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Sterling Silverplate German Box
Located in New York, NY
A sterling silver-plate German box with teak wood interior, circa early to mid-20th century, Germany. I'm showing piece as a jewelry box (holding earrings); however, it's actually a ...
Category
German Art Deco Mid-20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver Plate
Rare Jean Dunand Art Deco Cigarette Case, Circa 1930 – Bronze & Eggshell Lacquer
By Jean Dunand
Located in Red Lion, PA
Rare Jean Dunand Art Deco Cigarette Case, Circa 1930 – Bronze, Coquille d’Œuf, and Lacquer
This exceptional Art Deco Jean Dunand cigarette case,...
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French Art Deco Vintage Mid-20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Bronze
$10,400 Sale Price
20% Off
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...
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Italian Art Deco Vintage Mid-20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Bronze
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...
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Italian Vintage Mid-20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Bakelite
Pill Box Abalone Seashell
Located in New York, NY
A hand-crafted abalone seashell and alpaca metal pill box, circa 1960s, mid-20th century, Mexico. Box is oval with a beautiful iridescent abalone seashell top; top is hinged with fro...
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Mexican Mid-20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Metal
Kenji Fujita Ceramic on Oak Jar Box Japanese Studio Craft Tea Caddy Tobacco
By Kenji Fujita
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Tottori Japan, c.1950s
Turned Oak Tea Caddy with Ceramic Inlay by ceramicist Kenji Fujita.
Category
Japanese Mid-Century Modern Vintage Mid-20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Wood
$1,240 Sale Price
20% Off
Fish Scale Midnight Blue Chinese Cloisonne Tobacco Box 1930's
Located in Mobile, AL
Monochrome Chinese Fish Scale cloisonne is long famed for it's high quality of craftsmanship and understated elegance. A staple of interior design...
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Chinese Chinoiserie Vintage Mid-20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Metal, Enamel
$396 Sale Price
20% Off
Tessellated Abalone Shell Brass Inlaid Cigarette Tobacco Trinket Box Mexico
By Pepe Mendoza
Located in San Juan Capistrano, CA
1950s mahogany lined brass and tessellated abalone cigarette box from Mexico.
Category
Mexican Mid-Century Modern Mid-20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Brass
Rosewood cigars Box around 1950s
Located in Wien, AT
Rosewood cigars Box around 1950s
shellac varnish by Hand
Category
Austrian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Mid-20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Rosewood
Leather Covered Tobacco Box Wood Brown Jacques Adnet Style France 1940 by Lancel
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
Leather Covered Tobacco Box Wood Brown Jacques Adnet Style France 1940 by Lancel
Category
Art Deco Vintage Mid-20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Brass
$258 Sale Price
20% Off
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
English Art Deco Mid-20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Antique Asian Wood Opium Container with Lid and Brass Pull
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Decorative Antique Asian round wood box container with lid and brass pull.
Vintage collectible Asian wooden tobacco or opium round container.
Round shaped lidded opium container...
Category
Indian Tibetan Mid-20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Wood
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
Italian Art Deco Vintage Mid-20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Wood
$704 Sale Price
40% Off
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
Italian Art Deco Vintage Mid-20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Brass
$573 Sale Price
40% Off
Snuffbox Fired Enamel Miniature on Lid Sterling Silver 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
Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Mid-20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Snuff Box Venetian landscape miniature Sterling Silver 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
Italian Baroque Vintage Mid-20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Limited Jeweler Made Dice Cigarette Dispenser by Legros Marius for Dunhill
By Dunhill
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Very limited Jeweler-made Cigarette Dispenser hallmarked by the silversmith Legros Marius for Dunhill that resembles a stacked pair of dice with playing cards on top. A simple press of the center button seamlessly hidden in the center dot of the dice pops open a hinged lid with a 24-cigarette holder inside.
This is a very low-production piece and possibly the only one ever made on special order. Beautiful hand-made by the silversmith with the uttermost attention to detail.
Discover the allure of a vintage pre-War Dunhill dice...
Category
French Vintage Mid-20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Chrome
$3,300 Sale Price
40% Off
CARTIER London 1935 Art Deco Box In Sterling 18Kt Gold And Rubies
By Cartier
Located in Miami, FL
Compact case box designed by Cartier.
Beautiful and rare compact box, created in Paris France by the jewelry house of Cartier, back in the 1935. The squared box has been crafted wit...
