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Place of Origin: Italian
Italian Silver and Enamel Box
By Franco Salimbeni
Located in Newark, England
GUILLOCHE ENAMEL AND SILVER GILT
From our collectables category, we are delighted to offer this incredible quality Italian Mid-Century Modern Silver and Enamel Box. The Silver and E...
Category
Late 20th Century Mid-Century Modern Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Silver, Enamel
Decorative Box with Key, Italian Musical Jewelery Box Vintage Wooden Brown Box
Located in Wembley, GB
A handmade Vintage wooden Musical jewellery box with a key and lock, with Swiss Musical Movement by Romance with original key and Reuge mechanismt. It is perfectly designed and created in a suitable size for keeping valuables inside. The top of this box has leaf patterns and bronzed motives carved and made by hand.
It can also be a decorative object for any bedroom or dressing room in your home decor.
Old Decorative Box...
Category
1960s Art Deco Vintage Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Snuff Box fine hand engraving, fire enamelled, in “Rococo” style Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fine hand engraving, fire enamelled, in “Rococo” style from the early 19th century. Measurements cm. 4.5 x 7.7 x 2. ...
Category
1980s Rococo Vintage Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold Plate
Snuffbox white enamel sterling silve stylised birdr miniature on the lid Salimba
By Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Round curved snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling silver with translucent fired enamels on guilloché, above and below, and miniature on the lid of a stylised bird, hand painted by the paint...
Category
1960s Art Nouveau Vintage Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, 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 Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Snuffbox with miniature of Venice, English Queen Anne style, 925 silver Salimben
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Octagonal snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with English Queen Anne style borders and sides with translucent fired enamel on hand engraving similar to wood grain. On t...
Category
1980s Queen Anne Vintage Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Snuffbox Fired Enamel Miniature on Lid Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Giorgio 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 Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Snuff Box Black enamel Baroque style engraving Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Shaped table snuff box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fine fire-enamelled baroque style engraving. Very fine hand engraving on all surfaces. Dimensions cm. 6.2 x 7.8 cm...
Category
1970s Baroque Vintage Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Snuffbox with Flowers miniature Art Nouveau style Sterling Silver Salimbeni.
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent enamels fired on guilloche and hand-painted floral miniature; external blue staff. Art Nouveau sty...
Category
1970s Art Nouveau Vintage Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Tortoiseshell 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 Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Bakelite
Italian Grand Tour Style, Pietra Dura & Leather Humidor Or Vanity Box
Located in Atlanta, GA
This exceptional humidor or vanity box is a masterwork of craftsmanship, designed in the exquisite style of the Italian Grand Tour, a period of cultural exploration and refinement th...
Category
Early 20th Century Grand Tour Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Agate, Malachite, Onyx, Marble, Slate
$476 Sale Price
20% Off
Sterling Silver Box Striped Fire Enameled Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Giorgio 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 Empire Vintage Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Micromosaic Gold Mounted Jasper Snuff Box Early 19th Century Italian Gioacchino
Located in Benington, Herts
An Exceptional and Highly Important Micromosaic Gold Mounted Jasper Snuff Box, most probably by Gioacchino Barberi with the box likely by Moulinié, ...
Category
Early 19th Century Antique Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Gold
Snuff Box with 2 slightly rounded sides and erotic miniature Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Snuff Box Snuff Box with 2 slightly rounded sides is in 925/1000 sterling silver.
Snuff Box Snuff Box with 2 slightly rounded sides has fire-enamelled miniature hand-painted by the ...
Category
1970s Romantic Vintage Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold, Gold Plate
Snuff Box Oval curved Green Enamel Guilloche Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Oval curved snuff-box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold-plated with translucent fired enamels on guilloché, above and below. Modern contemporary style. Size cm. 4.5 x 6.5 x 2.3. Weigh...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Mano con Anelli Rectangular Ashtray
By Fornasetti
Located in Milan, IT
With this rectangular ashtray made of hand-decorated porcelain, Fornasetti has succeeded in transforming an everyday object into a small work of art capable of seducing you with its ...
Category
2010s Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Porcelain
$299 / item
Italian Futurist Tobacco Ceramic Box 1930 Matt Enamel Cima Perugia with Dog
Located in Palermo, Sicily
Italian Futurist Tobacco ceramic box 1930 Art Deco in Matt enamel and decorations with dog Cima Perugia Production.
Category
1930s Art Deco Vintage Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
$1,398 Sale Price
20% Off
Snuff box Enamel Double opening Sterling Silver flower bouquet Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Square snuff box with two slightly domed sides in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè and hand-painted miniature of flower bouquet, late 1...
