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Technique: Hand-Carved
21st Century, Hand-Carved Clear Crystal and golden bronze potiche
Located in Calenzano, FI
21-st century hand carved clear crystal and golden bronze potiche. This potiche is finely chiseled lost wax castings and hand ground crystal. On request to customer can modificate th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Louis XVI Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
SET Salta Round Bottle-Holder , Alpaca Silver & Onyx Natural Stone
By AIREDELSUR
Located in Buenos Aires, AR
Salta province is called the beautiful, and this adjective introduces us to its profound beauty. Its fertile valleys, windy desert, colorful mountains and blue sky are the images tha...
Category
2010s Argentine Organic Modern Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Stone, Onyx, Metal
Chubut Large Round Tray, Alpaca Silver & Black Horn
By AIREDELSUR
Located in Buenos Aires, AR
The calm, peace and stillness of the Villa La Angostura lakes, together with its woods, are transmitted to the handles and the relaxed shapes of the trays, pitchers, cutlery and cham...
Category
2010s Argentine Organic Modern Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Metal
$1,100 / item
Vintage Large California Studio Pottery Cigar Ashtray
Located in North Hollywood, CA
California Pottery, large vintage stoneware cigar ashtray.
Classic mid-century modern ashtray in brown and beige stoneware with a flower in the middle.
The ceramic tray is in good ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Organic Modern Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Ceramic, Pottery, Stoneware
21st Century, Hand-Carved Clear Crystal and Bronze Centrepiece in Art Decò
Located in Calenzano, FI
21st century clear crystal with flower hand-cut centrepiece and base in silver patinated bronze. Each object is handcrafted and the care for every detail makes each item unique in it...
Category
2010s Italian Art Deco Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
CAPA Cream & Sugar Set, Alpaca Silver & Gray Marble
By AIREDELSUR
Located in Buenos Aires, AR
With the concept of intermingle materials from our earth, soft marbles and manually hammered alpaca, this sophisticated and elegant line is created, and it includes trays, champagne ...
Category
2010s Argentine Modern Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Marble, Metal
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 Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Silver
$14,213 Sale Price
20% Off
21st Century, Hand-Carved Clear Crystal and Golden Bronze Tray in Classic Style
Located in Calenzano, FI
21-st century hand carved clear crystal tray with frame in lost wax silver bronze lace.
This tray is a limited edition, we have only a piece. It's particular hand -carved and the fr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Art Nouveau Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
CAPA Small Square Tray, Alpaca Silver & Green Marble
By AIREDELSUR
Located in Buenos Aires, AR
With the concept of intermingle materials from our earth, soft marbles and manually hammered alpaca, this sophisticated and elegant line is created, and it includes trays, champagne ...
Category
2010s Argentine Modern Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Marble, Metal
Mendoza Round Medium Tray, Recycled Barrel Wood & Alpaca Silver
By AIREDELSUR
Located in Buenos Aires, AR
The unique and intense color of the Malbec wine represents us. The old storing barrels coated with its characteristic burgundy dye is the inspiration for our collection of trays, boa...
Category
2010s Argentine Organic Modern Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Metal
Tartaro Leaf Large Tray, Green Marble & Alpaca Silver
By AIREDELSUR
Located in Buenos Aires, AR
Like the Tatarian Maple tree leaves, the irregular toothed edges made in alpaca with a marble or goat horn engraved handle are the basis of the tray design ...
Category
2010s Argentine Organic Modern Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Marble, Metal
Mendoza Rectangular Large Tray, Recycled Barrel Wood & Alpaca Silver
By AIREDELSUR
Located in Buenos Aires, AR
The unique and intense color of the Malbec wine represents us. The old storing barrels coated with its characteristic burgundy dye is the inspiration for our...
Category
2010s Argentine Organic Modern Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Metal
LAGO Large Tray, Black Onyx & Alpaca Silver
By AIREDELSUR
Located in Buenos Aires, AR
The LAGO collection of circular shapes on trays and champagne glasses, made with a combination of materials such as alpaca silver and onyx, black, brown and cream.
