Italian Sterling Silver
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130
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570
180
757
731
741
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48
45
34
26
21
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19
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9
7
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9
36
572
140
22
108
373
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9
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46
114
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104
755
750
513
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224,569
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Place of Origin: Italian
Photo Frame Heart-Shaped Fired Enamel on Guillochè Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Giorgio Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Heart-shaped rounded frame with oval photo in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè. With hinged silver-gilt foot engraved in Empire style. ...
Category
1970s Empire Vintage Italian Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Frame for Oval Photo Borders in Louis XVI French Empire Style Enamel Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table frame for oval photo in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent two-tone fired enamels on guillochè and with various ornamen...
Category
1980s Louis XVI Vintage Italian Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Enamel, Sterling Silver
21th Century Italian Sterling Silver Gilded Enameled Frame
By Salimbeni
Located in VALENZA, IT
Oval Fabergè style frame in gilded 925/1000 silver with translucent yellow fired enamel on guilloché and ribbon on the upper part.
12x8,5 cm
photo 5,5x4 ...
Category
Late 20th Century Other Italian Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
800 Silver Rice Dish, Italy, 1980s
Located in Palermo, IT
Very elegant, with lid. The handles are covered with very fine white porcelain. 36 cm wide, weighs 1130.00 grams.
Produced in the 1980s by the Ricci silverware in Alessandria. Regul...
Category
1980s Vintage Italian Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Set of Six Glasses in 800 Silver with Internal Gilding, Italy, 1980s
Located in Palermo, IT
Set of six glasses in 800 silver with internal gilding, Italy, 1980s.
Small signs of the time, no dents.
The total weight of the silver is 1050.00 grams because each one weighs 175...
Category
1980s Vintage Italian Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Photo Frame Fired Enamel with Two-Tone Stripes on Guillochè and Hand Engravings
By Salimbeni, Giorgio Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular frame with oval photo in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel with two-tone stripes on guillochè and hand engravings. External dimensions cm...
Category
1980s Napoleon III Vintage Italian Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Rare Set of 18 Italian Silver Bird or Fowl Place Card Holders
Located in New York, NY
This exquisite collection comprises an exceptionally rare set of 18 Italian silver place card holders, each meticulously designed in the likeness of various avian species, including ...
Category
Early 20th Century Victorian Italian Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Photo Frame Butterfly-Shaped Fired Enamel on Guillochè and Hand Engravings Sterl
By Salimbeni, Giorgio Salimbeni
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 Art Nouveau Vintage Italian Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Centerpiece in 800 Silver, Italy, 1980s
Located in Palermo, IT
Centerpiece in 800 silver, Italy, 1980s.
It weighs 735.00 grams and is regularly stamped with the state stamps (Italy).
It presents small signs of the time.
It has always belonged...
Category
1980s Vintage Italian Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Photo Frame Blue Enamel and pure Gold "Paillons" Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Picture frame with square exterior and oval ornament interior in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent blue enamel on guillochè and various pure gold "paillons" sandw...
Category
1990s Louis XVI Italian Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Pocket Cigarette Case Geometric Design Sterling Silver Enamel Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Giorgio Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Shaped rectangular pocket cigarette case in 925/1000 sterling silver with translucent fired enamels on guillochè with Art Deco style geometric de...
Category
1970s Art Deco Vintage Italian Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
20th Century Italian Sterling Silver Beakers
By Arval Argenti Valenza
Located in VALENZA, IT
Pair of beakers in sterling silver.
The cup of the beaker is chiseled with a torchon motif and internally gilded.
Under the cup, just above the stem, bunches of grapes and vine lea...
Category
Late 20th Century Other Italian Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
1980s Ruzzetti & Gow Italian Sterling Silver Spingle Tibia Fusus Shell
By Karl Springer
Located in San Diego, CA
Stunning vintage 1980s original Ruzzetti & Gow Italian sterling silver wrapped spindle tibia shell is 8.5" long. Has the original tag inside. Excellent table top decorative object. G...
