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Place of Origin: European
Pair of Antique Tobacco Keepers, English Copper, Brass, Jars, Harrods, Victorian
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is a pair of antique tobacco keepers. An English, copper and brass lidded jar by Harrods, dating to the late Victorian period, circa 1880.
Beau...
Category
Late 19th Century Late Victorian Antique European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Brass, Copper
Castle Top Vinaigrette, Warwick Castle, Birmingham, 1847, Nathaniel Mills
By Nathaniel Mills
Located in London, GB
Nathaniel Mills. A very rare Castle Top Vinaigrette depicting a scarce view of Warwick Castle from the River Avon. Made in Birmingham in 1847 by Nathaniel M...
Category
1840s Victorian Antique European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Castle Top Vinaigrette Made in Birmingham in 1844 by John Tongue
By John Tongue
Located in London, GB
Windsor Castle. An extremely rare Castle Top Vinaigrette made in Birmingham in 1844 by John Tongue.
This very rare Vinaigrette is broad rectangular in form and both the sides and ...
Category
1840s Victorian Antique European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Antique Sterling Silver and Cranberry Glass Smoking Compendium Carriage
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive, rare antique Victorian English sterling silver and cranberry glass smoking compendium carriage; an addition to our ornamental silverware collection
This exceptional, fine and impressive, unusual antique Victorian sterling silver smoking compendium...
Category
1880s Victorian Antique European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Glass
Vintage Parchment Pillbox
Located in Milano, IT
Beautiful parchment pill box designed in the 1950s of fine Italian manufacture.
The pill box is small with a rectangular shape, made entirely of light green parchment on the outside...
Category
1950s Mid-Century Modern Vintage European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Brass
England 1810 Georgian Battersea Enamel Neoclassical Decorated Box
Located in Miami, FL
Early 19th century Georgian Battersea enamel box.
A beautiful antique English Battersea Bilston table snuff box, created in the district of Ba...
Category
1810s George IV Antique European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Bronze, Enamel
Antique Sterling Silver Double Snuff & Patch Box with Engine Turned Decoration
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This antique double compartment snuff box is hallmarked by an unknown maker, and originated from England, dating to approximately 1900 and done in a period Edwardian style. The box i...
Category
Early 20th Century Edwardian European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Snuff Box Octagonal English Queen Anne style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco 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 Queen Anne Vintage European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
European Japonesque Silver Spice Box in Form of Articulated Fish
Located in New York, NY
European silver fish-form spice box, 19th century. Hinged head and lower mouth, and faceted red eyes. Articulated and scalloped wide body, and hinged fins and tail. Loose-mounted rin...
Category
19th Century Japonisme Antique European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
20th Century French Hand Painted Ceramic Ashtray by Longwy Stamped and Numbered
Located in Sofia, BG
Hand painted oval ceramic ashtray with small covered part in the middle. The top of it is decorated with flowers and leaves in bright colours. There are numerous stamps and numbers o...
Category
Early 20th Century European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
Gabriella Crespi Tortoise and Sterling Silver Box
By Gabriella Crespi
Located in New York, NY
Gabriella Crespi tortoise and sterling silver box. Vintage Crespi cylindrical cigarette case with engraved Gabriella Crespi logo monogram and original ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Antique Commemorative Tobacco Keeper, English, Lead, Decor, Snuff Box, Regency
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique commemorative tobacco keeper. An English, lead decorative snuff box with tamper, dating to the Regency period, circa 1810.
Commemorative keeper crafted at the b...
Category
Early 19th Century Regency Antique European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Lead
19th Century French Papier Maché Snuff Box with Landscape and Figures Painting
Located in Milan, IT
French Painted Papier Maché Snuffbox 1800s. Snuff box of circular shape with fine painting on the lid depicting a mountain landscape with figures and herds crossing a river, a dove f...
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Antique European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Other
French School 1790 Louis XVI Oval Snuff Box in 18kt Gold with Miniature Portrait
Located in Miami, FL
Presentation Snuff box from the 18th century French School.
A very important and rare Neoclassical oval box, made in Paris, France circa 1790. It was crafted with translucent natu...
Category
1790s Neoclassical Antique European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Gold
Snuffbox Fired Enamel Miniature on Lid Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Giorgio Salimbeni, 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
1960s Art Nouveau Vintage European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Antique Georgian Sterling Silver Military Presentation Snuff or Tobacco Box
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This antique snuff or tobacco box is hallmarked by an unknown maker, and originates from England and dates to 1820 and done in the period Georgian style....
Category
Early 19th Century Georgian Antique European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Antique Victorian Sterling Silver Trinket/Table Snuff Banana Box
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive, rare antique Victorian English sterling silver trinket/table snuff box modelled in the form of a banana; an addition to our diverse silverware collection
This exceptional and rare antique sterling silver box has been realistically modelled in the form of a banana.