Category
French Art Deco Vintage Mid-20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Multi-gemstone, Gold, Silver, Sterling Silver
French Faux Tortoise Shell Cigarette Snuff Tobacco Box
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
As found in Paris, a charming faux tortoiseshell box marked cigarettes on the lid. A very versatile piece that could stand alone on a cooffe or side table as well as hold treasures s...
Category
French Art Deco Mid-20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Metal
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
Italian Georgian Mid-20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
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
Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Mid-20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Vintage Cigarette Dispenser Burlwood Box
By Davidoff 1
Located in Chula Vista, CA
For your consideration, a vintage cigarette box in burl wood and sterling with glass top.
Clever design.
Dimensions: 9 w x 6.5 d x 2.75 h close...
Category
Mid-Century Modern Vintage Mid-20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
$360 Sale Price
20% Off
German silver and enamel cigarette case
Located in Buenos Aires, Argentina
German silver and enamel cigarette case
Origin Germany Circa 1930
Hand-painted scene of two beautiful hunting dogs
its interior is ver...
Category
German Art Deco Vintage Mid-20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver, Enamel
Cigar Humidor, Ebony Macassar Cigar Box, France 1960, Brown Color
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
Very nice humidor cigar box, in Macassar ebony. This box is large, was made in France in the 1960s. It has a brown and tan color.
Category
French Vintage Mid-20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Ebony
$430 Sale Price
20% Off
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
Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Mid-20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Teak
Los Castillo Mixed Metal Cigarette Box
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Mexican made humidor, c.1960s, comprised of copper, brass, silver and malachite. The rectangular box is wood lined with a shallow basin to store cigarettes or other smoking paraphern...
Category
Mexican Mid-Century Modern Vintage Mid-20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Malachite, Silver, Brass, Copper
Decorative Box in olive wood, brown color, brutalist style, France circa 1950
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
Box in olive wood, free-form. With a lid that turns and can be removed from the base of the box. The shape of this box is free and sinuous, which makes it very original and rare. The...
Category
French Brutalist Vintage Mid-20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Wood, Olive
$430 Sale Price
20% Off
1950s Hermès Cigarette Holder
By Hermès
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Classic vintage Hermès cigarette box. Cigarette box is heavy and wrapped in leather. Cornucopia (Horn of Plenty) decorative lid. Removable metal i...
Category
French Vintage Mid-20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Metal
19th Century French Papier Mâché Box with Painted Portrait
Located in Marbella, ES
19th century French papier mâché box with painted portrait.
Category
French Mid-20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Paper
Pill Box Abalone Seashell
Located in New York, NY
A hand-crafted abalone seashell and alpaca metal pill box, circa 1960s, mid-20th century, Mexico. Box is rectangle with a beautiful iridescent abalone seashell top; top is hinged wit...
Category
Mexican Mid-20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Metal
Snuffbox Miniature Pastoral Image Sterling Silver Enamel 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
Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Mid-20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Mid Century 5" Hammered Copper Tin Lined Humidor by Revere Rome N.Y
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Art Deco era humidor features a hand-hammered copper exterior, giving it a distinctive appearance with a textured surface.
Inside. It includes a pull air-tight lid and is signed Reve...
Category
American Vintage Mid-20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Copper
$75 Sale Price
40% Off
Footed Lidded Jar by Svenskt Tenn in Pewter
By Svenskt Tenn
Located in St.Petersburg, FL
A gorgeous Art Deco pewter lidded box by Firma Svenskt Tenn. Features three ornate feet, a velvet lined interior, and Art Deco style lid.
Category
Swedish Art Deco Vintage Mid-20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Metal
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
Italian Hollywood Regency Mid-20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Goatskin, Teak
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
Italian Art Deco Vintage Mid-20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
$1,077 Sale Price
40% Off
Vintage HERMES Cornucopia Metal and Leather Cigarette Box
By Hermès
Located in Victoria, BC
Here is a handsome and classic 1950s vintage Hermès cigarette box. Cigarette box is heavy and wrapped in leather. Cornucopia (Horn of Plenty) deco...
Category
French Vintage Mid-20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Metal
Dunhill Cork and Leather Tobacco Jar
By Dunhill
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Handsome cork and leather tobacco jar from London. Beautiful patina to the cork and leather. Jar can be used as a tobacco, weed, or stash jar. Cork is a clas...
