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18th Century Spanish Colonial Carved Frame
Located in New York, NY
Original 18th century hand carved painted and applied ornament picture frame; continuous carved floral motif.
Category
Mid-18th Century South American Spanish Colonial Antique Carved Picture Frames
Materials
Wood
Vintage European Rectangular Wood Painted Gilt Art Frame
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Fantastic painted and carved gilt gold art frame found in a Paris market. Perfect piece for that special oil painting or watercolor. This frame has fantastic patina.
Inside measurem...
Category
Early 20th Century French Rococo Carved Picture Frames
Materials
Gold
Round Scalloped Picture Frame in White and Brown Horn Bone Inlaid
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Handcrafted round picture frame with scalloped white and brown buffalo horn bone inlaid.
Vintage round inlaid bone picture in Moorish Islamic style frame.
The frame is created from 3...
Category
Late 20th Century Indian Islamic Carved Picture Frames
Materials
Bone, Horn
Picture Frame Oval Emerald Green enamel and hand-carved Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Oval photo frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent emerald green fired enamel on guilloché and with ornaments in the French Empire Napoleon III style. External...
Category
1980s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Carved Picture Frames
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Picture Frame Classic rectangular Enamel light blue on guilloche Salimbeni
By Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Cornice portafotografie rettangolare in argento 9251000 dorato con smalto traslucido a fuoco su guillochè. Stile moderno contemporaneo. Vetro molato. Pannello in velluto blu. Dimensi...
Category
1960s Italian Modern Vintage Carved Picture Frames
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
American Oil on Canvas Portrait of Seated Young Lady, NY, Circa 1850
Located in Charleston, SC
American oil on canvas portrait of seated young lady in the original gilt wood floral flame, New York, Mid-19th century.
Category
1850s American American Empire Antique Carved Picture Frames
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Wood, Paint
Four Italian Charles XX Sculpted and Gilded Wood Picture Frames Set of 4
Located in Milano, MI
Set of four Antique Gilt Frames of oval shape with ferine feet and a shell-shaped cymatium and two median decorations consisting of the interlacing of the outline of the outer frame ...
Category
Early 19th Century Italian Charles X Antique Carved Picture Frames
Materials
Gold Leaf
Monumental 19th Century Giltwood Frame
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Very unusual. Have never seen one like this. Most likely had a painting inset, but mirror could be placed inside. Stand alone or hang on wall.
Category
Mid-19th Century Italian Rococo Antique Carved Picture Frames
Materials
Giltwood
Picture Frame Red enamel Empire Style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Large octagonal table frame for round photos diameter cm. 7, in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on sunburst guilloche, with Napoleon III French Empire style borders and ornaments. External cm. 17 x 17. Weight gr. 483. Designed by Giorgio Salimbeni in 1978 on the inspiration of previous artefacts from the early 1900s and manufactured in Florence at the headquarters of the Salimbeni company with completely manual execution by artisan artists with a very thick plate and large reinforcements suitable to support numerous high-fire enameling firings at approximately 750 < 800° C.
It is a new object that has never been used but is considered vintage because it was built more than 20 years ago.
The hallmarks struck to the underside of this fine box include:
manufacturer's mark: 391FI
metal mark fineness:925
Art Deco was also born in France and is the abbreviation of "Art Decoratif".
With more decisive and geometric features than Art Nouveau, therefore more evident and "harder", with always contrasting and strong colours, Art Deco spread throughout the world, from Shanghai's China to the under construction New York and in various parts of Europe.
Many artists and designers of the time dedicated themselves to the creation of drawings, paintings, objects for personal use and furniture, interior furnishings, entire buildings and skyscrapers, in this new style.
Sandoz in Paris, Lalique with its crystals, Puiforcat with its silverware, Erté with its "ante litteram" fashion designs, Tiffany with its table lamps, Louis Cartier with its objects inspired by the Far East (hence the connection with Shanghai).
Salimbeni was able to interpret and propose new objects inspired by Art Deco, in precious metals, semiprecious stones and fired enamels, when, exhibiting at jewelery exhibitions in the United States, and more precisely in New York, he made contact with Cartier buyers first, and also with Tiffany later, and for them he created objects in this style inspired by the original drawings of Louis Cartier, obtained from the buyer of the time, but with absolutely different and original designs and interpretations.
Many of the objects produced by Salimbeni for Cartier in the United States had taken inspiration from famous Cartier objects belonging to famous people. An example of all is Mary Pickford's set consisting of a powder compact, cigarette case, pill case and evening handbag.
