Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Made in Italy, 1970s. It was designed by Aldo Londi and produced for Bitossi. Bitossi was founded in 1921 in Montelupo, a city near Florence, and it is one of the most known Italian ...

Superb and rare green Sommerso ashtray designed and manufactured for Seguso in Murano in the 1970s. Handcrafted glass work using the Sommerso technique (superposition of layers of mo...

MoMA attribute the design of this fabulous stackable green ceramic Cono tableware set to Joe Colombo for the Espace Pierre Cardin store in Paris in 1970. Other sources debate this, saying that it was designed by Italian ceramicist Ambroglio Pozzi for his father's company, Ceramiche Franco Pozzi. This set comprises salt and pepper shakers, two bowls and a egg carrier...

Table ashtray in the shape of a four-leaf clover with structure in 925/1000 sterling Silver gold plated and external and internal lining in real malachite stone. Dimensions cm. 12 x ...

A beautiful Italian brass and green ceramic vide-poche catchall, by Italian designer Tommaso Barbi, '70s Modern period, Italy. Piece is by Italian designer Tommaso Barbi in a green g...

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...

Ice bucket in painted sheet metal, 1970-1980 Painted metal ice bucket from LUXIUM, made in France, 1970-1980. H: 30 cm, d: 21 cm.

Table box in the shape of a four-leaf clover in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated and real malachite stone petals. Dimensions cm. 12 x 12 x 2.5 . Silver weight gr. 340. Designed b...

Amazing serving tray rectangular Acrylic green marble effect and chrome in the style of Italian design Willy Rizzo. Made in Italy in the 1970s.

Rare porcelain ashtray signed christofle Paris. With a text written on the back, and an unalterable decoration. This ashtray is in the Neo classic style, green in color with gold tip...

A glass jug, a vase designed by Ludwik Fiedorowicz. Glassworks in Ząbkowice, Poland, 1970s. Very good condition, no damage. Colour: Neon green/yellow. Dimensions: height 35 cm; widt...

Late 20th century very large Murano glass decorative centerpiece bowl with gold flecks design details. The bowl is in excellent condition . Minor wea...

Vintage checkers game by the Italian designer Ennio Lucini for Gabbianelli in green and white ceramic. Made in Italy in the 1970s.

Rare square Rosenthal porcelain dish. Statue of liberty. 1970s. Measures: 30 x 30 x 5 cm. In excellent condition. Stamped.

Unique centrepiece in green handblown glass, Belgium 1970s A unique translucent centrepiece made in Belgium in the 1970s This large scale hand blown glass bowl is of a beautiful gre...

Italian handcrafted green Murano Chalice, 1970.

Set of glass paperweights 'APPLE' and 'PEAR' made of clear and green glass with fused optical decoration of bubbles 'Raindrops'. The author is the glass artist and painter Milan METELÁK...

Set of green creamer and sugar bowls in glass, designed by Michael Bang and produced by Holmegaard in the 1970s. The well designed set with it´s 1970´s colors is in very good cond...

Kaj Franck (1911-1989) for Nuutajärvi. 10 Luna seafood bowls / rinse bowls in green mouth-blown art glass, 1970s. Measures: 11 x 5.8 cm. In excellent condition.

A matching set of Palet bowls in cased green Opaline glass. Designed by Michael Bang for Holmegaard, circa 1970. The set are hand blown and features the characteristic folded collars.

Centerpiece in green Perspex, marble effect, and chrome frame, Italy, 1970s.

Krenit bowl by Herbert Krenchel. Black metal and turquoise enamel. 1970s. In very good condition, minor wear. Measures: 38.5 x 12 cm.

Large and beautiful 1970s vintage mouth blown crystal vase. Ideal for large-stemmed flowers Very decorative and colored Crystal is a type of lead-ri...

Very nice set with a small medium and a larger medium green glass bowl and a bowl plate from Kastrup-Holmegaard, designed by Michael Bang. In excellent condition with no defects. The...

Henning Koppel. Strata large meat forks stainless steel and green plastic. Manufactured by Georg Jensen. 12 pcs. in stock. In very good condition. Danish design, 1970s. Measures:...