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Material: Enamel
Contemporary Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Vase Tamura
By Tamura
Located in Newark, England
Showa Period Circa 1940
From our Japanese collection, we are pleased to offer this Antique Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Vase by Tamura. The vase of tapered cylindrical form with a tigh...
Category
Mid-20th Century Japanese Showa Enamel Decorative Objects
Materials
Enamel, Metallic Thread
Art Deco Square Glass & Enamel Etched Vase, Karl Palda, c1930
Located in Devon, England
Originating from Czech republic this Art Deco vase visually looks stunning with it's very distinctive colourway and patterning . The glass is extremely thick and therefore the vase i...
Category
Mid-20th Century Czech Art Deco Enamel Decorative Objects
Materials
Enamel
Pair of "Holy Family" CandleHolders attr. to P.Poussielgue-Rusand, France, c1880
By Poussielgue-Rusand
Located in PARIS, FR
Rare pair of gilded and silvered bronze candle holders with engraved shafts decorated with rings embellished with colored cabochons in imitation of semi-precious stones. The religious character of these candles is recalled by the presence of angels in medallions in the center of the shaft, and by the presence of members of the Holy Family in a mandorla on each side of the tripod foot.
A rich bestiary of fantastic animals inspired by the Middle Ages adorns the whole.
The abundance of details transforms these candle holders from simple utilitarian objects during a religious celebration into a decorative artwork.
Biography :
Placide Poussielgue-Rusand (1824-1889) is a Parisian goldsmith and bronze maker known above all for his liturgical objects (chalices, ciboriums, patens, monstrances, etc.) and church bronzes...
Category
1880s French Medieval Antique Enamel Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze, Enamel
Salimbeni Purse Cigarette Case Two-Color Enamel Stripes Blue and White
By Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Purse cigarette case, oval section in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with two-color enameled stripes. Early 20th century English style. Measures 9 x 4.3 x 2.6 cm. Weight 96 g. ...
Category
1970s Italian International Style Vintage Enamel Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
$2,257 Sale Price
20% Off
Vintage Japanese Brass Champleve Vase With Ornate Handles
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Stunning early 20th century Japanese brass champleve vase. Features a vibrant enamel design throughout the vase.
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Japonisme Enamel Decorative Objects
Materials
Brass, Enamel
ISIDE I11, Moorish Head, Handmade in Sicily, 2021, Centerpiece, Size M
Located in San Miniato PI, IT
THE COLLECTION
This collection offers ideas for contemporary décor through sophisticated revelations of art bound to the tradition of ceramics of Caltagirone, objets d’art that combine history and design.
The extreme attention to details, supported by twenty years of experience of master craftsmen, is the company’s strength.
The production technique hides secrets and art mixtures that make the product unique and exclusive. Mosche Bianche chooses to combine art and design to recall history through ceramic artworks in doing so, history revives, as in a fairy tale, an incredible civilization that is the sicilian culture.
The moorish heads in ceramics, tribute to the beauty of ancient Sicily...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Enamel Decorative Objects
Materials
Enamel
$657 Sale Price / item
25% Off
Pill Box Silver Sterling Enamel Miniature Louis XVI style Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Elevate your collection with this exquisite oval pill box, crafted from 925/1000 gold-plated sterling silver. This piece is adorned with a hand-painted fire-enameled miniature, echoi...
Category
1970s Italian Louis XVI Vintage Enamel Decorative Objects
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Fountain Pen Sterling Silver fired Enamel Guilloche Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Fountain Pen Sterling Silver 925/1000 with translucent fired enamel on guilloche.
Fountain Pen Sterling Silver has 14 carats gold nib and ink cartridge.
Fountain Pen Sterling Silve...
Category
1970s Italian Art Deco Vintage Enamel Decorative Objects
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold
Georges GOUZY earthenware vase, fish design and polychrome enamel, France 1950s
Located in leucate, FR
Georges GOUZY
An earthenware baluster vase with fish design and polychrome enamel.
Carved signature, " G. Gouzy - L'atelier Bormes "
Unique w...
Category
1950s French French Provincial Vintage Enamel Decorative Objects
Materials
Enamel
"Red Lips Face, " Terra Cotta Sculpture by Ginestroni
Located in New York, NY
Sculpture in terra cotta, handcrafted, fired painted and decorated, definitely with humor by the Italian artist Ginestroni, whose work has been exhibited in the Chianti Sculpture Park in Italy.
This individually sculpted face has fired enameled lips, so realistic, it looks like it is wearing true lipstick.
