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Snuff Box reproducing the painting of a Roman glimpse late 1800s Salimbeni
$4,959.14
£3,683.81
€4,144
CA$6,841.48
A$7,520.66
CHF 3,952.52
MX$91,328.25
NOK 49,306.64
SEK 46,714.58
DKK 31,546.27
About the Item
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 reproducing the painting of a Roman glimpse of the late 1800s by Franz Richard Unterberger. Dimensions cm. 7.8 x 8.8 x 1.4. Weight gr. 251. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1990 and manufactured in Florence in several specimens with different subjects 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 approx. 750° < 800° C.
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.
- Creator:Salimbeni (Manufacturer),Franco Salimbeni (Designer)
- Dimensions:Height: 0.56 in (1.4 cm)Width: 3.47 in (8.8 cm)Depth: 3.08 in (7.8 cm)
- Style:Baroque (In the Style Of)
- Materials and Techniques:
- Place of Origin:
- Period:1990-1999
- Date of Manufacture:1990
- Condition:
- Seller Location:Firenze, IT
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU6492235309832
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