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Technique: Carved
Antique Vintage Lady's Gentleman's Walking Stick Sterling Silver Crook Handle
Located in Dublin, Ireland
Stylish Well Grained Stepped Partridge Wood Ladies or Gentleman's Walking Stick with Crook Handle and ornate chased Sterling Silver collar and mount, made by English World famous...
Category
Early 20th Century British Edwardian Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Silver Serving Spoon Antique Pair of Decorative Sterling Silver Gilded Spoon
Located in Wembley, GB
Antique valuable sterling silver serving spoons Decorative tableware pressed, cast and chased, gold gilding on the inside. Oval, domed body on short,...
Category
Late 19th Century Swedish Rococo Antique Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Silver, Sterling Silver
$824 Sale Price
36% Off
Perfume Holder Art Deco fired enamel on guilloche Salimbeni.
Located in Firenze, FI
Ovalized handbag perfume holder in 925/1000 sterling silver with screwed cap and geometric engraving fire enamelled, in Art Deco style, early 1900s. Measurements cm. 1.5 x 2 total h...
Category
1970s Italian Art Deco Vintage Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Perfume holder Empire style ornaments enamel like wood Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Experience the epitome of refined luxury with this cylindrical handbag perfume holder, masterfully crafted from 925/1000 gold-plated sterling silver. Topped with a screwed cap, it sh...
Category
1970s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Victorian Style Pair of English Toilet Flasks Crystal Ground and Sterling Silver
Located in Prato, Tuscany
We kindly suggest you read the whole description, because with it we try to give you detailed technical and historical information to guarantee the authenticity of our objects.
Particular pair of toilet bottles in cut and ground by hand crystal; for their execution it was used crystal with a percentage of lead of 30%; the high lead content, instead of calcium present in the common glass, gives the crystal a remarkable hardness, exceptional transparency, and a high refractive index; with the techniques of cutting, grinding and polishing, scrupulously performed by hand, extraordinary light effects and reflections were created; the bottles with the ball body are surmounted by a silver neck and a hinged lid finely chiseled with Victorian motifs. They bear the Classic English silver punches from which we can tell that they were produced in the Victorian style in the city of Birmingham in 1907 (Edward VII) by the firm Phineas Harris Levi & Joseph Wolfe Salaman. The company was founded in 1870 in Birmingham on Northampton Street, in 1872 moved to larger premises on Hockley Street and in 1885 the business was finally moved to a prestigious building on Newhall Street. Levi & Salaman produced much Fine silverware...
Category
Early 20th Century English Victorian Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Crystal, Sterling Silver
Desk Set stripes enamel Fountain pen, Ballpoint pen and Tray.Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular tray with rounded corners in 925/1000 sterling silver with translucent fired enamels with two-tone stripes on guilloche and hand engravings, cm. 9.5 x 18. For fountain pe...
Category
1970s Italian Modern Vintage Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Animalier Zebra Pattern Frame hand painted Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular photo frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fired enamel, hand-painted with spotted zebra fur type in a modern contemporary style. External measurements cm. ...
Category
1990s Italian Modern Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box shaped tiles of the Baptistery of Florence Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Shaped box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with painted fire enamels like lapis lazuli stone and beautiful miniature hand painted by the painter Beatrice Mellana reproducing ...
Category
1970s Italian Renaissance Vintage Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Evening Bag with fire enamelled stripes in Art Deco style Salimbeni.
Located in Firenze, FI
Oval evening bag in 925/1000 sterling silver with fire enamelled stripes in Art Deco style. Measurement cm. 5.5 x 10 x 14.8, interior with ground mirror. Weight gr. 748. Created in 1...
Category
1970s Italian Art Deco Vintage Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Picture Frame for a round and a rectangular picture Fabergé style
Located in Firenze, FI
Large shaped frame for a round and a rectangular photograph in gold-plated 925/1000 sterling silver with translucent fired enamel on a radial guilloché and rich friezes in the Russia...
