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Technique: Hand-Carved
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 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, Enamel, Sterling Silver
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
Photo Frame Butterfly-Shaped Fired Enamel on Guillochè and Hand Engravings Sterl
Located in Firenze, FI
Butterfly-shaped photo frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent polychrome fired enamels on hand engraving that imitates the veins of the wings. External dimens...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Photo Frame Large two-tone striped enamel Black and Yellow Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular photo frame in gold plated 925/1000 sterling silver with translucent fired enamels on two-tone striped guillochè. In a contemporary style. Ground glass and velvet panel. ...
Category
1970s Italian Modern Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Enamel, Sterling Silver
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
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
Table Box Enamel on guillochè with “paillons” in pure gold on the upper circle S
Located in Firenze, FI
Round table box in 925/1000 sterlin silver gold plated with fired enamels, with “paillons” in pure gold on the upper circle, fine fired enamelled miniature with hand-painted floral image by the painter Bruno Corsari, striped enamelled border vertical. Napoleon III French Empire...
Category
1960s Italian Napoleon III 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 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
Picture Frame large size Red Enamel on Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Large shaped photograph frame in gold plated 925/1000 sterling silver with translucent fired enamel on guillochè with borders and laurel frieze in Louis XVI French Empire style. Exte...
Category
1960s Italian Empire Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box Sterling Silver Striped Paillons in pure Gold and flowers Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Round table box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fired enamels, with “paillons” in pure gold on the upper circle, fine floral miniature fired enamelled by the painter Renato Dainelli, enamelled border with vertical stripes. Napoleon III French Empire...
Category
1960s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Enamel, Sterling Silver
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
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
Perfume Holder Black and White Art Deco style Squared base 925 Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Square base perfume holder in black and white fired enamelled 925/1000 sterling silver with screw cap, in Art Deco style. Base cm, 3.6 x 3.6 bottle height cm. 8, total height cm. 10....
Category
1980s Italian Art Deco Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
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, Enamel, Sterling Silver
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, 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
Swann Silver Salt Shaker A Pair of Antique Salt & Pepper Shaker Swann Wings Tray
Located in Wembley, GB
Silver Swan Vintage Salt and Pepper, Set of 2 with Tray
Antique valuable silver salt and pepper shaker or Decorative tableware pressed, cast and chased pair of swann. Oval, domed bod...
Category
1940s European Hollywood Regency Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver, Silver Plate, Sterling Silver, Silver Leaf
English Sterling Silver Winged Cherub Dressing Mirror, Circa 1770
Located in Charleston, 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
Victorian Sterling Silver Tableware Carneool Agate Flatware Pie Scoop Server
Located in Wommelgem, VAN
Antique Dutch sterling silver cake server
Made of silver and carneool agate
Engraved with typical Victorian - Biedermeier pattern
Origin The Netherlands
Hallmarked : on the back ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Dutch High Victorian Antique Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Agate, 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
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
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
A Silver and Mother of Pearl 'Kever Rachel' Snuff Box
Located in New York, NY
This extraordinary snuff box is a true work of art, crafted from silver and adorned with a stunning mother-of-pearl cover. Unlike traditional rectangular or box-shaped designs, this piece takes on the unique and elegant form of a seashell, adding to its rarity and charm.
The mother-of-pearl lid is masterfully hand-carved with an intricate portrayal of the sacred site of Kever Rachel, the tomb of the biblical matriarch Rachel. The delicate engraving captures the serene beauty of the surrounding landscape, featuring rolling fields and distant mountains. A majestic tree with overhanging branches stands prominently, casting its shade over the revered burial site at the center of the composition. The depth and detail of the carving bring the scene to life, reflecting both artistic excellence and spiritual reverence.
The silver base of the snuff box complements the luminous mother-of-pearl, creating a harmonious blend of materials that exude elegance and historical significance. A rare and collectible piece, this snuff box is a perfect addition for collectors of fine Judaica, antique snuff boxes...
Category
Mid-20th Century Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
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
Salimbeni Box with Swiss Musical Mechanism by Maison Reuge Art Deco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Round box with Swiss musical mechanism (music box) by Maison Reuge. In 925/1000 sterling silver with black and white fired enamels in Art Deco style. Diameter cm. 7.4 total height cm...
Category
1970s Italian Art Deco Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Ballpoint Pen Sterling Silver with Translucent Fired Enamel Guilloche Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Ballpoint pen in 925/1000 sterling silver with translucent fired enamel on guilloche. With Sheaffer refil or similar. Diameter mm. 10.5. Total length cm. 14. Weight gr. 52. Designed ...
Category
1970s Italian Art Deco Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
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 ...
Category
1890s Chinese Chinese Export Antique 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
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...
Category
1920s Israeli Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Pair of Sterling Silver sauce boat with Handle by Tane Orfebres
Located in Autonomous City Buenos Aires, CABA
Pair of modern sauce boats with sterling silver legs and handle designed and made by Tane Orfebres in Mexico. The two open sauce boats are decorated with elements of the mythical Que...
Category
1950s Mexican Mid-Century Modern Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Pair of Sterling Saucer Plates by Tane Orfebres
Located in Autonomous City Buenos Aires, CABA
Those Saucer plates are a lovely pieces for those that collect fine Mexican silver, silver by this listed maker, or you're looking for a piece like this to dress up your home!
Shows...
Category
1950s Mexican Mid-Century Modern Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
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
A Fascinating and Rare Silver Spice Tower, Poland circa 1836
Located in New York, NY
Spice tower has a round base with a square engraved plaque supporting the column shaped stem. Hanging flower bells are hanging from the cornices at base of the container. Spice conta...
Category
1830s Polish Antique Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
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
Victorian English Silver and Turtle Inkwell : Single Rare Piece
Located in Alessandria, Piemonte
Very elegant and rare silver and turtle 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
