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Item Ships From: Continental Europe
Italian alp box
Located in grand Lancy, CH
Italian alp folk art box
Category
Early 19th Century Italian Antique Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
$1,600
Antique Folk Art Northern Swedish Handmade Flour Box
Located in Kramfors, SE
Folk Art flour box from northern Sweden. The box was made by hand during the mid-1800s from pine and was used to store flour. Boxes like this would be standi...
Category
Mid-19th Century Swedish Folk Art Antique Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Pine
Table Box Enamel on Guilloche and Hand Painted Miniature Sterling Silver Salimb
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
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 Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
19th Century Anglo-Indian Hand Carved Tropical Wood Box
Located in Marbella, ES
19th century Anglo-Indian hand carved tropical wood box.
Category
Mid-18th Century Indian Antique Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Fruitwood
Swedish bentwood box in birch, ca 1790
Located in Farsta, SE
Swedish bentwood box in birch, ca 1790
Svepaskar were used to store various household items.
Crafted by bending thin strips of wood, often birch, into an oval or circular shape and ...
Category
Late 18th Century Swedish Scandinavian Modern Antique Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Birch
Hand Painted and Sealed Porcelain Box with Girl's Face on the Lid
Located in Marbella, ES
Hand-Painted and Sealed Porcelain Box with Girl's Face on the Lid.
Category
Mid-20th Century European Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Porcelain
Belt with Napoleon III style enameled Sterling silver decoration Salimbeni
By Giorgio Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Belt in real black lizard reptile with rectangular buckle in gilded 925/1000 silver with translucent fired enamel on guilloche surrounded by engraving of enamelled leaves, in French ...
Category
1990s Italian Napoleon III Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Rosewood, Silver and Enamel Box by Silversmith Ottaviani
By Ottaviani
Located in Uccle, BE
Rosewood box decorated with a sterling silver and enamel plaque by the Italian silversmith Ottaviani, circa 1960s. Signed with the maker’s signature and “925”.
Notes: Ottaviani (1945-contemporary) is a jewelry and silver firm located in the small seaside...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Furstenberg Germany Vintage Flower Round Gold Leaf Trinket Plate
By Furstenberg Porcelain
Located in BILBAO, ES
Furstenberg Germany vintage flower round gold leaf trinket plate
Perfect gift for your special someone.
Dimensions:
Diameter 10 cm (3.93 inches)
A s...
Category
Late 20th Century German Aesthetic Movement Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Leaf
Snuff Box races miniature fire-enameled guilloche and engraved drawing Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Octagonal table snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with black fired enamel inserted in a hand engraved drawing and with fired enamelled miniature, hand painted by the p...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Round Favor Box with Lid in 925/1000 Sterling Silver Green Enamel Art Nouveau St
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Round favor box with lid in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè and hand-painted miniature of a bouquet of flowers in Art Nouveau style. B...
Category
1960s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Richly Inlaid Portable Dressing Table from the 19th Century
Located in Opole, PL
Richly Inlaid Portable Dressing Table from the 19th Century
We present you this richly inlaid portable dressing table, which can be locked with a key. The whole is from the end of 1...
Category
19th Century European Antique Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
$575 Sale Price
20% Off
Gilt Bronze Box With Miniature Of Napoleon Bonaparte, 19th Century
Located in Bilzen, BE
Gilt bronze box with miniature of Napoleon Bonaparte painted on porcelain from the 19th century.
7.5 x 9.5 cm, height 3.4 cm
Category
19th Century French Empire Antique Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Snuffbox with Flowers miniature Art Nouveau style Sterling Silver Salimbeni.
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent enamels fired on guilloche and hand-painted floral miniature; external blue staff. Art Nouveau sty...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Marqueterie de paille Boîte
Located in VILLENEUVE-LÈS-AVIGNON, FR
Marqueterie de paille, boîte en bon état du XIXe siècle
Category
Late 19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Straw
Pair of Art Deco Ceramic Boxes
Located in Barcelona, ES
Pair of Art Deco ceramic boxes with lids. Marked DEK44 and 627.
Category
Mid-20th Century Art Deco Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
$599 / set
Egg 4 Picture frames in Dark Red enamel with tripod Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Egg 4 Picture frames is in 925/1000 sterling silver.
Egg 4 Picture frames has fired enamels on guilloché has fired enamels on guilloché and design engraved by hand.