Category
1960s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Picture Frame Green and pink enamel Guilloche Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table photo frame in 925/1000 sterling Silver gold plated with translucent two-tone striped enamels fired on guilloche and hand-engraved ornaments. Late Empire Napoleon ...
Category
1970s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Guilloche & Silver Topped Glass Scent or Perfume Bottle, London 1922
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a beautiful scent, cologne or perfume glass bottle with a gold coloured Guilloche enamel and sterling silver topped screw top lid, made in Lond...
Category
Early 20th Century English Art Deco Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Exclusive Tea COFFEE SPOONS, 12pcs. Sterling Silver & Box Cake Spatula & TONGS.
Located in Wembley, GB
A Rare case set of 12 gilded inside antique valuable floral handle sterling silver Spoons. An elegant Vintage Sterling Silver Tea / Coffee Spoon Set. A cased set of 1915 12 x silver ...
Category
1910s Swedish Art Deco Vintage Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Silver, Sterling Silver
$1,979 Sale Price
20% Off
Powder Case Art Deco style designed for Cartier USA Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Powder case for handbag in 925/1000 sterling silver with black and red fired enamel. Opening with spring button. Ground mirror and retina inside. Measure cm. 7.3 x 7.3 x 1.5. Weight gr.250. Created in the Art Deco style for Cartier USA in the 1980s, inspired by designs by Louis Cartier from the early 1900s. Manufactured in Florence in the Salimbeni company headquarters with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for withstanding numerous high-fire enamelled firings at about 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...
Category
1980s Italian Art Deco Vintage Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Handbag Perfume Holder enamel on guilloché and fine hand engravings Salimbeni.
Located in Firenze, FI
Cylindrical handbag perfume holder in 925/1000 sterling silver with screw cap and fine hand-engraved design in Art Deco style, fire enamelled in 3 colours. Diameter 2 cm, total heigh...
Category
1970s Italian Art Deco Vintage Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Photo Frame baroque style engraving Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Octagonal notched photo frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fine fire-enamelled baroque style engraving. External dimensions cm. 14.2 x 17.8, internal oval cm. 8 x 12....
Category
1970s Italian Baroque Vintage Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
JACOB MARSH 1766 London Coffee Pot In .925 Sterling Silver And Carved Wood
By Jacob Marsh
Located in Miami, FL
Coffee hot water pot designed in London by Jacob Marsh.
Very rare and important coffee and hot water pot of baluster form on circular spreading foot, created in the city of London i...
Category
1760s English Georgian Antique Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Perfume holder Art Deco style enamel black and white Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Discover a pinnacle of luxury with this parallelepiped handbag perfume holder, crafted from 925/1000 sterling silver and finished with a screwed cap. This masterpiece features exquis...
Category
1970s Italian Art Deco Vintage Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Antique Silver Pitcher, GLASS CLARET JUG Decorative Crystal Flask Silver Itay
Located in Wembley, GB
Antique Italian Silver Pitcher, GLASS CLARET JUG Decorative Crystal Flask Silver plated Head 1880s with a bird & human mask mounted scroll handle, the body with etched leaves decorat...
Category
1880s Italian Art Deco Antique Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Crystal, Gold Plate, Silver, Sterling Silver
$1,297 Sale Price
21% Off
Victorian Sterling Silver Tableware Carneool Agate Flatware Serving Set Antique
Located in Wommelgem, VAN
Antique sterling silver & Agate serving set.
Fabulous floral engravings on the fork and spoon.
Handles made of ribbed agate
Condition good.
Fully hallmarked.
Year letter 1899
Sil...
Category
Mid-19th Century Dutch High Victorian Antique Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Agate, Sterling Silver
Russian Empire Fabergè style Rectangular photo frame with 2 oval borders and orn
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular photo frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè with 2 oval borders internal size cm. 4 x 5.2 and ornaments with festoons a...
