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Item Ships From: Florence
Multigame Set in Black Polished Ebony Notte Di Giochi
By Agresti
Located in New York, NY
Polished ebony multigame. Contents chess, backgammon, dice, domino, playing cards and poker chips.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Florence - Decorative Objects
Materials
Ebony
Armored Jewel Safe Polished Carbon Fiber Front and 3 Watch Winders
By Agresti
Located in New York, NY
Armored jewelry safe covered in polished carbon front. Drawers in white leather, , inside is lined for jewelry and watches with pull out necklace holder...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Florence - Decorative Objects
Materials
Steel
Agresti Rollo Tube Travel Case for 5 Watches
By Agresti
Located in New York, NY
Travel roll for 4 watches. Capacity for up to 4 watches on the adjustable roll. Available in three finishing options, see information below for details.
Brown: Brown leather and mat...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Florence - Decorative Objects
Materials
Leather, Wood
Contemporary Black Armored Jewel Safe Chest with Swarovski Crystals
By Agresti
Located in New York, NY
Armored jewelry chest in black leather with Swarovski crystals. Drawers are covered with black leather, inside is lined for jewelry and watches w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Florence - Decorative Objects
Materials
Crystal, Steel
21st Century, Hand-Carved Clear Crystal and Silver Bowl in Classic Style
By Oggetti D'Arte
Located in Calenzano, FI
21-st century hand carved clear crystal centrepiece with silver925 frame (gr 185).
This centrepiece is a limited edition, we have only a few pieces. It's particular hand -carved and...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Art Nouveau Florence - Decorative Objects
Materials
Crystal, Silver
Cigarette Case Two-Tone Striped Fired Enamel Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent two-tone striped fired enamel on guillochè and hand-engraved ornament. Late Empire Napoleon III style. ...
Category
1970s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Florence - Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box floral miniature fire-enameled on guilloche vertical stripes Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Round table box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fired enamels, with “paillons” in pure gold on the upper circle, fine fired enamelled miniature with hand-painted floral ...
Category
1960s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Florence - Decorative Objects
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Jugendstil iridescent glass cookies jar, Pallme & König Austria ca. 1910.
By Pallme König
Located in Firenze, IT
Jugenstil cookies jar. 'Iris' iridescent glass, hexagonal shape.
Pallme & König, Steinschönau Bohemia, Austria ca. 1910.
H 20 cm - Diam. 14 cm
Conditions: excellent consistent wi...
Category
Early 1900s Austrian Jugendstil Antique Florence - Decorative Objects
Materials
Glass
Table Box pure gold paillons and fired enamel miniature Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Round table box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fire enamels, with pure gold “paillons” on the upper circle, fine fire enamelled miniature hand painted by the painter Br...
Category
1960s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Florence - Decorative Objects
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Iridescent Bowl with figurine in Figurehead Position, Ercole Barovier, 1930
By Ercole Barovier, Vetreria Artistica Barovier & C.
Located in Tavarnelle val di Pesa, Florence
This shows the Classic Murano figurine head with the casque hair position. The bowl has been waved to hot attach the two busts that are connected to t...
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Art Deco Florence - Decorative Objects
Materials
Gold Leaf
$1,496 Sale Price
57% Off
Pill Box Silver Sterling light blue Enamel sliding lid for sweetener Salimbeni
By Giorgio Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Pill Box Silver is in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated 24carats.
Pill Box Silver has light blue translucent fired enamels on guilloché.
Pill Box Silver has a sliding lid and hole...
Category
1990s Italian Louis XVI Florence - Decorative Objects
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Fountain Pen in Sterling Silver fired Enamel Guilloche Salimbeni
By Giorgio Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Fountain pen in 925/1000 sterling silver with translucent fired enamel on guilloche. With 14 carats gold nib and ink cartridge. Diameter mm. 10.5 Total length cm. 14. Weight gr. 45. ...
Category
1970s Italian Art Deco Vintage Florence - Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold
$934 Sale Price
20% Off
Box Black and Red geometric Art Deco style designed for Cartier USA Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Giorgio Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Box Black and Red enamel is Inspired by drawings by Louis Cartier from the early 1900s in Art Deco style and recreated for Cartier USA in the 1980s.
It is in 925/1000 sterling.
Box B...
Category
1980s Italian Art Deco Vintage Florence - Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
19th CENTURY ANATOMICAL MODEL SCULPTURE
Located in Firenze, FI
Stucco sculpture depicting anatomical model of the muscular system, handmade and painted in two-tone tempera in shades of gray. The human figure, placed on a small pedestal, is chara...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Florence - Decorative Objects
Materials
Stucco, Paint
Unique Murano Glass Vase, Murrine Romane style
By Venini, Fratelli Toso
Located in Tavarnelle val di Pesa, Florence
Splendid Murrine vase. Oval shape with a beautiful combination of square murrinas.
