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Item Ships From: Europe
Georgian Silver Brandy/Toddy Ladle circa 1800
Located in Folkestone, GB
Georgian silver Brandy or Toddy ladle with twisted whalebone handle, in good condition.
Slightly worn hallmarks to the bowl, made by JS/Joshua Snatt, 1801...
Category
Early 1800s English George III Antique Europe - Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Georg Jensen Sterling Silver Cypres Six Serving / Soup / Dessert Spoons
Located in København, Copenhagen
Georg Jensen sterling silver cypres six serving / soup / dessert spoons.
Mid-20 century.
Measures: 18 cm.
In perfect condition.
Marked.
Category
Mid-20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Europe - Sterling Silver
$480 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Victorian or Edwardian Pair of Silver Desert Cutlery Pieces
Located in Leesburg, VA
Henry Pope
1890; Birmingham, England
Silver (925/1000) and mother-of-pearl
Approximate size: 7.5 (l) x 1 (w) x .15 (d) inches
Active in Birmingham, England, Henry Pope was a prolif...
Category
Late 19th Century English Edwardian Antique Europe - Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Coffee and Tea Set 4 Pieces Solid Silver by Tétard Frères circa 1940
By Tetard Freres
Located in Paris, FR
Art Déco style silver coffee and tea set composed of 4 pieces: one teapot, one coffeepot, one sugar bowl, and a milk jug. Silver decorated with pinched ribs decoration and flat areas. French Minerve silver mark, silversmith mark and each piece is numbered.
Total weight: 2.008 kg
- 1 teapot 16 cm H x 24 cm W x 12 cm D
- 1 coffeepot 21 cm H x 18 cm W x 10 cm D
- 1 sugar bowl 11 cm H x 14 cm W x 10.5 cm D
- 1 milk jug 7 cm H x 12,5 cm W x 6.5 cm D
Tétard Frères is a french silversmith company created in 1880. Edmond Tétard...
Category
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Europe - Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
20th Century Italian Sterling Silver Tray in a Swan Shape
By Osvaldo Monti
Located in VALENZA, IT
Unusual sterling silver tray in the shape of a swan.
Oval in shape, the central part is smooth and polished with pumice stone, while the edge has been embossed, chiseled and engrave...
Category
Early 2000s Italian Arts and Crafts Europe - Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
$5,232 Sale Price
20% Off
Elkington & Co Ltd Antique Sterling Silver Canteen of Cutlery for 10 Persons
By Elkington & Co.
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique George V English sterling silver straight Trefid pattern flatware service for ten persons; an addition to our antique flatware sets...
Category
1910s British Vintage Europe - Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Edwardian Cut Glass Claret Jug with Silver Top & Handle, 1903 James Dixon & Sons
By James Dixon & Sons
Located in London, GB
Edwardian Cut Glass Claret jug with silver top & handle, 1903, James Dixon & Sons
Lovely divisions with large and small diamond cut glass
The silver is of a heavy gauge.
Category
Early 1900s English Edwardian Antique Europe - Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Georg Jensen Pyramid, set of six lunch forks in sterling silver. 1915-1932
Located in København, Copenhagen
Georg Jensen Pyramid, set of six lunch forks in sterling silver.
Hallmark: 1915-1932.
In perfect condition.
Dimensions: L 16.3 cm.
Pyramid pattern was designed by the renowned artist...
Category
1920s Danish Art Deco Vintage Europe - Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Georg Jensen Parallel, Complete Silver Lunch Service for Six People
Located in København, Copenhagen
Georg Jensen Parallel. Complete silver lunch service for six people.
A total of 18 pieces.
Knife measures: 20 cm.
Perfect condition.
Stamped.
Category
20th Century Danish Art Deco Europe - Sterling Silver
$3,200 Sale Price / set
20% Off
John Langlands I & John Robertson I Newcastle Sterling Silver Teapot Stand
By John Langlands I & John Robertson I
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
A fine and impressive antique Georgian Newcastle sterling silver teapot stand made by John Langlands I & John Robertson I; an addition to ...
