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Technique: Hand-Carved
Photo Frame Red Enamel Guillochè and Hand Engravings Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Shaped oval photo frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on sunburst guillochè and Louis XVI French Empire style ornaments. External dimensions c...
Category
1970s Italian Louis XVI Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Striking English Cut Crystal and Sterling Silver Art Deco Decanter, 1935
Located in Bath, GB
A truly striking Art Deco decanter made from a hefty piece of glass, beautifully hand-cut. The towering stopper sits in a collar which is wrapped in English sterling silver, fully ha...
Category
1930s Art Deco Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Glass
Picture Frame Enamel two-tone ruby red and emerald green Salimbeni.
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular photo frame in gold-plated 925/1000 sterling silver, with translucent fired enamel stripes on guilloche, two-tone ruby red and emerald green, in a modern contemporary sty...
Category
Early 2000s Italian Modern Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Photo Frame Bordeaux Enamel Empire style ornaments Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Shaped oval photo frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè and Louis XVI French Empire style ornaments. External dimensions cm. 13.5 x...
Category
1970s Italian Louis XVI Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Small shaped Picture Frame tiles of the Baptistery of Florence Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamels on guillochè. Shaping taken from the tiles of the North Door of the Baptistery of the Florence Cathedral ...
Category
1970s Italian Renaissance Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold Plate
Table Box portrait of Empress Eugenia de Montijo miniature Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
More than a kilo of sterling silver was needed to create this stunning rectangular tabletop box.
Worked with the very complicated guilloche technique, it was then enamelled at high heat with translucent enamel to make the superb workmanship shine through.
The fine rectangular miniature cm. 7.5 x 10.7 on vegetable ivory.
The small masterpiece handmade by the painter Anna Maria Manfriani reproduces the famous portrait of Empress Eugenia de Montijo, by the painter Franz Xaver Winterhalter.
The unenamelled sterling silver parts were then gilded with a 24-carat galvanic bath.
In Art Nouveau style, with a “lost” zip, i.e. semi-invisible. Dimensions cm. 15 x 18 x 3.5. Weight gr. 1095. Designed by Giorgio Salimbeni in 1980 and manufactured in Florence at the Salimbeni company headquarters with completely manual execution by artisan artists with a very thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for supporting numerous enamelling firings at around 800°
Doña María Eugenia Ignacia Agustina de Palafox y Kirkpatrick, 19th Countess of Teba, 16th Marquise of Ardales known as Eugénie de Montijo was Empress of the French from her marriage to Napoleon III on 30 January 1853 until the fall of the Emperor on 4 September 1870. From July 28 to September 4...
Category
1980s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box portrait of Natalia Nikolaevna Pushkina Lanskaja Salimbeni.
Located in Firenze, FI
Spectacular table box with inward corners in gold-plated 925/1000 sterling silver with translucent enamel fired on guilloche, in Art Nouveau style, and in the center a fine rectangul...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Sterling, Bone, & Semi-Precious Gems Figure of 'St. George & Dragon'
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Sterling, Bone, & Semi-Precious Gems Figure of 'St. George & Dragon'
Germany, Early 20th Century
A meticulously cast and modeled Medieval / Renaissance Figure of St. George Slaying the Dragon, This figure with a moveable helmet visor, revealing his carved bone face...
Category
20th Century German Renaissance Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Multi-gemstone, Sterling Silver
$1,516 Sale Price
20% Off
Small shaped Picture Frame 2 oval portrait Plum Purple 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 Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, 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 Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Snuff box Enamel Stripes and miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Shaped snuff box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fire-enameled stripes and fine oval enameled miniature in center cm. 3 x 4 hand-painted by ...
Category
1970s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Silver Octagonal Bullet Teapot Dated 1930 Made in London by Richard Comyns
Located in London, GB
Silver Bullet Teapot Dated 1930 Made In London By Richard Comyns.
