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Technique: Hand-Crafted
20th Century Italian Silver Portal "Marriage of the Virgin"
Located in VALENZA, IT
Portal in chiseled solid silver depicting the "Marriage of the Virgin".
The Marriage of the Virgin is an oil painting on wood (170 × 117 cm) by ...
Category
1990s Italian Renaissance Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Box Art Deco style designed for Cartier USA Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Round table box in 925/1000 sterling silver with fire-enamelled Art Deco design. Dimensions diameter cm. 14.5 cm high. 3. Weight gr. 648. With clear amethyst of cts. 15.40, set on the lid, cut in the shape and size of the "Hortensia", one of the hundred most famous diamonds in the world...
Category
1980s Italian Art Deco Vintage Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Set of 36 French Antique Dessert Forks & Knives, Oyster Fork Set Gold Ferrules
Located in Miami, FL
This exquisite set of 36 French gold-plated oyster forks, dessert forks, and knives is a stunning example of fine craftsmanship. Each piece features elegant mother-of-pearl handles, ...
Category
1890s French Louis XVI Antique Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate
Picture Frame Art Deco Chinese influence Enamel Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular photo frame in 925/1000 silver with geometric design and fire-enameled with Chinese influence style. External cm. Internal 11.6 x 14.6 cm. 6 x 9. Weight gr. 194. Created in Art Deco style for Cartier USA in the 1980s, inspired by drawings by Louis Cartier from the early 1900s. Manufactured in Florence in the Salimbeni company headquarters with completely manual execution by artisan artists with high thickness plate and large reinforcements suitable to support numerous high-fire enamelling firings at approximately 750° < 800° C.
It is a new object that has never been used but is considered vintage because it was built more than 20 years ago.
The hallmarks struck to the underside of this fine box include:
manufacturer's mark: 391FI
metal mark fineness:925
Art Deco was also born in France and is the abbreviation of "Art Decoratif".
With more decisive and geometric features than Art Nouveau, therefore more evident and "harder", with always contrasting and strong colours, Art Deco spread throughout the world, from Shanghai's China to the under construction New York and in various parts of Europe.
Many artists and designers of the time dedicated themselves to the creation of drawings, paintings, objects for personal use and furniture, interior furnishings, entire buildings and skyscrapers, in this new style.
Sandoz in Paris, Lalique with its crystals, Puiforcat with its silverware, Erté with its "ante litteram" fashion designs, Tiffany with its table lamps, Louis Cartier with its objects inspired by the Far East (hence the connection with Shanghai).
Salimbeni was able to interpret and propose new objects inspired by Art Deco, in precious metals, semiprecious stones and fired enamels, when, exhibiting at jewelery exhibitions in the United States, and more precisely in New York, he made contact with Cartier buyers first, and also with Tiffany later, and for them he created objects in this style inspired by the original drawings of Louis Cartier, obtained from the buyer of the time, but with absolutely different and original designs and interpretations.
Many of the objects produced by Salimbeni for Cartier in the United States had taken inspiration from famous Cartier objects belonging to famous people. An example of all is Mary Pickford's set consisting of a powder compact, cigarette case, pill case and evening handbag.
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-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Small Picture Frame Rectangular for oval portrait Salimbeni
By Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular for oval photo frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guilloche, English style, early 1900s. External cm. 6 x 9, internal oval cm....
Category
1950s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold, 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 Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Metal, Silver, Silver Plate, Sterling Silver
Tiffany & Co. Silver / Gilt Pair Continental Candlesticks
Located in Tarry Town, NY
Tiffany & Co. silver gilt pair of decorative continental style tableware candlesticks with exterior floral design details. Each candlestick is in great condition. Lacking nozzles. Mi...
Category
Early 20th Century American Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold, Silver
Victorian English Sterling Silver Berry Spoon and Grape Shear Set in Fitted Case
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This antique sterling silver berry set was made in London England in circa 1880 in the period Victorian style. The set is composed of four large matching berry spoons and a pair of g...