Category
1980s Vintage Italian Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Table Box “The Great Odalisque” Fired Enamel on Guilloche Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
table box in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated with edges with fire - enamelled stripes and upper frame with insertion of paillons in pure gold and beautRectangular iful fire-enam...
Category
1960s Empire Vintage Italian Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Enamel, Sterling Silver
Cigarette Case Statue of Liberty in New York hand painted Sterling Silver Enamel
By Salimbeni, Giorgio Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular tabletop cigarette case with rounded corners in 925/1000 sterling silver with fine hand-painted fire-enamelled miniature depicting the Statue of Liberty in New York. Dime...
Category
1970s Art Deco Vintage Italian Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Black Oval Photo Frame Baroque Style Sterling Silver Enamel Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Oval photograph frame, shaped edge in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated with fine hand engraving, interspersed with black fired enamel in Baroque style. External cm. 7.4 x 11.3. W...
Category
1980s Baroque Vintage Italian Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Buccellati Italian Pair of Sterling Silver & Turquoise Floral Cufflinks
By Buccellati, Gianmaria Buccellati
Located in New York, NY
Gianmaria Buccellati, Italian, pair of sterling silver cufflinks with turquoise at the center, in a beautiful floral motif, measuring 2/3'' in diameter, and bearing hallmarks. Sold i...
Category
20th Century Italian Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Italian Silver Set of Rare and High Quality 11 Miniature Cars / Automobiles
Located in New York, NY
Extraordinary assortment of Italian silver miniature cars (either continental 0.800 or sterling 0.25 silver), rendered with exquisite details and movabl...
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
21th Century Italian Sterlig Silver Gallery Tray on Feet
By Arval Argenti Valenza
Located in VALENZA, IT
Sterling silver octagonal rectangular shaped tray.
The edge is finely gallery worked.
An English border has been welded on the upper part to join the handwork and make the whole st...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Italian Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Table Box Enamel on Guilloche and Hand Painted Miniature Sterling Silver Salimb
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular box with inward corners in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated with beautiful miniature fire enameled and hand painted by the painter Beatrice Mellana depicting the painting "The Turkish slave" by Francesco Mazzola known as "il Parmigianino" (National Gallery of Parma). Dimensions cm. 8.5 x 11.5 x 3. Weight gr. 345. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1965 and manufactured in Florence in numerous specimens with various different subjects, in the headquarters of the Salimbeni company with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for withstanding numerous high-fire enameled 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...
Category
1960s Baroque Vintage Italian Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Hand-Wrought Sterling Silver Mushroom Salt & Pepper Shaker Signed by Buccellati
By Buccellati
Located in New York, NY
This elegant modernist salt shaker and pepper shaker were handcrafted and signed by Buccellati in Italy. The set features a cluster of three trumpet mushroom. The larger one represen...
Category
20th Century Modern Italian Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Italian Mid-Century Modern Silver Box
By Bartolini Bartolozzi
Located in New York, NY
Italian Mid-Century Modern 800 silver box. Rectangular with straight sides and thumb rest. Cover flat and hinged with tab. Allover engine-turned curvili...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Italian Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Pocket Cigarette Case Vessel Miniature Hand-Painted Sterling Silver Enamel Salim
By Salimbeni, Giorgio Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
6238-7239- Pocket cigarette case with spring button in 925/1000 fire-enamelled sterling silver with beautiful vessel miniature hand-painted by th...
Category
1990s Empire Italian Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Buccellati Grande Imperiale Sterling Silver Dinner & Lunch Set for 16
By Buccellati
Located in New York, NY
Grande Imperiale sterling silver dinner and lunch set. Made by Buccellati in Italy. This set comprises 216 pieces:
Forks: 16 dinner forks (8 3/4) 16 lunch...
Category
Late 20th Century Neoclassical Revival Italian Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Mario Buccellati Vintage 800, Italian Silver Duckling Figurine
By Mario Buccellati
Located in Braintree, GB
Mario Buccellati vintage 800. Italian silver duckling figurine.