Egg 4 Picture fr...
Category
1960s Italian Empire Vintage Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Salimbeni Table Box Art Nouveau Painting Pre-Raphaelite School Fired Enamel
By Giorgio Salimbeni, Salimbeni
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 Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
$3,189 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique Limoge Hand Painted Box in Pink enamel with with Sailing Ships scene
By Castel Limoges
Located in BILBAO, ES
Antique 19th Jewellery hand painted porcelain box with hunting horse scene
aprox 1880 hand painted in yellow porcelaine
Perfect gift for decoration or kee...
Category
Late 19th Century French Romantic Antique Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Enamel
Black Box Octagonal with black edge enamel with pure Gold Paillons Salimbeni.
By Salimbeni, Giorgio Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Table Box Octagonal is in 925/1000 sterling silver.
Table Box Octagonal
Table Box Octagonal has translucent fired enamels on guilloché.
Table Box Octagonal has black edge with pure g...
Category
1980s Italian Art Deco Vintage Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold
Rino Pirovano for Rexite, Italy. 900 Multiplor. Container in red plastic
Located in København, Copenhagen
Rino Pirovano for Rexite, Italy. 900 Multiplor.
Container in red plastic with four compartments.
1970s/80s.
Designed in 1977.
In very good condition, lid with two interior chips.
Mar...
Category
1970s Italian Modern Vintage Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Plastic
French Silver Metal Goblet, Initial Letters F B, circa 1900
Located in Labrit, Landes
Silvery metal cup or goblet with the letters F B
In kind of goblet was offered to baby or children as gifts of birth or on the occasion of religious feasts: baptisms, communions, ......
Category
Early 20th Century French Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal
Vintage Limoges 22k Gold Trinket Jewelry Boxes Louis XVI Courtesan Scene
By Limoges
Located in BILBAO, ES
Elegant vintage Limoges 22-karat gold trinket jewelry boxes.
French vintage Limoges porcelain in cobalt royal blue with fine gold decor.
Marked on base as “Limoges France" Porcelain D' Art ”.
Beautiful cobalt blue porcelain with 22-karat gold hand painted with with the classic courtesan scene of a man and woman in the Louis XVI period attire.
Perfect gift for your special someone.
One small box. 6 x6 cm / 2.32 x 2.32 inches
One piano box...
Category
Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Enamel, Gold Leaf
Large French Bonbon Tin Box, Vintage Tin Can, Bonbons Tour Eiffel Paris
Located in Greven, DE
Antique Bonbon Tin Box from France.
On the lid is written "Bonbon Tour Eiffel Paris".
Category
20th Century French Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Tin
Antique Black Rosewood Liquor Case, 1890s, Set of 11
Located in Opole, PL
Antique Black Rosewood Liquor Case, 1890s, Set of 11
Step into the opulence of 19th-century France with this stunning Napoleon III-style liquor case, a tr...
Category
Late 19th Century European Napoleon III Antique Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Glass, Rosewood
$2,108 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Paul Sormani Marquetry Token Box, 19th Century.
By Paul Sormani
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Paul Sormani marquetry token box, 19th century.
Precious wood and bone marquetry token box, Napoleon III period, 19th century.
H: 10cm, W: 36cm, D: 26cm
Category
19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bone, Wood
Kenza Box
Located in Paris, FR
Box Kenza all in solid wood with painted pattern f
inish outside. With white lacquered
finish inside, box with opening lid. With brass
Deco on the top and brass feet.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
$898 / item
Pair of 19th Century Ceramic Parrot Money Banks, Bornholm Denmark
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Pair of 19th century ceramic parrot money banks, Bornholm Denmark.
Category
Late 19th Century Danish Folk Art Antique Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
$199 Sale Price
53% Off
Box with fired enamels painted like lapis lazuli stone and horse racing Salimben
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Shaped table box in 925/1000 sterling Silver gold plated with fired enamels painted like lapis lazuli stone and with fired enameled oval miniature, hand painted by the painter Renato...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Antique French Pyrogene, Utensil Holder, Secret Box, 19th Century
Located in Greven, DE
Rare sculpture of a joyful monk with a secret compartment.
A so called Pyrogene, which was used for smoking utensils, such as matches.
