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Technique: Hand-Carved
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
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 Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Orange Square Table Framel French Empire Napoleon III Style Sterling Silver Enam
Located in Firenze, FI
Square table frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè with edges in French Empire Napoleon III style. External cm. 18 x 18, internal c...
Category
1970s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Enamel, Sterling Silver
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 Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Snuffbox Pocket Sterling Silver Gold Paillons Lilies of France 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 Italian Louis XIV Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold
Boxed - 19th century - FRUIT KNIFE & FORK - Hallmarked:-Sheffield 1864 Maker JYC
Located in York, GB
This fruit knife and fork are particularly attractive - see the deeply carved, mother of pearl facings, in a diamond pattern.
Both pieces have full English hallmarks, applied by the ...
Category
Mid-19th Century English Early Victorian Antique Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
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
Round Photo Frame Miniature of garlands of flowers Art Nouveau style Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Round photo frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè and hand-painted miniature of garlands of flowers in t...
Category
1970s Italian Other Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box Octagonal Light Blue Fired Enamel and Miniature Madame Drouais on Sali
Located in Firenze, FI
Octagonal table box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè and beautiful hand-painted enamelled miniature by the painter Beatrice Mellana reproducing the portrait of Madame Drouais painted by her husband Francois Hubert in 1785 and conserved in the Louvre Museum. Fine hand-engravings on the sides. French Empire style. Measure cm. 8x8x3.7. Weight gr. 285. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1989 and manufactured in Florence in the headquarters of the Salimbeni company with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for withstanding numerous eamelled firings at high heat 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
1980s Italian Other Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Enamel, Sterling Silver
Table Box Four-Leaf Clover Malachite Stone and Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Table box in the shape of a four-leaf clover in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated and real malachite stone petals. Dimensions cm. 12 x 12 x 2.5 . Silver weight gr. 340. Designed b...
Category
1970s Italian Other Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Malachite, 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
Letter Opener Sterling Silver Blue Enamel on Guillochè 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 Italian Islamic Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Snuff box perforated, embossed and hand-engraved lid and miniature Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Shaped snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with perforated, embossed and hand-engraved lid, with fine oval miniature cm. 3.2 x 4.5 hand painted in tempera on vegetable i...
Category
1970s Italian Rococo Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Photo Frame Blue Enamel and pure Gold "Paillons" 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 Italian Louis XVI Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box Sterling Silver Paillons in Pure Gold and Miniature Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Oval table box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fired enamel, with “paillons” in pure gold on the upper circle, fine miniature fired enamelled with an image of “fox hunti...
Category
1960s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Photo Frame Oval with Two-color Translucent strips Enamel Fired Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Oval frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with two-color translucent strips fire-enameled on guillochè and hand-engraving and with French Empire Napoleon III style ornament...
Category
1980s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
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 Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Snuff Box White Fire Enamel with Miniature of Bird Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Round snuff box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fire enamel on guilloche and hand-painted miniature of stylized blue bird, late 19th-century Viennese Art Nou...
Category
1970s Italian Art Deco Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
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
19th Century Silver Hand Wrought Tea / Coffee Service
Located in Tarry Town, NY
Beautiful American coin silver 3 -piece tea and coffee service in the manner of Thomas Whartenby Pennsylvania, Circa 1816-1818.
Thomas Whartenby and Peter Bumm were independently su...
Category
1820s North American Antique Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Pair Antique English Crystal Sterling Silver Scent Perfum Bottles William Comyns
Located in Dublin, Ireland
An Exceptionally Fine Quality Pair of English full lead Crystal and Sterling Silver Ladies Scent Bottles of exceptionally large proportions and of outstanding quality,
The silver...
Category
19th Century English Victorian Antique Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Crystal, Sterling Silver
One-Off Winsor & Newton Queen Elizabeth Jubilee Sterling Silver 1977 Artist Box
Located in GB
We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely one of a kind Winsor & Newton 1977 Queen Elizabeth Jubilee presentation with sterling silver ...
Category
20th Century English Early Victorian Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Crystal, Sterling Silver
Buccellati Artwork with Oak Leaves Wreath Surrounding a Round Silver Basket
Located in Paris, FR
Beautiful large sterling silver centerpiece created by the famous Italian silversmith Federico Buccellati.
This circular centerpiece ...
Category
1980s Italian Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
19th Century Sterling Silver Centerpiece Bowl
Located in Tarry Town, NY
Mid 19th century sterling silver footed centerpiece bowl with exterior floral band design details and gold wash interior. The centerpiece bowl is in great antique condition. Minor we...