Category
1970s Art Nouveau Vintage Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Italian Cigarettes Tobacco Box Art Deco 1930 with Inlays of Fine Sorrento Woods
Located in Palermo, Sicily
Italian cigarettes tobacco box Art Deco 1930 with inlays of fine Sorrento woods .
With the flap that once opened shows all the matchstick cigarettes, ...
Category
1930s Art Deco Vintage Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Wood
$913 Sale Price
20% Off
Snuffbox two-tones enamel stripes Guilloche Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, 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 Napoleon III Vintage Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Snuff Box Black enamel Art Deco style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Giorgio 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 Art Deco Vintage Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
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 Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
$3,020 Sale Price / item
20% Off
Mahogany Wood Tobacco Box with Golden and Blue Brass Lid, 1970
Located in Palermo, Sicily
Mahogany wood tobacco box with golden and blue brass lid, 1970.
Category
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Brass
$605 Sale Price
20% Off
Snuffbox with English Queen Anne style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Octagonal snuff box in gilded 925/1000 silver with English Queen Anne style borders and sides with fired enamels painted like lapis lazuli stone. On the lid, a very fine fire-enamell...
Category
1980s Queen Anne Vintage Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Round Tobacco Box Art Decò Italian Design 1930 Solid Brass
Located in Palermo, Sicily
Round Tobacco Box Art Deco Italian Design 1930 Solid Brass
Category
1930s Art Deco Vintage Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Brass
$744 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique Capodimonte Porcelain Table Snuff or Dresser Box
By Capodimonte
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine, antique Capodimonte porcelain table snuff box in the Meissen style.
With a polychrome enamel Bacchanalian scene on the lid, neoclassical...
Category
Early 20th Century Rococo Revival Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Porcelain
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 Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
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 Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Snuff Box Parrotlets on Flowering Branches. Art Nouveau Style Sterling Silver En
By Salimbeni, Franco 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 Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Snuff Box White Fire Enamel with Miniature of Bird Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco 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 Art Deco Vintage Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Rectangular Art Deco Walnut and Walnut-Root Box, Italy
Located in Bresso, Lombardy
Made in Italy, 1930s - 1940s.
Made in walnut and walnut-root.
It is a vintage piece, but it's been recently restored, therefore it can be considered as in excellent condition and re...
Category
1940s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Walnut
Italian Pill Box Micro Mosaic Millefiori
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful oval Italian brass pill box with an inlayed floral glass micro mosaic millefiori design and twisted rope top lid, finished with a brass ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Brass
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
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Leather, Fabric, Glass
Italian Silver and Enamel Circular Box
By Franco Salimbeni
Located in Newark, England
ENAMEL AND SILVER GILT TABLE SNUFF
From our collectables category, we are delighted to offer this incredible quality Italian Mid-Century Modern Silver and Enamel Circular Box. The S...
Category
Late 20th Century Mid-Century Modern Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver, Enamel
Ashtray by Gino Colombini for Kartell, 1960s
By Gino Colombini, Kartell
Located in bruxelles, 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 Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Metal
Snuff Box with 2 slightly rounded sides Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table snuff box with 2 slightly rounded sides in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamels on guillochè and hand-painted floral miniature; oute...
Category
1970s Other Vintage Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Piero Fornasetti, Ashtrays, prod. Fornasetti Milan 1960s
By Fornasetti, Piero Fornasetti
Located in Rivoli, IT
Rare tall screen-printed metal ashtray designed by Piero Fornasetti and produced by Fornasetti Milano in the 1960s
Excellent condition
Fornasetti was born in the fibrillating post-W...
Category
1960s Vintage Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Metal, Brass
Snuff Box Perforated Lid, Embossed and Engraved Miniature Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Square snuff box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with perforated lid, embossed and engraved by hand, with fine round miniature diameter cm. 3.8 hand painted in tempera on veg...
Category
1970s Renaissance Vintage Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Zanotta Servofumo Ashtray Stand by Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni
By Zanotta
Located in New York, NY
Ashtray stand. Base in polypropylene, container in aluminium and steel support frame, painted in the shade black for outdoors.
Category
2010s Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Aluminum, Steel
Set of two Sterling Silver Cigarette Cases 19th and 20 Century, Mario Buccellat
By Mario Buccellati
Located in North Miami, FL
A set of two Italian Sterling silver cigarette cases from the 19th and 20th century. They have hand-stamped details and are engraved with flowers and scrolling acanthus. One of them ...