A very interesting object...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Enamel Decorative Objects
Materials
Enamel
19th Century French Marble and Bronze Rooster Sculpture Signed Melotte
By Melotte
Located in Dallas, TX
Decorate your desk or study with this elegant antique inkwell, crafted in France, circa 1880, and situated on a rectangular green marble base, the desk accessory features a bronze ro...
Category
Late 19th Century French Empire Antique Enamel Decorative Objects
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Enamel
Moorish Head, Handmade Sicily, Vase, Size S, Colorful, Metallized Finishing E23
Located in San Miniato PI, IT
The Collection
This collection offers ideas for contemporary décor through sophisticated revelations of art bound to the tradition of ceramics of Caltagirone, objets d’art that co...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Enamel Decorative Objects
Materials
Enamel
$385 Sale Price / item
25% Off
Austrian Blue Whtie Porcelain Enamel Box Bird Design by Black, Starr & Gorham
Located in New York, NY
An Austrian blue, white, and gold porcelain enamel small box and lid by Black, Starr & Gorham, circa early-20th century, Austria. Box has detailed design of peacock birds, flowers, l...
Category
Early 20th Century Austrian Enamel Decorative Objects
Materials
Enamel, Brass
Antique Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Ginbari Baby Blue Enamel Floral Double Handle V
Located in Queens, NY
An antique Japanese copper vase with polychrome ginbari cloisonne enamel decor. Late Meiji period,
Squat round shape, long neck and decorative side handles. Blue body with pink and ...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Enamel Decorative Objects
Materials
Copper, Enamel
$1,050 Sale Price
30% Off
Arts & Crafts Liberty Pewter Clock by David Veasey, 1903
By David Veasey
Located in Pymble, NSW
A David Veasey designed clock of "The Tree of Life" made by Liberty & Co London in their "Tudric" range, pewter, circa 1903.
A very large clock with a beautiful green/blue enamel di...
Category
Early 1900s British Arts and Crafts Antique Enamel Decorative Objects
Materials
Enamel, Pewter
Antique Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Silver Wire Enamel Miniature Vase Bird on Bambo
Located in Queens, NY
An antique Japanese, late Meiji period, silver wire enamel vase. The vase has an amphora shaped body and a fluted neck. The ware is enameled with a polychrome image of a sparrow bird...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Enamel Decorative Objects
Materials
Enamel
Torino Glazed Ceramic Figurine 'Verginità' by Sandro Vaccetti for Essevi, Italy
Located in North Miami, FL
Torino painted and glazed ceramic woman figurine 'Verginità' by Sandro Vaccetti for the firm Essevi, Italy
By: Sandro Vaccetti
Material: ceramic, paint, enamel, clay
Technique: glaz...
Category
1930s Italian Art Deco Vintage Enamel Decorative Objects
Materials
Enamel
Box with fired enamels and fine horse racing miniature Salimbeni.
Located in Firenze, FI
Large shaped table box in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated with translucent fired enamels on guilloche and large fire enamelled rectangular miniature hand painted by the painter ...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Enamel Decorative Objects
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Clock and 2 Candlesticks Table set Sterling Silver Enamel Salimbeni.
Located in Firenze, FI
Table set made up of a clock and 2 candlesticks in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with two-tone translucent stripes fire-enamelled on guillochè and fine hand-engravings.
The cl...
Category
1980s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Enamel Decorative Objects
Materials
Amethyst, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Venere V25, Man's Moorish Head, Handmade in Sicily, 2021, Gold Finish, Size L
Located in San Miniato PI, IT
The Collection
This collection offers ideas for contemporary décor through sophisticated revelations of art bound to the tradition of ceramics of Caltagirone, objets d’art that combine history and design.
The extreme attention to details, supported by twenty years of experience of master craftsmen, is the company’s strength.
The production technique hides secrets and art mixtures that make the product unique and exclusive.
Mosche Bianche chooses to combine art and design to recall history through ceramic artworks in doing so, history revives, as in a fairy tale, an incredible civilization that is the sicilian culture.
The moorish heads in ceramics, tribute to the beauty of ancient Sicily...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Enamel Decorative Objects
Materials
Enamel
$1,699 Sale Price / item
25% Off
Large Pair of High Quality Japanese Cloisonne Goldstone Enamel Vases Sparrows in
Located in Queens, NY
A pair of large high quality Japanese enamel over brass vases
The sphere shaped vases are covered with polychrome enamel medallions depicting sparrows in blossoming flowers, and Phoe...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Enamel Decorative Objects
Materials
Brass, Enamel
Box Black and White Art Deco style designed for Cartier USA Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Box Black and White enamel is Inspired by drawings by Louis Cartier from the early 1920s in Art Deco style and recreated for Cartier USA in 1976.