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...
Category
1970s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Carved Picture Frames
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
1900s French Bronze Medallions
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Set of four. Dore bronze. Profiles are bisque on velvet. Finely chased details. Possibly 19th century.
Category
Early 20th Century French Neoclassical Carved Picture Frames
Materials
Bronze
$4,500 / set
Large Photo Frame Walnut Wood, Humour Wood
Located in Sarezzo, IT
Humour wood is a large wood photo
frame, a design edition of the Italian collection of picture frames Laura G Art with Heart.
It is realized by Italian handcrafts in walnut wood.
It...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Post-Modern Carved Picture Frames
Materials
Wood
Set of Two 1880s Blackforest Pictureframes Made of Wood
Located in Vienna, AT
For sale is a set of two unique Blackforest wooden pictureframes. The Frames have been hand carved in the shape of branches and maple leaves. The come complete with glass, some cardb...
Category
Late 19th Century German Antique Carved Picture Frames
Materials
Wood
Italian 18th Century Giltwood Framed Mirror with Rustic Character
Located in Atlanta, GA
An Italian giltwood mirror from the 18th century, showcasing rustic character and timeless elegance. Originally crafted as a frame, this exquisite piece has been expertly converted i...
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Carved Picture Frames
Materials
Giltwood
Carved Napoleon III Oak and Velvet Mirror, France, 19th Century
Located in Isle Sur La Sorgue, Vaucluse
Large and gorgeous frame, with hand-carved thistles motifs applied to a deep teal blue velvet background. The wood is oak. New mirror.
Category
19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Carved Picture Frames
Materials
Velvet
Arts and Crafts Patinaed Carved Frame
Located in Riverdale, NY
Attractive arts and crafts patinaed hand carved wood frame in a matte burnished green gold with red highlights on the flowers.
1900, USA. Measures : Glass area 20" x 16".
Category
Early 1900s American Arts and Crafts Antique Carved Picture Frames
Materials
Wood
Pair of Italian Carved and Gilded Frames Rome 18th Century
Located in Milano, MI
Pair Roman Gilded Frames 1700, rare pair of antique carved and gilded wooden frames, Rome 18th century. Rectangular in shape, with three orders of carving, this pendant of ancient Ro...
Category
Mid-18th Century Italian Empire Antique Carved Picture Frames
Materials
Giltwood
Picture Frame Oval Ruby Red enamel and hand-carved Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Oval photo frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent ruby red fired enamel on guilloché and with ornaments in the French Empire Napoleon III style. External size...
Category
1980s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Carved Picture Frames
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Chalten Small Wood & Alpaca Silver Photoframe
By AIREDELSUR
Located in Buenos Aires, AR
Inspired by the trails of the Chalten Mountain, in the south of the Andes mountain range, this family of trays, flower vases, containers and picture frames is born. The mountain hiking trails...
Category
2010s Argentine Organic Modern Carved Picture Frames
Materials
Metal
Small Picture Frame Rounded Round English style, early 1900s. Salimbeni
By Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Small rounded round frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guilloche, English style, early 1900s. External diameter 7 cm, internal 5 cm. Weigh...
Category
1950s Italian Modern Vintage Carved Picture Frames
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Photo Frame Butterfly-Shaped Fired Enamel on Guillochè and Hand Engravings Sterl
Located in Firenze, FI
Butterfly-shaped photo frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent polychrome fired enamels on hand engraving that imitates the veins of the wings. External dimens...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Carved Picture Frames
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Newcomb Macklin Style Arts & Crafts Giltwood Picture Frame, U.S., Circa 1940's
By Newcomb-Macklin Co.
Located in Chatham, ON
Newcomb Macklin style Arts & Crafts/Mission Style giltwood picture frame - unsigned - U.S.A. - circa 1940's.
Excellent vintage condition - minor gilt and gesso loss (as photograph...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Arts and Crafts Carved Picture Frames
Materials
Gold Leaf
Picture Frame internal border with enamelled leaves Salimbeni.
Located in Firenze, FI
Behold the epitome of elegance and craftsmanship: a square table photo frame, meticulously crafted from 925/1000 gold-plated sterling silver. This masterpiece features translucent fi...
Category
1980s Italian Empire Vintage Carved Picture Frames
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Antique Rare Italian Gold Gilded Hand-Carved Frame Early 17th Century
Located in Doha, QA
A truly magnificent Italian Renaissance gold gilded hand carved frame. Amazing craftsmanship and a very good condition for its age.
