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Item Ships From: Continental Europe
An Art Deco Large Sèvres Ceramic Box, Maurice Gensoli, 1933
By Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres, Maurice Gensoli
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
An Art Deco large Sèvres ceramic box,1933
Large Sèvres Glazed ceramic box with stylized Art Deco floral decoration
Shape created by Gensoli
Designed by André Naudy
Sèvres stamp unde...
Category
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
1970s Italian Bamboo Handle Box in Metal and Plexiglass
Located in Milan, IT
A Beautiful 1970s Faux Bamboo handle box in Nickeld Brass and Plexiglass.
A Gem from the 1970s Bling Disco period.
Category
1970s Italian Modern Vintage Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Nickel
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
Set of 4 Italian Yellow Siena Marble 1970s Bowls and Boxes
Located in Varese, Lombardia
This set consists of 4 pieces made of yellow marble (I think it is the so-called "Giallo Siena"):
1 bowl, 1 soap dish, 2 boxes.
All the pieces are in excellent condition: the soap ...
Category
1970s Italian Hollywood Regency Vintage Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Siena Marble
Table Box Enamel two-tone ruby red and emerald green Salimbeni.
By Salimbeni, Giorgio 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 Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold
Pair of Vintage Chinese Metal Boxes, Italy, Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Pair of Vintage Chinese Metal Boxes with decorations of dragons.
Realized in China in the mid-20th Century.
Good condition.
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal
Fine 18th Century Baroque Chinoiserie Chest
Located in Allerum, SE
Fine 18th century baroque chinoiserie chest, circa 1750, Sweden.
The chest is wrapped in canvas that's been beautifully painted upon, this canvas can be seen in some places where...
Category
Mid-18th Century Swedish Baroque Antique Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Canvas, Pine
XXI Century Italian Sterling Silver Lipstick Box
By Arval Argenti Valenza
Located in VALENZA, IT
Sterling Silver Lipstick Box with Mirror and Velvet Interior in a Triangular Shape, Practically a Miniature of a Small Purse.
The lid is hinged. The box is worked with hand-engraved ...
Category
2010s Italian Other Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Salimbeni Box with Swiss Musical Mechanism by Maison Reuge Art Deco Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco 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 Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
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
French Boarding Student Suit Case Napoleon III Style Pine, circa 1900
Located in Labrit, Landes
French pupil suitcase in pine.
This kind of suit case was used by the boarding students to transport their school equipment.
In the style of Napoleon III
Shipping:
L 39,5 P17 ...
Category
Early 20th Century European Napoleon III Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal
$468 Sale Price
20% Off
Pill Box Fired Enamel with Hand Painted Horse Head Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rounded square pill box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with white fired enamel, above and below, with hand painted horse head. Dimensions cm. 5.2 x 5.2 x 2.3. Weight gr. 117. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1966 on the inspiration of previous artefacts made in the English Art Nouveau style of the early 1900s and manufactured in the Salimbeni company headquarters in Florence in numerous specimens also with different subjects, with completely manual execution by artisan artists with a slab of high thickness suitable for supporting numerous enamelled firings at around 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...
Category
1960s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Lovely Antique Meiji Period Japanese Lacquer Box, 19th Century
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Lovely 19th c Antique Meiji Period Japanese Lacquer box.
Additional information:
Material: Lacquer
Region of Origin: Japan
Period: 19th century, 20th century
Japan Dynasty Period: M...
Category
19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Lacquer
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
Cigarette Case Romantic couple Art Nouveau Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Giorgio Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular desk cigarette case with rounded corners in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated with fine hand-painted fire-enameled miniature depicting a romantic couple in Art Nouveau...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Ceramic candy dish by Michel Carlin, Vallauris
By Michel Carlin
Located in Ternay, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Ceramic candy box by French artist Michel Carlin from Vallauris. Black and white enamels with a ceramic-inspired design, sculpture-style lid. Very good vintage condition, artist's si...