This style of teapot was first made in the Geo 1 period around about 1720.
It ...
Category
1930s English George I Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Black Oval Photo Frame Baroque Style Sterling Silver Enamel 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 Italian Baroque Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold Plate
Photo Frame Black and White Enamel Squared Shape Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Square photo frame in 925/1000 sterling silver with fire-enamelled Art Deco-style geometric design. External dimensions cm. 14.5 x 14.5 internal cm. 9 x 9. Weight gr. 260. Designed b...
Category
1970s Italian Art Deco Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Frame for Oval Photo Borders in Louis XVI French Empire Style Enamel 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 Italian Louis XVI Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Handbag perfume holder enamel on guilloché and fine hand engravings Salimbeni.
Located in Firenze, FI
4824-5542 - Rectangular handbag perfume holder with rounded sides in 925/1000 sterling silver gold-plated with screw cap and pin. With translucent 2-color striped fire enamel on gui...
Category
1960s Italian Empire Vintage Hand-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 Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Rare Antique Novelty German silver antler and silver cigar cutter, 1890-1900
Located in Tel Aviv - Jaffa, IL
Very attractive German silver mounted on an antler, cigar cutter
This cigar cutter is designed as oak leaves falling on the antler and in the middle There is a game bird of some kind hung from it, very realistic and well made.
This kind of objects were made in Germany and Austria so they can be given as High end gifts, used as a display piece with function in men clubs...
Category
1890s Antique Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver, Steel
Small Picture Frame Rectangular English style, early 1900s. Salimbeni
By Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guilloche, English style, early 1900s. External cm. 7 x 9 internal cm. 3.8 x 5.8. Weight g...
Category
1950s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
HESTER BATEMAN Geo. III Sterling Sweets or Sugar Basket with Cobalt Glass Liner
Located in CHARLESTON, SC
One of THE finest and most rare collectible Antique English Geo. III hallmarked STERLING SILVER hand pierced and engraved Sweets or Sugar Basket, retaining its original cobalt glass ...
Category
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Clock and 2 Candlesticks Table set Sterling Silver Enamel Salimbeni.
Located in Firenze, FI
Table set made up of a clock and 2 candlesticks in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with two-tone translucent stripes fire-enamelled on guillochè and fine hand-engravings.
The cl...
Category
1980s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Amethyst, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Salimbeni Pocket Photos Holder in Sterling Silver 2 Photographs
Located in Firenze, FI
Salimbeni Pocket photos holder in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated with two-tone translucent fired enamels on guillochè, with hand-engraved edge. Empire style Napoleon III. Octag...
Category
1980s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Sterling, Bone, & Semi-Precious Gems Figure of a Court Jester
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Sterling, Bone, & Semi-Precious Gems Figure of a Court Jester
Germany, Early 20th Century
A meticulously cast and modeled Medieval / Renaissance Figure of the Court Jester...
Category
20th Century German Renaissance Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Multi-gemstone, Sterling Silver
$1,400 Sale Price
20% Off
Fountain Pen Sterling Silver fired Enamel Guilloche Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Fountain Pen Sterling Silver 925/1000 with translucent fired enamel on guilloche.
Fountain Pen Sterling Silver has 14 carats gold nib and ink cartridge.
Fountain Pen Sterling Silve...
Category
1970s Italian Art Deco Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold
Photo Frame Large Imperial Style White and Green enamel on Sterling Silver Salim
Located in Firenze, FI
Large shaped frame for photographs in gold plated 925/1000 sterling silver with translucent two-tone fired enamels on guillochè and rich friezes in the French Empire Louis XVI style ...
Category
1960s Italian Empire Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Photo Frame with Interlacements in French Empire Louis XVI Style Sterling Silver
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular photo frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè and with convex border with enamelled lines, on which are applied interlace...