Category
Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
BIRKS - Pair of Pierced Sterling Silver Candy Dishes - Canada - Mid 20th Century
Located in Chatham, ON
BIRKS - Pair of vintage sterling silver candy or nut dishes - pierced basket design - signed - Canada - mid 20th century.
Excellent vintage condition - all original - no loss - no d...
Category
Mid-20th Century Canadian Rococo Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
S. Kirk & Sons Sterling Silver Repose Platter
By Kirk & Son
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This fine handcrafted sterling silver and heavy weight floral repose round serving platter is signed on the base and marked "STERLING". The condition is very fine and well handcrafted.
Category
Mid-20th Century American Baroque Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
George I silver rococo silver lidded tankard by john penfold
Located in Debenham, Suffolk
John penfold (aka penford) makers mark rococo silver lidded tankard, circa 1723.
Here we have a beautiful silver lidded tankard in the rococo style. The interior is gilded and
Ove...
Category
Early 18th Century English Georgian Antique Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
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 Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Boin Taburet - 322pc Flatware Set + 15pc Platter Set, 950 Sterling & Vermeil
By Boin-Taburet
Located in Wilmington, DE
Direct from a Private Mansion in St. Tropez, a Stunning 19th Century 950 Sterling Silver and Vermeil Table Service by Premier French Silversmith "Boin Taburet", Consisting of a 322pc Flatware Set Plus a 15pc. Serving Platter Set...
Category
1890s French Louis XVI Antique Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Vermeil, Sterling Silver
Small shaped Picture Frame red heart Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Heart-shaped frame in 925/1000 gold-plated sterling silver with translucent fired enamel on guilloche, modern contemporary style. External cm. 7.4 x 7.6 internal cm. 4.5 x 4.8. Weigh...
Category
1950s Italian Modern Vintage Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold, Gold Plate
Late 19th Century Tea Spoon Set - Sterling Silver - Gaston Bardiés Paris
Located in Casteren, Noord-Brabant
A beautiful set of 12 sterling silver teaspoons, accompanied by a tea strainer and sugar tongs.
The inside of the spoons is gilded (vermeille).
The silverwork is done in an incredibl...
Category
1890s French Belle Époque Antique Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Sterling Silver Tiffany Barware Service / 12 People
Located in Tarry Town, NY
Sterling Silver Tiffany barware / tableware silver sherry service for twelve people . Each cup is in great condition . Minor wear consistent with age / use . Maker's mark undersigned...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Deco Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Table Box Magnificent Arabian Horse Fired Enamel Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Shaped rectangular table box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fine hand-etched fire-enameled engraving painted like lapis lazuli stone and...
Category
1970s Italian Islamic Vintage Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
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-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Small Picture Frame Rounded Round English style, early 1900s. Salimbeni
By Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Small rounded round frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guilloche, English style, early 1900s. External diameter 7 cm, internal 5 cm. Weigh...
Category
1950s Italian Modern Vintage Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Art Nouveau Silver Jardinière With Glass Insert, Bruckmann & Sons, Germany, 1900
Located in Vienna, AT
Elegant, festive silver vessel with a wide oval vertical wall standing on four feet attached to the lower rim, central cartouches on the front and back, supported by a surrounding, relief and openwork flower and leaf interlacing, slightly curved upper edge, two handles attached to the sides in the form of wavy ribbons pulled...
Category
Early 1900s German Art Nouveau Antique Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
19th Century Sterling Silver Decorative Vase
Located in Tarry Town, NY
19th Century Italian sterling silver decorative vase with two side handles and exterior design details. The vase features a finely chase body with applied foliate motifs and semi pre...
Category
1880s Italian Antique Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
ROLASON BROTHERS - Art Deco Pair of Sterling Silver Napkin Rings - U.K. - C.1921
Located in Chatham, ON
ROLASON BROTHERS (Vyse Street - Birmingham) - Art Deco pair of sterling silver napkin rings - each ring with engine turned design and a circular cartouche for an initial - each carto...