Made Italy, Milano, Ca.1930's
Fully Hallmarked.
The furry duckling figurine i...
Category
1930s Vintage Italian Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Cigarette Case Fired Enamel on a Fine Hand-Engraved Mountain Landscape Sterling
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table cigarette case with rounded corners in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on a fine hand-engraved mountain landscape. Contemporary m...
Category
1970s Modern Vintage Italian Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Handwrought Sterling Silver Puffer Fish Salt Shaker and Pepper Mill, Missiaglia
By Missiaglia 1846
Located in New York, NY
Established in Venice in 1846, Missiaglia is one of the world's premier makers of the finest jewelry objects, as well as a select number of bespoke sterling silver tabletop accessories. This handcrafted puffer salt Shaker and pepper mill showcase the skill and impeccable craftsmanship of Missiaglia's artisans. Each puffer fish features a hand-hammered dappled skein with an abundance of protruding conical spikes, as well as striated dorsal, tail and pectoral fins. Their whimsically refined faces offer stylized eyes consisting of concentric circular forms with a concave depression at centre, and an ovoid mouth with protuberant lips. The larger vessel holds pepper- artfully concealed within the body of the piece- which is ground by rotating the tail fin. The salt Shaker has an abundance of holes adorning the forehead of the smaller puffer...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Italian Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Pocket Cigarette Case Hunting Dogs Miniature hand painted Sterling Silver Enamel
By Salimbeni, Giorgio Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table cigarette box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamels on guillochè and fine miniature hand painted...
Category
1980s Art Nouveau Vintage Italian Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Silver Jardiniere with Swan Busts and Glass Liner, Pietrasanta & C., Italy, 1950
By Gianni Pietrasanta
Located in Vienna, AT
Solid silver vessel in an oval basic form with a wide, bulbous body, offset, domed, round base with hump decoration and palmette decorative strip on the outside of the base ring, hump decoration in the lower half of the vessel body in one step, upper half of the vessel smooth and with a slightly curved edge with raised panels merging in the middle, palmette decorative strip running around the upper edge, in the area of the gradation two raised, widening bundles of branches on the sides, crowned by swan...
Category
1650s Art Nouveau Antique Italian Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Sterling Kiddush Set
By Zaramella Argenti 1
Located in Brooklyn, NY
An Uber modern sterling silver Kiddush cup and matching plate. The set is sleek, without all the etchings and casting usually found on Judaica. So go ahead and carry on those thousan...
Category
2010s Italian Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
20th Century Italian Sterling Silver Enameled Oil Cruet
By Silver Fashion Silvan
Located in VALENZA, IT
Sterling silver oil cruet.
The conical body of the cruet is smooth and shiny.
In the central part, olives and olive leaves were embossed and subsequently f...
Category
1990s Other Italian Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
19th Century Italian Solid Silver Basket
By Arval Argenti Valenza
Located in VALENZA, IT
Imposing flower basket in solid 800 silver with base.
The body of the centerpiece is rounded and completely embossed by hand with a wicker basket design.
In the upper part of the c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Italian Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Buccellati Italian Pair of Sterling Silver Cufflinks with Sunflower Motif
By Gianmaria Buccellati, Buccellati
Located in New York, NY
Gianmaria Buccellati, Italian, pair of sterling silver cufflinks, shaped as a sunflower, with a red stone at the center, in a beautiful floral motif, measuring 2/3'' in diameter, and...
Category
20th Century Italian Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
21th Century Italian Sterling Silver Vase
By Arval Argenti Valenza
Located in VALENZA, IT
Spherical shaped sterling silver vase. The large diameter of the vase allows you to have a large opening to insert the flowers. The diameter of the "mouth" of the vase is 9 cm.