It is in 925/1000 sterling.
Box Blac...
Category
1970s Italian Art Deco Vintage Enamel Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Large Antique Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Barrel Vase with Butterflies
Located in Queens, NY
A large antique Japanese copper vase with cloisonne enamel design. Barrel shape. Floral ornaments and central butterfly motif against the turquoise blue background.
Late 19th Century...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Enamel Decorative Objects
Materials
Enamel, Copper
James Bearden Module Trio
Located in New York, NY
Group of three small abstract sculptures, titled Module Trio, of blackened steel, fused and dyed bronze, and glass enamel. Made in 2019 by Am...
Category
2010s American Brutalist Enamel Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze, Enamel, Steel
$2,200 / set
Antique Victorian Sterling Silver and Enamel Vesta Case by Lawrence Emanuel
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique Victorian English sterling silver and enamel vesta case; an addition to our range of collectable silver cases.
This exceptional antique...
Category
1890s British Victorian Antique Enamel Decorative Objects
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Pillbox Queen Victoria English style Shaped Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Shaped pillbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with hand-painted fired enameled miniature. Queen Victoria English style second half of the 19th century. Measurements cm. 2.2 ...
Category
1980s Italian Queen Anne Vintage Enamel Decorative Objects
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Japanese Green Cloisonné Rose Vase by Ando Cloisonné
By Ando Jubei
Located in Chicago, IL
This elegant vase by Ando Cloisonné Company is finely decorated in the cloisonné manner with translucent enamels and silver accents. The globular vase is cloaked in glassy, turquoise...
Category
Mid-20th Century Japanese Art Deco Enamel Decorative Objects
Materials
Metal, Silver Plate, Enamel
Mexican Antique One of a Kind Flower Pot Clay Dolores Porras Ceramic Vase
Located in Queretaro, Queretaro
Dolores Porras Enríquez is widely known throughout Mexico and the world for being the creator of a technique rooted in the land of Oaxaca: pottery in natural color, glazed and decora...
Category
1980s Mexican Folk Art Vintage Enamel Decorative Objects
Materials
Enamel
Box engraving on the lid and hand-painted floral miniature Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Shaped table box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fine fire-enameled engraving on the lid and hand-painted floral miniature in 18th century French Empire style. Dimension...
Category
1970s Italian Empire Vintage Enamel Decorative Objects
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Snuffbox female face wearing Art Nouveau style clothing 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 Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Enamel Decorative Objects
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Pill Box oval with floral miniature Art Nouveau style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Pill Box oval with floral miniature Art Nouveau style Sterling Silver Salimbeni in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with hand-painted fire-enamel...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Enamel Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver, Gold Plate, Enamel
ISIDE I15, Woman's Moorish Head, Handmade in Sicily, 2021, Colorful, Size M
Located in San Miniato PI, IT
THE COLLECTION
This collection offers ideas for contemporary décor through sophisticated revelations of art bound to the tradition of ceramics of Caltagirone, objets d’art that combine history and design.
The extreme attention to details, supported by twenty years of experience of master craftsmen, is the company’s strength.
The production technique hides secrets and art mixtures that make the product unique and exclusive. Mosche Bianche chooses to combine art and design to recall history through ceramic artworks in doing so, history revives, as in a fairy tale, an incredible civilization that is the sicilian culture.
The moorish heads in ceramics, tribute to the beauty of ancient Sicily...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Enamel Decorative Objects
Materials
Enamel
$771 Sale Price / item
25% Off
Late 19th Century Pair of French Victorian Bronze Urns
Located in Queens, NY
PAIR of French Victorian bronze urns with handles and enamel crest. (PRICED AS PAIR).
Category
Late 19th Century French Victorian Antique Enamel Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze, Enamel
Picture Frame Green two-tones enamel Guilloche Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
This important Picture Frame Green is in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated 24 carats. It is rectangular shaped photo frame.
The surface of this Picture Frame Green is fired enamel...
Category
1970s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Enamel Decorative Objects
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold
1960s John Prip for Reed & Barton Red Enamel Silverplated Organic Bowl
Located in Chula Vista, CA
John Prip for Reed & Barton
Ruby Red triangular bowl Silver plated
Stamped underneath
2.5. H x 7 diameter
Preowned vintage unrestored patina present.
Not new, please expect signs of ...
