1970s Decorative Objects

Box shaped enamel is in 925/1000 sterling. Box shaped enamel has handpainted fired enamels miniature. Box shaped enamel is engraved and fire-enamelled ornaments. Box shaped enamel is...

An authentic, opulent and very decorative ice bucket, patinated bronze fruit basket, base with woven basket decoration, lid with fruit composition, in superb patinated bronze (dark b...

Snuff Box Silver is in 925/1000 sterling. Snuff Box Silver has fired enamelled handmade portrait of Tsarina Alexandra Fedorovna Romanova by the painter Beatrice Mellana. Snuff Box Si...

This awesome Table Box Baroque style is in 925/1000 sterling silver. it has a Rectangular shape with hand-engraved intricate design Black and Green color fire enameled. Table Box Bar...

Ovalized Handbag Perfume Holder is in 925/1000 Sterling Silver. Handbag Perfume Holder with Screwed cap. Handbag Perfume Holder with very fine Baroque Style manual Engraving with d...

Vintage Gorham EP YC781 Silver Plated Atlantic City Racing Trophy Award Bowl. Item featured is engraved "Atlantic City Racing Association". "N.J. Travel & Re...

Rectangular cigarette case with rounded corners in 925/1000 sterling silver with Baroque style hand engraving and black fired enamel, Russian niello type. Measurement cm. 5.8 x 9 x 1...

Cigarette Case rectangular with rounded corners in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with Baroque style hand engraving and hand-painted fired enamel such as malachite stone. Meas...

Shaped table snuff box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fine fire-enamelled baroque style engraving. Very fine hand engraving on all surfaces. Dimensions cm. 6.2 x 7.8 cm...

Beautiful 1960s or 70s mid-century wall clock by Smiths clock makers. This rare clock has a stunning large golden oval shaped sunburst, hand carved from wood and a simple aluminium c...

Gold-plated 925/1000 silver square photo frame with fire-enamelled Empire-style leaves on a rounded edge. External dimensions cm. 9 x 9, internal cm. 7.7 x 7.7. Weight gr. 87. Design...

A colorful pair of large octagonal faceted tin glazed Delftware jars with flared and domed lids surmounted by lion figures. Each side is thoroughly decorated with hand painted tradit...

Octagonal notched photo frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fine fire-enamelled baroque style engraving. External dimensions cm. 14.2 x 17.8, internal oval cm. 8 x 12....

Rectangular snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fine hand-engraving Baroque style on the lid, with fired enamel black type “niello”. Measurements cm. 4,3 x 7 x 2. W...

Rectangular table box in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated with very fine hand-engraving Baroque style on the lid, fire-enamelled in 2 colours. In the center an ancient oval plate...

Rectangular table box for cigarettes in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated with hand-engraved design in Baroque style with two-tone fired enamels. Measure cm. 6.5 x 10.2 x 2. Weigh...

Very large lidded vase of baluster shape on round stand, indented short cylindrical neck, slightly overhanging hood lid with pointed knob, hand painted polychrome decoration: Large g...

Shaped snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fired enamel inserted in a fine hand engraving and with round miniature diameter cm. 3.3 hand painted always with fire enamels depicting a sailing ship. Early 19th century Viennese Baroque style. Fine hand engraving on all sides and bottom. Measurements cm. 7.5 x 7.5 x 2. Weight gr. 151. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1976 on inspiration of ancient original artifacts and manufactured in Florence at the Salimbeni company headquarters in several specimens, also with different colors and miniatures, with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick slabs and large reinforcements suitable for supporting 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...

Offering this rare and vintage large Italian inlaid marquetry music box with gilded metal "claw" feet. This Italian made wooden masterpiece is fitt...

An Italian Baroque style Table Clock, it is made of embossed sheet silver with typical Baroque style swirls. Cast details decorate its four...

Snuff Box Princess Albert De Broglie is in 925/1000 sterling silver. Snuff Box Princess Albert De Broglie has openwork lid, and handpainted fine round miniature diameter cm. 4 hand p...