Croc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Italian Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Pavillion by Calegaro Italy Sterling Silver Flatware Set Service 121 pcs Dinner
By Calegaro
Located in Big Bend, WI
Superb Dinner size Pavillion by Calegaro Italian 925 Sterling Silver Flatware set - 121 pieces. This gorgeous service includes:
12 Larg...
Category
20th Century Italian Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
1910 Italian Pair of Sterling Silver Candelabras, Tall and Heavy
Located in North Miami, FL
Presenting an extraordinary pair of Italian sterling silver candelabras crafted in the year 1910. These magnificent pieces, originating from the city of Florence, were meticulously c...
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Mario Buccellati Italian 925 Sterling Silver Fallow, Deer Figurine
By Mario Buccellati
Located in Braintree, GB
Mario Buccellati Italian 925 sterling silver fallow - deer figurine.
Made in Italy, circa 1950s
Fully hallmarked.
Dimensions:
Length x width x...
Category
1950s Vintage Italian Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Table Box Fired Enamel on Guillochè Arab-Style Ornament Sterling Silver Salimben
By Salimbeni, Giorgio Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular box with rounded corners in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè with hand-engraved and enamelled Arab-style ornament. Dimensio...
Category
1990s Modern Italian Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box Enamel on Guilloche Hand Painted Miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
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...
Category
1970s Modern Vintage Italian Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Enamel, Sterling Silver
Buccellati Italian Pair of Sterling Silver Cufflinks in Floral Design
By Gianmaria Buccellati, Buccellati
Located in New York, NY
Gianmaria Buccellati, Italian, pair of sterling silver cufflinks, with a red stone at the center, in a beautiful floral motif, measuring 2/3'' in diameter, and bearing hallmarks. Sol...
Category
20th Century Italian Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Louis XVI White Photo Frame Sterling Silver Enamel on Guillochè Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular photo frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè and hand-painted miniature of a garland of flowers with oval border interna...
Category
1970s Empire Vintage Italian Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
20th Century Italian Solid Silver Pitcher, Water Jug
By Brandimarte
Located in VALENZA, IT
Pitcher in 800 silver handmade in Italy.
The jug was made from a silver plate, shaped and welded.
The imposing base of the jug, round in shape, is hammered and proportioned to give...
Category
1990s Other Italian Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Buccellati Sterling Silver Village Scene Sleigh 2001 Christmas Ornament
By Buccellati
Located in New York, NY
Charming sterling silver Christmas tree ornament/pendant with an image of reindeer sled flying through town. Great for home decor and/or holid...
Category
Early 2000s Italian Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
20th Century Italian Sterling Silver Table Box
By Pampaloni
Located in VALENZA, IT
Rectangular/octagonal table box in 925 silver.
The box was completely handmade in Florence at the end of the last century.
Engraved with floral and abstract motifs, it has been fin...
Category
1990s Other Italian Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Table Box Hand-Engraved and Miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Giorgio Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table box with rounded corners in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated with a beautiful hand-engraved and fire-enamelled frame and in the center a beautiful hand painted miniature by the painter Beatrice Mellana reproducing the painting by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres "Odalisque with slave". Dimensions cm. 9.5 x 12.3 x 3.3. Weight gr. 671. Designed by Giorgio Salimbeni in 1979 and manufactured in Florence in numerous 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...
Category
1970s Art Deco Vintage Italian Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Photo Frame Two-Tone Fired Enamel on Guillochè Louis XVI Style Sterling Silver S
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Large shaped photo frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent two-tone fired enamel on guillochè and with various ornaments in Louis XVI French Empire style and 4...
Category
1980s Louis XVI Vintage Italian Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Enamel, Sterling Silver
Silvered Sea Shell Lister's Conch
By Creel and Gow
Located in New York, NY
Lister's conch fully silvered shell 5". Creel and Gow has been working with the same atelier in Rome, Italy for over 20 years to make our signature silvered shells. Our workshop has ...
Category
2010s Victorian Italian Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Partially Silvered Sea Shell Strombus Pugilis
By Creel and Gow
Located in New York, NY
Strombus pugilis partially silvered shell 2". Creel and Gow has been working with the same atelier in Rome, Italy for over 20 years to make our signature silvered shells. Our worksho...