Category
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Enamel Decorative Objects
Materials
Enamel, Silver Plate
Antique Pair of French Opaline Enamelled Glass Vases, 19th Century
Located in Rostock, MV
Exceptional pair of vases in enamelled opaline glass
Circular body richly hand-painted with gold and enamel decoration
France, Circa 1880
Category
19th Century French Antique Enamel Decorative Objects
Materials
Enamel
Chinese Export Cloisonné Box
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Lovely Chinese export cloisonné box made of brass and enameled with a beautiful mountain scene decoration in vibrant yellow color resting on ball feet. This chinoiserie box is marked...
Category
1910s Chinese Chinoiserie Vintage Enamel Decorative Objects
Materials
Brass, Enamel
Tall Mid-Century Modern Sculpted Walnut and Enamel Candleholder by Ernest Sohn
By Ernest Sohn
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Large candlestick/votive holder by enamelist, Ernest Sohn, in solid, deeply sculpted walnut with enamel panel decoration (ca. 1960s, USA).
Enamel boasts beautiful blue and aqua tones...
Category
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Enamel Decorative Objects
Materials
Copper, Enamel
Vintage Scholz & Lammel Modernist Wood Box Enamel Made in Germany
Located in Krefeld, DE
Beautiful Scholz & Lammel boxe from the 1960s made of wood with enamel top. You could use it for cigaretts, little things like jewelry or small accessories.
Price for one box.
Category
1960s German Scandinavian Modern Vintage Enamel Decorative Objects
Materials
Enamel
Picture Frame with two-tone enamel stripes on guilloché Salimbeni.
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with two-tone enamel stripes on guilloché and fine hand engravings French Empire style. With 2 oval photo holders, internal ...
Category
1970s Italian Empire Vintage Enamel Decorative Objects
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Picture Frame Louis XVI Green and sky blue, French Empire style Sterling Silver
Located in Firenze, FI
This stunning Picture Frame is in 925/1000 sterling silver.
Picture Frame Louis XVI has a squared shape with green and sky blue color for the fire enameled surface on guilloche and h...
Category
1980s Italian Louis XVI Vintage Enamel Decorative Objects
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
POP Moorish Head, Handmade in Sicily, Vase, Size M, Choose Your Color
Located in San Miniato PI, IT
The POP! Collection
This collection offers ideas for contemporary décor through sophisticated revelations of art bound to the tradition of ceramics of Caltagirone, objets d’art that combine history and design.
POP moorish heads...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Enamel Decorative Objects
Materials
Enamel
$618 Sale Price / item
25% Off
Cigarette Case Fired Enamel on a Fine Hand-Engraved Mountain Landscape Sterling
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table cigarette case with rounded corners in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on a fine hand-engrave...
Category
1970s Italian Modern Vintage Enamel Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
victorian brass skeleton clock antique
By G. None
Located in Bronx, NY
This quaint vintage timepiece is designed with a brass body decorated with three white enamel dials featuring varied numerical styles. A key wind movement operates the clock and a gl...
Category
Late 19th Century American Victorian Antique Enamel Decorative Objects
Materials
Brass, Enamel
Photo Frame with Interlacements in French Empire Louis XVI Style Sterling Silver
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular photo frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè and with convex border with enamelled lines, on which are applied interlace...
Category
1980s Italian Empire Vintage Enamel Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Vintage Red Enamel Brass Box – Early to Mid 20th Century Floral Design
Located in West Palm Beach, US
Vintage Red Enamel Brass Box – Early to Mid 20th Century Floral Design
Red enamel over brass vintage box, dating from the early to mid 20th century. This decorative piece features a...
Category
20th Century Unknown Hollywood Regency Enamel Decorative Objects
Materials
Brass, Enamel
Venere V26, Man's Moorish Head, Vase without crown, Handmade in Sicily, Size S
Located in San Miniato PI, IT
The Collection
This collection offers ideas for contemporary décor through sophisticated revelations of art bound to the tradition of ceramics of Caltagirone, objets d’art that co...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Enamel Decorative Objects
Materials
Enamel
$377 Sale Price / item
25% Off
Mid-Century Sascha Brastoff Signed Enamel Plate
Located in Charleston, SC
Enameled Plate Wall Decor with Grapes motif. The enamel on Copper dish features luscious shades of teal or aqua blue with green grapes and gold overgl...
Category
1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Enamel Decorative Objects
Materials
Copper, Enamel
Venere V15, Man's Moorish Head, Handmade in Sicily, 2021, Hand Painted, Size L
Located in San Miniato PI, IT
The Collection
This collection offers ideas for contemporary décor through sophisticated revelations of art bound to the tradition of ceramics of Caltagirone, objets d’art that co...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Enamel Decorative Objects
Materials
Enamel
$1,217 Sale Price / item
25% Off
A brutalist relief, ”Chalice and Fruits" stoneware by Gunvor Olin, Arabia
Located in Stockholm, SE
A brutalist still life relief, ”Chalice and Fruits," signed by Gunvor Olin-Grönqvist, was crafted during the 1960s in stoneware. The wall panel boasts an impressive size of 19 x 53.5...