Category
1780s English George III Antique Europe - Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Antique Victorian Sterling Silver Hunting Horn Table Lighter (1887)
By Joseph Braham
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive, unusual antique Victorian English sterling silver table lighter modelled in the form of a hunting horn; an addition to our Victorian silverware collection.
This exceptional antique Victorian silver lighter, in sterling standard, has been realistically modelled in the form of a fox hunting horn.
The swept cylindrical body of this novelty silver straight trumpet is embellished with the original gilding to the lower portion representing the copper bell.
The bell is ornamented with the contemporary engraved inscription 'P. Saltmarshe, Esq, 1889, from Major General Ravenhill'.
The rim of the antique lighter bell is encompassed with bands of tooled decoration.
The upper portion of this antique lighter is encircled with further bands of tooled decoration and retains the original screw fit mouthpiece; once removed this allows access to the wick.
Such solid silver examples bearing the traditional hunting horn copper effect are rare.
This Victorian hunting horn table lighter...
Category
1880s English Victorian Antique Europe - Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Antique William III Style Sterling Silver Lidded Tankard London 1907
By Lionel Alfred Crichton 1
Located in London, GB
An impressive Antique Sterling Silver Lidded Tankard made in the early 20th century in the style of a William III 17th Century Tankard. This enorm...
Category
20th Century English William and Mary Europe - Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Red Photo Frame French Empire Louis XVI style Sterling Silver Enamel Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Giorgio Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular photo frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè, with French Empire Louis XVI style border and rich ornamentation around th...
Category
1980s Italian Empire Vintage Europe - Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Bjørn Wiinblad, "Romanze' for Rosenthal, Two Lunch Knives in Sterling Silver
Located in København, Copenhagen
Bjørn Wiinblad, cutlery, 'Romanze' for Rosenthal.
Two lunch knives in sterling silver.
Designed in 1962.
Stamped with crescent, crown and '925'.
Measures: 20.5 cm.
In very good...
Category
20th Century German Europe - Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Basket Handle Precious Metal Silver Hallmark Design Schwarz & Steiner Vienna
By Steiner
Located in Vienna, AT
Basket with handle of precious metal silver design Schwarz & Steiner Vienna. An object handicrafted and designed with rich detailwork. Although manufactured most probably during the ...
Category
1980s Austrian Neoclassical Vintage Europe - Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
John Lias Georgian English Sterling Silver Old English Pattern Gravy Spoon
By John Lias
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
A fine and impressive antique Georgian English sterling silver Old English pattern gravy spoon; an addition to our silver flatware collection.
This fine antique George III sterling silver spoon has been crafted in the Old English pattern.
The surface of the antique silver spoon...
Category
1810s English George III Antique Europe - Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Mid-Century Modern Sterling Silver Condiment Set by Deakin & Francis in 1973
By Deakin & Francis
Located in London, London
Hallmarked in Birmingham in 1973 by Deakin & Francis, this handsome, Elizabeth II, sterling silver condiment set, is simple in shape, and has been decorated with a gilt bark effect a...
Category
1970s English Mid-Century Modern Vintage Europe - Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Vintage Silver Vase, Italy, Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Silver vase is a precious decorative object realized in the mid-20th century.
Very refined vase in the shape of an Amphora, made in the mid-20th century. Kgs. 0.76
Finely decor...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Europe - Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Table Box for Cigarettes Art Deco style designed for Cartier USA Sterling Silver
By Giorgio Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Square table box for cigarettes with rounded corners in 925/1000 sterling silver with black fired enamel. Measure cm. 12.7 x 12.7 x 3.2. Weight gr. 640. Created in the Art Deco style...
Category
1980s Italian Art Deco Vintage Europe - Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Plate Enamel on guillochè in Art Nouveau style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Giorgio Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Plate in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè in Art Nouveau style. Diameter cm. 17.2 high cm. 2.8. Weight gr. 347. Designed by Giorgio Sal...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Europe - Sterling Silver
Materials
Malachite, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Christofle (Cardeilhac) 88pc Sterling Silver Flatware Set, Germain Port Royal !