Our pieces are ...
Category
2010s Argentine Organic Modern Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Stone, Onyx, Metal
$2,220 / item
Castor Bowl Set, Natural Wood & Alpaca Silver
By AIREDELSUR
Located in Buenos Aires, AR
Castor is the animal Beaver in spanish. There a enormous quantities of them in Argentina. They were brought from Canada in 1940.
It is a modern rustic clean collection.
Our piece...
Category
2010s Argentine Organic Modern Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Metal
SALTA Napking Ring, Alpaca Silver & Cream Onyx Natural Stone
By AIREDELSUR
Located in Buenos Aires, AR
Salta province is called the beautiful, and this adjective introduces us to its profound beauty. Its fertile valleys, windy desert, colorful mountains and blue sky are the images tha...
Category
2010s Argentine Organic Modern Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Stone, Onyx, Metal
Angostura Large Pitcher, Alpaca Silver & Cream Natural Onyx Stone
By AIREDELSUR
Located in Buenos Aires, AR
The calm, peace and stillness of the Villa La Angostura lakes, together with its woods, are transmitted to the handles and the relaxed shapes of the trays, pitchers, cutlery and cham...
Category
2010s Argentine Organic Modern Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Stone, Onyx, Metal
Two Set Salta Napking Ring, Alpaca Silver & Black Onyx Natural Stone
By AIREDELSUR
Located in Buenos Aires, AR
Salta province is called the beautiful, and this adjective introduces us to its profound beauty. Its fertile valleys, windy desert, colorful mountains and blue sky are the images tha...
Category
2010s Argentine Organic Modern Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Stone, Onyx, Metal
CAPA Small Square Tray, Alpaca Silver & Gray Marble
By AIREDELSUR
Located in Buenos Aires, AR
With the concept of intermingle materials from our earth, soft marbles and manually hammered alpaca, this sophisticated and elegant line is created, and it includes trays, champagne ...
Category
2010s Argentine Modern Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Marble, Metal
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 Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
1960s Matte Gray Organic Swedish Modern Ceramic Vase by Alingsås
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Tall rustic ceramic Swedish Mid-Century Modern cylindrical vase with intricate hand carved graphic relief patterns. Manufactured by Alingsås Keramik i...
Category
Mid-20th Century Swedish Mid-Century Modern Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Stoneware, Ceramic, Pottery
Terra Vessel no.1, One
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Hand built by New York-based artist Ilona Golovina, Terra Vessel is a one-of-a-kind ceramic sculpture that speaks to the rawness of time and erosion. Using traditional coiling techni...
Category
2010s American Arts and Crafts Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Ceramic, Clay, Earthenware, Porcelain, Stoneware
$4,500
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 Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold
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 Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Old Indonesian Offering Plate, Balinese Wodden Pedestal Tray known as "Dulangs
Located in Roma, IT
Purchased in Rome in a private home of a tireless traveller, we offer for sale an item from Inodnesia, made of hand carved and turned solid wood, known as "Dulangs" were used to carr...
Category
20th Century Indonesian Tribal Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Hardwood
Early Dora De Larios California Studio Pottery Bowl with Abstract Modern Design
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Handmade California studio stoneware bowl with abstract modern carved design created by Dora De Larios of Los Angeles, California. Bowl measures 3.5" by 7.5" and is signed Dora de La...
Category
1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Stoneware
$495 Sale Price
44% Off
19th Century Swedish Oak and Pewter Tankard With King Carl XV Coin
Located in Stamford, CT
19th century Swedish oak tankard with beautiful etched pewter scroll-work decoration and royal coat of arms. The lid of the vessel is inset with a silver c...
Category
Mid-19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Silver, Pewter
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 Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Salta Leather Ice Bucket & Tong, Alcapa Silver & Goat Leather
By AIREDELSUR
Located in Buenos Aires, AR
This bucket keeps ice cubes or crushed ice in the best conditions and longer thanks to its double insulation. Inspired by the mountains of Salta la linda, one of the most beautiful cities of the north of Argentina ,the Airedelsur Salta Onyx ice bucket...