The surface of this silver snuff/trinket box has a satin finish and bears features reflecting the curvilinear nature of the banana's peel.
This antique sterling silver banana...
Category
1860s Victorian Antique European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
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...
Category
1960s Baroque Vintage European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Antique Victorian Austrian 0.800 Silver & Enamel Snuff Pill Box Mastiff Dane Dog
Located in Bad Säckingen, DE
Beautiful naturalistic handpainted enameld snuff or pill box depicting a Great Dane dog, probably made around 1900 in Austria. The box is made of 0.800 silver with gilt inside.
Me...
Category
Early 1900s Victorian Antique European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
Snuff Box Round Guilloche Enamel Box Gold Paillons Stars of Sky Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco 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 c...
Category
1960s Baroque Vintage European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Gold, Sterling Silver, Enamel
18th Century English Agate Snuff Box
Located in New Orleans, LA
Trimmed in elegant yellow gold is this polished English agate snuff box. Distinguished by the dynamic patterning of the agate, the exquisite vessel i...
Category
18th Century Other Antique European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Agate, Gold
Blue Ceramic Bulldog Barrel Tobacco Jar
Located in Antwerp, BE
Ceramic bulldog tobacco jar. A dog in a rain barrel numbered 668 - drip glaze ceramic in Art Nouveau style.
A jar with lid in beautiful colors blue a...
Category
Mid-20th Century Art Nouveau European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
Louis XV Mother-of-pearl Snuffbox
By Louis Robin
Located in New Orleans, LA
This Louis XV-period gold-mounted snuff box features lustrous panels of inlaid mother-of-pearl. The whimsical box takes the form of a barrel and features hinged lids on both ends. Di...
Category
18th Century Louis XV Antique European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Gold
Snuffbox Vessel Miniature Hand-Painted Sterling Silver Enamel Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco 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 Baroque Vintage European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Large English Sterling Silver Cigarette Case Birmingham 1956 H. Pidduck
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Large English sterling silver cigarette case Birmingham 1956, H. Pidduck and Sons. Unusual engine turned decoration design both exterior and ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Art Deco European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
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 Antique European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Gold Snuff Box with Portrait of Napoleon by Jean-Baptiste Isabey '1767–1855'
Located in New York, US
Our gold snuff box is distinguished by its exceptional portrait of Emperor Napoleon I (1769-1821) by the revered miniature painter, Jean-Baptiste Isabey (1767–1855), signed and dated 1807. Isabey portrays the emperor in the green uniform of the chasseurs a cheval with red sash and silver breast-star of the Imperial French Order of the Legion of Honour. Pinned to his left lapel are the badges of the Imperial French Order of the Legion of Honour and the badge of the Royal Italian Order of the Iron Crown of Lombardy. The portrait is bordered by blue enamel and an outer border of rosettes and leaves.
3 1/2 by 2 1/2 by 5/8 inches. Weight: 135 g, 4.76 oz, 4.34 troy oz.
Hallmarks on the underside of this German-made box include an assay mark, a lion rampant and maker's mark which is heavily worn.
Born in Nancy, France, Isabey arrived in Paris in 1785 to study with Jacques-Louis David. His earliest clients included the family of Eugène Rose de Beauharnais...
Category
Early 19th Century Empire Antique European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Gold, Enamel
1950s Staved Teak Humidor by ESA Denmark
By ESA
Located in Chula Vista, CA
1950s ESA High quality tobacco humidor made of staved teak wood.
It provides a sufficiently humid microclimate.
Aesthetically pleasing design with a spring-loaded screw lid.
Ideal...
Category
1950s Scandinavian Modern Vintage European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Teak
V. Gordon silver cigarette case St Petersburg Samordorok 1920. Signed
Located in Paris, FR
A parcel gilt samorodok silver cigarette case by Vladimir Gordon S.t Petersburg, with green stone, c.1900
Embossed signature.. A Fine quality Russian silver cigarette case. Reticul...
Category
Early 20th Century Mid-Century Modern European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Gold, Silver
17th Century German Silver Gilt Tobacco Box
By Johann Christoph Treffler 1
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique German silver gilt tobacco box; an addition to our 17th century silverware collection.
This exceptional antique 17th century German silver...
Category
1690s Antique European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
Set of 4 Kubus Snuffer by Lassen
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 4 Kubus snuffer by Lassen
Dimensions: D 21 x W 2.50 x H 3.50 cm
Materials: Metal
Weight: 0.33 Kg
With reference to the iconic Kubus candleholders, the Kubus Snuffer in...
