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Material: Silver
Georg Jensen Sterling Silver Basket 235B
By Georg Jensen
Located in Hellerup, DK
A large sterling silver decorative basket, design #235B by Georg Jensen from circa 1917. A beautiful handled basket raised on a series of limb like branches and a floral base on a ro...
Category
1940s Danish Art Nouveau Vintage Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver
Traditional Georgian-Style Sterling Silver Candlesticks
Located in New York, NY
Traditional Georgian-style sterling silver candlesticks, circa 1950. Each: spool socket with detachable bobeche on knopped and flanged shaft; foot square. Gadrooned rims. Fully marke...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Georgian Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver
Indian Silver Mounted and Semi-Precious Stone Encrusted Large Wood Chest
Located in Gardena, CA
Indian silver mounted and semi-precious stone encrusted large wood chest
2nd Half 20th century. Silver mounts to the exterior with various semi-pre...
Category
Late 20th Century Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Silver
Egg on Tripod Hand Painted Sterling Silver Enamel on Guillochè Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Egg on tripod in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè, Russian Empire style inspired by Carl Fabergè eggs ...
Category
1960s Italian Other Vintage Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Gold, Enamel, Sterling Silver, Gold Plate
Sterling Silver Inkwell Made by Gösta Helenius, Ábo Sweden, 1928
Located in Paris, FR
Writing stand, Sterling silver and glass, by Gösta Konstantin Helenius, Ábo Sweden 1928.
Square bottle, bevelled edges, size 6x6 cm, height tot. 9 cm. W...
Category
Mid-20th Century Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver
Modernist Silverplate Candlesticks, Pair
Located in New York, NY
Fisher Silversmiths Modernist Silverplate Candlesticks, 2, in the manner of Norman Bel Geddes (American 1893-1958) comprising two semicircular plinths, each mounted with three candle...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Silver Plate
Silver walking stick with a rooster, France 1890.
Located in Milan, IT
Walking stick: silver handle depicting a rooster. Ebony shaft. Metal tip. France 1890 ca.
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Metal, Silver
Antique European Silver and Enamel Horses with Carriage Figurine
Located in Pasadena, CA
European silver and enamel horses with carriage. Depicting a coachmen and two horses, having GuillochŽ and Viennese enamel on sterling silver with gem stones decorated areas, on a ve...
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Other Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Silver, Enamel
Silver Handle Walking Stick, Germany, 1900
Located in Milan, IT
Walking stick: silver handle, depicting the head of a horse. Ebony wood shaft. Metal ferrule. Germany 1900 ca.
Category
Early 20th Century German Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Metal, Silver
1950s Silver Jug with Handle
Located in Marbella, ES
1950s Silver Jug with Handle.
Category
Mid-20th Century European Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Silver
Antique American Modern Sterling Silver and Glass Inkwell on Stand
Located in New York, NY
Modern sterling silver and glass inkwell on stand, circa 1920. Lobed melon-form glass bowl; sterling silver cover domed with overlapping ovoid ring finial. stand has well and large l...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver
Mario Buccellati Life Size Silver Yorkshirre Terrier Dog
Located in New York, NY
Mario Buccellati life size silver Yorkshirre Terrier dog
A life-size silver dog crafted with a technique know as ‘lavorazione a pelo’ or ‘hair-like workmanship. This technique in...
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Silver
Matl Mexican Silver Santos Style Figure
Located in Dallas, TX
A Rivera Nuestra Senora de la Asuncion in Tonaya adorned with turquoise and amethyst! Signed on back. circa 1950s, Mexico.
Category
1950s Mexican Vintage Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Silver
Vintage Irish Sterling Silver Fish Candle Holders
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive pair of vintage Irish cast sterling silver fish candlesticks; an addition to our ornamental silverware collection....
Category
1970s Irish Vintage Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver
Magnificent Edwardian Scottish Silver Wine Cooler, 1901
Located in London, GB
A large, impressive and fine quality silver wine cooler made at the turn of the 20th century by Mackay & Chisholm at 59 Princes Street, Edinburgh. The lower half of the body of this ...
Category
Early 1900s Scottish Edwardian Antique Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Silver
20th Century German Solid Silver Pair of Pheasant Statues, Hanau, circa 1910
Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Antique early 20th century German pair of solid silver table ornaments modelled as a male and female pheasants, each statue is naturalistic and w...
