Glass Sterling Silver

Sterling silver photo frame. The frame was made in Italy by the Argenteria Raddi of Florence. The design is typically Libeerty with the characteristic flowers, festoons and ribbons...

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...

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...

Large pair of Neoclassical (made in the Victorian Period), sterling silver column-form candlesticks, Sheffield, England, year-hallmarked for 1898, Henry Wigful - maker. Each candlestick measures 11 1/6 inches high x 5 1/4 inches deep x 5 1/4 inches wide. Columns are swirled in design. The capital of each column is designed with acanthus leaves. The base of each candlestick is decorated with profiles of the Green Man (a good luck symbol...

Pair of 5-light candelabra in 925 sterling silver in neoclassical style. Candelabra formed by an iron eye stem and a Hellenic part in Ionic style in 925 silver. The iron eye is a sto...

Beautiful pair of Victorian Period, neoclassical-style, sterling silver Corinthian column candlesticks, made in the city of Sheffield, England, year-hallmarked for 1898, Hawksworth, ...

Pair of Edwardian Period, tall, Neoclassical-Style, sterling silver Corinthian column candlesticks, Sheffield, England, year-hallmarked for 1906, James Dixon and Sons...

Suite of four, tall, sterling silver, Neoclassical-style candlesticks, Whiting Manufacturing Co., Providence, Rhode Island, year-hallmarked for 1923. Weighted. Each measures: 10 inch...

Sterling silver, Victorian, footed centerpiece bowl, Whiting Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, circa 1880s-1890s. Measures 11 1/...

A vintage, Mid-Century Modern Mexican sterling silver pitcher by the maker, C. Zurita. With a nod to the eponymous design firm of Georg Jensen, this sterling silver ewer has a gorgeo...

Rectangular photo frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè, with French Empire Louis XVI style border and rich ornamentation around th...

This gorgeous vintage crystal and sterling silver signed Italian Giovani Ottaviani decanter has an abstract large sterling silver horse head as the stopper. From every direction the ...