By Christofle Cardeilhac 1
Located in Wilmington, DE
Direct from Paris, a magnificent 88pc. French antique sterling silver flatware set by France’s premier silversmith “Christofle (Cardei...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Europe - Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Sterling silver armada dish made in London in 1979 by Mappin & Webb
By Mappin & Webb
Located in London, London
Hallmarked in London in 1979 by Mappin & Webb, this Elizabeth II period, Sterling Silver Armada Dish, is of traditional form. The armada dish measures 1"(2.5cm) tall, by 5.75"(14.5cm...
Category
1970s English Vintage Europe - Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Silver cup holder, depicting an elephant’s head, Moscow 1900.
Located in Milan, IT
Cup holder with handle, made of 875/1000 silver (84 Zolotniki), depicting, with the embossed technique, two elephant’s heads. Delta letter hallmark for the city of Moscou, Russia cir...
Category
Early 20th Century Russian Europe - Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
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 Europe - Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
20th Century Italian Sterling Silver Centre-Piece Shell-Shaped with Base
Located in VALENZA, IT
Shell-shaped oval centerpiece completely handmade with base, embossed and chisel finish.
Maker Silver Art - Alessandria, Italy
1,310 grams.
Category
1990s Italian Other Europe - Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Antique Art Deco Sterling Silver Presentation Bowl (1993)
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique English sterling silver Art Deco presentation bowl and plinth; an addition to our ornamental silverware collection.
This exceptional, fine and impressive presentation antique silver bowl...
Category
1930s British Vintage Europe - Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Baroque Style Green Table Box with Miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, 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 Europe - Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Antique Victorian Sterling Silver and Glass Owl Scent Bottle (1889)
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique Victorian English sterling silver and cranberry glass owl scent bottle; an addition to our diverse col...
Category
1890s English Antique Europe - Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Antique Silver And Hand Painted Porcelain Scent Bottle 1889 Birmingham
Located in London, GB
Antique Silver And Hand Painted Porcelain Scent Bottle 1889 Birmingham, maker Charles May
This unique scent bottle was hand painted to give an appearance of being made as Cloisonne
e...
Category
1880s Victorian Antique Europe - Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Chinese Export Silver Card Case
By Kwong Man Shing
Located in London, GB
Chinese Export Silver Card Case, circa 1900, embossed and chased with a dragon on both sides and a vacant shield-shaped cartouche. Retailed by Kwong Man Shing, and made by Zhuo (卓).
...
Category
Early 1900s Chinese Export Antique Europe - Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Sauce rack Plata Lappas S.A industry Argentina 102 - Art Nouveau or style
Located in Lugo, IT
Silver sauce holder by Plata Lappas S.A. industry Argentina. 102
Possible Art Nouveau period or style
Good conditions.
Thank you
Category
1910s Argentine Art Nouveau Vintage Europe - Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
$646 Sale Price
20% Off
1920/30s ART DECO Vanity Set, Hoka, Germany
By Hoka
Located in Skien, NO
Stunning antique Vanity set in ART DECO style from ca. 1920/30s. Silver / Silver plated, by Hoka, Germany
Dimensions ca.:
--Mirror: 28 x 12.5cm,
-...
Category
1930s German Art Deco Vintage Europe - Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver, Silver Plate
20th Century Italian Sterling Silver Ceased Table Box
By Argenterie Lala
Located in VALENZA, IT
Oblong sterling silver hinged table box.
The body of the box is smooth. The lid is smooth with embossed bellflowers
The lid is embossed and chiseled with bellflowers-shaped motifs
Th...
Category
1980s Italian Other Vintage Europe - Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
$4,663 Sale Price
28% Off
Antique George II Irish Sterling Silver Hash Spoon (1747)
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique Georgian Irish sterling silver Hanoverian pattern hash spoon; an addition to our silver flatware collection.
