20th Century Art Deco Sterling Silver and Enamel Photo Frame, France, circa 1925

A wonderful 20th Century Art Deco English Sterling Silver Picture frame, Date Birmingham 1939 Maker Elkington & Co. A 20th century Art Deco photograph frame, both the silver and the...

Small mid-20th century double silver and enamel photo frame with laurel garland design decoration it retains its original back and strut Origin Italian with 800 silver mark dated, c...

Early 20th Century English Sterling Silver Ribbed Photo Frame Birmingham 1909. This Cast silver frame is great quality and in excellent condition. The ribbed leading edge is a very ...

20th century Sterling silver Guilloche enamel photo frame Birmingham 1927. This stunning 20th century Art Deco photo frame is a beautiful shape and is in excellent condition. The ...

This wonderful 20th Century Art Deco Shagreen photograph frame is in excellent condition with a convex bullnose edge detail, rather than a fl...

A Late 20th Century English Sterling Silver vintage photo Frame with foil enamel decoration, Date 1963-64, London. This vintage silver frame is excellent quality with full hallmark ...

Antique early 20th Century Art Deco solid silver & guilloche enamel oval photograph frame, mounted on a wood easel support and set with glass. Hallmarked English silver (925 standard...

Antique early 20th century Art Deco solid silver photograph frame, mounted on a velvet easel support and set with glass. Hallmarked English silve...

20th Century Art Deco silver & engine turned photograph frame, with stylised corners, mounted on an ebonised easel support and set with glass. Hallmarked English silver, Birmingham,...

A superb decorative sterling silver photo frame by Carrs of Sheffield, with makers mark RC and hall marks for Sheffield 1996. Beautiful portrait or landscape frame decorated with...

Sterling silver fully handmade Picture frame. Made in Italy Silver 925/1000 with translucent enamels on guilloche with hand-painted floral miniatures. Blue velvet back. Measures...

Black with white milk design Rectangular photo frame in 800/1000 silver gold plated with fire enamels. External cm. 13.4 x 17.4 Internal cm. 9 x 13. Weight gr. 199. Created in Art Deco style for Cartier USA in the 1980s, inspired by drawings by Louis Cartier from the early 1900s. Made in Florence in the Salimbeni company headquarters with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick and thick slabs reinforcements suitable for supporting numerous high-fire enamelled firings at approximately 750° < 800° C. About cooperation Salimbeni and Cartier. Our first meetings with the Cartier USA Company took place through the Giorgini Company, the first "Buying Office" set up in Florence immediately after the Second World War, which had the purpose of bringing together Florentine, and also Italian, producers with American buyers, who especially appreciated the artistic objects still manufactured by artisans who still took inspiration from the Italian Renaissance, using techniques handed down from generation to generation. Mrs. Gina Pestelli, wife of a Florentine retail jeweller, was in charge of contacts with Cartier USA, above all an employee, while her daughter, also for Giorgini, took care of the fashion that in those years was affirmed in Florence with the events of "Pitti ". With their help, we began to supply frames and boxes in sterling silver gold plated with malachite and other semi-precious stones. At the same time, the official buyer of Cartier, Mr. William Smith, began to appreciate and commission the first objects with fired enamels, a process of which we have always been specialists. In 1975 we began exhibiting at the prestigious New York Jewellery Association Show, which we participated in both the February and July editions, for a good 26 years until 2001. In New York in those years the "Art deco style" was still very much appreciated, still mindful of the beautiful early 20th century architecture of the great buildings such as the "Crysler" or the "Empire State". We then began to produce frames, boxes, evening bags, "objets de vertu" and other objects in "art deco style" which were very popular with Mr. Smith who gave us some photocopies of Louis Francois Cartier drawings to reproduce them. Thus, numerous cigarette cases, powder compacts, evening bags, frames and table boxes were created exclusively for Cartier USA which, at the time, had the prestigious "Silver Department" on the first floor of the Cartier store on Fifth Avenue. An evening bag, with matching cigarette case and powder compact, were redone on the design created for a gift given to Mary Pickford at the time. In a 1986 Cartier...