The Murrine are of two kinds. One covers the whole background and its made of a double sequence of green, lattimo and amber. The main large ones in random position are are framed in black with vibrant colors: emerald green, cadmium red and yellow.
Similar to Carlo Scarpa Murrine...
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Florence - Decorative Objects
Materials
Glass, Art Glass, Murano Glass
Spherical frame for 2 portrait translucent fire enamel on guilloché Salimbeni.
By Giorgio Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Spherical frame for 2 hinged photographs in 925/1000 sterling silver goldplated with translucent fire enamel on guilloché. Modern contemporary style. Sphere diameter cm. 7.5. Weight ...
Category
1960s Italian Modern Vintage Florence - Decorative Objects
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Picture Frame miniatures and borders in Russian Empire Fabergé style Salimbeni
By Giorgio Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table photo frame in gold-plated 925/1000 sterling silver with translucent fired enamels on guilloche and fine hand-painted miniatures of laurel friezes and borders in Ru...
Category
1960s Italian Empire Vintage Florence - Decorative Objects
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Seguso for Bisazza Pair Mustard Murano Pulegoso Vase Gold Rim, 1993 Signed
By Bisazza Vetro, Seguso Vetri d'Arte, Seguso, Livio Seguso, Seguso & Cenadese
Located in Tavarnelle val di Pesa, Florence
Set of two splendid Pulegoso vase. One round and the other tall. The round is lighter and the tall darker tone of mustard.
Perfectly executed Pulegoso finish. This is Murano Crucible Pulegoso. The mouth has a rim with external gold leaf difficult to notice because it does not contrast with the background. Just magnificent and rare set.
At first I believed, because of the round shape, that Bisazza was dovetailing Carlo Scarpa original round shape from the 1930s. When I was able to see the pieces and see the year, then all came clear. In the second part of the 1980s there was a re-discover in Interior design of the Native American arts. In particular, the Navaho products. As Carlo Scarpa took his inspiration from Japanese shapes, here Bisazza translated in glass the Navaho pottery art. Here the reason for a hearty color, these orange toned Puligoso is part of the Seguso tradition. Colors that are not in high fashion.
This collection belongs to the Livio Seguso production made under Bisazza ownership for a small period of the early 1990s. Livio continued his artist career with the freedom and the free state of mind that came from not owning a company. Similar path of Luciano Vistosi.
Bisazza, the famous luxury mosaic company, continued Seguso models for the first part of the 1990s. Then closed the furnace and continued to focus with his mosaic collection. His masters, Elio Raffaelli...
Category
1990s Italian Mid-Century Modern Florence - Decorative Objects
Materials
Art Glass, Blown Glass, Murano Glass
X-Small Egg style Faberge Yellow Enamel hand painted wreaths Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
X-Small egg in 925/1000 gilded silver with translucent enamel on fire on guilloché and hand-painted miniature of garlands in Russian Art Nouveau style, inspired by the eggs of Carl F...
Category
1960s Italian Empire Vintage Florence - Decorative Objects
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Egg style Faberge Blue Sapphire Enamel Medium Size Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Egg on tripod in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè, Russian Empire style inspired by Carl Fabergè eggs late 1800s, early 1900s. Measurem...
Category
1960s Italian Empire Vintage Florence - Decorative Objects
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
1950s Max Ingrand for Fontana Arte Rose Glass Centrepiece
By Fontana Arte, Max Ingrand
Located in Florence, Tuscany
A spectacular large rose glass centrepiece designed in the 1950s by Max Ingrand for Fontana Arte, the iconic Milanese glass house. This beautifully curved glass bowl sits atop a larg...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Florence - Decorative Objects
Materials
Brass
Pill Box monochrome hand-painted miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Octagonal pillbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired asu guillochè enamel also on all sides and monochrome hand-painted miniature on the lid. Dimensions c...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Florence - Decorative Objects
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Cigarette Case Art Deco style designed for Cartier USA Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Giorgio Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Cigarette case for handbag in 925/1000 sterling silver with black fired enamel. Opening with spring button.. Measure cm. 6.3 x 9.7 x 1.5. Weight gr.210. Created in the Art Deco style...
Category
1980s Italian Art Deco Vintage Florence - Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
CINETICO Illuminated Sculpture Murano Glass Brass Mobile Chandelier, Ivory
By Effetre International Company, Silvio Piattelli
Located in Tavarnelle val di Pesa, Florence
This exquisite Murano glass chandelier boasts delicate glass elements that shimmer and radiate a cozy, welcoming ambiance, making it the perfect centerpiece for any living space. Man...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Mid-Century Modern Florence - Decorative Objects
Materials
Brass, Metal
Pair of 18th Century Stone Ball Plinths Noto
Located in Florence, Tuscany
A pair of reclaimed 18th Century sandstone plinths found in a palazzo in Noto, Sicily. Each plinth bears 15 stone balls. Alas, I am not aware of the s...