Category
20th Century German Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Silver
George III Antique Silver Basket, 1802
By Digby Scott & Benjamin Smith
Located in London, GB
An impressive George III period silver basket of open-work construction made at the turn of the 19th century. The elegant round flared body is of drawn wire construction and beautifu...
Category
Early 1800s English George III Antique Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Silver
Rosewood Grandfather Clock
Located in New Orleans, LA
This magnificent English longcase, or grandfather, clock boasts a fine rosewood case inlaid with an intricate, balanced design. The face is crafted of chased silver in a foliate motif with fully hallmarked numerals by London silversmith James Stedstone Gouldsmith. The clock is a three-train movement run by three silver-plated weights and a mercury pendulum. The three weights power the time, the hour chime and the quarter-hour chime, and the clock strikes on nine tubular bells with a choice of either Whittington or Westminster chimes.
Known commonly as “grandfather” clocks, it was not until the late 19th century that longcase clocks garnered this name. According to the origin tale, two brothers named Jenkins owned the George Hotel...
Category
19th Century English Antique Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Silver, Silver Plate
Gilt Sterling Silver Filigree Jewelery Miniature Watercolors, 19th Century
Located in Gardena, CA
Gilt sterling silver filigree jewelery miniature watercolors, 19th century
19th century Silver filigree Trinket Box with miniature hand painted...
Category
19th Century Antique Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver
Antique Sterling Silver Double Snuff & Patch Box with Engine Turned Decoration
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This antique double compartment snuff box is hallmarked by an unknown maker, and originated from England, dating to approximately 1900 and done in a period Edwardian style. The box i...
Category
Early 20th Century English Edwardian Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver
Early 18th Century Coconut and Silver Cup
Located in Brescia, IT
Cups in coconut such as this are especially uncommon and rarely appear on the world's art market. This is a very interesting piece for its fine and rich craftmenships metal silver de...
Category
Early 18th Century Dutch Baroque Antique Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Silver
Table Box Enamel on Guilloche Hand Painted Miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Square box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè also on the sides. In the center, a beautiful hand painted tempera miniature on a vegetable ivory plate depicting the portrait of a 19th century lady, signed by the painter Anna Maria Manfriani. Dimensions cm. 12 x 12 x 2.5. Weight gr. 618. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1976 and manufactured in Florence in some 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
1970s Italian Modern Vintage Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Gold Plate, Enamel, Sterling Silver
20th Century Indian Solid Silver Tea Chest Shaped Caddy, Hamilton & Co, C.1958
Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Mid-20th Century rare Indian colonial solid silver tea caddy shaped as a tea chest. Of square form, imitating a tea chest, with metal corner brackets and rivets, with a hinged lid an...
Category
20th Century Indian Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Silver
Murano Sommerso Amber and Silver Flecks Art Glass Fish Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
Italian mid-century sculptural Murano glass fish. Realized using the Sommerso technique, a clear layer of glass blown over the amber color glass, worked in bullicante, the air bubbles trapped inside the glass (technique made famous by Archimede Seguso) and infused with Silver flakes throughout. The silver and bubbles bringing the jumping fish alive inspiring the glistening reflections of water, resting atop a sea motif...
Category
1970s Italian Organic Modern Vintage Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Silver Leaf
Rare Gramophone Made for the Gramophone Exhibition in Seville in 1925
Located in Madrid, ES
A very unique and rare gramophone made by a Seville jewller for the Gramophone Exhibition in Seville in 1925 in wich was awarded with a silver medal.It was...
Category
20th Century Spanish Islamic Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Silver
Franco Lapini, Silverplate Seal Wine Cooler / Ice Bucket, 1970s, Italy
Located in Firenze, IT
Important Hollywood regency Seal shaped wine cooler / ice bucket.
Franco Lapini, Florence Italy, 1970s
Silverplated, glass eyes. Hand finished.
Hinged head. Signed on the ba...
Category
1970s Italian Hollywood Regency Vintage Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Silver Plate
1970s Three Silver Plate Jugs from the House of Kristoff
Located in Marbella, ES
1970s three silver plate jugs from the House of Kristoff
The measurement is of the largest.
