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Doge Green Tall Glass Box with Lid
By Creart
Located in Milan, IT
This glass box will add a colorful accent to any vanity table in a bedroom or powder room. Exquisitely decorated by hand, it is distinguished by a vertically etched pattern that crea...
Category
2010s Italian Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Glass
$339 / item
Small Vintage Chinese Goose Pot, Lacquer, Decorative, Trinket Box, Art Deco
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is a small vintage Chinese goose pot. An Oriental, lacquer and gilt decorative trinket box, dating to the Art Deco period, circa 1940.
Wonderfull...
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Other
Vintage Tin Box Cookie Jar Belsnickel Santa Claus Vintage Germany, 1930s
Located in Nuernberg, DE
This beautiful decorative Christmas Tin Box with Santa or Belsnickle Picture is a true treasure. It was made in Germany, around 1930s. These are very har...
Category
1930s German Folk Art Vintage Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Tin
1890s Louis Philippe Red and Blue Lacquered Wood Sicilian Box
Located in Catania, Sicilia
This wood Sicilian box is a unique and culturally rich artifact, combining elements of 19th-century design, regional influence, and artistic craftsmanship. The box is crafted from wo...
Category
Late 19th Century Sicilian Louis Philippe Antique Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Fruitwood, Lacquer
Antique Italian Sorrento Ware Olive Wood Casket 19th Century
Located in London, GB
A superb antique Italian Sorrento Ware Olive wood and marquetry casket Circa 1840 in date.
The rectangular casket has fabulous inlaid marquetry decoration. It features a floral marq...
Category
1840s Antique Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Agneta Round Box in Pebbled leather with Handle in Corno Italiano, Mod. 4480
By Filippo Dini, Arcahorn Srl.
Located in Recanati, Macerata
Combining traditional craftsmanship with contemporary design, our Agneta box provides an unmistakable elegant flair. The curved silhouette is lined in Aida pebbled leather, Ice-cream...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Leather, Wood
Selene Box in Glossy Black Lacquered Wood with Corno Italiano Inlays, Mod. 5311s
By Arcahorn Srl.
Located in Recanati, Macerata
Distinguished by plush materials and essential lines, our Selene box showcases a rectangular wooden structure with a polished black lacquer finish. Enhanced by an elegant edging in C...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Chrome
Rattan and brass book basket, Italy, 1970, 31cm DIAM
Located in BARCELONA, ES
Very beautiful rattan and brass basket made in Italy in the 1970s. Round shape, mid-century modern style, it is inspired by the designs of Gabriella Crespi. Magnificent decorative ob...
Category
1970s Italian Hollywood Regency Vintage Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wicker, Rattan
Flowers Red Box
Located in Paris, FR
Box Flowers Red all in hand-crafted
porcelain, hand-painted box, with lid.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Porcelain
$225 / item
Decorative Box for Cigarettes in wood and Bakelite brown and White color France
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
Decorative Box for Cigarettes in wood and Bakelite brown and White color France 20th
Category
1960s French Vintage Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood, Olive
$428 Sale Price
20% Off
Decorative and Jewelry Box in Wood with Carved Elephants France 1970
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
This box is a jewelry box or a decorative box. It was made in the 1970s, in France. Its lid is made of a
carved elephant. It is brown in color.
Category
1970s French Vintage Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
$256 Sale Price
20% Off
Art Deco Box with Cut Glass 'the Glass is Slightly Damaged on the Side'
Located in Wien, AT
Art Deco box with cut glass ( the glass is slightly damaged on the side) please take a look on the two last attached photos.
Brass polished and stove enamelled
Original cut glass
...
Category
1920s Austrian Art Deco Vintage Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Rectangular Decorative Box in Travertine and Cork by Marble Art, Italy, 1970s
By Fratelli Mannelli
Located in Rome, IT
This beautiful square-shaped box in Travertine Marble and cork is a wonderful example of Italian decorative objects production during the 70s by Italian manufacturer Marble Art (Mart...
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Travertine, Marble
Ivory Small Storage Box
By Arcahorn Srl.
Located in Milan, IT
Exuding a lavish flair intertwined with its geometrical design, this refined ivory storage box showcases a precious structure in horn and wood and a rectangular lid in the same lacqu...
Category
2010s Italian Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
$1,127 / item
Set of 4, Plizé Boxes, 2l White, 2M Blue by Made by Choice
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 4, Plizé boxes, 2L white - 2M blue by Made by Choice
Dimensions: W17 x D17 x H22 cm (L), W17 x D17 x H15.5 cm (M)
Materials: birch plywood
Also available: blue, white, gr...