Category
2010s Modern European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Metal
Tortoise Bakelite Box
Located in New York, NY
Tortoise bakelite box. Vintage thirties Italian Boxing Federation cigarette box. Faux tortoise and yellow bakelite circular cigarette holder in the form of bound fasces with lid displaying Federazione Pugilistica Italiana medallion and fasces handle; a fascist era...
Category
1930s Vintage European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Bakelite
Antique 1910 German Sterling Silver Fish Spice Box
By Karl Kurz
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive, large antique German sterling silver spice box realistically modelled in the form of a fish; an addition to our animal related silverware collection
This exceptional antique German sterling silver box has been realistically modelled in the form of a fish.
This impressive fish shaped box has an articulated body, allowing the fish's position to be customised.
The body of the box is embellished with separate dorsal and pectoral fins, in addition to rows of engraved scales.
The forked caudal/tail fin is further ornamented with engraved textures replicating the fish's natural features
This antique silver fish box...
Category
1910s Vintage European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Snuff Box Sterling Silver Green and Sky Stripes Guilloche Enamel Box Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with two-tone translucent stripes fired enamelled on guillochè and fine hand-engraved on all sides, French Empire Napoleo...
Category
1980s Mid-Century Modern Vintage European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
French Hand-Crafted and Painted Ceramic Trinket or Jewelry Box
Located in Miami, FL
A beautiful hand-crafted ceramic lidded trinket or jewelry box.
Mid-20th century, French.
Used as decorative item, this piece would enhance any shelf or tabletop.
Measures: 6 1/8...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
Midcentury Burnished Alabaster Cream Trinket Box, Pill Case, Ormolu, Labelled
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Midcentury burnished alabaster cream trinket box, pill case, ormolu, labeled.
Category
Mid-20th Century Neoclassical Revival European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Alabaster
Snuffbox Head of the Statue of Liberty in New York hand painted Sterling Silver
By Salimbeni, Giorgio Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rounded rectangular snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling silver with fine hand-painted fire-enamelled miniature depicting the Head of the Statue of Liberty in New York. Dimensions cm. 5.5 x 7 x 1.8. Weight gr. 105. Designed by Giorgio Salimbeni in 1975 in Art Deco style and executed in numerous specimens, at the specific request of the firm Tiffany & Co., in Florence in the headquarters of the Salimbeni firm with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for sustaining 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...
Category
1970s Art Deco Vintage European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Vintage Conus Seashell Box, Sterling Mounts, Hallmarked, Italy, 20th Century
Located in Chatham, ON
Vintage Conus seashell box with sterling silver mounts - side hinge - unidentified hallmarks to the interior (.925 silver) - Italy (Florence - likely) - m...
Category
Mid-20th Century Georgian European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Snuffbox Pocket Sterling Silver Gold Paillons Lilies of France Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular oval shape pocket snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent blue fired enamel on guillochè and with the insertion of p...
Category
1960s Louis XIV Vintage European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold
Victorian Greyhound Sterling Silver Cigarette Case
By Harrison Brothers & George Howson 1
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique Victorian English sterling silver and enamel cigarette case; an addition to our range of silver boxes and cases.
This exceptional antique Victorian sterling silver cigarette case has a plain rectangular form with rounded corners.
This antique cigarette case has a subtly curved form proffering a comfortable fit in the majority of pockets.
The anterior cover is embellished with an exceptional hot enamel scene depicting two greyhound style canines in a rural setting.
The posterior surface of the case is ornamented with the contemporary engraved initials 'G.W.C.R' and the date '11th Feby 1886'
The rounded sides of this cigarette case are plain and unembellished.
This antique enamel cigarette case...
Category
1880s Victorian Antique European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
George III Erotic Silver Vinaigrette by Joseph Ash I
By Joseph Ash I
Located in Newark, England
Fine and very rare erotic silver vinaigrette. The vinaigrette of circular form with removable lid revealing the grill containing the sponge underneath. T...
Category
Early 1800s George III Antique European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
Box Cannister Caddy Brass Tobacco Tea Dutch
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
A charming early tobacco box or tea cannister
Unusual, large size
Lovely soft contours which enhances the reflection of light in the interior
Original condition including hinges
length 21cm., 8 1/4" depth 7.5cm., 3" height 11cm., 4 1/2".
The Dutch were the main importers of tobacco in the 18th century and manufactured tobacco boxes to sell with...
Category
18th Century Baroque Antique European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Brass
Rare Box by Piero Fornasetti from 50's
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Brussels, BE
Rare and original metal Boxe by Piero Fornasetti from 50's, decorated with pipes, with the original package. in very good and original condition, used for matches, cigarettes jewelry...