Category
Late 20th Century European Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Silver Plate
Louis XVI Style Cache Pot in Porcelain and Silver
Located in LA CIOTAT, FR
A beautiful and intricately painted Louis XVI style 'Cache Pot' in white porcelain with a silver frame. From the French verb 'cacher', meaning 'to hide', these vases were designed to contain and disguise the utilitarian growing pot of an indoor plant, and to make an attractive feature of indoor greenery. A delicate design criss-cross design of pink roses, foliage and gold spots encircles the body of the vase, while the upper silver frame is hallmarked with the 950/100 Minerva head...
Category
19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver
Charles Harleux 1895 Paris Art Nouveau Pair of Candlestick in Sterling Silver
By Charles Harleux
Located in Miami, FL
Art nouveau candlesticks designed by Charles Harleux.
Very rare late 19th century pair of table candlestick, created in Paris France by the master silversmith Charles Harleuz, bac...
Category
Late 19th Century French Art Nouveau Antique Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Mario Buccellati Life Size Silver Rabbit
Located in New York, NY
Mario Buccellati life size silver rabbit. A life-Size silver rabbit crafted with a technique know as ‘lavorazione a pelo’ or ‘hair-like workmanship. This...
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Silver
Arne Bang, Ceramic Jam Jar in Grooved Design, 1940s/50s
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Arne Bang, ceramic jam jar in grooved design.
Beautiful dark green glaze.
1940/50s.
Perfect condition.
Hand signed.
With lid by Hugo Grön in nickel silver in Art Deco style and...
Category
1940s Danish Vintage Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Silver
English Modern Sterling Silver Cigar Box
By W.C. Griffiths
Located in New York, NY
English Modern sterling silver cigar box, 1919. Rectangular with plain straight sides. Cover hinged with tapering tab; top gently curved with...
Category
1910s English Art Deco Vintage Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver
Christian Dior Home Collection Sterling Silver Square Picture Frame
Located in Atlanta, GA
This charming Christian Dior Paris sterling silver picture frame boasts a geometric square shape with a raised pied de poule pattern. The back and easel are in shiny lacquered wood w...
Category
1980s French Modern Vintage Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Metal, Sterling Silver
Victorian Oneida Silver Plated Footed Serving Bowl 2 Community Plate Spoons USA
By Oneida
Located in Miami, FL
Victorian Ornate American lovely silverplate footed compote by Oneida Silversmiths. It comes with two Community Plate Spoons. The bowl itself is sh...
Category
1950s American Victorian Vintage Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Silver Plate, Steel
Pablo Picasso Silver Plate, circa 1956, France
By Pablo Picasso, Pierre Hugo
Located in Girona, Spain
Pablo Picasso plate.
Made with silver.
Very decorative.
With certificate of authenticity, signed and numbered.
Manufacturer: Pierre Hugo
Circ...
Category
1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Silver
Antique Japanese Meiji-Era Silver Box with Iris Flowers
Located in New York, NY
Japanese silver box, ca 1890. Rectangular with straight sides and hinged cover. On cover top and box sides are chased and engraved iris flowers and tendril...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Art Nouveau Antique Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Silver
Unique Silver Box by K Anderson Stockholm Sweden 1932 Signed
Located in Paris, FR
Unique silver box by K Anderson Stockholm Sweden 1932 signed K anderson and has all the embossed with all stamps for Swedish silver.
This unique model probably custom made by K Ande...
Category
Mid-20th Century European Mid-Century Modern Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Metal, Silver
Sterling Silver Box Samodorok technique Russia unknown marquer 1960
Located in Paris, FR
Sterling Silver box made with Samodorok technique in Russia 1960 Unknown maker
The inside of the lid is gilded, 9.5 x 14.5 cm, height 4.5 cm. Total weight C. 330 g.
Good condition.
Category
Mid-20th Century European Mid-Century Modern Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver
Jewelry box inward corners miniature hand painted Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Large rectangular tabletop jewelery box with inward corners in gilded 925/1000 silver with translucent fired enamel on guillochè also on the sides and finished with fine hand engraving. In the center, a beautiful rectangular miniature cm. 4 x 5.5 hand painted in tempera on vegetable ivory plate by Roberto Masi depicting the portrait of Madame Boucard by Tamara De Lempicka (1931). Size cm. 14 x 19 x 3.2. Weight gr. 1,248. Designed by Giorgio Salimbeni in 1998 and manufactured in Florence in various specimens with different subjects and colours, in the headquarters of the Salimbeni company with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for withstanding numerous glazing firings at high heat 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...
