
1870s French Antique Metal Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Gold
Victorian Sterling Silver and Enamel Vesta Case
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 collectab...
Category
1890s British Victorian Antique Metal Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Amsterdam School Copper Tobacco Box with Carnelian Accent, Early 20th Century
By Cris Agterberg
Located in AMSTERDAM, NL
This copper tobacco box, crafted in the style of the Amsterdam School, is a distinctive example of functional art from the early 20th century. The hammered copper finish, now enhance...
Category
Early 20th Century Dutch Arts and Crafts Metal Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Carnelian, Copper
A Chantilly Silver Mounted Snuff Box of a Sleeping Monk, Mid 18th Century
By Chantilly
Located in Spencertown, NY
The soft paste porcelain reclining monk in blue robe and striped hood, the cover scene of kakiemon tree trunk and interior cover with two butterflies. A tight closure and French disc...
Category
18th Century French Rococo Antique Metal Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
Georgian Louis XVI 18th Century Dutch Silver Snuff Box Scent Box 1782
Located in Wommelgem, VAN
18th century Dutch silver scent box
On top a Depiction of Vice Admiral Zoutman
The victor of the Dogger Bank Battle
Made by Dirk Hoep 178...
Category
18th Century Dutch Georgian Antique Metal Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Antique South Staffordshire or Battersea Enamel Table Snuff Box, 18th Century
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine antique English South Staffordshire or Battersea enamel table snuff box.
With a pink ground and white enamel latticework decoration thro...
Category
18th Century English George III Antique Metal Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Enamel
Nose Box
Located in Hanover, MA
Dali-esque gilt metal snuff box bejeweled with light blue rhinestones and shaped like a surrealist human nose and lips . Magnetic closure. Yellow enameled interior.
Amusing containe...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Post-Modern Metal Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Multi-gemstone, Metal
Antique French Brass Napoleonic "Le Grand" Snuff Box
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Antique French Brass Napoleonic "Le Grand" Snuff Box
Step back into the glorious era of the French empire with this stunning Antique French brass Napoleonic "Le Grand" snuff box. A ...
Category
Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Metal Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Brass
Sterling Silver and Bone Box
Located in New York, NY
Sterling silver and bone box. Antique Continental dark bone/horn fitted case with sterling silver mounts and central oval for monogram; originally a t...
Category
Mid-19th Century European Antique Metal Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Snuffbox Vessel Miniature Hand-Painted Sterling Silver Enamel Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Shaped snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fired enamel inserted in a fine hand engraving and with round miniature diameter cm. 3.3 hand painted always with fire enamels depicting a sailing ship. Early 19th century Viennese Baroque style. Fine hand engraving on all sides and bottom. Measurements cm. 7.5 x 7.5 x 2. Weight gr. 151. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1976 on inspiration of ancient original artifacts and manufactured in Florence at the Salimbeni company headquarters in several specimens, also with different colors and miniatures, with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick slabs and large reinforcements suitable for supporting 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
1970s Italian Baroque Vintage Metal Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Russian Silver, Gold And Niello Topographical Snuff Box
Located in New Orleans, LA
This silver, gold and niello inlaid topographical snuffbox is a masterpiece of Russian silver. Almost owned by a wealthy 19th-century tradesman, this extraordinary creation shares a ...
Category
19th Century Russian Other Antique Metal Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Gold, Silver
Snuff Box Octagonal English Queen Anne style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Octagonal snuff box in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated with borders in the English Queen Anne style and sides with translucent fired enamels on ...
Category
1980s Italian Queen Anne Vintage Metal Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Chinese Export Silver Cigar Box by Hung Chong & Co.
Located in Savannah, GA
Sterling silver cigar box marked Hung Chong (or Cheong) & Co., silversmiths & retailers, Canton, China, circa 1860-1930. Classic intertwined ...
Category
1920s Chinese Chinese Export Vintage Metal Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Silver and Shibayama tobacco box with combination vesta case lid
Located in London, GB
A very fine and rare silver shibayama tobacco and combination vesta case lid and strikers on pot. Decorated with individual hand crafted insects in semi precious stones. The Shiba...
Category
1910s English Vintage Metal Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
19th Century French 18K Gold Royal Presentation Snuff Box, c.1850
By Louis-François Tronquoy 1
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...
Category
19th Century French Antique Metal Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Gold
Victorian sterling silver snuff box made in Birmingham in 1843
Located in London, London
Hallmarked in Birmingham in 1843 by Francis Clark, this attractive, Victorian, Antique Sterling Silver Snuff Box, features an ornate border, engine turned decoration and a gilt inter...
Category
1840s English Victorian Antique Metal Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Early 19th Century Gold and Enamel Box, Swiss Work
Located in Paris, FR
Rectangular box with three tones of gold and royal blue enamel. The hinged lid is embellished with a multicolored gold medallion in relief featuring a bouquet of roses and tulips, se...
Category
Early 19th Century Swiss Empire Antique Metal Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Gold
Egyptian Revival Compact/Cigarette Case, Sterling Silver & Enamel, Art Deco
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This rare -- perhaps unique -- enameled cigarette case or compact features a cartouche with a kneeling Egyptian figure surrounded by symbols and hieroglyphics on its lid, all in tone...
Category
1920s German Art Deco Vintage Metal Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