Category
19th Century Antique Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
$3,600 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Italian 1920 Renaissance Revival Enameled Octagonal Box in .800 Silver
Located in Miami, FL
An Italian enamelled snuff box.
Colorful box, created in Italy, back in the 1920. It was crafted in an octagonal shape with neoclassical and renaissance Revival motifs in solid .8...
Category
1920s Renaissance Revival Vintage Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver, Enamel
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique Chased Silver Snuff Box Set with Fine Italian Micromosaic Plaque
Located in London, GB
The small rectangular silver snuff box, chased with foliage decorations and featuring a hinged back, is set with a detailed micromosaic plaque on top. The plaque depicts a rural land...
Category
Late 19th Century Grand Tour Antique Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Stone, Silver
Snuff Box Venetian landscape miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Snuff Box Snuff Box Venetian landscape is in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated 24 carats..
Snuff Box Snuff Box Venetian landscape has translucent fired enamel on guilloche and min...
Category
1960s Baroque Vintage Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
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 create a starry sky effect. With turquoise enamel circle with hand-engraved motif. Late 1600s Baroque style. Diameter cm. 7.7 cm high. 2.3. Weight gr. 226. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1967 and produced in Florence in several specimens in the Salimbeni company headquarters with manual workmanship by skilled artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for withstanding numerous enamelled firings at high heat at about 800° C -
The Paillons processing, now almost disappeared, and a rare technique recognized as a craft. Several layers of enamel are applied to the object, baked one by one in the oven.
Afterwards, the designs cut out of thin gold leaves, the paillons foils, are applied one by one by hand to form the desired figure. These sheets are then in turn coated...
Category
1960s Baroque Vintage Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Gold, Sterling Silver, Enamel
$2,225 Sale Price
20% Off
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 Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Portable Box Italian Tobacco Pouch in Enamel and Square Copper, 1950 Midcentury
Located in Palermo, Sicily
Portable box Italian Tobacco Pouch in enamel and square copper, 1950, midcentury.
The upper part has a stylized and very elegant glaze, the box is in ...
Category
1950s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Copper, Enamel
$1,118 Sale Price
20% Off
Snuffbox female face wearing Art Nouveau style clothing Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Giorgio Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rounded rectangular snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fine hand-painted fire-enamelled miniature depicting a female face wearing Art Nouveau style clothing, hand-...
Category
1970s Art Nouveau Vintage Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Snuff Box round in Art Nouveau style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Round snuff box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamels on guillochè and hand-painted floral miniature, surrounded by a frame with leaves on a blue bac...
Category
1970s Art Nouveau Vintage Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
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 Mid-Century Modern Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Brass
Snuff Box perforated, with a fine round miniature Salimbeni.
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Shaped snuff box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with perforated, embossed and hand-engraved lid, with a fine round miniature, diameter 3.8 cm, hand-painted in tempera on veg...
Category
1960s Art Deco Vintage Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Snuff Box White with noble coat of arms Baroque style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Giorgio Salimbeni, 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 Baroque Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Gabriella Crespi Tortoiseshell 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 Italian 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 Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Snuff Box races miniature fire-enameled guilloche and engraved drawing Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Octagonal table snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with black fired enamel inserted in a hand engraved drawing and with fired enamelled miniature, hand painted by the p...
Category
1970s Art Nouveau Vintage Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Italian Goatskin Wrapped Parchment and Teak Humidor by Aldo Tura
By Aldo Tura
Located in San Diego, CA
Rare and beautiful Italian goatskin wrapped lacquered parchment humidor with locking teak and brass lid by Aldo Tura, circa 1960s. The piece is in very good vintage condition and me...
Category
Mid-20th Century Hollywood Regency Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Goatskin, Teak
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 Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Snuff box Enamel Stripes and miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Shaped snuff box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fire-enameled stripes and fine oval enameled miniature in center cm. 3 x 4 hand-painted by ...
Category
1970s Napoleon III Vintage Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Snuff Box hand engraving, black “niello” type Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Snuff Box rectangular in 925/1000 sterling silver with fine hand engraving, black fired enameled “niello” type, in early 19th century “Rococo” style. Snuff Box measurements cm. 4.5 x...
Category
1980s Rococo Vintage Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Snuffbox basket with flowers, in Florentine Renaissance style, Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rounded rectangular snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling Silver gold plated with beautiful fire enamelled miniature hand-painted by the painter Renato Dainelli of a basket with flowers, in ...
Category
1960s Napoleon III Vintage Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
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 Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Brass
$372 Sale Price
20% Off
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