Category
Early 20th Century British Art Deco Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
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-Crafted 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 Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
20th Century Italian Sterling Silver Cruet
Located in VALENZA, IT
Oliera completamente fatta a mano "Ulivo" in argento massiccio.
La forma è tonda caratterizzata da inserti realizzati con la tecnica della fusione, cesellati e successivamente saldat...
Category
1990s Italian Other Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Crystal, Sterling Silver
Archibald Knox Liberty & Co Silver Art Nouveau Silver Teapot
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A fine and rare Art Nouveau Liberty & Co silver teapot designed by renowned designer Archibald Knox (British, 1864-1933) and dated 1900.
Archibald Knox, was a Manx designer of Scot...
Category
Early 1900s English Art Nouveau Antique Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Silver Salt Shaker, A Pair of Antique Salt Shaker Crystal Swann Moving Wings
Located in Wembley, GB
Silver Swan Vintage Salt and Pepper, Set of 2 w/ Moving Wings.
Antique valuable silver salt and pepper shaker or Decorative tableware pressed, cast and chased pair of swann. Oval, do...
Category
1940s Japanese Hollywood Regency Vintage Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Crystal, Silver, Silver Plate, Sterling Silver, Silver Leaf
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 Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
21th Century Italian Sterling Silver Chalice
Located in VALENZA, IT
Liturgical chalice in sterling silver.
Volutes have been embossed on the base of the chalice, typical of the Baroque style, interspersed with hammered parts.
A golden cup...
Category
2010s Italian Baroque Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Birks, Antique Sterling Silver Serving Tray, Canada 'Montreal', Circa 1919
By Henry Birks
Located in Chatham, ON
Birks - Fine quality antique sterling silver serving tray - heavy weight with classic raised edge - engraved dedication and date i...
Category
Early 20th Century Canadian Edwardian Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
George II Sterling Silver Basket, London, 1747
Located in Cornwall, GB
A very good large silver swing handle basket of pierced oval form. The arched swing handle with two cast female busts arising from a leaf capped double C-scroll support. The cast and applied rim of shaped foliate and floral entwined decoration. The central bowl of the basket engraved with a rocaille cartouche containing an armorial. The top of the handle is decorated with a leaf form cartouche within which is the crest of a deer. The sides of the raised basket with hand cut pierced decoration. The whole standing on four cast and applied legs, decorated with a beautiful scrolling foliate design rising to high relief female faces, on leaf-form pad feet.
Hallmarked to the underside for London 1747 by Edward Aldridge. The underside of the handle bears the lion passant and maker’s mark, both struck twice.
This is a beautifully decorated and impressive piece of early Georgian silver...
Category
1740s British George II Antique Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
21st Century Georgian Style Sterling Silver Coffee and Tea Set, Italy, 2006
Located in Cagliari, IT
An elegant Georgian style tea and coffee set in hand chiseled sterling silver by the Italian silversmith Argenteria Auge.
Composed of 4 objects: one teapot, one coffee pot, one suga...
Category
Early 2000s Italian Georgian Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Table Box Enamel on Guilloche Hand Painted Miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Square box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè also on the sides. In the center, a beautiful hand painted tempera miniature on a vegetable ivory plate depicting the portrait of a 19th century lady, signed by the painter Anna Maria Manfriani. Dimensions cm. 12 x 12 x 2.5. Weight gr. 618. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1976 and manufactured in Florence in some 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
1970s Italian Modern Vintage Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Art Deco Tea Set 3-Piece Sterling Silver Fine Quality, Sheffield England 1930
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a fine quality Sterling Silver, Art Deco period, 3-piece tea set consisting of teapot, milk jug and Sugar Bowl, made by Cooper Brothers...