Category
1970s Italian Other Vintage Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Exclusive Tea COFFEE SPOONS, 12 pcs. Sterling Silver & Box, Model Olga
Located in Wembley, GB
A Rare Cased Set of 12 antique valuable silver Spoons. An elegant Vintage Sterling Silver Tea / Coffee Spoon Set. 12 silver teaspoons, the 1950s/40s, C.G Hallberg, Stockholm Sweden i...
Category
1920s Swedish Art Deco Vintage Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Silver, Sterling Silver
$1,209 Sale Price
20% Off
Table Box Blue and Light Blue Stripes Guillochè and Enamel Sterling Silver Salim
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table box with rounded corners in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with two-tone translucent fired enamels with guillochè stripes and hand-engraved motifs. George V E...
Category
1970s Italian George IV Vintage Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Picture Frame oval photos French Empire Napoleon III style Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular photo frame in 925/1000 gold-plated sterling silver with translucent enamel fired on guilloche and hand-painted miniature of a garland of flowers with oval border, intern...
Category
1970s Italian Empire Vintage Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Antique Silver Salt Pepper Shaker, Art Deco Decorative Condiment Set with Tray
Located in Wembley, GB
A modernist Silver Condiment Set comprising a Salt shaker, a Pepper Shaker, a Mustard Pot & a spoon. The mustard pot has a blue glass bowl and a silver spoon. Each item's exterior ha...
Category
1940s English Art Deco Vintage Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Metal, Silver, Silver Plate, Sterling Silver
$571 Sale Price / set
43% Off
Small shaped Picture Frame Four-leaf clover turquoise Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Four-leaf clover shaped frame for oval photo in 925/1000 gold-plated sterling silver with translucent turquoise fired enamel on guilloche, modern contemporary style. External cm. 8.5...
Category
1960s Italian Modern Vintage Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Large Antique Silver Cup Rose Silver & Crystal European Decorative Bowl Cup
Located in Wembley, GB
Antique silver cup or large Decorative food or fruit cup, pressed, cast and chased. Circular, curved feet with hinged. unstamped, tested with the scratch test, Height 14cm, Width 31c...
Category
1880s British Art Deco Antique Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Silver, Sterling Silver
$901 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique Candle Holder Golden Brass and Marble Rococo Decorative Candlesticks
Located in Wembley, GB
An antique golden brass and black stone, of Rococo-style brass candlestick, pressed, cast and chased. Circular, curved feet with hinged. Tested with the scratch test, height approx. ...
Category
1930s Swedish Rococo Revival Vintage Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Multi-gemstone, Marble, Griotte Marble, Metal, Gold Plate, Silver, Brass
$1,759 Sale Price / set
20% Off
A set of 4 Four brass & ore candlesticks, Golden Floral Bronze Candle Holders
Located in Wembley, GB
A set of 4 Four brass & ore candlesticks, Golden Floral Bronze Candle Holders
Highly collectable and valuable.
Measures: H x W x D: 21, 12 cm.
Swe...
Category
Early 1900s Swedish Art Deco Antique Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Silver, Sterling Silver, Gold Leaf
$1,869 Sale Price
20% Off
Sterling Silver and Glass Whiskey Pocket Flask, 1920s
Located in Alessandria, Piemonte
American (or English ?) pocket flask of whiskey in silver sterling and glass, with initials -
Punched J.B. Caldwell & Co - An idea for a beautiful gift.
....
Category
Early 20th Century English Late Victorian Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Exclusive Tea COFFEE SPOONS, 12 pcs. A Pair of Sterling Silver & Boxes Melleruds
Located in Wembley, GB
2 Rare Cased Set of 12 antique valuable silver Spoons. A Pair of elegant Vintage Sterling Silver Tea / Coffee Spoon Set. 12 flower silver teaspoons, the 1930s/40s, C.G Hallberg, Stoc...
Category
1920s Swedish Art Deco Vintage Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Silver, Sterling Silver
$1,429 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Pocket Cigarette Case Vessel Miniature Hand-Painted Sterling Silver Enamel Salim
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 Italian Empire Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Crystal, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Picture Frame Napoleon III French Empire style laurel ornament Sterling Silver.
