Folk Art Sterling Silver

Astonishing swan in glass and Sterling Silver from the 20th century The glass in a form of a nautilus shell, the setting finely chiseled in the natural setting...

Traditional vintage silvered-metal and brass Moroccan tea pot, embossed with traditional repousse design, nicely aged, handcrafted in Fez, stamped in ...

Large rectangular table box with long rounded sides in 925/1000 sterling silver with fire-enamelled stripes in Art Deco style. With “lost” hinge, i.e. semi-invisible. Dimensions cm. 10.5 x 15 x 2.3. Weight gr. 548. Inspired by drawings by Louis Cartier from the early 1900s in Art Deco style and recreated for Cartier USA in the 1980s, manufactured 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 about 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 catalogue...

German Shepherd dog sculpture in sterling silver. The sculpture of the German Shepherd dog was made with the 925 sterling silver casting method and masterfully finished with chisel ...

A good, large, Mid-Century Modern Mexican Sterling silver (probably Taxco) Aztec calendar wall charger, 1960's. The charger of large size and weighing o...

A good antique sterling silver equestrian horse & rider sculpture, circa 1920. The statuette is very finely modeled as a rider and his horse and most likely engaged in dressage, the ...

Victorian, sterling silver, figural bud vase, Gorham manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, year-hallmarked for 1865. Monogrammed with an Old English letter K. Measures 6 3...

A stunning and rare pair of sterling silver Los Castillo cream and sugar. The Mexican Silver is made in Taxco Mexico by the iconic Los Ca...

Pair of Taxco School Sterling Silver Dice, Mexico circa 1960s Each one is hallmarked with the makers mark, .925 and Taxco. Elevate your gaming e...

An exquisite Art Deco powder bowl by one of the finest quality English silversmith's, Walker and Hall of Sheffield. The base is made from fine quality crystal with beautiful hand-cutting and a star cut underside. The lid is made form silver-gilt (gold on silver) and is hallmarked for Sheffield 1930. The top is covered with a wonderful blue guilloche enamel, with a good bright patina showcasing the Art Deco engine turned design below. The bowl is lucky enough to have a vintage Swans Down...

An exceptional, fine and impressive vintage cast English sterling silver model of a labrador; part of our animal related silverware collection. This exceptional, fine and impressive vintage silver dog ornament...

This exclusive handbag perfume holder is in 925/1000 sterling silver. it has a fine geometric manual engraving with rhombuses and white and black in Art Deco for the fire enameled su...