Category
English Vintage Mid-20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Leather, Cork
1960s Jean Gillon Tobacco Jar for Italma Wood Art Brazil
By Jean Gillon
Located in London, GB
Cigar humidor or tobacco jar from the 1960s.
This iconic piece from the Italma Wood Art collection was created by Brazilian designer Jean Gillon. Very well crafted from the finest st...
Category
Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Mid-20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Wood
Rare Rockwell Kent for Chase Bacchus Art Deco Copper Cigarette Box
Located in St. Louis, MO
Rockwell Kent (American, 1882-1971) Rare Bacchus Art Deco copper cigarette box for Chase Chrome & Brass company, only offered in 1935 and 1936.
Rockwell Kent designed only three items for chase, all with the same young Bacchus motiff, and all are considered rare today. The other two were a "Wine cooler" and "Wine bottle stand...
Category
American Art Deco Vintage Mid-20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Copper
VAN CLEEF & ARPELS 1935 Paris Art Deco Geometric Box In Solid .925 Sterling Silv
Located in Miami, FL
An art deco box designed by Van Cleef & Arpels.
This is an amazing and rare geometric box, created in Paris France by the jewelry house of Van Cleef & Arpels, back in the 1935. The ...
Category
French Art Deco Vintage Mid-20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
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
Italian Mid-20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Brass
Black Enamaled Cylinder Table Lighter, circa 1930
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Art Deco era enameled band steel cylinder Lighter named "The Executive" By AR.
Circa 1930, 3.5" tall X 2" diameter.
Category
Vintage Mid-20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Steel
$165 Sale Price
40% Off
Ashtray & cigarette holder Dice by Legros Marius for Dunhill Paris 1930s
Located in Autonomous City Buenos Aires, CABA
Dunhill opened the Paris location in 1924 to meet the growing demand for luxury goods pertaining to motoring and tobacco. Both the box and cover are marked with the Goddess Minerva in an octagon, the French punch mark for 950 Fine Silver, a grade of silver finer then sterling silver.
Alfred Dunhill Art Deco Dice cigarette holder box, circa 1925-30. The box is identified Alfred Dunhill Paris underneath the lip of the cover and inside the box!
This beautiful and autenthic Dunhill cigarette holder...
Category
French Art Deco Vintage Mid-20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
Hammered Copper Tin Lined Humidor w/ Bakelite Handles by Revere
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Art Deco era humidor features a hand-hammered copper exterior, giving it a distinctive appearance with a textured surface.
Inside. It includes Bakelite handles on each, with a side p...
Category
American Vintage Mid-20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Copper
$165 Sale Price
40% Off
19th Century English Long Silver Trinket Box
Located in Marbella, ES
19th century English long silver trinket box.
Category
English Mid-20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
Set of 3 Japanese Inro Pill Boxes
Located in Munich, DE
These three antique handcrafted inro cases, are a wonderful collection of Japanese Sagemono (hanging object). These inro have several sections stacked ...
Category
Japanese Anglo-Japanese Mid-20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Bone, Bamboo, Wood
$934 / set
Piero Fornasetti, Ashtrays, prod. Fornasetti Milan 1960s
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
Italian Vintage Mid-20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Metal, Brass
Vintage Cigarette Box Red Polkadot Art Deco Werkstatte Argentor Vienna Austria
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Stamped into coin shaped feet, 273 and, Made in Austria. Chips to paint, tarnish to brass, oxidation to lid surface. Functioning properly.
W 4 x D 3 x H 1.5 in.
Category
Austrian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Mid-20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Metal
$796 Sale Price
20% Off
Chinese lacquer Tobacco box with 24 carat pure gold decorations 1940s
Located in Palermo, Sicily
Chinese lacquer tobacco box with 24 carat pure gold decorations
Category
Chinese Mid-Century Modern Vintage Mid-20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate
$646 Sale Price
40% Off
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
Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Mid-20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Leather, Fabric, Glass
Cigarette dice dispenser by Legros Marius for Dunhill Paris 1930s
Located in Autonomous City Buenos Aires, CABA
Our Beautiful and limited Jeweler-made Cigarette Dispenser hallmarked by the silversmith Legros Marius for Dunhill that resembles a stacked pair of dice with playing cards on top.
Discover the allure of a vintage pre-War Dunhill dice...
Category
French Art Deco Vintage Mid-20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
Tobacco Jar, by Keith Murray for Wedgwood, circa 1930
By Wedgwood
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Listed as a set of two in error; there is only one. The system will not let me change it.