Located in Firenze, FI
This exquisite Picture Frame Napoleon III is in 925/1000 sterling silver.
it has a Squared Shape and sky colour for the fire enameled surface on guilloche.
Picture Frame Napoleon III...
Category
1980s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Antique Silver Cup, Large ICE BUCKET European Decorative Bowl Cup Deer Head
Located in Wembley, GB
Antique silver cup or large Decorative ice bucket, fruit cup, pressed, cast and chased. Circular, curved feet with hinged. unstamped, tested with the scratch test, height approx. 60 ...
Category
1930s British Art Deco Vintage Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Silver, Sterling Silver
Table Cigar Box two-tone stripes enamel Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
This divine Table Box is in 925/1000 sterling silver.
Table Box hand-painted miniature has a Rectangular shape with rounded corners.
On the cover there is a beautiful hand-engraved...
Category
1970s Italian Empire Vintage Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
A Pair Antique Silver Salt Pepper Shaker Art Deco Decorative Condiment Set Tray
Located in Wembley, GB
A pair of modernist Silver Condiment sets comprising a Salt shaker, a Pepper Shaker, a Mustard Pot & a spoon. The mustard pot has a blue glass bowl and a silver spoon. Each item's ex...
Category
1940s English Art Deco Vintage Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Metal, Silver, Silver Plate, Sterling Silver
$1,374 Sale Price / set
35% Off
Antique Pair of Candle Holder Sterling Silver Art Deco Candlesticks, 1940s
Located in Wembley, GB
Antique sterling silver pair of Art Deco solid silver candlesticks, pressed, cast, and chased. Circular, curved feet with hinged. Tested with the scratch test, height approx. 16.5 cm...
Category
1940s Swedish Art Deco Vintage Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Silver, Sterling Silver
$1,539 Sale Price
20% Off
Small shaped Picture Frame Four-leaf clover lilac Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Four-leaf clover shaped frame for oval photo in 925/1000 gold-plated sterling silver with translucent lilac fired enamel on guilloche, modern contemporary style. External cm. 8.5 x 8...
Category
1960s Italian Modern Vintage Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold, Gold Plate
Fountain pen, Ballpoint pen and tray for a Desk Set green enamel Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
4640-5320 - Rectangular tray with rounded corners in 925/1000 sterling silver with translucent fired enamels on guilloché, cm. 9 x 17.5. For fountain pen (4568-5201) with two-tone st...
Category
1970s Italian Modern Vintage Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Snuff box Enamel Double opening Sterling Silver flower bouquet Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Square snuff box with two slightly domed sides in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè and hand-painted miniature of flower bouquet, late 1...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Swann Sterling Silver A Pair of Antique Salt & Pepper Shaker Swann Wings Tray
Located in Wembley, GB
Silver Swan Vintage Salt and Pepper, Set of 2 with Sterling Silver Tray
Antique valuable silver salt and pepper shaker or Decorative tableware pressed, cast and chased pair of swann....
Category
1940s European Hollywood Regency Vintage Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver, Silver Plate, Sterling Silver, Silver Leaf
$604 Sale Price
20% Off
Snuff Box reproducing the painting of a Roman glimpse late 1800s Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Snuffbox Rectangular for table with rounded corners in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated with very fine fire-enamelled miniature hand-painted by the painter Renato Dainelli repro...
Category
1990s Italian Baroque Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Gold Plate, Enamel
Small shaped Picture Frame 2 oval portrait Blue Navy color enamel Salimbeni
By Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Small shaped frame for 2 oval photographs in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guilloche in Art Nouveau style. External dimensions cm. 5.2 x 7 int...
Category
1980s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold, Gold Plate
Table Clock Sterling Silver Large with Horse Sculpture Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Large table clock in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamels on guillochè, formed by a rectangular base of cm. 12 x 24 x ...
Category
1980s Italian Islamic Vintage Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Amethyst, Sterling Silver, Enamel
$32,052 Sale Price
20% Off
Louis Kuppenheim silver Cat Germany (ca. 1910)
Located in Autonomous City Buenos Aires, CABA
Magnificent antique German solid silver adorned with a deeply embossed silver cat on the front of the case,
with the back of the cat on the back cover.
