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Snuff Box Sterling Silver, Paillons and Miniature Salimbeni

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Oval snuff box in 925/1000 sterling silver, gold plated with blue and white fired enamelled stripes enriched with some gold paillons and with oval miniature hand painted in tempera on plate signed by the painter Anna Maria Manfriani reproducing the portrait of Maria Maddalena of Austria Duchess of Lorraine by Justus Sustermans Uffizi Gallery in Florence. Measure cm. 5 x 7,2 x 3,7. Weight 224 gr. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1974 and made in Florence in the Salimbeni factory with manual workmanship by talented artisans with a thick plate and large reinforcements suitable to support numerous firings of enamelling at a high temperature of about 800° C.

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