This exceptional antique George II Irish sterling silver spoon has been crafted in the Hanoverian pattern.
The posterior surface of the Georgian silver spoon handle terminal is embellished with the contemporary engraved crest.
The reverse of this impressive example of antique silverware features a plain rounded heel to the bowl.
The anterior surface of this antique silver spoon bears a pip to the handle terminal.
Such Irish examples from this period and in this exceptional condition are becoming increasingly difficult to locate; this piece is the finest of its type you could hope to acquire.
Condition
This antique Georgian silver spoon...
Category
1740s Irish Antique Europe - Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Vintage 1948 Sterling Silver 'Tennis' Presentation Trophy
By Joseph Gloster
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
A fine and impressive vintage George VI English cast sterling silver presentation trophy in the form of a tennis player; an addition to our diverse presentation silverware collection.
This fine vintage George VI cast sterling silver presentation piece has a circular waisted form to a circular domed spreading base.
The surface of the cup is plain and unembellished.
This vintage tennis trophy...
Category
1940s English Vintage Europe - Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Georg Jensen Beaded Complete 12 Persons Fish Service
Located in København, Copenhagen
Georg Jensen beaded complete 12 persons fish service.
12 fish knives, 12 fish forks.
Measures: knife 20.5 cm.
Stamped.
In perfect condition.
Category
20th Century Danish Art Deco Europe - Sterling Silver
$5,120 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Art Nouveau Antique Sterling Silver Dressing Table Tray, Birmingham 1914
Located in London, London
Hallmarked in Birmingham in 1914, this attractive, antique sterling silver dressing table tray, is oval in shape, and features an engraved vacant cartouche to the centre, and a raise...
Category
1910s English Art Nouveau Vintage Europe - Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Picture Frame Napoleon III French Empire style laurel ornament Sterling Silver.
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
This exquisite Picture Frame Napoleon III is in 925/1000 sterling silver.
it has a Squared Shape and sky colour for the fire enameled surface on guilloche.
Picture Frame Napoleon III...
Category
1980s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Europe - Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
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 Europe - Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Antique Sterling Silver Golf Presentation Trophy
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique George V English cast sterling silver presentation trophy on plinth in the form of a golfer; an addition to our golfing silverware collection.
This exceptional antique George V English cast sterling silver trophy has a square, rounded form.
The trophy is embellished with a cast sterling silver model realistically modelled in the form of a golfer swinging a club.
This antique silver golf trophy...
Category
1910s English Vintage Europe - Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Pair of Silver Sauce Boats Dated 1933, London, Crichton & Co. Ltd
By Crichton Co., Ltd
Located in London, GB
Pair of silver sauce boats dated 1933, London, Crichton & Co. Ltd
Very fine and heavy pair of silver sauce boat with lovely cast handles and feet.
This Chippendale edge style was v...
Category
1930s English George III Vintage Europe - Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Georg Jensen, Kaktus, set of twelve sterling silver dessert spoons.
Located in København, Copenhagen
Georg Jensen, Kaktus, a set of twelve sterling silver dessert spoons.
Stamped with the post 1944 hallmark.
In excellent condition.
Dimensions: L 16.9 cm.
Category
20th Century Danish Art Deco Europe - Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Antique Victorian Sterling Silver Coffee Pot
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique Victorian English sterling silver coffee pot; an addition to our silver teaware collection
This exceptional antique sterling silver coffee pot has a plain tapering cylindrical form with a moulded base, all in the Cassic English George I style.
The plain body of this Victorian silver coffee pot...
Category
19th Century English Victorian Antique Europe - Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Set Of 3 George 111 Silver Wine Labels By Phipps & Robinson Of London 1804/1809
By Thomas Phipps & Edward Robinson
Located in London, GB
Set Of 3 George 111 Silver Wine Labels By Phipps & Robinson Of London 1804/1809
Made in a really good gauge of silver in the typical George 111 style.
Phipps & Robinson where prolifi...