Category
1990s Italian Art Deco Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Limited Edition 7/10 Georg Jensen Sterling Silver Marc Newson Tea Set 1500
By Marc Newson
Located in Hellerup, DK
A limited edition Georg Jensen sterling silver tea set, #1500 designed my Marc Newson in 2014. A five piece hand-hammered tea set made by hand at the Georg Jensen silver smithy in Fr...
Category
2010s Danish Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver
Rare Set Four Silver Plate & Glass Column Candlesticks, circa 1860
Located in Bath, GB
It is rare to find a pair of these candlesticks in a winning combination of classically styled silver plate paired with glass columns, here we have a set of four!
Just back from o...
Category
1860s British Victorian Antique Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Silver Plate
20th Century Art Deco Solid Silver Photo Frame, Chester, circa 1907
Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Antique early 20th century Art Deco solid silver photograph frame, mounted on a velvet easel support and set with glass. Hallmarked English silve...
Category
20th Century English Art Deco Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Silver
Adie Brothers Ltd Mantel Clock
Located in Northampton, GB
This is a charming little tortoiseshell and sterling silver carriage clock by Birmingham Silversmiths, Adie Brothers.
This Sterling Silver Carriage Clock has beautifully figured Tortoiseshell panels. Featuring a wonderfully classic dome-shaped top with an ornate carry handle. This lovely Carriage Clock stands on four Bun Feet.
The French movement features a prime white enamel clock face with Classic Roman Numerals by Wilson & Sharp. The Silver is fully hallmarked by Birmingham Silversmiths Adie Brothers Ltd.
This masterly Tortoiseshell Clock...
Category
Early 20th Century British Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Silver
Antique Chinese Silver Tea Caddy, circa 1900
Located in London, GB
A late 19th/early 20th century tea caddy made by the Canton-based artisan workshop LIAN XIANG SHENG 聨样盛 for the Canton and Hong Kong-based luxury goods retailer WANG HING 宏興
This particular style of tea caddy based on a naturalistic interpretation of prunus mume tree trunk takes its inspiration directly from Yixing unglazed stoneware [aka zisha] produced in Jiangsu Province. The Yixing potters began specialising in making teapots during the Ming dynasty as a direct result of the then new innovation of making tea from rolled leaves rather than the finely ground powdered tea that preceded it. In time, among Chinese tea connoisseurs, it was considered that a Yixing teapot...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Silver
Art Deco Sterling Silver, Enamel, Marcasites Desk/Table Clock, DRGM
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Beautiful, sterling silver, and guilloche enamel, desk/table clock with marcasites, Marked Germany / DRGM.
Category
Early 20th Century German Art Deco Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver
Pair of Sterling Silver Table Models of Pheasants 1926
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Pair of sterling silver models of Pheasants, English import marks for London 1926 Neresheimer & Co. The pheasants, male and female of usual form, realistically textured, chased feath...
Category
1920s German Vintage Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver
Sterling Silver Repousse Bookmark
By Kirk & Son
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Being offered is a sterling silver bookmark by S. Kirk and Sons of Baltimore, Maryland. Inspired by their iconic Repousse pattern, it has clu...
Category
1930s American Vintage Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver
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
1960s Italian Baroque Vintage Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Antique English Glass & Sterling Silver String / Twine Jar or Box, 1899
Located in Bath, GB
A most unusual late Victorian fine string or twine box made from glass with a star cut base, the base mounted with a sterling silver foot and fitted with a solid silver lid topped wi...
Category
1890s British Late Victorian Antique Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver
Sphere Vase Taddei Architect Italian Design 1970 in Very Thick Glass Silver Part
Located in Palermo, Sicily
Sphere vase Taddei architect Italian design 1970, in very thick glass, with silver bands, amethyst color Diameter 16 cm, height 16 cm.
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Crystal, Silver
Photo Frame Fired Enamel with Two-Tone Stripes on Guillochè and Hand Engravings
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular frame with oval photo in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel with two-tone stripes on guillochè and hand engravings. External dimensions cm...
Category
1980s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Mid-18th Century German Engraved Sterking Silver Box
Located in Brescia, IT
This fine sterling silver box is a piece of high craftmenship. All the surfaces are finely engraved with rich Baroque decor. It is a little jewel of handmade work.
It was a jewel bo...