The cat is encrusted with pr...
Category
1910s German Art Deco Vintage Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Fountain pen, Ballpoint pen & Tray for Desk Set enamel Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular tray with rounded corners in 925/1000 sterling silver with hand-painted fired enamel like turquoise stone, cm. 9.5 x 18. For fountain pen (4577-5210) with 18 carat gold n...
Category
1970s Italian Modern Vintage Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Box Black Red Art Deco style designed for Cartier USA Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table box with rounded corners in 925/1000 sterling silver with fire-enamelled Art Deco design. Dimensions cm. 10.4 x 13.4 x 3.2. Weight gr. 530. Designed by Giorgio Sali...
Category
1970s Italian Art Deco Vintage Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Picture Frame Sterling Silver Octagonal Yellow Enamel Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Octagonal photo frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fire enamels on guillochè. Modern contemporary style. Exterior 17 x 18.5 cm, interior for round photo d...
Category
1990s Italian Modern Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box fired enamels and round cameo Salimbeni.
Located in Firenze, FI
Behold the epitome of elegance and craftsmanship: a square table box, meticulously crafted from gold-plated 925/1000 sterling silver. This masterpiece features exquisite engravings a...
Category
1960s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Evening Bag Sterling Silver Shape of an Envelope Black Fired Enamel Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Evening bag in the shape of an envelope in 925/1000 sterling silver with black fired enamel. Measure cm. 8.2 x 4.7 x 13.5 - interior with beveled mirror and velvet lining. With trian...
Category
1970s Italian Art Deco Vintage Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold
$8,770 Sale Price
20% Off
Table Box Octagonal Black Enamel with light Blue Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Octagonal table box in 925/1000 sterling silver with fire-enamelled Art Deco design. Dimensions diameter cm. 15.8 high cm . 8.2. Weight gr. 974. Designed by Giorgio Salimbeni for Cartier USA in the 1980s, inspired by objects designed by Louis Cartier around 1920 and manufactured in Florence in various specimens, also in parure with other objects and in different colors, in the headquarters by the Salimbeni firm with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for withstanding numerous high-fire enamelled firings at about 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...
Category
1980s Italian Art Deco Vintage Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Box with wedges Enamel Sterling Silver black and white Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Octagonal wedge box in 925/1000 sterling silver with black and white colors fire enameled in Art Deco style. Measures 7.8 x 7.8 x 6 cm. Weight gr. 281. Designed by Giorgio Salimbeni ...
Category
1970s Italian Art Deco Vintage Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Large Antique Silver Cup JARDINJÄR Silver & Crystal European Decorative Bowl Cup
Located in Wembley, GB
Antique silver cup or large Decorative food or fruit cup, pressed, cast and chased. Circular, curved feet with hinged. unstamped, tested with the scratch test, Height 15cm, Width 41c...
Category
1930s British Art Deco Vintage Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Silver, Sterling Silver
$1,319 Sale Price
20% Off
Louis XVI White Photo Frame Sterling Silver Enamel on Guillochè 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 Italian Empire Vintage Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Base Talcum Powder Holder Black and White Art Deco 925 Salimbeni.
Located in Firenze, FI
Hexagonal base talcum powder holder in black and white fired enamel in 925/1000 sterling silver with perforated screw cap and pressure counter-cap, in Art Deco style. Base cm, 5.3 x ...
Category
1980s Italian Art Deco Vintage Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
French Ewer wine service, cut Crystal handle ornate chiseled solid silver 19th
By Henri Soufflot 1
Located in Paris, FR
19th-century French twisted and hand-engraved crystal ewer with sterling silver mount. The handle is beautifully adorned with stylized acanthus leaves, while the upper part of the mo...
Category
Late 19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Crystal, Sterling Silver
Table Box Enamel on Guilloche and Hand Painted Miniature Sterling Silver Salimb
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.
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