Category
Late 20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
$2,388 / set
Round carved wooden box with its key - Beethoven profile medallion - 19th
Located in Beuzevillette, FR
Louis XVI style carved wooden jewelry treasure box. The wood is carved in relief with foliage decoration all around, and the profile of Beethoven is very nicely and finely carved on the lid,
This profile in a circle and the play of colors and textures of the wood gives a medallion in the taste of the bronze work of Jean Bertrand Andrieu.
The interior is in green silky fabric.
La Boite is also in the style of T. Hingre's bronze work. Louis-Théophile Hingre (sometimes known as Théophile Hingre) is a sculptor, modeler and medal engraver.
The wood of this pretty round box is beautifully and finely carved. Beethoven's profile like the scrolls are sculpted with great precision and delicacy.
Ludwig von Beethoven is a German composer, pianist and conductor, born in Bonn on December 15 or 16, 1770 and died in Vienna on March 26, 1827 at the age of 56.
The last great representative of Viennese classicism (after Gluck, Haydn and Mozart), Beethoven prepared the evolution towards romanticism in music and influenced Western...
Category
19th Century French Art Nouveau Antique Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Snuff Box Monocrome Miniature Hand Painted Sterling Silver Enamel Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Round snuff box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fired enamel on the enameled edge with vertical stripes and fine monochrome miniature hand painted by the painter Renato Dainelli. Diameter cm. 6.2 cm high. 3.4. Weight gr. 222. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1967 and produced in Florence in the Salimbeni company headquarters with manual workmanship by skilled artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for withstanding numerous high-fire enamelled firings at approximately 750 < 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
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Quartz and Marble Square Box
Located in Paris, FR
Box Quartz and marble square in black
marble with lid. With natural quartz on
lid's top.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Quartz, Marble
19th Century French Napoleon III / Boulle Box
Located in Vilnius, LT
Antique French Napoleon III box with inlaid bronze decor, polished black color surface and red velour textile inside. Includes key.
After the r...
Category
Mid-19th Century French Antique Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Rare baroque 18th Century Hatbox Lid: Authentic Wall Decoration for Rustic Homes
Located in Hamburg, DE
Step back in time with this exquisite find: the lid of a rare hatbox dating back to the early 18th century, circa 1740. Crafted from solid wood and ado...
Category
1740s German Baroque Antique Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Piet Zwart "Koksmaat" for Bruynzeel
By Bruynzeel, Piet Zwart
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Painted plywood coffin attributed to Piet Zwart.
Manufactured by Bruynzeel (Netherlands) in circa 1938.
Painted plywood coffin "Koksmaat" (Cook's mate).
Dimensions: H 49 cm / ...
Category
1930s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Vintage Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Plywood
$1,922 Sale Price / set
30% Off
Art Deco Style Lucite Trinket Box
By Max Kahn
Located in Albano Laziale, Rome/Lazio
Here we have a unique box in Art Deco style but produced during the late 1960's. The material is black lucite/plexiglass with decor in gold. Underneath it is marked Max Kahn. The sty...
Category
20th Century Italian Art Deco Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Lucite, Plexiglass
$477 Sale Price
20% Off
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
Set of 2 Anglo Indian Boxes
Located in Vosselaar, BE
Set of 2 Anglo Indian boxes. Both early 20th century with bone and faux tortoise decorations. In overall good condition. The bone of the back from the larger box is absent and some s...
Category
Early 20th Century Indian Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bone, Wood
$1,432 / set
19th Century Ball-Shaped Iron Box with Hook for Hanging
Located in Marbella, ES
19th century ball-shaped iron box with hook for hanging.
Category
Late 19th Century Spanish Antique Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Iron
20th Century Italian Sterling Silver Table Box
By Pampaloni
Located in VALENZA, IT
Rectangular/octagonal table box in 925 silver.
The box was completely handmade in Florence at the end of the last century.
Engraved with floral and abstract motifs, it has been fin...