Painting which fits inside (painting opening), di...
Category
Early 17th Century Italian Renaissance Antique Carved Picture Frames
Materials
Giltwood
Hand Carved 19th Century European Frames
Located in Riverdale, NY
Charming set of 3 Hand Carved 19th Century European Frames. Beautifully hand carved wood (walnut?) with motifs with buckle straps, rope work and c...
Category
1880s German Victorian Antique Carved Picture Frames
Materials
Wood
$1,295 / set
20th Century gilded wooden painting frame, Belgium
Located in Meulebeke, BE
Belgium / 1960 / Painting Frame / wood / Mid-century / Vintage
Decorative wooden gilded painting frame in baroque style. Crafted in wood in the 1960s in Belgium. With beautiful clas...
Category
1960s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Carved Picture Frames
Materials
Wood
Picture Frame Enamel two-tone ruby red and emerald green Salimbeni.
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular photo frame in gold-plated 925/1000 sterling silver, with translucent fired enamel stripes on guilloche, two-tone ruby red and emerald green, in a modern contemporary sty...
Category
Early 2000s Italian Modern Carved Picture Frames
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Rare Late 1800s Finely Hand Carved Flowers & Satyr Sculptural Picture Frame
Located in Lisse, NL
This rare and probably one of a kind, picture / photo wall frame comes with incredibly elaborate artwork.
This stylish and top quality carved picture frame...
Category
Late 19th Century French Victorian Antique Carved Picture Frames
Materials
Wood, Nutwood, Pine, Glass
Small Picture Frame Squared for round portrait Salimbeni
By Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Square frame for round photo in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guilloche, English style, early 1900s. External cm. 6 x 6 internal diameter cm. ...
Category
1950s Italian Modern Vintage Carved Picture Frames
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Arabic Antique Wooden Photo / Picture Frame Easel Inlaid Silver Scrolling Motifs
Located in Lisse, NL
Handcrafted of one piece of solid wood, inlaid with silver, scrolling, decorative picture frame.
This picture frame is easy to fold into a cross legged standing position and this ra...
Category
Early 20th Century Asian Islamic Carved Picture Frames
Materials
Silver
Picture Frame Viennese Art Nouveau style Oval portrait Salimbeni
By Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Oval shaped external photo frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamels on guilloché and hand-painted floral miniatures. Viennese Art Nouveau style, s...
Category
1960s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Carved Picture Frames
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Baroque Painted & Giltwood Frame or Mirror, Hand Carved, Italy, 18th Century
Located in Chatham, ON
Baroque style Florentine painted and giltwood picture or mirror frame - expertly hand carved from one solid piece of wood - featuring robust gilded laurel leaf carving to the raised front - surrounded by red lacquer to the curving sides - all surrounded by an undulating ribbon border - replaced hanger to the back - unsigned - Italy - 18th century.
Excellent antique condition - vintage replacement...
Category
Late 18th Century Italian Baroque Antique Carved Picture Frames
Materials
Giltwood, Paint
Small shaped Picture Frame tiles of the Baptistery of Florence Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamels on guillochè. Shaping taken from the tiles of the North Door of the Baptistery of the Florence Cathedral ...
Category
1970s Italian Renaissance Vintage Carved Picture Frames
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold Plate
Italian Photo Frame /Picture Frame in Plexiglass , Sharing Red Round
Located in Sarezzo, IT
Sharing round red is a unique multiples edition of Art with Heart collection of recto-verso photo frames by Laura G Italy. It is beautiful wherever you look at it, its surface is de...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Post-Modern Carved Picture Frames
Materials
Plexiglass
Small Picture Frame Rectangular English style, early 1900s. Salimbeni
By Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guilloche, English style, early 1900s. External cm. 7 x 9 internal cm. 3.8 x 5.8. Weight g...
Category
1950s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Carved Picture Frames
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Scalloped Round Picture Frame in White and Brown Horn Bone Inlaid
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Handcrafted round picture frame with scalloped white and brown buffalo horn bone inlaid.
Vintage round inlaid bone picture in Moorish Islamic style frame.
The frame is created from 3...
Category
Late 20th Century Indian Islamic Carved Picture Frames
Materials
Bone, Horn
Photo Frame Empire Style Squared Shape Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
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...