Category
1960s Finnish Brutalist Vintage Enamel Decorative Objects
Materials
Enamel
Venere V15, Woman's Moorish Head, Handmade in Sicily, 2021, Hand Painted, Size S
Located in San Miniato PI, IT
The Collection
This collection offers ideas for contemporary décor through sophisticated revelations of art bound to the tradition of ceramics of Caltagirone, objets d’art that co...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Enamel Decorative Objects
Materials
Enamel
$385 Sale Price / item
25% Off
Tiffany Studios New York Bronze and Enamel Blotter Ends With Leather Desk Pad
Located in South Bend, IN
A gorgeous pair of Art Deco or Arts & Crafts period bronze and blue enamel blotter ends with a custom blue leather desk pad
By Tiffany Studios
New ...
Category
Early 20th Century American Arts and Crafts Enamel Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze, Enamel
Table Box floral miniature fire-enameled on guilloche and stripes Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Oval table box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fired enamel, with fine floral miniature fire-enamelled on guilloche, enamelled edge with vertical stripes. Viennese Art N...
Category
1960s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Enamel Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold Plate
God E11, Man's Moorish Head, Handmade in Sicily Vase, Size L. Monochrome.
Located in San Miniato PI, IT
The Collection
This collection offers ideas for contemporary décor through sophisticated revelations of art bound to the tradition of ceramics of Caltagirone, objets d’art that co...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Enamel Decorative Objects
Materials
Enamel
$897 Sale Price / item
25% Off
Antique Bohemian Overlay Enameled Glass Bottle, Decanter, Flacon, 19th Century
Located in Rostock, MV
Alabaster Opaline Biedermeier Glass, Milky White Color with Green Overlay
Beautifully cut and richly decorated with hand-painted gilt enamel scrollwork
Bohemia, 19th century.
Category
19th Century Antique Enamel Decorative Objects
Materials
Enamel
Modernist Krenit Bowl in Black Steel and Robins-egg- Blue Enamel Interior
Located in Downingtown, PA
Modernist Krenit Bowl in Black Steel and Robins-egg- Blue Enamel interior
by Herbert Krenchel for Torben Ørskov & Co.,
Enameled Steel,
Designed 1953
This 1950-60's Modernist bo...
Category
Mid-20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Enamel Decorative Objects
Materials
Enamel, Cut Steel
Petit Sonnerie Carriage Clock in Gorge Case with original Gilding
Located in Amersham, GB
A handsome Petit Sonnerie Carriage clock in a Gorge case retaining much of its original gilding, the eight day movement with original silvered lever escapement, strikes on two nested...
Category
1860s French Antique Enamel Decorative Objects
Materials
Brass, Enamel, Steel
Cigarette Case Fired Enamel with Still Life Miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table cigarette case with rounded corners in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated with beautiful miniature fire enamelled and hand painted by the painter Beatrice Mellana reproducing a "still life" by the Flemish painter Willem Claes Heda. Dimensions cm. 5.7 x 9 x 1.7. Weight gr. 174. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1969 and manufactured in Florence in numerous specimens with various subjects and different colors, 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 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
1960s Italian Art Deco Vintage Enamel Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold
Early French Black Enamel Lantern With Fleur-De-Lis Decoration, Circa 1720's
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Classic Vintage Enamaled Travel or Theif Lantern with open chimney and Fleur-De-Lis decorations throughout. This vintage early 18th Century piece would be a fantastic addition to an ...
Category
Early 18th Century French Baroque Antique Enamel Decorative Objects
Materials
Enamel, Brass
$752 Sale Price
20% Off
James Bearden Sculpture "Meteor Storm"
Located in New York, NY
Sonic sculpture of torch-cut steel fused with glass enamel titled “Meteor Storm” by American artist James Bearden. The array of iridescent, molten-looking celestial shapes surmountin...
Category
2010s American Modern Enamel Decorative Objects
Materials
Enamel, Steel
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Antique Cornucopia
Archimede Seguso Murano
Antique Italian Wood Carvings
Antique Sevres Hand Painted Porcelain
Antique German Black Forest
Antique Bronze Bowl
Antique White Pedestal
19th Century Filigree
Antique Silver Hall Marks
Antique German Furniture Makers
Antique Napoleonic
Antique Souvenir