Category
2010s Argentine Organic Modern Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Onyx, Metal
French Round Wood Cutting Seving Board
Located in Rümmingen, BW
Primitive hand-made wooden cutting or serving board. Made in France. This board is the perfect addition to any kitchen to add texture and history
Large wooden chopping-cutting bo...
Category
Late 20th Century French Primitive Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Wood, Hardwood
$192 Sale Price
20% Off
Carved Solid Wood Tray Made of Wenge
Located in New York, NY
Long oval shape with small two-tiered diamond motif in bands around the edges.
Category
Mid-20th Century Danish Primitive Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Wood
Pair of Neoclassical Rock Crystal Spheres on Bronze Bases
Located in Cypress, CA
Impressive pair of hand-carved and hand polished rock crystal spheres on bronze dolphin bases, second half of 20th century.
The diameter of the rock crystal sphere is 7.5 inches.
...
Category
Late 20th Century European Neoclassical Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Rock Crystal, Bronze
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 Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Salta Place Card Holders, Alpaca Silver & Brown Natural Onyx Stone
By AIREDELSUR
Located in Buenos Aires, AR
Salta province is called the beautiful, and this adjective introduces us to its profound beauty. Its fertile valleys, windy desert, colorful mountains and blue sky are the images tha...
Category
2010s Argentine Organic Modern Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Stone, Onyx, Metal
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 Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
$3,195 Sale Price
20% Off
Contemporary Carved Walnut Ebonized Cutting Board with Brass Accent
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Contemporary ebonized cutting board by Vincent Pocsik
Carved walnut cutting board with ebonized finish.
Natural food safe oil and wax finish.
Vincent Pocsik finds the balan...
Category
2010s American Organic Modern Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Walnut
French 19th Century Pine Cheese Draining Board
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
A large early 19th century French cheese draining board, hand-crafted in France circa 1820. This solid pine board with a shallow rim along the edges was...
Category
19th Century French Rustic Antique Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Wood, Pine
Contemporary Handmade Ceramic Ash Vase Small, Red and White
Located in Brooklyn, NY
One of a kind ceramic Ash vase in red clay with white speckled base, copper green glaze interior. The vase is comprised of two different clay bodies and features a raw, unglazed cera...
Category
2010s American Modern Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Ceramic, Clay
Teak Brass Nutcracker by Poul Knudsen, Denmark, 1950s
Located in San Diego, CA
Exceptional Danish modernist nut cracker designed by Poul Knudsen. Nut cracker is in vintage condition, beautiful wood grain in teak and brass fittings with excellent patina. Great D...
Category
Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Brass
$440 Sale Price
20% Off
Large Vintage Italian Majolica Pottery Figurine of Pheasants Bird
Located in Niederdorfelden, Hessen
Large vintage Majolica pottery figurine of a pheasant's bird made in Italy.
Category
20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Ceramic
Capa Large Narrow Tray, Alpaca Silver & Grey Marble
By AIREDELSUR
Located in Buenos Aires, AR
With the concept of intermingle materials from our earth, soft marbles and manually hammered alpaca, this sophisticated and elegant line is created, and it includes trays, champagne ...
Category
2010s Argentine Modern Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Marble, Metal
Oval Engraved Silver Plated Belgian Tray
Located in Alessandria, Piemonte
O/6951 - Simple and elegant this oval engraved silver plate tray from old Europe: Belgium.
Perfect for any house: antique or modern.
Category
Early 20th Century Belgian Other Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Silver Plate
Salta Place Card Holders, Alpaca Silver & Blue Natural Onyx Stone
By AIREDELSUR
Located in Buenos Aires, AR
Salta province is called the beautiful, and this adjective introduces us to its profound beauty. Its fertile valleys, windy desert, colorful mountains and blue sky are the images tha...