One of Murray's particularly successful designs, the Tobacco Jar stands as a testament to t...
Category
English Art Deco Vintage Mid-20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Stoneware
Russian USSR Made Black and Red Lacquered Snuff Box, Signed and Dated
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Rectangular Black and Red Lacquered Snuff Box, Signed and Dated 1971.
This tobacco snuff box is richly and colorfully decorated with a winter scene showing 3 people riding a sleigh in the snow being pulled by 3 wild horses.
This Soviet-era box has a strong and great condition red lacquer on the inside and fine gilded decorations running around the edges of the box.
The box is signed and dated on the front cover and with hand-written "Made in USSR...
Category
Russian Empire Mid-20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Brass
Aldo Tura, Pipe Shaped Parchment Tobacco Box, Macabo Italy 1950s
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
Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Mid-20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Brass
Vintage French Baccarat Style Crystal Cigarette Box In The Shape Of A Bell
Located in Tampa, FL
This is a fascinating Baccarat style crystal cigarette box is in the shape of a bell. It is brass with a silver finish and some neoclassical desi...
Category
French Vintage Mid-20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Brass
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
Italian Mid-Century Modern Mid-20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
$475 Sale Price / set
31% Off
19th Century French Papier Mâché Trinket Box with Hand Painted Love Vignette
Located in Marbella, ES
19th century French papier mâché trinket box with hand painted romantic vignette.
Category
French Mid-20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Paper
Brass Tobacco Jar with Hand Painted Blue Delft Lid
Located in Esbjerg, DK
Small container for cigarettes or tobacco. Its made from Solid patinated brass and its screw-of lid is decorated with a small hand-painted porcelain pl...
Category
European Mid-Century Modern Vintage Mid-20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Brass
$239 Sale Price
20% Off
Snuff Box Monocrome Miniature Hand Painted Sterling Silver Enamel Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Round snuff box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fired enamel on the enameled edge with vertical stripes and fine monochrome miniature hand painted by the painter Renato Dainelli. Diameter cm. 6.2 cm high. 3.4. Weight gr. 222. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1967 and produced in Florence in the Salimbeni company headquarters with manual workmanship by skilled artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for withstanding numerous high-fire enamelled firings at approximately 750 < 800° C.
Miniature is a very ancient technique which consists of painting works in small proportions.
It was born for the decoration of the first letter of the paragraph of the books.
Over the years, however, this technique is refined and enriched, then moving on to precious personal items.
Hand-painted miniatures can be done with multiple different techniques.
The most important that we use on our articles are of three kinds:
1) Fire enamel.
2) Water tempera on an ivory plate.
3) Painted on mother-of-pearl.
Fire enameled miniatures:
On a first layer of enamel generally white or very clear or even transparent suitably liquefied at a temperature of about 750 ° C, the chosen subject is painted using miniature colors which are as many colored crystals, ground and reduced to a very fine, almost impalpable powder washed and purified in distilled water with the addition of small quantities of deoxidizing acids which, diluted with essential oils (usually essential oil of solder), can be mixed to form a palette of colors.
With very fine sable hair brushes you draw the subject starting from the perimeter and then gradually adding various layers of color.
It is necessary to carry out various firings very often so that the colors harden and are not absorbed by the underlying glaze as, during the subsequent firings at 750 ° C, during liquefaction, it would spread irremediably. Hence the need to form the painting a little at a time, cooking it numerous times.
Therefore it is necessary to proceed with numerous retouching, often overlapping different colors that only the painter's experience knows. A beautiful miniature needs from 20 to over 50 firings and is finished when the painter deems he does not have to further intervene.
Some colors must have darker tones than others because then, by superimposing the transparent enamel placed at the end of the miniature, they fade. This transparent layer, called “fondant” in jargon, must be smoothed and polished like all other translucent enamel colors.
The miniatures with water tempera colors are painted on real ivory...
Category
Italian Baroque Vintage Mid-20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Great Turned Burl Wood Tobacco Jar by Artist R. Kaeser Mid Century Modern
Located in Bad Säckingen, DE
This beautifully hand-turned burl wood tobacco jar is a striking piece of Mid-Century Modern craftsmanship, signed by artist R. Kaeser. The jar features a domed lid with a rounded fi...
Category
German Art Deco Vintage Mid-20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Wood
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