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Place of Origin: Italian
Posacenere in stile Italiano anni 60/70
Located in Roma, IT
Posacenere con portariviste anni 60/70 costruito in ferro e portariviste cromato.
Category
Late 20th Century Industrial Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Iron
Snuffbox basket with flowers, in Florentine Renaissance style, Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, 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, Enamel, Sterling Silver, Gold Plate
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
Snuffbox with English Queen Anne style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, 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
Mid Century Modern Cobalt Murano Glass & Brass Table Lighter W/ Copper Striker
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Vintage circa 1960 mid century modern cobalt murano glass & brass lighter w/ Copper Striker.
Made in Italy
4 1/2" tall and 3" wide
Category
1960s Vintage Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Murano Glass
Mid-century Raymor Glazed Ceramic Smoking Set Italy, Box, Lighter and Ashtray
By Raymor
Located in Miami, FL
Mid-century Raymor Glazed Ceramic Smoking Set Italy, Box, Lighter and Ashtray
Offered for sale is an Italian mid-century modern Raymor smoking set including a covered cigarette box,...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
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
Enamel, Gold Plate, Gold, Sterling 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, Enamel, Sterling Silver, Gold Plate
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
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
Brown Leather Tissue Box
By Pinetti
Located in Milan, IT
Distinguished for its elegance and exceptional craftsmanship, this tissue box strikes a balance between art and functionality. The traditional rectangular box profile is replaced wit...
Category
2010s Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Leather
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
Snuff Box portrait Tsarina Alexandra Fedorovna Romanova Sterling Silver Salimben
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Snuff Box Silver is in 925/1000 sterling.
Snuff Box Silver has fired enamelled handmade portrait of Tsarina Alexandra Fedorovna Romanova by the painter Beatrice Mellana.
Snuff Box Si...
Category
1970s Baroque Vintage Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Piero Fornasetti, Set di due scatole da fumo
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Firenze, IT
Piero Fornasetti, Set di due scatole da fumo
Scatole in metallo smaltato e legno disegnate da Piero Fornasetti
Anni 50
Il set è composto da una scatola porta sigari e una scatola ...
Category
1950s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Metal
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 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
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
Vintage 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
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 Fine Hand-Engraving Baroque Style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fine hand-engraving Baroque style on the lid, with fired enamel black type “niello”. Measurements cm. 4,3 x 7 x 2. W...
Category
1970s Baroque Vintage Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
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
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 Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Gold, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Snuff Box with 2 slightly rounded sides Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco 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
Snuff Box reproducing the painting of a Roman glimpse late 1800s Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Snuffbox Rectangular for table with rounded corners in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated with very fine fire-enamelled miniature hand-painted by the painter Renato Dainelli repro...
Category
1990s Baroque Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Gold Plate, 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
Aldo Tura, Pipe Shaped Parchment Tobacco Box, Macabo Italy 1950s
By Macabo, Aldo Tura
Located in Firenze, IT
Pipe shaped parchment and brass tobacco box designed by Aldo Tura
Macabo Italy 1950s
The box has two compartments, one for storing tobacco and anoth...
Category
1950s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Brass
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
Snuff Box Light Blue Ornament in Relief, Empire Style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular pocket snuff box with oval section in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè, with laurel ornament in relief in Empire style. Wit...
Category
1970s Empire Vintage Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Snuff Box Perforated Lid, Embossed and Engraved Miniature Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco 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
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 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
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 Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Snuff Box Octagonal English Queen Anne style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, 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
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 Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
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 Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Bakelite
Snuffbox Pocket Sterling Silver Gold Paillons Lilies of France Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, 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 Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold
Snuff Box Monocrome Miniature Hand Painted Sterling Silver Enamel Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, 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 Sterling Silver Green and Sky Stripes Guilloche Enamel Box Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, 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
Snuffbox Vessel Miniature Hand-Painted Sterling Silver Enamel Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, 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
Snuffbox Head of the Statue of Liberty in New York hand painted Sterling Silver
By Giorgio Salimbeni, 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 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
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
Snuff Box "Soap" Shaped with Horse's Head Sterling Silver Enamel Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, 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 Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
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 Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Metal
Snuffbox Miniature Pastoral Image Sterling Silver Enamel Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco 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 Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Ashtray by Gino Colombini for Kartell, 1960s
By Gino Colombini, Kartell
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 Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Metal
Snuff box Enamel Double opening Sterling Silver flower bouquet Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco 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
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
Snuff box Enamel Stripes and miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco 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 perforated, embossed and hand-engraved lid and miniature Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, 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 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
20th Century Italian Solid Silver Oval Tobacco Box
By Arval Argenti Valenza
Located in VALENZA, IT
Solid silver box for tobacco.
The box was made entirely by hand starting from a silver sheet and subsequently shaped and welded giving it an oval and rounded shape.
The external part of the body of the box has been polished with pumice stone making it smooth and shiny, while the hand hammering is clearly visible inside the box.
The lid was embossed and hand engraved with the figure of a Scottish man...
Category
1990s Other Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
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 Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Alabaster
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
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
Italian Gold-Mounted Micromosaic Snuff Box
Located in New York, NY
Italian micro mosaic plaque mounted within snuff box, depicting white and brown hound seated on grass.
Circle of Giacomo Raffaelli (1753-1836).
R...
Category
Early 19th Century Antique Italian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Glass
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
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
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