Category
Mid-20th Century English Art Deco Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Table Box Baroque style with two-tone fired enamels Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
This awesome Table Box Baroque style is in 925/1000 sterling silver.
it has a Rectangular shape with hand-engraved intricate design Black and Green color fire enameled.
Table Box Bar...
Category
1970s Italian Baroque Vintage Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Georg Jensen Early Danish Silver Cream Ladle
By Georg Jensen
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
Georg Jensen, Danish, early silver Continental cream ladle dating between 1910 and 1925. The Continental range was designed by Georg Jensen in 1906 and the...
Category
1910s Danish Arts and Crafts Vintage Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Picture Frame vertical lines Art Deco style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Picture Frame vertical lines Art Decois in 925/1000 sterling silver.
Picture Frame vertical lines Art Deco has white fired enamels on guilloché.
Picture Frame vertical lines has two...
Category
1980s Italian Art Deco Vintage Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, 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 Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Enamel, Sterling Silver
Heron N2º by Alcino Silversmith Handcrafted in Sterling Silver with Orange Agate
Located in Porto, 13
Heron by Alcino Silversmith 1902 is a handcrafted piece in 925 sterling silver with orange agate application.
The piece is totally handcrafted, hammered and chiseled by excellent ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Agate, Silver, Sterling Silver
Photo Frame Fired Enamel with Two-Tone Stripes on Guillochè and Hand Engravings
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular frame with oval photo in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel with two-tone stripes on guillochè and hand engravings. External dimensions cm...
Category
1980s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Danish Sterling Silver Tea Set Early 20th Century by Christian F. Heise
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Early 20th century Danish sterling silver tea set consisting of four pieces.
Tea pot, Coffee pot, sugar and milk, Beautifully crafted and has a classic, elegant design with a figural...
Category
Early 20th Century Danish Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
English Chester Sterling Silver Bon Bon /Nuts Basket
Located in Guaynabo, PR
This is an English Chester Sterling Silver Bon Bon/ Nuts Basket. It depicts a wide “V” shaped basket with scalloped border and pierced walls decorated with scrolls and “laces”. It h...
Category
Early 20th Century English Victorian Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Photograph Frame Large Imperial Style White Enamel on Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Large gold-plated 925/1000 sterling silver shaped photograph frame with translucent fired enamel on guillochè and rich friezes in Louis XVI French Empire style. External measurements...
Category
1960s Italian Empire Vintage Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Pair of Los Castillo Signed Mexican Sterling Cream and Sugar with Lapis Birds
By Los Castillo
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A stunning and rare pair of sterling silver Los Castillo cream and sugar. The Mexican Silver is made in Taxco Mexico by the iconic Los Ca...
Category
20th Century Mexican Mid-Century Modern Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Lapis Lazuli, Sterling Silver, Brass
20th Century Italian Solid Silver Jewelery Box Baroque Style
Located in VALENZA, IT
Jewelery box in solid 800 silver in Baroque style.
This box was made by faithfully and perfectly copying the fashion jewelry boxes in the noble houses and villas in Italy in the 18t...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Baroque Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Agate, Silver
Vintage John Prip for Reed & Barton "Dimension" Tea and Coffee Set Service
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Vintage John Prip for Reed & Barton "Dimension" modernist tea and coffee silver plated service set.
Designed by John Prip for Reed & Barton in 1960; "Dimension" pattern coffee and te...
Category
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver, Silver Plate
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 Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Pampaloni of Florence Italian Modernist Silver Candlestick
By Pampaloni
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A exceptional quality and heavy gauge Italian silver modernist twin candlestick by Pampaloni of Florence with London silver import marks for 2003. The candlestick stands on thick flat rounded base with a narrow rounded column stem supporting a undulating asymmetrical silver strip mounted with two rounded candle sconces...
Category
Early 2000s European Modern Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Elkington & Co Art Nouveau Large Silver Fruit Bowl
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A very unusual and stunning English Art Nouveau large silver fruit bowl by renowned silversmiths Elkington & Co and made in Sheffield in 1909. The heavily made bowl is of deep round ...