The monk holds two bottles in his hands and rai...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal
18th Century Arte Povera Venetian Chalk Box
Located in Brecht, BE
Another beauty, made in Venice, these precious arte povera chalk boxes were made for the lucky few, can be yours now.
Category
Mid-18th Century Antique Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Paper
Cigarette Case Fired Enamel on a Fine Hand-Engraved Mountain Landscape Sterling
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
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 Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Italian Sterling Silver essence holder round box stand
By Arval Argenti Valenza
Located in VALENZA, IT
The essence holder box is spherical, hinged and hand-drilled to allow the fragrance to escape.
A rotating silver plate has been fixed on the edge which serves as a safety lock.
The s...
Category
Early 2000s Italian Other Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Japanese Box with Plant Design 20th Century
Located in Beuzevillette, FR
Charming Japanese box from the early 20th century. The wood is old and nicely inlaid on the lid. The lid is inlaid with different pieces of wood forming a...
Category
20th Century Japanese Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Pill box light green hand-painted floral miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Round domed pill box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent enamel fired on guilloche above and below, and hand-painted floral miniature. Viennese Art Nouveau style...
Category
1960s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Antique Swedish Bent Wooden Tine Box, or "Svepask" genuine Scandinavian folkart.
Located in Skarpnäck, SE
A beautifully rare Scandinavian antique bent wooden box known as a "Svepask" from Sweden. Well used with a lovely patina and still with it's original dark blue paint, though worn in ...
Category
Late 19th Century Swedish Rustic Antique Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bentwood
Silver Box by Emilie Langlois Gilded inside made in France, around 1940 Stamped
Located in Paris, FR
Sterling silver box by Emile Langlois, France, 1888-1924. Weight 170 g.
Border around rim of lid, wavy decoration with dots. Decoration of cabochon-cut purple stone. Gilt interior. L...
Category
Mid-20th Century Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Rare 19th Century Antique Bronze Mounted KPM Hand Painted Porcelain Casket
By KPM Porcelain
Located in Casale Monferrato, IT
Truly rare, this finely decorated antique rectangular casket, German porcelain manufacturer KPM, circa 1870. The KPM brand is engraved on the inside. Made with a finely chiseled bron...
Category
1870s German Antique Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
$15,335 Sale Price
20% Off
1970s Czech Republic Handcut Crystal Box
Located in Marbella, ES
1970s Czech Republic handcut crystal box.
Category
Late 20th Century Czech Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Glass
Table Box autumn colours, Art Nouveau style Sterling Silver, Enamel and Coral Sa
By Giorgio Salimbeni, Salimbeni
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 Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box “The Great Odalisque” Fired Enamel on Guilloche Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
table box in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated with edges with fire - enamelled stripes and upper frame with insertion of paillons in pure gold and beautRectangular iful fire-enam...
Category
1960s Italian Empire Vintage Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Porcelain covered pot by Georges Martin, circa 1970-1980.
By George Martin
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Porcelain covered pot by Georges Martin with geometrical decoration.
Artist monogram on the base.
Unique piece.
Circa 1970-1980.
H : 27.2 x 9.8 inches.
Category
1970s French Beaux Arts Vintage Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
1910 René Lalique Box Ermenonville Glass with Sepia Patina
By René Lalique
Located in Boulogne Billancourt, FR
Box "Ermenonville" made in clear and frosted glass with sepia patina by René Lalique in 1910.
Engraved signature on bottom.
Perfect condition.
Diameter: 8.5 cm
Félix Marcilhac, Re...
Category
1910s French Art Deco Vintage Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Blown Glass
Mid-19th Century Decorative Lacquered Wooden Tobacco Snuff Box Black
Located in Brescia, IT
This antique and elegant lacquered snuff box was handmade in The Netherlands.
It is painted on both sides: there's the scene of the fire in Hamburg on the right so detailed to be as ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Dutch Late Victorian Antique Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood, Lacquer
$814 Sale Price
20% Off
Raija Uosikkinen "Zodiak" Box by Arabia Finland - ca 1980's
By Arabia, Raija Uosikkinen
Located in Örebro, SE
Raija Uosikkinen "Zodiak" Box by Arabia Finland - ca 1980's.
Good vintage condition, wear and patina consistent with age and use.
Category
20th Century Finnish Scandinavian Modern Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
1960´s Wooden Box Crate
Located in Dusseldorf, DE
A 1960´s "Canadian Butter" wooden crate.