Category
1970s Italian Baroque Vintage Carved Picture Frames
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Unique & Perfect Pair Arts & Crafts Photograph Picture Frames / Miniature Easels
Located in Lisse, NL
Stylish and perfectly handcrafted pair of early 1900s, table easel design photo frames.
If you are looking for the perfect picture frames for a pair of small photos then this early ...
Category
Early 20th Century European Arts and Crafts Carved Picture Frames
Materials
Brass
Modern Photo Frame in Yellow and White Plexiglass , Sharing Yellow
Located in Sarezzo, IT
Sharing yellow is a photo frame Art with Heart collection by Laura G Italy. It is beautiful wherever you look at it, its surface is decorated front and back, a typical example of Art with Heart photo frame. It is realized in yellow and white artistic plexiglass, with guilloche' rays hand worked into yellow fluo plexiglass, giving light to the whole piece. Sharing yellow is a postmodern photo frame where traditional crafts are combined with contemporary material, plexiglass and create an unexpected and quite new concept of photo frame. Photo size diameter 5 inches (13 cm).
If you like Italian artisanal craftsmanship, you will find out that Photo Frames
Laura G are an example of quality and beautiful design. Collectors of Art with Heart photo frames...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Carved Picture Frames
Materials
Plexiglass
A stately pair of Italian Elm Picture Frames, C. 1900.
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Featuring richly grained elmwood with a warm, mellow patina developed over time, each frame is cove molded, lending depth and elegance to the profile, and subtly emphasizing the artw...
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Carved Picture Frames
Materials
Elm
Photo Frame Double Opening Fired Enamel on Guillochè Sterling Silver Saliimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Shaped double opening photo frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè. Early 1900s English Art Nouveau style. Open size cm. 13.5 cm hig...
Category
1980s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Carved Picture Frames
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Small Picture Frame Round English style, early 1900s. Salimbeni
By Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Small round frame with flat edge in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guilloche, English style, early 1900s. External diameter cm. 7.2, internal c...
Category
1950s Italian Modern Vintage Carved Picture Frames
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Small shaped Picture Frame 2 oval portrait Plum Purple color enamel Salimbeni
By Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Small shaped frame for 2 oval photographs in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guilloche in Art Nouveau style. External dimensions cm. 5.2 x 7 int...
Category
1980s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Carved Picture Frames
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
SALTA Medium Photoframe, Cream Onyx & Alpaca Silver
By AIREDELSUR
Located in Buenos Aires, AR
Salta province is called the beautiful, and this adjective introduces us to its profound beauty. Its fertile valleys, windy desert, colorful mountains and blue sky are the images tha...
Category
2010s Argentine Organic Modern Carved Picture Frames
Materials
Stone, Onyx, Metal
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 Carved Picture Frames
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
SALTA Small Photoframe, Black Onyx & Alpaca Silver
By AIREDELSUR
Located in Buenos Aires, AR
Salta province is called the beautiful, and this adjective introduces us to its profound beauty. Its fertile valleys, windy desert, colorful mountains and blue sky are the images tha...
Category
2010s Argentine Organic Modern Carved Picture Frames
Materials
Stone, Onyx, Metal
Italian Large Photo Frame in Cherry Wood , Wood Heart
Located in Sarezzo, IT
Wood Heart is one of a kind large photo frame for holding most lovely photo of your memories,
A special model of the collection of Laura G Art with Heart ph...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Arts and Crafts Carved Picture Frames
Materials
Wood
Antique Art Deco Double Dresser Frame 1930
Located in South Burlington, VT
From an old New England collection.
Unique find.
An attractive Art Deco 1930 period Hand crafted, hand incised wooden double dresser photographic frame, 1930 - ready for you to...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Art Deco Carved Picture Frames
Materials
Wood, Pine
$995 Sale Price
33% Off
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 Carved Picture Frames
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold
Set of Chalten Small, Medium & Large Wood & Alpaca Silver Photoframes
By AIREDELSUR
Located in Buenos Aires, AR
Dimensions:
18,5 x 23,5 cm // 7,3" x 9,25"
22 x 26,5 cm // 8,6" x 10,4"
31 x 36,5 cm // 12,2" x 14,3"
Inspired by the trails of the Chalten Mountain, in the south of the Andes mount...
Category
2010s Argentine Organic Modern Carved Picture Frames
Materials
Metal
Salimbeni Pocket Photos Holder in Sterling Silver 2 Photographs
Located in Firenze, FI
Salimbeni Pocket photos holder in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated with two-tone translucent fired enamels on guillochè, with hand-engraved edge. Empire style Napoleon III. Octag...