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Florence - Decorative Objects
Materials
Sandstone
$3,297 / set
Egg White with blue garlands in Russian Art Nouveau style Sterling Silver Salimb
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Egg White with blue garlands is in 925/1000 sterling silver.
Egg White with blue garlands has fired enamels on guilloché and design engraved by hand.
Egg White with blue garlands i...
Category
1960s Italian Empire Vintage Florence - Decorative Objects
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Box Black Red Art Deco style designed for Cartier USA Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Giorgio Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table box with rounded corners in 925/1000 sterling silver with fire-enamelled Art Deco design. Dimensions cm. 10.4 x 13.4 x 3.2. Weight gr. 530. Designed by Giorgio Sali...
Category
1970s Italian Art Deco Vintage Florence - Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Box shaped enamel hand painted, engraved and miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Box shaped enamel is in 925/1000 sterling.
Box shaped enamel has handpainted fired enamels miniature.
Box shaped enamel is engraved and fire-enamelled ornaments.
Box shaped enamel is...
Category
1970s Italian Baroque Vintage Florence - Decorative Objects
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Brucaliffo Brass Cigar Box with Wooden Interior
Located in Firenze, FI
Keep your cigars fresh and organized in our stylish brass cigar box with a wooden interior. Made from high-quality brass and wood, its unique and elegant design adds sophistication t...
Category
2010s Italian Florence - Decorative Objects
Materials
Brass
Arnaldo Miniati, Morandi allegory Sculpture, ed. 8/50, Italy 1971
By Arnaldo Miniati
Located in Firenze, IT
Giorgio Morandi Allegory Sculpture, Italy 1971
Arnaldo Miniati (1909 - 1979)
Brown, white, green and black glazed ceramic.
Signed, dated and numbered, edition 8/50
H 32 cm - 33 ×...
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Florence - Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic
Rectangular table cigarette case two-tone fire-enamelled stripes Salimbeni.
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table cigarette case with rounded upper long sides, in 925/100 sterling silver and two-tone fire-enamelled stripes in a modern contemp...
Category
1970s Italian Modern Vintage Florence - Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Round Box enamel light blue and black Salimbeni
By Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Round box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold-plated with translucent fired enamel on guilloché in a modern contemporary style. Dimensions: diameter cm. 7.5 height cm. 3.8, Weight g. 24...
Category
1970s Italian Modern Vintage Florence - Decorative Objects
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Louis XV Style Gilt and Chiseled Bronze Candlestick By Gherardo Degli Albizzi
By Gherardo Degli Albizzi
Located in Florence, Tuscany
This little Louis XV style gilt bronze candlestick by Gherardo Degli Albizzi would be ideal to be placed on a bedside table.
It resume the great taste of Rococo period decoration. A...
Category
2010s Italian Rococo Florence - Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze
Pill Box White Enamel Art Nouveau style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Round rounded pillbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè and hand-painted floral miniature on the lid. Viennese Art Nouveau style. Dia...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Florence - Decorative Objects
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Murano Vase Masterpiece, Doppio Ritorto Amazing Technique, Signed
By Fulvio Bianconi & Paolo Venini, Gio Ponti, Silvio Piattelli
Located in Tavarnelle val di Pesa, Florence
This vase is a true work of art. It features a bold color palette and creates a beautiful interplay with the light. During its creation, the glass is heated again before blowing to a...
Category
Early 2000s Italian Mid-Century Modern Florence - Decorative Objects
Materials
Art Glass, Blown Glass, Murano Glass
Hollywood regency plexiglass and straw waste paper basket, Christian Dior 1980s
By Christian Dior
Located in Firenze, IT
Hollywood regency plexiglass and straw waste paper basket,
Christian Dior France, ca. 1980
Brass, Plexiglass, Vienna Straw
H 25 cm × 25.5 cm × 25.5 cm
Conditions: very good consi...
Category
1980s French Hollywood Regency Vintage Florence - Decorative Objects
Materials
Brass
Mahjong Game Board in Black Polished Ebony Passione Di Gioco
By Agresti
Located in New York, NY
Ebony polished mahjong with ruthenium brass parts.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Florence - Decorative Objects
Materials
Ebony
Napoleone Martinuzzi , Two Cactus in Murano iridescent Fume Vamsa Attribution
By Alfredo Barbini, Napoleone Martinuzzi
Located in Tavarnelle val di Pesa, Florence
Tare pair of two glass cactus in an iridescent Fume finish. This design is a classic design by Napoleone Martinuzzi.
Update: One leaf on the large cactus snapped and was glued in pla...