Category
1860s North American Antique Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold, Sterling Silver
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 Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Crystal, Sterling Silver
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 Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
19th Century Pair of Silver Menus Holders with Medallion and Floral Decoration
Located in Sofia, BG
French pair of menus holders in silver with medallion with GC incrustation and numbered floral decoration.
Around 1880
High. 6.5 cm
Total gross weight: 40g.
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Italian 20th Century Green Marble and Sterling Silver Obelisks
Located in VALENZA, IT
Green marble obelisk with sterling silver friezes.
The frieze on the obelisk depicts a composition of fruit with a love knot and is placed on a ba...
Category
1980s Italian Other Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Marble, Sterling Silver
Victorian English Silver and Tortoise Inkwell : Single Rare Piece
Located in Alessandria, Piemonte
Very elegant and rare silver and tortoise Victorian inkwell: a wonderful piece for Your desk.
Punched: London, 1884.
A/2128.
Category
Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Antique French .950 Silver Rococo Style 3 Pc Carving Set with Rare Gigot
By Manches Argent Controle
Located in Charleston, SC
Fabulous antique French .950 fine silver handled Rococo style three-piece carving set with Gigot (bone holder)
Maker's Marks: Manches Argent Controle
-Paris- and the "Minerva's h...
Category
Late 19th Century French Rococo Antique Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
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
20th Century Italian Solid Silver Tea and Coffee Set with Matching Tray
By PRIA & SARI
Located in VALENZA, IT
Large oval tea and coffee service in 800 solid silver on feet, completely handcrafted and lightly hammered. The oval shape, particularly difficult to make as it is completely shaped ...
Category
1980s Italian Other Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
20th Century Italian White Carrara Marble Obelisk with Sterling Silver Friezes
Located in VALENZA, IT
White Carrara marble obelisk with sterling silver friezes.
The obelisk frieze, in gilded and natural sterling silver, depicts a jug from which water flows at the feet of a woman and ...
Category
1980s Italian Other Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Marble, Sterling Silver
20th Century Italian Silver Hammered Ladle with Rosewood Handle
Located in VALENZA, IT
Ladle in solid 800 silver, completely handmade.
The bowl of the ladle is hammered and ambossed with a small countersink to pour the liquid or sauce.
The handle is in rosewood, also h...
Category
1980s Italian Other Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Sweet Antique Cut Glass Crystal Decanter Jug Maderia Sterling Hanging Label 1973
Located in GB
We are delighted to offer for sale sublime cut glass crystal decanter with sterling silver Maderia hanging label
A good looking and decorative piece, the hanging collar is clearly...
Category
1970s English Mid-Century Modern Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Chinese Export Silver Bowl
Located in London, GB
A Chinese export silver bowl with blue glass liner.
The bowl is pierced and has wonderfully detailed chrysanthemum decoration.
The bowl has a vacant cartouche and sits on a plain col...
Category
1890s Chinese Chinese Export Antique Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
William L. deMatteo, Mid-Century Modern Sterling Silver Coffee Kettle, ca. 1950s
By William Lawrence deMatteo
Located in New York, NY
Dimensions & weight:
Height: 10.75 inches
Width: 3-1/2 inches
Depth: 5.25 inches
Weight: 27.4 troy oz
This wonderful sterling silver & wood coffee & tea kettle, made by the famous New York master-silversmith William Lawrence deMatteo, very delicately decorated with the sprouts of young sweet peas. Although at first glance, this object casts thoughts about Art Deco, the unusualness of organic decorative elements in combination with the traditional form certainly speaks of its explicit Mid-Century Modern design.
William Lawrence deMatteo (American, 12 October 1923 - 14 May 1988), silversmith and master craftsman, was born in New York City and was the son of Elizabeth Rommelman deMatteo and William Gaitano [Gaetano] deMatteo, an accomplished silversmith who immigrated to the United States from Acciaroli, Salerno, Italy, with his family when he was a boy. William Lawrence deMatteo grew up in suburban Bergenfield, New Jersey, and attended schools in nearby Tenafly, all the while observing and absorbing his father's skillful work. DeMatteo began studying sculpture and fine arts at Columbia University in 1941, but after the United States entered World War II he joined the navy in November 1942 and served in the Pacific theater as a torpedo bomber pilot. On 14 November 1946, in Asbury Park, he married Jayne Walpole, a painter who later co-founded an art gallery. They had three daughters and one son. DeMatteo resumed his apprenticeship with his father and may have continued his studies at Columbia before being recalled to active duty with the navy during the Korean War. He was discharged in 1953.