Category
Early 1900s English Art Nouveau Antique Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Persian Isfahan Solid Silver Tray / wall plaque
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A mid 20th century Persian Isfahan solid silver / wall plaque or tray of rectangular form. This is a stunning piece of artwork. The tray also features the artist's name, which adds a personal touch and showcases their craftsmanship.
One of the most captivating aspects of this tray is its hand-chased decoration depicting Achaemenid figures and winged sphinxes. The Achaemenid Empire was an ancient Persian civilization that existed from the 6th to 4th century BCE, famous for its architectural marvels such as the city of Persepolis. The presence of Achaemenid figures on the tray suggests a tribute to this rich historical era.
The winged sphinxes, on the other hand, add a touch of intrigue and mysticism to the design. Depicted with elegance and intricacy, these mythical creatures symbolize power, wisdom, and protection, drawing inspiration from ancient Egyptian, Greek, and Persian cultures.
The hand-chased technique used to create the decoration on the tray involves hammering and shaping the metal surface, creating intricate patterns and designs. This meticulous craftsmanship gives the tray a sense of uniqueness and exclusivity, as each detail is carefully shaped by the artist's skilled hands.
Overall, the combination of the Achaemenid figures and winged sphinxes on this Isfahan silver tray...
Category
Mid-20th Century Persian Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Georg Jensen Acanthus Sterling Silverware For Twelve
By Georg Jensen
Located in Hellerup, DK
A very large 159 piece set of Georg Jensen sterling silverware in the Acanthus pattern, design by Johan Rohde from 1917. Acanthus is t...
Category
1940s Danish Art Nouveau Vintage Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Vintage Sterling Silver Art Nouveau Handbag
Located in Autonomous City Buenos Aires, CABA
Vintage Sterling Silver Art Nouveau Handbag
Beautiful handbag made of silver with a peacock design on the front and decorated with a pattern of small flowers throughout the design, w...
Category
20th Century French Art Nouveau Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
20th Century Italian Solid Silver Strawberry Bowl with Sugar Bowl and Lemon Jug
Located in VALENZA, IT
Smooth bowl for serving strawberries in 800 solid silver. A round crystal has been inserted inside the bowl to prevent the silver from being scratched when taking the strawberries.
On the edge of the bowl a branch has been welded where leaves and strawberries twist to it.
The branch ends with a bifurcation to make it the seat of the strawberries ladle.
The ladle has a rounded square shape and also ends with a strawberry and leaves.
On the sides of the branch, 2 seats for the sugar bowl and the lemon jug...
Category
1990s Italian Other Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Crystal, Silver
Clock Cream Enamel on Guilloche Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Small table clock in gold-plated 925/1000 sterling silver with translucent enamel fired on guilloche, with columns in neo-classical Hellenic style. Swiss mechanical movement from Mai...
Category
1970s Italian Neoclassical Revival Vintage Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box blue and gold with handpainted miniature fire-enameled on guilloche Sa
Located in Firenze, FI
Octagonal table box in 800/1000 silver gold plated with translucent enamel on guilloché and beautiful enamel miniature hand painted by the painter Renato Dainelli in early 1900s Engl...
Category
1980s Italian Empire Vintage Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
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 Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold, Sterling Silver, Enamel
19th century silver claret jug by Frederick Elkington
Located in Debenham, Suffolk
19th century silver claret jug by Frederick Elkington circa 1878.
Sterling silver and weighing 17 troy ounces, stamped Birmingham hallmarks, 1878 date and maker stamp.
Frieze is ap...
Category
Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Box shaped enamel hand painted, engraved and miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Box shaped enamel is in 925/1000 sterling.
Box shaped enamel has handpainted fired enamels miniature.
Box shaped enamel is engraved and fire-enamelled ornaments.
Box shaped enamel is...
Category
1970s Italian Baroque Vintage Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