Category
Early 1800s English George III Antique Europe - Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Edwardian Sterling Silver Budgerigar Pepper Shakers
By George Bedingham
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive, pair of antique Edwardian English cast sterling silver pepper shakers modelled in the form of budgerigars; an addition to our collectable silver ...
Category
Early 1900s English Edwardian Antique Europe - Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Cloisonné Enamel and Silver Russian Kovsh
Located in London, GB
This wonderful Kovsh (an ornamental drinking vessel) was created at the start of the 20th century in Imperial Russia. Made of 875 grade silver, the Kovsh is of oval form and features...
Category
Early 20th Century Russian Europe - Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver, Enamel
Antique English Sterling Silver Wax Jack
By Charles and Richard Comyns
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive, unusual antique George V English sterling silver wax jack; an addition of our ornamental silverware collection.
This e...
Category
1920s English Other Vintage Europe - Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Table Box Octagonal Black Enamel with light Blue Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Giorgio Salimbeni, 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 - Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Superb 20thC Solid Silver Novelty Bookmark Of Winston Churchill, London c.1975
Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
A superb 20th Century English solid silver novelty bookmark. This bookmark depicts a gentleman called Winston Spencer Churchill smoking his iconic cigar.
Winston Churchill (1874–196...
Category
20th Century British Other Europe - Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Picture Frame large size Red Enamel on Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Large shaped photograph frame in gold plated 925/1000 sterling silver with translucent fired enamel on guillochè with borders and laurel frieze in Louis XVI French Empire style. Exte...
Category
1960s Italian Empire Vintage Europe - Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Travel Photo Frame Fire Enamel Stripes Art Deco Style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco 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 Europe - Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
20th Century Sterling Italian Silver Tea Caddy George III replica
By Argenterie Malagola
Located in VALENZA, IT
George III tea caddy replica.
Obtained from a silver sheet, it is rectangular in shape with shaped sides, it is embossed and chiseled with floral motifs and shells. The feet reprodu...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Georgian Europe - Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Aesthetic Style Silver Water Pitcher
By Gorham Manufacturing Company
Located in London, GB
Beautifully crafted antique American sterling silver water jug in the Aesthetic style, with a frosted surface decorated with the most delicate hand-eng...
Category
Late 19th Century American Aesthetic Movement Antique Europe - Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
1920s Russian Silver and Polychrome Cloisonné Enamel Salts
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
A fine and impressive pair of antique Russian silver and polychrome cloisonné enamel salts; an addition to cruet and condiment collection.
These fine antique Russian silver salts have a circular tapering form, onto a circular collet base.
The surface of these Russian salts...
Category
1920s Vintage Europe - Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Antique Victorian Newcastle Sterling Silver Runcible Spoons
By John Walton
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive pair of antique Victorian Newcastle sterling silver King's pattern runcible spoons; an addition to our silver flatwa...
Category
1850s English Victorian Antique Europe - Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
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 - Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
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By Silver Fashion Silvan
Located in VALENZA, IT
Sterling silver oil cruet.
The conical body of the cruet is smooth and shiny.
In the central part, olives and olive leaves were embossed and subsequently f...
Category
1990s Italian Other Europe - Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
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Chinese Export Silver Bowl
By Wang Hing & Co.
Located in London, GB
Chinese Export Silver bowl, circa 1895, with applied decoration of two peacocks on each side of the globular body, and four butterflies flying among peonies and plum blossoms. The bo...
Category
1890s Chinese Chinese Export Antique Europe - Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
$10,280
Buccellati six card-holders sterling silver Ocean-themed
By Buccellati
Located in Paris, FR
This rare set of six place card holders (place card) by M. Buccellati is a tribute to the marine world, captured through the elegance of Italian silversmithing. Each piece is finely ...
Category
20th Century Italian Europe - Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
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Located in Folkestone, GB
Fine pair of bright cut tablespoons by PETER & ANN BATEMAN, London 1792. In excellent condition with almost no sign of ware or damage.
120 grams total. Each spoon 22cms long.
Category
1790s English Georgian Antique Europe - Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
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