Bill deMatteo, as he was usually known, visited the restored capital of colonial Virginia while he was still in the service and asked to see the silversmith's shop. Told that Colonial Williamsburg had none, he saw an opportunity for himself. Soon after deMatteo left the navy, he returned to Williamsburg and in July 1953 joined the staff as a silversmith. He created the entire silversmith program and was responsible for the James Geddy Silversmith's Shop, where he trained shopkeepers in interpreting craftsmanship to visitors, instructed and supervised apprentices in all kinds of metalworking, and handcrafted reproductions of eighteenth-century silver items for sale in the shop. DeMatteo also revived colonial silversmith James Craig...
Category
1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
1960 Italy Mid-Century Scandinavian Pair Sterling Silver Candleholders
Located in Brescia, IT
This pair of elegant sterling silver candleholders, have been hand made in Sweden in 1960.
Their linear shape give a sense of modern and these pieces are an example of the internati...
Category
Mid-20th Century Swedish Mid-Century Modern Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Late 18th Century Geroge III Coconut and Silver Goblet by Charles Hougham
By Charles Houghman
Located in Dallas, TX
A period George III silver and coconut communion cup by English silversmith Charles Hougham (1748-1793). The coconut is carved extensively with a palm le...
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Late 18th Century English George III Antique Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
English Sterling Silver Winged Cherub Dressing Mirror, Circa 1770
Located in Hollywood, SC
English sterling silver dressing mirror with centered floral cartouche, four flanking corner winged cherubs, scrolled floral decorative...
Category
1770s English George III Antique Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Austrian Hammered Sterling, Diamond and Sapphire Cigarette Case and Match Holder
Located in Water Mill, NY
Fabulous Austrian Hungarian hammered sterling- rose diamond and sapphire
cigarette and match holder. Gilded inside has a decorative monogram on the
on the back.
Category
Late 19th Century Austrian Antique Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Photo Frame Art Deco Style Black and White Enamel Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Black with white milk design Rectangular photo frame in 800/1000 silver gold plated with fire enamels. External cm. 13.4 x 17.4 Internal cm. 9 x 13. Weight gr. 199. Created in Art Deco style for Cartier USA in the 1980s, inspired by drawings by Louis Cartier from the early 1900s. Made in Florence in the Salimbeni company headquarters with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick and thick slabs reinforcements suitable for supporting numerous high-fire enamelled firings at approximately 750° < 800° C.
About cooperation Salimbeni and Cartier.
Our first meetings with the Cartier USA Company took place through the Giorgini Company, the first "Buying Office" set up in Florence immediately after the Second World War, which had the purpose of bringing together Florentine, and also Italian, producers with American buyers, who especially appreciated the artistic objects still manufactured by artisans who still took inspiration from the Italian Renaissance, using techniques handed down from generation to generation.
Mrs. Gina Pestelli, wife of a Florentine retail jeweller, was in charge of contacts with Cartier USA, above all an employee, while her daughter, also for Giorgini, took care of the fashion that in those years was affirmed in Florence with the events of "Pitti ".
With their help, we began to supply frames and boxes in sterling silver gold plated with malachite and other semi-precious stones.
At the same time, the official buyer of Cartier, Mr. William Smith, began to appreciate and commission the first objects with fired enamels, a process of which we have always been specialists.
In 1975 we began exhibiting at the prestigious New York Jewellery Association Show, which we participated in both the February and July editions, for a good 26 years until 2001.
In New York in those years the "Art deco style" was still very much appreciated, still mindful of the beautiful early 20th century architecture of the great buildings such as the "Crysler" or the "Empire State".
We then began to produce frames, boxes, evening bags, "objets de vertu" and other objects in "art deco style" which were very popular with Mr. Smith who gave us some photocopies of Louis Francois Cartier drawings to reproduce them. Thus, numerous cigarette cases, powder compacts, evening bags, frames and table boxes were created exclusively for Cartier USA which, at the time, had the prestigious "Silver Department" on the first floor of the Cartier store on Fifth Avenue.
An evening bag, with matching cigarette case and powder compact, were redone on the design created for a gift given to Mary Pickford at the time. In a 1986 Cartier...
Category
1980s Italian Art Deco Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Enamel, Sterling Silver
Guilloche Frame Blu Enamel Gold Paillons Stars of Sky Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular photo frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent blue fired enamel on guillochè and with the insertion of pure gold "paillons" in the shape of stars t...
Category
1960s Italian Other Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
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