Category
1990s Italian Other Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
$4,585 Sale Price
20% Off
Venice Blown Contemporary Smooth and Striped Glass Minimal Container 'Innesti S'
By Hands On Design, Gumdesign
Located in Milan, IT
Innesti S is a container in borosilicate glass masterfully blown in Venice by Soffieria for Hands on Design. Designed by GumDesign this piece is characterized by the contrast between striped glass of the bottom and the smooth finish of the top; this element, combined to the simple shape, makes this container beautiful even when it's empty and suitable for many spots of the house. The Innesti collection, which includes a large container...
Category
2010s Italian Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Glass
Mid-Century Small Hand Carved Wood Box, 1950's
Located in Praha, CZ
Made in Czechoslovakia
Made of wood, Veneer
Good original condition.
Category
1950s Czech Mid-Century Modern Vintage Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
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
18th Century French Cuir-ciselé Extra Large Reliquary Chalice or Monstrance Case
Located in Haarlem, NL
Large decorative antique 18th century 2-piece reliquary or monstrance case to hold a religious relic.
This is a large case, 87cm high, 38cm wide and 20cm deep (34.3" x 15" x 7.9")...
Category
18th Century French Antique Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Leather, Damask, Wood
$2,000 Sale Price
20% Off
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
An 18th Century Meissen Porcelain Box, Louis XV Period.
By Meissen Porcelain
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
An 18th century Meissen porcelain box, Louis XV period.
An 18th century Meissen porcelain box, Louis XV period, gilt brass mounting.
H: 14cm, W: 9cm, D: 9cm
Category
18th Century French Louis XV Antique Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Extremely Rare Austrian Cigarette Box or Tin Signed by Walter Bosse, circa 1951
By Walter Bosse
Located in Landau an der Isar, Bayern
An extremely rare brass box or tin designed by Walter Bosse for storing cigarettes or tobacco in.
We have yet to find this example in any publication on Bosse's work although simila...
Category
1950s Austrian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
$2,450 Sale Price
30% Off
Vintage Set of 5 1970's Tortoise Plexiglass & Brass Desk Accessories
Located in Vis, NL
dint vintage set of 5 mid century faux tortoise plexiglass and brass desk accessories consisting in :
2 different sized trays.
1 small trash bin
1...
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Wood, Red, White & Black enameled 1960s box by Siva
Located in Varese, Lombardia
Decorative box in enameled metal and wood produced by Siva from Poggibonsi, Italy. Good condition: a visible chip at the base.
Category
1960s Italian Space Age Vintage Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal, Enamel
Heart table box Yellow enamel Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Giorgio Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Heart-shaped table box in 925/1000 sterling silver with translucent enamel fired on guilloche above and below. Contemporary modern style. Dimensions cm. 9 x 9.5 cm high. 3.Weight gr....
Category
1990s Italian Modern Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Contemporary Iridescent Pearl Crystal Bowl, Brass and Gold 24 Kt by Ghirò Studio
By Ghirò Studio
Located in Pieve Emanuele, Milano
2021 Collection of covered bowls by Ghirò Studio.
This covered bowl is one of a kind. The material used and the artisanal and artistic workmanship make it unrepeatable. In fact, two...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Brass
Murano Glass Centerpiece by Michael Red for Vistosi, Italy, 1970s
By Michael Red, Vistosi
Located in Milan, IT
Large glass box by Michael Red for Vistosi.
Two pieces that can also be used separately.
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Murano Glass
1950s Wooden Box with Silver Lined 800 Thousandth Silver Frame
Located in Marbella, ES
1950s Wooden box with silver lined 800 Thousandth silver frame.
Category
Mid-20th Century Spanish Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
Large Round Flowers Cream Art Deco Box Emaux de Longwy, 1930
By Faïenceries et Emaux de Longwy
Located in Paris, IDF
Rare large ceramic Art deco fluted round box by Faïenceries et Emaux de Longwy made around 1930. This beautiful box features a colourful...