Category
2010s Victorian Italian Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Cigarette Case Fired Enamel on a Fine Hand-Engraved Mountain Landscape Sterling
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rounded rectangular snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with beautiful fire enamelled miniature hand painted by the painter Simone Dainelli inspired by the paintings of Boris Vallejo, in fantastic contemporary style, with hand-engraved frame. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1967 and manufactured in Florence in numerous 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 high-fire 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...
Category
1960s Modern Vintage Italian Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Enamel, Sterling Silver
Jewelry box inward corners miniature hand painted Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Giorgio Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Large rectangular tabletop jewelery box with inward corners in gilded 925/1000 silver with translucent fired enamel on guillochè also on the sides and finished with fine hand engraving. In the center, a beautiful rectangular miniature cm. 4 x 5.5 hand painted in tempera on vegetable ivory plate by Roberto Masi depicting the portrait of Madame Boucard by Tamara De Lempicka (1931). Size cm. 14 x 19 x 3.2. Weight gr. 1,248. Designed by Giorgio Salimbeni in 1998 and manufactured in Florence in various specimens with different subjects and colours, in the headquarters of the Salimbeni company with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for withstanding numerous glazing firings at high heat 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...
Category
1990s Art Deco Italian Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Buccellati Italian Pair of Sterling Silver & Jasper Floral Cufflinks
By Gianmaria Buccellati, Buccellati
Located in New York, NY
Gianmaria Buccellati, Italian, pair of sterling silver cufflinks with red jasper at the center, in a beautiful floral motif, measuring 2/3'' in diameter, and bearing hallmarks. Sold ...
Category
20th Century Italian Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Mario Buccellati Hammered Sterling Silver Bachelor Size Tea Pot
By Mario Buccellati, Buccellati
Located in New York, NY
A one of a kind sterling silver bachelor's tea pot by the prominent Italian maker Mario Buccellati. This beautiful pot is hand hammered, styled with a curved bamboo twisted handle, h...
Category
20th Century Italian Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Letter Opener Sterling Silver Blue Enamel on Guillochè Salimbeni
By Giorgio Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Shaped letter opener with rectangular base in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamels on guillochè. Base cm. 7.5 x 15.5 long letter opener cm. 21. Weight ...
Category
Early 2000s Islamic Italian Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Feather Edge by Buccellati Italy Sterling Silver Flatware Service Set 28 Pieces
By Buccellati
Located in Big Bend, WI
Simple elegance, handcrafted from sterling silver. Made in Italy by the 18th Century house of Buccellati, whose artisans emphasize timeless style, integrity of materials, and pleasure of use when designing and handcrafting each piece. Buccellati tableware is delicately crafted, and each detail is impeccable.
Feather Edge by Buccellati Italy sterling silver flatware...
Category
20th Century Italian Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Vintage Silver Tray by Arrigo Finzi, Italy, Mid-20th Century
By Arrigo Finzi
Located in Roma, IT
Silver Tray is an original silver item realized in the Mid-20th Century by the milanese silversmith Arrigo Finzi.
Silver 800, hallmark and signature of the silversmith on the bott...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Snuffbox Pocket Sterling Silver Gold Paillons Lilies of France Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular oval shape pocket snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent blue fired enamel on guillochè and with the insertion of p...
Category
1960s Louis XIV Vintage Italian Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold
20th Century Italian Sterling Silver Comport
By Roberto Malagola
Located in VALENZA, IT
Centerpiece with sterling silver base.
The base is round and smooth while the bowl has been shaped and fretworked by hand with volutes.
A beaded border has been welded to the wavy ed...
Category
1990s Other Italian Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Italian Silver Ice Bucket/ Wine Cooler in Mid-Century Modern Style
By Eugenio Orefice
Located in New York, NY
Italian, continental silver ice bucket or wine cooler in Mid-Century Modern style, made in Milan in the Mid-20th Century, by Eugenio e Angelo Orefice, with a curvilinear, geometric d...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Italian Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
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