Category
1980s Italian Empire Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Picture Frame Green two-tones enamel Guilloche Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
This important Picture Frame Green is in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated 24 carats. It is rectangular shaped photo frame.
The surface of this Picture Frame Green is fired enamel...
Category
1970s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold
Picture Frame Louis XVI Green and sky blue, French Empire style Sterling Silver
Located in Firenze, FI
This stunning Picture Frame is in 925/1000 sterling silver.
Picture Frame Louis XVI has a squared shape with green and sky blue color for the fire enameled surface on guilloche and h...
Category
1980s Italian Louis XVI Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Perfume Holder Black and White Art Deco style octagonal base 925 Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Perfume holder with octagonal base in black and white fired enamelled 925/1000 sterling silver with screw cap, in Art Deco style. Base cm, 4.3 x 4.7 bottle height cm. 8, total height...
Category
1980s Italian Art Deco Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Cigarette Case Fired Enamel with Still Life Miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table cigarette case with rounded corners in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated with beautiful miniature fire enamelled and hand painted by the painter Beatrice Mellana reproducing a "still life" by the Flemish painter Willem Claes Heda. Dimensions cm. 5.7 x 9 x 1.7. Weight gr. 174. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1969 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 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 Italian Art Deco Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold
Cigarette Case Romantic couple Art Nouveau Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular desk cigarette case with rounded corners in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated with fine hand-painted fire-enameled miniature depicting a romantic couple in Art Nouveau...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
20th Century Italian Solid Silver Holy Water Stoup with Tap
Located in VALENZA, IT
Holy water stoup in 800 solid silver.
Made entirely by hand, embossed and chiseled with leaves and pods motif. The lid is removable to allow water to ...
Category
1970s Italian Other Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
$14,224 Sale Price
20% Off
Picture Frame with two-tone enamel stripes on guilloché Salimbeni.
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with two-tone enamel stripes on guilloché and fine hand engravings French Empire style. With 2 oval photo holders, internal ...
Category
1970s Italian Empire Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Photo Frame Two-Tone Fired Enamel on Guillochè Louis XVI Style Sterling Silver S
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 Italian Louis XVI Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Perfume Holder Black and White Art Deco style hexagonal base 925 Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Hexagonal base perfume holder in black and white fired enamel 925/1000 sterling silver with screw cap, in Art Deco style. Base cm, 4.2 x 4.7 bottle height cm. 8, total height cm. 10....
Category
1980s Italian Art Deco Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Pocket Photos holder Enamel hand carved Napoleon III Style Salimbeni.
Located in Firenze, FI
Pocket photos holder in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated with two-tone translucent fired enamels on guillochè, with hand-engraved edges. Empire style Napoleon III. Octagonal hing...
Category
1980s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Picture Frame Black high relief engraving grape leaves Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Picture Frame Black high relief is in 925/1000 sterling silver .
Picture Frame Black high relief has black fired enamels.
Picture Frame Black high relief has fine high relief engravi...
Category
1980s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Baroque Style Green Table Box with Miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Baroque style shaped table box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fine hand engraving interspersed with spaces with translucent fired enamels on guillochè and a beautiful h...
Category
1960s Italian Baroque Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Photo Frame Heart-Shaped Fired Enamel on Guillochè Sterling Silver 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 Italian Empire Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box Enamel two-tone ruby red and emerald green Salimbeni.
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table box in 925/1000 gold-plated sterling silver with translucent fired enamel stripes on guilloche, two-tone ruby red and emerald green, in a modern contemporary style....
Category
Early 2000s Italian Modern Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold
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.
The miniatures with water tempera colors are painted on real ivory...
Category
1960s Italian Baroque Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Photo Frame Double Opening Fired Enamel on Guillochè Sterling Silver Saliimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Shaped double opening photo frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè. Early 1900s English Art Nouveau style. Open size cm. 13.5 cm hig...