Category
Mid-18th Century German Baroque Antique Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver
Pendant by Novello Finotti, Italy
Located in Brussels, BE
Pendant by Novello Finotti, Italy.
Category
1970s Vintage Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Gold, Silver, Bronze
Jumping Horse Sculpture 925 Silver Handcrafted Filigree Technique Germany 2005
Located in Salzburg, AT
This sculpture in 925 silver of a Jumping Horse is a true masterpiece of filigree technique.
Filigree comes from the Latin and consists of 2 words filum (thread) and granum (grain).
With the filigree technique, jewelry and objects are made from tiny threads decorated with beads.
Filigree art made of gold and silver threads.
The goldsmith Naser Al-Ybi was born in Damascus in 1962 and learned this art from his father.
Already in the 3rd generation, this goldsmith technique is successfully practiced professionally in the family.
For 16 years, the artist now lives in Germany and has his own studio.
It is historically traditional wedding and costume jewelry objects from Bavaria and Austria in the finest handmade but also small objects in silver such as horses, ships, trays and a unique object like this motorcycle.
Each piece is unique and will not be 100% identical to the previous one when manufactured again.
The term filigree literally means "grained wire" (from Latin filum "thread, wire" and granum "grain") and refers to fine goldsmith's work made of metal threads with attached metal beads. Figuratively, the term is also used for any other fine decorative form, such as that of an iron cutter or chaser.
It is an ancient ornamental wire bending technique made of delicate, thin wires braided (corded) as if into ropes. It is known since about 2000 BC from Troy. However, the Etruscans also developed this goldsmithing technique to perfection in the 8th century BC. Via Spain and Portugal, filigree work reached Friesland and spread from there to the Netherlands and northwest Germany. Today, filigree work continues to be used especially in the Alpine countries, but also in the Oriental countries for costume or folk jewelry.
Wires of gold or silver are soldered in decorative patterns onto a base of the same material. From the 20th century, the wires are also braided into a fine, openwork web without a base and soldered only at the points of contact. The material thickness of the wires is up to 0.01 mm. For ornamentation, one uses either only knotted wires, or wires cut...
Category
Early 2000s German Other Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Silver
Redlich & Co. Sterling Silver & Cut Glass Antler Twin Handled Jar Cigar Humidor
Located in Gardena, CA
Redlich & Co. sterling silver & cut glass antler twin handled jar cigar humidor
circa 1900. Antler to the twin handles and finial of the silver lid. Cut vertical designs to the bo...
Category
19th Century Antique Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver
Silver Plate Hammered Bowl with Stag Handles
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A lovely silver plate hammered bowl with Stags on either side. a compliment as a serving piece, especially for the holidays or in a cabin, or rustic setting. also works well as a flo...
Category
20th Century Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Silver Plate
19th Century Chinese Export Solid Silver Finger Bowl & Plate, Wang Hing, c. 1880
Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Antique late-19th century Chinese export solid silver fruit bowl on plate, of exceptionally fine quality, intricately chased and embossed depicting a compendium of various designs an...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Silver
Vintage Sterling Silver Photo Frame, Embossed Leaf Pattern, Italy, 20th C
Located in Chatham, ON
Vintage sterling silver photo frame with embossed leaf pattern - inset glass liner - wood veneered back and easel with high polished / gloss finish - original paper liner with maker'...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Modern Silver Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver
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This Vivacious Teapot Has Agnes Martin on One Side and Jean-Michel Basquiat on the Other
Ceramist Roberto Lugo brings a street-art sensibility to a dainty serving vessel while paying homage to his artistic heroes.
This Rare Set of 100 Alessi Vases Includes Designs by Scores of International Artists
Alessandro Mendini, Michael Graves, Ettore Sottsass and other design luminaries contributed to this unusual collection of porcelain wares representing a time capsule of late-20th-century decorative art.
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Mayer Clock
White Art Deco Desk
18th Century Clock Movement
Antique Bone Box
Antique Church Altars
Antique Desk From Germany
Antique French Mantel Clock Candelabra
Chinese Red Box
Clock 18
Gilt Cherub Clock
Large Blue And White Jar
Large Blue White Jar
Victorian Paint Box
Victorian Painted Box
Antique Brass Inlaid Box
Antique Copper Ring
Antique Copper Rings
Antique French Gilt Figural Mantel Clock