Category
1950s Mid-Century Modern Vintage European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Metal
Hand Painted Papier Mache Snuff Box
By Stobwasser
Located in East Geelong, VIC
This papier mache snuff box is decorated with a hand painted portrait of a well dressed lady of the early nineteenth century. Possibly by Stobwa...
Category
1820s Regency Antique European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Paper
Duke of Clarence Sterling Silver Snuff Box
Located in New York, NY
Duke of Clarence sterling silver snuff box. Antique ebonized wood and sterling silver box with the profile of the son of Queen Victoria. England, la...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Antique European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Snuff Box "Soap" Shaped with Horse's Head Sterling Silver Enamel Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco 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 Art Nouveau Vintage European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Snuffbox Miniature Pastoral Image Sterling Silver Enamel Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Round snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling Silver gold plated with hand-painted miniature pastoral image fired enamelled. 18th century French style. Diameter cm. 8 cm high. 1.8. Weight gr. 171. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1968 on inspiration from previous boxes also manufactured in the Salimbeni company headquarters with manual workmanship by talented artisan artists with a thick plate suitable for supporting numerous glazing firings at high heat 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...
Category
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Perfume Box, in Crystal and Gilded Brass, 20th Century
Located in Paris, FR
Perfume box, in crystal and gilded brass
Egg in cut crystal, structure in bronze and gilded brass.
4 scent bottles inside.
Category
20th Century European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Brass
Duke and Duchess of Windsor Gold Snuff Box
Located in New Orleans, LA
This important Louis XV gold snuff box is from the prestigious collection of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. The engine-turned gold box or...
Category
18th Century Louis XV Antique European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Gold
French Majolica Tobacco Jar or Cigar Box, circa 1890
Located in Austin, TX
French Majolica tobacco jar or cigar box, Circa 1890.
Category
1890s Rustic Antique European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
18th C Allegorical Gilt Enamel Snuff Box, Atrib Fromery Workshop
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
18th C Brass-Mounted Allegorical Motif Enamel Snuff Box, Attributed to the Fromery Workshop
The Cartouche-shaped bombe box, the hinged lid applied with rais...
Category
Mid-18th Century Rococo Antique European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Bronze
French Ceramic Tobacco Pot or Ceramic Lidded Jewelry Box Signed Lucien Brisdoux
By Lucien Brisdoux
Located in Miami, FL
A very nice quality midcentury French ceramic tobacco pot or decorative lidded box.
This hand-crafted, hand-painted mid-century French ceramic tobacco po...
Category
Mid-20th Century European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
Snuff Box Parrotlets on Flowering Branches. Art Nouveau Style Sterling Silver En
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
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 Mid-Century Modern European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Rare Austrian Silver and Enamel Stamp Box with Mouse and Seed Pearls
Located in New York, NY
Rare Austrian Silver and Enamel Stamp Box with Mouse and Seed Pearls
The Quality is Fantastic, so well executed, in great condition this item is ready to use.
Marked 84 and then ov...
Category
19th Century Antique European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver, Enamel
Ashtray by Gino Colombini for Kartell, 1960s
By Kartell, Gino Colombini
Located in Lasne, BE
Black plastic and chromed metal ashtray. Stamped on the bottom. Wear due to time and age of the ashtray.
Category
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Metal
Dutch Delft Tabacco Jar The Claw Blue White Delftware Tin Glazed Pottery
By The Claw
Located in Wommelgem, VAN
Dutch Delft Tabacco Jar The Claw Blue White Delftware Tin Glazed Pottery
Dutch delftware tabacco jar.
Tin glazed blue and white earthenware with brass c...
Category
Early 19th Century Georgian Antique European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Brass
Snuff box perforated, embossed and hand-engraved lid and miniature Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Shaped snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with perforated, embossed and hand-engraved lid, with fine oval miniature cm. 3.2 x 4.5 hand painted in tempera on vegetable i...
Category
1970s Rococo Vintage European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Antique Tortoiseshell Singing Bird Box, Most Probably by Bontems
Located in London, GB
A antique tortoiseshell singing bird box, most probably by Bontems,
Going barrel movement,
Gilt metal two-tone brilliance...
When wound and start/stop slide moved to the right, the bird pops up through foliate chased gilt grille, then proceeds to move bone beak, wings and body from side-to-side to good complex continuous synchronized birdsong.
The bird with streaked feathered plumage in brown, yellow, turquoise and red, lime green and purple iridescent highlights, highly polished lid interior for full bird reflection, in plain polished tortoiseshell case, twinned laurel leaf engraved bird lid border with the bird lid engraved with love birds and rose united beneath leaf swag arch, accentuated with gilt on silvered ground, hidden key...
Category
1880s Antique European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Tortoise Shell
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