Category
2010s Finnish Post-Modern Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Birch, Plywood
Handmade Decorative Treasure Box with Checkerboard Straw Marquetry Black White
By Oleksandra Rudenko
Located in Warsaw, PL
DECORATIVE BOX 01
Inlay scheme: Weave
Colour scheme: B&W
Available in individuals colors
MATERIALS: MDF, painted rye straw, brass.
DIMENSIONS (cm):20x20x10,5.
Packaging dimensions (c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Ukrainian Arts and Crafts Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
$856 Sale Price / item
20% Off
American flag in glazed presentation cabinet
Located in Debenham, Suffolk
Here we present a traditionally folded American flag in glazed cabinet.
Complete with certificate to say that the flag was flown over the capital and presented by the architect of t...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Fabric, Glass, Teak
Set of 4 Vintage Nesting Boxes, Japanese, Lacquer, Storage Boxes, Art Deco, 1930
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is a set of 4 vintage nesting boxes. A Japanese, lacquered quartet of small storage boxes with handpainted decor, dating to the Art Deco per...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Art Deco Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Lacquer
Ashes Box with Cover by Studio Lievito
Located in Geneve, CH
Ashes box with cover by Studio Lievito
Dimensions: D20 x W20 X H7 cm
Materials: Bianco carrara marble, nero marquina marble.
Weight: 3 kg.
An oppositio...
Category
2010s Italian Post-Modern Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Marble
$1,128 / item
Small Ceramic Lidded Box – France – 1960s – Patinated Glaze with Modern Geometri
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
Small Ceramic Lidded Box – France – 1960s – Patinated Glaze with Modern Geometric Design
Description:
This is a small ceramic lidded box, made in France in the 1960s, showcasing a u...
Category
1960s French French Provincial Vintage Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic, Pottery
A 1950s carved wood accessories box attributed to Fontana Arte
By Fontana Arte, Pietro Chiesa
Located in London, GB
A wonnderful 1960s carved wooden and blue glass accessories box with brass handle, attributed to Pietro Chiesa for Fontana Arte.
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Antique Swedish Forskrin, Folk Art Travel Box from the 1700s, Original Condition
Located in Kramfors, SE
Antique folk art box, a so called Forskrin which was used when travelling for storing documents and valuables around the late 1700s. Made in nor...
Category
Late 18th Century Swedish Folk Art Antique Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wrought Iron
Antique Keepsake Box, English, Coromandel, Inlaid Stationery Case, Regency, 1830
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique keepsake box. An English, Coromandel inlaid stationery case, dating to the Regency period, circa 1830.
Appealing sarcophagus ...
Category
Early 19th Century British Regency Antique Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
1890s Antique Victorian Sterling Silver Tobacco Box
By Hilliard & Thomason
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique Victorian English sterling silver tobacco box; an addition to our smoking related silverware collection.
This exceptional antique Victorian sterling silver tobacco box has a plain oval rounded form.
The underside of this box is embellished with a bright cut engraved stemmed rose, floral and foliate design; this indicates the high quality of the piece, as typically the underside would remain unembellished.
The upper portion of this antique silver tobacco box...
Category
1890s English Victorian Antique Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Silver
Early 19th Century Bright Blue Swedish Antique Travelling Box
Located in Kramfors, SE
Swedish hand-made antique blue traveling box from the 1820s to 1830. This charming little box has bright blue original paint and hand wrought hardware in iron. The box was used to st...
Category
Early 19th Century Swedish Country Antique Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Large 20th century design red ceramic decorative box pot 1970 style of Ruelland
By Jacques and Dani Ruelland
Located in Neuilly-en- sancerre, FR
In the style of Jacques and Dani Ruelland
Large 20th century design ceramic box or decorative pot
Shiny red color
Original perfect condition
Height 25 cm
Large 21 cm
Category
20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
Victorian Treenware Hanging Salt Box, 19th Century.
Located in Hannover, DE
I present to you a set of beautiful hanging salt box from the 19th century. The two are made out of wood, rich in colour and patination, They can be left standing but the intention b...
Category
Late 19th Century French Folk Art Antique Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
$427 Sale Price / item
20% Off
black and brown art deco decorative or jewelry ceramic box by Talbot La Borne
By La Borne Potters
Located in Neuilly-en- sancerre, FR
Joseph Talbot - La Borne
20th century art deco black and brown decorative or jewelry ceramic box
original perfect condition
signed
Circa 1940
Height 16 cm
Large 13 cm
Category
Mid-20th Century French Art Deco Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
Table Box Octagonal Black Enamel with light Blue Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Giorgio Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Octagonal table box in 925/1000 sterling silver with fire-enamelled Art Deco design. Dimensions diameter cm. 15.8 high cm . 8.2. Weight gr. 974. Designed by Giorgio Salimbeni for Cartier USA in the 1980s, inspired by objects designed by Louis Cartier around 1920 and manufactured in Florence in various specimens, also in parure with other objects and in different colors, in the headquarters by the Salimbeni firm with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for withstanding numerous high-fire enamelled firings at about 750°<800° C.