Category
1980s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Salimbeni Table Box Art Nouveau Painting Pre-Raphaelite School Fired Enamel
Located in Firenze, FI
This rectangular table box is a masterpiece of craftsmanship. Crafted from 925/1000 sterling silver and gold-plated, it features a hand-painted fire-enameled miniature by Beatrice Me...
Category
1980s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
$3,198 Sale Price
20% Off
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 Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Cigarette Case Fired Enamel on a Fine Hand-Engraved Mountain Landscape Sterling
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 Italian Modern Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Travel Photo Frame Fire Enamel Stripes Art Deco Style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular travel photo frame with hinged booklet for 2 photos in 925/1000 sterling silver with fire-enamelled stripes in Art Deco style. Measureme...
Category
1980s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Animalier Pattern Frame hand painted Sterling Silver Enamel Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with hand-painted fired enamel spotted tiger fur type in a modern contemporary style. External measurements cm. 14 x 17.5, i...
Category
Early 2000s Italian Modern Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Photo Frame Triptych hinged shaped frame for 3 photographs Blue Enamel Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Triptych hinged shaped frame for 3 photographs in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè with borders and ornaments in French Louis XVI Empi...
Category
1980s Italian Louis XVI Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box “The Great Odalisque” Fired Enamel on Guilloche 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 Italian Empire Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box autumn colours, Art Nouveau style Sterling Silver, Enamel and Coral Sa
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table box with rounded corners in 925/1000 sterling silver brossè with very fine hand engraving, also on the sides, of “ramage” with leaves and bunches of grapes fire-ena...
Category
1960s Italian Art Deco Vintage Hand-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 Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Perfume Holder with black stripes enameled Art Deco style Salimbeni.
Located in Firenze, FI
Perfume Holder with black stripes is in 925/1000 sterling silver.
Perfume Holder with black stripes has black fired stripes enamels.
Perfume Holder with black stripes has a screw cap...
Category
1980s Italian Art Deco Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
An Antique Persian Isfahan .84 Silver Fruit Bowl and Plate
Located in Los Angeles, CA
An antique Persian Isfahan .84 silver fruit bowl and plate are true treasures, adorned with intricate engravings depicting diverse floral scenes and surrounded by meticulously crafte...
Category
Early 20th Century Asian Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Table Box Fired Enamel Guillochè and Hand Engravings Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table box in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated with very fine hand-engraving Baroque style on the lid, fire-enamelled in 2 colours. In the center an ancient oval plate...
Category
1970s Italian Baroque Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Sterling SILVER Drinking DECANTER Wine Glassware Rare Antique Pitchers 7 Glasses
Located in Wembley, GB
Art Nouveau Sterling Silver Overlay Hand Blown Cranberry Crystal Decanter Claret
This tall hand blown cranberry crystal decanter is an exquisite example of the masters of silver over...
Category
1880s American Art Deco Antique Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Metal, Sheet Metal, Silver
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 Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box Fired Enamel on Guillochè Arab-Style Ornament Sterling Silver Salimben
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...
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1990s Italian Modern Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Photo Frame Empire Style Squared Shape Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Gold-plated 925/1000 silver square photo frame with fire-enamelled Empire-style leaves on a rounded edge. External dimensions cm. 9 x 9, internal cm. 7.7 x 7.7. Weight gr. 87. Design...
Category
1970s Italian Baroque Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Frame for 2 Photographs Fired Enamel on Guillochè Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Shaped frame for 2 photographs in sterling Silver 925/1000 gold plated with translucent fired enamels on guillochè and hand-painted floral miniatures. Viennese Art Nouveau style seco...
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1960s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Early 20th Century Silver Spice Tower by Yehia Yemini, Bezalel School Jerusalem
Located in Tel Aviv - Jaffa, IL
Very rare Bezalel Jerusalem silver filigree spice tower, this amazing spice Tower was Made by Yehia Yemini, who was the best filigree artist in bezal...
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1920s Israeli Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
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Silver
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