Category
2010s Argentine Organic Modern Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Stone, Onyx, Metal
Set Salta Small Ice Bucket & Tong Silver Alpaca & Black Onyx Stone
By AIREDELSUR
Located in Buenos Aires, AR
Set Salta Small Ice Bucket & Tong Silver Alpaca & Black Onyx Stone
This family is inspired by the forms and figures shaped by the wind of the Moon Valley (in the province of San Jua...
Category
2010s Argentine Organic Modern Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Stone, Onyx, Metal
21st Century, Hand Carved amethyst Crystal and Golden Bronze bottle
Located in Calenzano, FI
21st century Hand carved amethyst crystal and golden bronze whisky bottle. This bottle is finely chiseled lost wax castings . On request to custom...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Other Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Set of 3 Chalten Mini Wood & Alpaca Silver Square Trays
By AIREDELSUR
Located in Buenos Aires, AR
Measures:
8" x 8" x 1.5"
10" x 10" x 1.5"
12" x 12" x 1.5"
Inspired by the trails of the Chalten Mountain, in the south of the Andes mountain range, this family of trays, flower va...
Category
2010s Argentine Organic Modern Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Metal
Hawkes School Cut and Etched Grape and Floral Crystal Basket, 20th Century
Located in Big Flats, NY
Hawkes School cut and pressed crystal basket features etched grape and floral decoration, 20th century.
Measures: 9" H x 8.25" W x 6" D.
Catalogue Note: Ask about DISCOUNTED DELIV...
Category
20th Century American Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Crystal
$360 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 Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Contemporary Handmade Ceramic Ash Vase Small, Green and White
Located in Brooklyn, NY
One of a kind ceramic Ash vase in copper green glaze with white speckled base. The vase is comprised of two different clay bodies and features a raw, unglazed ceramic surface to highlight the texture of natural clay. The ceramic pieces are hand built and individually thrown on the potters wheel...
Category
2010s American Modern Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Ceramic, Clay
21st Century, Hand-Carved Amber Crystal and Golden Bronze Bowl with Rhinoceros
Located in Calenzano, FI
21st century hand carved amber crystal and golden bronze bowl. This bowl is finely chiseled lost wax castings and hand-grounded crystal. The golden bronze rhinoceros on the base was...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Louis XVI Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Capa Large Square Tray, Alpaca Silver & Gray Marble
By AIREDELSUR
Located in Buenos Aires, AR
With the concept of intermingle materials from our earth, soft marbles and manually hammered alpaca, this sophisticated and elegant line is created, and it includes trays, champagne ...
Category
2010s Argentine Modern Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Marble, Metal
$1,700 / item
21st Century, Hand Carved Clear Crystal and Golden Bronze Centrepiece
Located in Calenzano, FI
21st century hand carved clear crystal and golden bronze centrepiece. This Centrepiece has got the porcelain base with pure gold decorations and hand-grounded crystal. On request to...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Louis XVI Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
21st Century, Hand-Carved Amber Crystal and Golden Bronze Vase
Located in Calenzano, FI
21st Century hand carved amber crystal and golden bronze potiche. This potiche is finely chiseled lost wax castings and hand ground crystal. On request to customer can modificate the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Louis XVI Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
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 Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
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 Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Antique Chinese Wooden Block / Chopping Block, Hand-Carved, c. 1900
Located in Jimbaran, Bali
An Antique Chinese chopping block with hand-carved detailing. Two original iron supports are wedged on both sides to support such a large piece of solid ...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Qing Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Hardwood
$864 Sale Price
20% Off
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 Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
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 Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
21st Century, Hand Carved black Crystal and silver Bronze bottle
Located in Calenzano, FI
21st century Hand carved black crystal and silver bronze whisky bottle. This bottle is finely chiseled lost wax castings and hand ground crystal with opaque hand-cut . On request to ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Other Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Søholm 1960s Organic Modern Aqua Mint Ceramic Vase, Denmark
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Extremely rare Japanese inspired Søholm vase. Handmade Danish Mid-Century Modern stoneware vase with mint and aqua green glaze and hand-carved minimalist, geometric pattern around th...
Category
Mid-20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware, Pottery
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 Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
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