Category
1980s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Carved Picture Frames
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Photo Frame Large two-tone striped enamel Black and Yellow Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular photo frame in gold plated 925/1000 sterling silver with translucent fired enamels on two-tone striped guillochè. In a contemporary style. Ground glass and velvet panel. ...
Category
1970s Italian Modern Vintage Carved Picture Frames
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, 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 Carved Picture Frames
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Italian Photo Frame Yellow White Plexi , Sharing Yellow Round
Located in Sarezzo, IT
Sharing round yellow is a unique multiples edition of Art with Heart collection of pop recto-verso photo frames by Laura G Italy. It is beautiful wherever you look at it, its surface...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Post-Modern Carved Picture Frames
Materials
Plexiglass
Picture Frame Art Deco Chinese influence Enamel Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular photo frame in 925/1000 silver with geometric design and fire-enameled with Chinese influence style. External cm. Internal 11.6 x 14.6 cm. 6 x 9. Weight gr. 194. Created in Art Deco style for Cartier USA in the 1980s, inspired by drawings by Louis Cartier from the early 1900s. Manufactured in Florence in the Salimbeni company headquarters with completely manual execution by artisan artists with high thickness plate and large reinforcements suitable to support numerous high-fire enamelling firings at approximately 750° < 800° C.
It is a new object that has never been used but is considered vintage because it was built more than 20 years ago.
The hallmarks struck to the underside of this fine box include:
manufacturer's mark: 391FI
metal mark fineness:925
Art Deco was also born in France and is the abbreviation of "Art Decoratif".
With more decisive and geometric features than Art Nouveau, therefore more evident and "harder", with always contrasting and strong colours, Art Deco spread throughout the world, from Shanghai's China to the under construction New York and in various parts of Europe.
Many artists and designers of the time dedicated themselves to the creation of drawings, paintings, objects for personal use and furniture, interior furnishings, entire buildings and skyscrapers, in this new style.
Sandoz in Paris, Lalique with its crystals, Puiforcat with its silverware, Erté with its "ante litteram" fashion designs, Tiffany with its table lamps, Louis Cartier with its objects inspired by the Far East (hence the connection with Shanghai).
Salimbeni was able to interpret and propose new objects inspired by Art Deco, in precious metals, semiprecious stones and fired enamels, when, exhibiting at jewelery exhibitions in the United States, and more precisely in New York, he made contact with Cartier buyers first, and also with Tiffany later, and for them he created objects in this style inspired by the original drawings of Louis Cartier, obtained from the buyer of the time, but with absolutely different and original designs and interpretations.
Many of the objects produced by Salimbeni for Cartier in the United States had taken inspiration from famous Cartier objects belonging to famous people. An example of all is Mary Pickford's set consisting of a powder compact, cigarette case, pill case and evening handbag.
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...
Category
1980s Italian Art Deco Vintage Carved Picture Frames
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Photo Frame Triptych hinged shaped frame for 3 photographs Blue Enamel Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Triptych hinged shaped frame for 3 photographs in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè with borders and ornaments in French Louis XVI Empi...
Category
1980s Italian Louis XVI Vintage Carved Picture Frames
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Italian Photo Frame Red and White Plexiglass, Sharing Red
Located in Sarezzo, IT
Sharing Red is a limited edition of art with Heart collection of pop recto-verso photo frames by Laura G Italy. It is beautiful wherever you look at it, its surface is decorated fron...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Post-Modern Carved Picture Frames
Materials
Plexiglass
Chalten Large Wood & Alpaca Silver Photoframe
By AIREDELSUR
Located in Buenos Aires, AR
Inspired by the trails of the Chalten Mountain, in the south of the Andes mountain range, this family of trays, flower vases, containers and picture frames is born. The mountain hiking...
Category
2010s Argentine Organic Modern Carved Picture Frames
Materials
Metal
Picture Frame large size Red Enamel on Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Large shaped photograph frame in gold plated 925/1000 sterling silver with translucent fired enamel on guillochè with borders and laurel frieze in Louis XVI French Empire style. Exte...
Category
1960s Italian Empire Vintage Carved Picture Frames
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, 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 Carved Picture Frames
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Picture Frame Green with concave corner for oval photo Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table frame with concave corners for oval photo cm. 5.5 x 8.5 in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamels on guilloche, with French Empire Napo...
Category
1970s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Carved Picture Frames
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
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