French Art Deco Modern Silver and Purple Enamel Picture Frame

George V sterling silver picture frame. Made by Walker & Hall in Birmingham in 1929. Rectangular window in flat surround. On front wraparound wave ornament; sides plain. With glass, ...

Smart and modern sterling silver picture frame. Rectangular window with wide and molded rim. With glass, silk lining, and velvet back and hinged support for vertical (portrait) displ...

Modern sterling silver picture frame. Oval window in convex surround with flat sides and two large ball supports. With glass, silk lining, and velvet back and hinged easel support fo...

Modern sterling silver picture frame, ca 1930. Retailed by Cartier in New York. Rectangular window in plain and flat surround. At top is applied an...

Turn-of-the-century Art Nouveau sterling silver picture frame. Retailed by Shreve, Crump & Low in Boston. Oval window in flat rectangular surround engraved with dense allover flowers...

Art Nouveau sterling silver picture frame. Made by William B. Kerr in Newark. Rectangular with beveled and acid-etched sides: Wraparound reading entwined with fluid foliate scrollwor...

Large, Art Deco, sterling silver wood-backed picture frame, Birmingham, England, year-hallmarked for 1927, Sanders and MacKenzie - makers. Measures 13 1/2 inches high x 9 1/2 inches ...

An excellent early example of an engine turned silver photograph frame and a fabulous large size. The back retains the original wooden backing with it's shaped folding easel stand. ...

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...

This admirable Picture Frame is in 925/1000 sterling silver. it has a Fan shape with blue and sky color for the fire enameled surface on guilloche. Picture Frame fan...

Large, sterling silver, wood-backed picture frame, Birmingham, England, 1921, Gulienetti and Co., Ltd. - makers. Measures 10 inches high (at highest point) x 8 inches wide at widest ...

Rectangular photo frame in gold plated 925/1000 sterling silver with fine engraving of fruit (cherries) fire enamelled with polychrome colours, contempo...