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 Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Lino Sabattini Made in Italy Decorative Box in Silver Metal, 1960s
By Lino Sabattini
Located in Reggio Emilia, IT
Italian Mid-Century Modern design cylindrical container for breadsticks or decorative box in silver metal designed by Lino Sabattini, engraved Sabattini Made in Italy under the base,...
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal, Silver Plate
$694 Sale Price
20% Off
Vintage Potpourri Box in Rosewood Filigree, 1960s
Located in Esbjerg, DK
A beautifully crafted rosewood box with filigree lid with pin-inlays. Suitable for pens, pencils, jewelry or potpourri. It was made in Scandinavia durin...
Category
1960s Scandinavian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Rosewood
$280 Sale Price
20% Off
Early 19th century Swedish carved oak lidded box
Located in Debenham, Suffolk
Early 19th century Swedish carved oak lidded box circa 1800.
Interesting find from one of our buying trips, naive carved/turned box made from solid oak. Still functional as an every...
Category
Early 19th Century Swedish Rustic Antique Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Oak
21° Century Italian 800 Solid Silver Decorative Box
By Argenteria Auge
Located in VALENZA, IT
Oval box in solid 800 silver with embossed daisies and 24kt golden interior.
This box was made entirely by hand giving it an oval shape.
The lid, finely embossed with flower motifs...
Category
2010s Italian Other Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
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 Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Birch
Art Nouveau Lithographed Candy Cookie Tin Box Advertising Vintage German, 1910s
Located in Nuernberg, DE
Large antique German cough drop candy advertising tin. Beautiful decoration piece, nice addition to your kitchen or just to display in every room.
Category
1910s German Art Nouveau Vintage Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Tin
Wilhelmina Wendt, box with silver inlay, Sweden 1954
Located in Stockholm, SE
A rare decorative (cigarette) box in isolite (early plastic material) and decor of ship in silver inlay. Made by silversmith Wilhelmina Wendt, Perstorp, dated 1954 (D9). Swedish Art...
Category
1950s Swedish Art Deco Vintage Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
Priora Box in glossy ivory lacquer with detail in Corno Italiano, Mod. 2404
By Arcahorn Srl.
Located in Recanati, Macerata
The Priora box is a versatile and elegant accessory, crafted to store your cherished items with the utmost care. Fashioned from glossy ivory lacquered wood, the box is distinguished ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood, Lacquer
Small Caribe Chic Basket 3 by Sebastian Herkner
Located in Geneve, CH
Small Caribe Chic basket 3 by Sebastian Herkner
Materials: Galvanized and powder-coated tubular steel. PVC strings are made from recycled pla...
Category
2010s German Modern Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Steel
$1,343 / item
Early 20th Century Japanese Pillow Box
Located in Beuzevillette, FR
Very nice box also used as a pillow in the Japanese culture, early 20th century. It is black lacquered and decorated with hand painted golden floral patterns. The copper latch is nic...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
authentic yellow metal and brass post letter box element, Germany 1950s
Located in Kirchlengern, DE
Article:
letter post box element, useable for outdoor post receiving at private home.
Origin:
Germany
Age:
1950s
Description:
This original v...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal, Brass
Antique Richly Decorated Marked Japanese Satsuma Box, Ca 1900
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
A Japanese Satsuma Round box with lid. Marked base.
Additional information:
Material: Porcelain & Pottery
Region of Origin: Japan
Period: 19th century
Japanese Style: Satsuma
Japan ...
Category
19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Porcelain
$260 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique Swedish Wooden barrel early 1800's Handmade Folk Craft great condition
Located in Forest, BE
Swedish antique pine hand carved wooden barrel. Made to be used as a grain storage. Fine quality of wood. It is a true piece from the early 19 century. Beautiful patina on the inside...
Category
Early 19th Century Swedish Folk Art Antique Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Pine
Decorative Antique Chinese Stacking Box, Shanxi Province
Located in Kastrup, DK
A portable stacking box featuring five separate tiers, crafted from limewood and originally coated in black lacquer. Remnants of the lacquer are still visible, lending the container ...
Category
Late 18th Century Chinese Qing Antique Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Iron
Decorative Ceramic Box Orange and Black Colors by Jean Grison
By Jean Grison
Located in Neuilly-en- sancerre, FR
Jean Grison
Elegant and delicate decorative ceramic box by the French artist.
Many ceramic colors effects.
Signed under the base, circa 2000.