Simple open top crate with square base made of thin pinewood boards with fine mortise and tenon joints. No stamps or markings.
Very decorati...
Category
1960s Canadian Industrial Vintage Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Pine
Table Box Fired Enamel Guillochè and Hand Engravings Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table box in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated with very fine hand-engraving Baroque style on the lid, fire-enamelled in 2 colours. In the center an ancient oval plate...
Category
1970s Italian Baroque Vintage Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Mid-Century Plastic Box, Pear, 1970's
Located in Praha, CZ
Made in Czechoslovakia
Made of Plastic
Re-polished
Good Original condition.
Category
1970s Czech Mid-Century Modern Vintage Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Plastic
Snuff Box with 2 slightly rounded sides Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table snuff box with 2 slightly rounded sides in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamels on guillochè and hand-painted floral miniature; oute...
Category
1970s Italian Other Vintage Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Mid-Century Modern Vallauris Style Blue & Black Ceramic Box - France 1950s
By Vallauris
Located in New York, NY
Whimsical deep blue and black ceramic box with cone shaped handles in the style of Vallauris.
In good vintage condition. One minor dent on glazing (please see picture).
This containe...
Category
1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
Snuff Box "Soap" Shaped with Horse's Head Sterling Silver Enamel Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Oval rounded "soap" shaped snuff box in 925/1000 sterling silver with fired enamels above and below and hand-painted miniature of a horse's head, English "Art Nouveau" style, early 1900s. Measurements cm. 4.7 x 6.7 x 2. Weight gr. 96. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1980 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 enamelled 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 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
1980s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Snuffbox basket with flowers, in Florentine Renaissance style, Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rounded rectangular snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling Silver gold plated with beautiful fire enamelled miniature hand-painted by the painter Renato Dainelli of a basket with flowers, in ...
Category
1960s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Art Nouveau Walnut Wood Casket
Located in Darmstadt, DE
Beautiful box / casket from the Art Nouveau period, made of walnut veneer on a softwood body. The top edge is trimmed with maple and in the center of the lid is a very beautiful vene...
Category
Late 19th Century German Art Nouveau Antique Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Maple, Walnut, Softwood
$843 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique Wood Box With Transfer Print Technique, Around 1900
Located in Greven, DE
Antique box made of maple wood, around 1900.
Beautiful image at the top of the box, made with a special transfer print technique.
Category
Early 20th Century European Late Victorian Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood, Maple
Snuff Box hand engraving, black “niello” type Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Snuff Box rectangular in 925/1000 sterling silver with fine hand engraving, black fired enameled “niello” type, in early 19th century “Rococo” style. Snuff Box measurements cm. 4.5 x...
Category
1980s Italian Rococo Vintage Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Arts & Crafts Wine Box with Decorative Metal Work, circa 1920s
Located in Verviers, BE
Arts & Crafts Wine Cave with Decorative Metal Work, circa 1920s
Box from the Arts & Crafts period,
Made in France
A very special item with decorative metal work on top. Definitely o...
Category
1920s French Arts and Crafts Vintage Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sheet Metal
Carved Silver Box, 20th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Carved silver box, 20th century.
Small silver box carved with a great variety of motifs, all belonging to different artistic traditions based on Ro...
Category
20th Century European Rococo Revival Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
XXI Century Italian Sterling Silver Modern Table Box
By Arval Argenti Valenza
Located in VALENZA, IT
XXI Century Italian Sterling Silver Modern Table Box
Modern style 925 sterling silver table box.
The box is square in shape and the edge of the body is lined.
The lid is hinged and h...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary European Modern Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
20th Century Sterling Silver Box George III° Style
By Cesani Virginio
Located in VALENZA, IT
Handmade George III style oblong box in sterling silver.
On the body of the box typical lines with fluted. The lid has the same design but embossed. The han...
Category
1990s Italian George III Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
$3,153 Sale Price
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Music Box by Nicole Freres playing Belini
Located in Zonhoven, BE
Rare keywind music box by Nicole Freres.
Playing 8 tunes as indicated on the original tunesheet.
7 tunes by Bellini from the opera's Puritana, La Norma. 1 tune by Donizetti.
Althoug...
Category
Mid-19th Century Swiss Early Victorian Antique Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze, Steel, Cut Steel, Other, Iron
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