Category
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
Decorative Boxes, ELLA by Reda Amalou Design, 2016 - Brown Eggshell
By REDA AMALOU DESIGN
Located in Paris, FR
The REDA AMALOU DESIGN boxes echo Asian, and more specifically Vietnamese, culture, by which Reda Amalou has been inspired over time. The boxes that...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Vietnamese Minimalist Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Eggshell
French Glass and Ormolu Wedding Casket, circa 1860
Located in Vienna, AT
Glass and ormolu-mounted octagonal casket. Made in France in the 1860s.
Perfect original condition with a lovely patina.
Set of two.
Category
1860s French Antique Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ormolu
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
Baroque Style Green Table Box with Miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco 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 Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Round Favor Box with Lid in 925/1000 Sterling Silver Green Enamel Art Nouveau St
By Franco Salimbeni, 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
Val St. Lambert, Belgium. Lidded box in art glass. Faceted clear and green glass
Located in København, Copenhagen
Val St. Lambert, Belgium. Lidded box in art glass.
Faceted clear and green glass. Art Deco style.
Ca. 1940.
Labels and etched signature.
Perfect condition.
Dimensions: D 10.5 cm x H...
Category
1960s Belgian Art Deco Vintage Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Glass
Set of Mid-Century Plastic Boxes, 1970's
Located in Praha, CZ
Made in Czechoslovakia
Made of Plastic
Apple measures. Height:19cm, Depth:16, Width:16cm
Pear measures. Height:21cm, Depth:14, Width:14cm
Re-polished
Original condition.
Category
1970s Slovak Mid-Century Modern Vintage Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Plastic
$310 / set
Art Deco Madame Pompadour Powder Box Porcelain, 1929
By Schumann Arzberg 1
Located in Lisbon, PT
This Art Deco porcelain powder box, known as “Madame Pompadour,” was produced in 1929 by Schumann Arzberg in Bavaria, Germany, for Golden Cro...
Category
20th Century German Art Deco Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Porcelain
$1,513 Sale Price
20% Off
Malene Müllertz, Danish ceramist. Unique lidded box in ceramics.
Located in København, Copenhagen
Malene Müllertz (b. 1949), Danish ceramist.
Unique lidded box in ceramics. Hand-decorated in matte and glossy glaze in various colors.
In perfect condition.
Signed and dated '91.
Dim...
Category
1990s Danish Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
Antique Tramp Art Box / Jewelry Box Carved Brass 1893 Chip Carved War Decoration
Located in Ijzendijke, NL
Gorgeous Tramp Art box / Jewelry box marked 1893 and decorated with brass.
The box contains multiple guns & pike helmets and a lions head holding a brass ring to open the chest.
...
Category
1890s American Folk Art Antique Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Table Box Enamel on Guilloche and Hand Painted Miniature Sterling Silver Salimb
By Salimbeni, Franco 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
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
Pair of Painted Decorative Ceramic Boxes Tripod Eggs
Located in Sofia, BG
Pair of small painted ceramic egg boxes raised on tripod legs.
France, circa 2000.
Category
Early 2000s French Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
Paon Stone Box
Located in Paris, FR
Box Paon Stone in white stone, box
with lid with gilded metal peacock on
the lid.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Stone, Metal
$346 / item
Table Box Fired Enamel Guillochè and Hand Engravings Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco 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
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
21st Century Coffee Round Paper Bin with Lid Waste Bin Handmade in Italy
By Pinetti
Located in Bagnatica, Lombardia
Nothing like a sleek waste bin in calfskin leather to keep your bathroom looking chic. The cylindrical body is entirely covered by hand with fine calfskin leather in a woven pattern....
Category
2010s Italian Modern Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Leather
Wedding Favor Box Art Noveau hand painted on lid Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Round wedding favor with lid in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fine manual engraving of flower shoots, fire-enamelled with various colours, in early 1900s Art Nouveau styl...
Category
1960s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver
Midcentury box designed by Gabriella Crespi, Italy
By Gabriella Crespi
Located in Piacenza, Italy
Elegant box designed by Gabriella Crespi
Wooden and golden brass small box.
Recorded by Archivio Gabriella Crespi, Milan.
Signed.
Italy 1970s
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Continental Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
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