Original good conditions.
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary French Modern Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
Round Large Walnut Box with Flat Lid
By Picta
Located in Milan, IT
A spot-on nest for small tortillas, this handcrafted cylindrical box offered in solid walnut comes with a flat lid at once sealing its minimalist silhouette and unadorned elegance. T...
Category
2010s Italian Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
$11,410 / item
Hugo Asmussen 24 Carat Gold Plated Trinket Jar, Denmark 1970s
By Hugo Asmussen
Located in Esbjerg, DK
A rare beautifully crafted trinket jar, container for tea light candles or cotton swabs designed by Hugo Asmussen in Denmark circa 1960-70. Its made from 2...
Category
1970s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Brass
$346 Sale Price
20% Off
20th Century Stoneware Ceramic Box by Claude Gaget La Borne circa 1990 Birds
By La Borne Potters
Located in Neuilly-en- sancerre, FR
Claude Gaget
Unique handmade piece
Large stoneware ceramic box with bird decoration
Brown stoneware ceramic glaze
Original perfect condition
...
Category
Late 20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
Decorative Box with lid, Vintage Wooden Brown Jewellery Box, Hand Carved
Located in Wembley, GB
A handmade wooden jewellery box with a lid and lock, it is perfectly designed and created in a suitable size for keeping valuables inside. The top of this box has leaf patterns and l...
Category
1980s Turkish Art Deco Vintage Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Papercord, Boxwood, Driftwood
$339 Sale Price
20% Off
Pair Of Antique Decorative Boxes, Chinese, Ceramic, Lidded Dish, Victorian, 1900
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is a pair of antique decorative boxes. A Chinese, ceramic lidded dish, dating to the late Victorian period, circa 1890.
Appealing tradi...
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Late Victorian Antique Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
1890s Louis Philippe Brown and Green Lacquered Wood Sicilian Box
Located in Catania, Sicilia
This wood Sicilian box is a unique and culturally rich artifact, combining elements of 19th-century design, regional influence, and artistic craftsmanship. The box is crafted from wo...
Category
Late 19th Century Sicilian Louis Philippe Antique Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood, Lacquer
Cube Decorative Box in Clear and Black Lucite, 1970
Located in Barcelona, ES
Large Midcentury Square Lucite Box with Lid, Italy, 1960-1970
This decorative cube shaped box is made in thick clear lucite with black lucite accents.
Large enough to be used for dec...
Category
20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Acrylic, Lucite
Box with fired enamels painted like lapis lazuli stone and horse racing Salimben
By Salimbeni, Franco 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 Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Small Oval Dutch Silver Gold Plated Box with a Scene of the Birth of Venus
Located in Delft, NL
A small oval Dutch silver gold plated box with a scene of the birth of Venus
A silver box, gold plated with a style-carved cameo in stone. The stone with a scene of a mythological...
Category
20th Century Dutch Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
Pewter Jar by Estrid Ericson
By Svenskt Tenn, Estrid Ericson
Located in Stockholm, SE
Elegant pewter jar by Estrid Ericson, with beautiful matte patina. Rim and lid decorated with a subtle pattern. Handle wound with blonde rattan for a nice contrast.
Category
1950s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Pewter
Ivory Storage Box
By Arcahorn Srl.
Located in Milan, IT
Enriched by a prized interior in ivory Tosca leather, this rectangular storage box crafted of exquisite Horn and wood showcases a structure in delicate ivo...
Category
2010s Italian Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
$1,392 / item
Rare Antique French 19th Century Gothic Revival Neo-Gothic Jewelry Box Church
Located in Ijzendijke, NL
Exquisite & rare ! This French 19th century Gothic Revival Jewelry box in carved walnut.
Amazing craftsmanship and richly decorated with Gothic style carvings on all sides.
Each ...
Category
Late 19th Century French Gothic Revival Antique Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Velvet, Walnut
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 Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
20th Century oriental silver plate bamboo decorated tobacco box
Located in Debenham, Suffolk
20th century oriental silver plate bamboo decorated tobacco box circa 1925.
Fine quality chinese silver plate box, signed and dated 1925. Profusely cast and decorated with bamboo an...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Art Deco Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver Plate
Odile Noll boxe in ebony Gabon
By Odile Noll
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Rare boite par Odile Noll en ébène du Gabon,
Odile Noll est la fille de Alexandre Noll.
Category
1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ebony
Italian Futurist Crystal Enameled Box with Silver Sculpture, Italy, 1933
Located in Roma, IT
Incredible futurist multifaceted crystal glass box, this stunning piece was produced in Italy in 1933, as it features the 800 silver engraving that w...
Category
1930s Italian Futurist Vintage Europe Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Silver
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