Category
1930s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Florence - Decorative Objects
Materials
Glass, Art Glass, Murano Glass
Bottega Michelangeli, Cat wood sculpture, Orvieto Italy 1970s
By Bottega Gualverio Michelangeli 1
Located in Firenze, IT
Cat wood sculpture
Bottega Michelangeli, Orvieto Italy 1970s
composed of assembled wooden sections, bear on the back manufacture's firebrand stamp and numbe...
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Florence - Decorative Objects
Materials
Wood
Unique Murano Glass Vase Stellato in the style Pollio Perelda for Fratelli Toso
By Fratelli Toso
Located in Tavarnelle val di Pesa, Florence
Splendid murano mosaic vase with a perfect color combination and complex mosaic technique.
The stellato finish is made by rolling canes of various color over a small blob of incandescent glass. The design is attained by using the glass scissors at the end and making flat discs with a star design. All these are then heated on a flat surface, in the old time was a stone so this technique still carries that name, lavorazione a piera.
It's heated so that it becomes an unique mosaic rectangular piece. It's then rolled with a glass disc that has the exact perimeter of the rectangular side. This makes the name that this technique is internationally known, Roll-up technique. The difficulty is to close into a cylinder the two other sides of the rectangle. After that the cylinder is closed on the opposite end, glowed to ge to the size, changing the working point with the punty technique (a puntello) and handopening to get the final shape.
An incredible sequence of glassmaking technique to get a special design.
The result is an intricate design of stars in an infinitive patchwork of color matching.
This is commonly known as Stellato vase, which was enhanced and studied by Pollio Perelda...
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Florence - Decorative Objects
Materials
Glass, Art Glass, Murano Glass
1960s Signed Venini Orange Murano Glass Bowl
By Paolo Venini
Located in Florence, Tuscany
An iconic Venini Murano glass bowl. Signed Venini Italia on the base. Hand-blown in Murano in the 1960s, this piece has an opaque orange core and a transparent surround. Found in a p...
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Florence - Decorative Objects
Materials
Metal
Ovetto Metal Collection Chrome Recycling and Waste Bin by Soldi Design
By Soldi Design
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
This so-called world's most avant-garde trash can comes from Italy. The brand of this spaceship is called SOLDI DESIGN! It is an ecological design brand founded in 2008! With the phi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Florence - Decorative Objects
Materials
Resin, Plastic
Snuff Box with 2 slightly rounded sides and erotic miniature Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Snuff Box Snuff Box with 2 slightly rounded sides is in 925/1000 sterling silver.
Snuff Box Snuff Box with 2 slightly rounded sides has fire-enamelled miniature hand-painted by the ...
Category
1970s Italian Romantic Vintage Florence - Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold, Gold Plate
Table Box in Malachite with Hinged Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Large rectangular table box in malachite with hinged frame in 925/1000 sterling Silver gold plated. The malachite is a large single whole slab on the lid and the stone design becomes...
Category
1970s Italian Art Deco Vintage Florence - Decorative Objects
Materials
Malachite, Sterling Silver
Black Cigarette Case for Handbag Sterling Silver Enamel Salimbeni
By Giorgio Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Cigarette case for handbag in 925/1000 sterling silver with black fired enamel. Opening with spring button.. Measure cm. 6.3 x 9.7 x 1.5. Weight gr.210. Created in the Art Deco style...
Category
1980s Italian Art Deco Vintage Florence - Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Neoclassical Style Gilt Bronze and Marble Candlestick by Gherardo Degli Albizzi
By Gherardo Degli Albizzi
Located in Florence, Tuscany
This Neoclassical style gilt bronze and marble candlestick by Gherardo Degli Albizzi would be ideal to be placed on a bedside table or on a desk. Even if it features a classical shap...
Category
2010s Italian Neoclassical Florence - Decorative Objects
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Seguso bottle and stopper, Corroso over Green Amethyst incamiciato Murano Glass
By Seguso Vetri d'Arte, Seguso
Located in Tavarnelle val di Pesa, Florence
Unique tall bottle from Seguso, using a technique called Corroso, where the glass is textured with fluoridric acid and sawdust. A technique used by Carlo Scarpa and Seguso. The bottl...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Brutalist Florence - Decorative Objects
Materials
Glass, Art Glass, Murano Glass
Louis XVI Style Gilt Bronze and Blue Crystal Bowl by Gherardo Degli Albizzi
By Gherardo Degli Albizzi
Located in Florence, Tuscany
This Louis XVI style gilt bronze and cobalt blue crystal oval bowl by Gherardo Degli Albizzi features high quality chiseled bronze. The upper ed...
Category
2010s Italian Louis XVI Florence - Decorative Objects
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Vase Sfumato, Cirillo Maschio, Attributed Aquamarine with Morisa Murano, 1920s
By Vittorio Zecchin
Located in Tavarnelle val di Pesa, Florence
This vase shows many features that are on the Marinuzzi Zecchin vessel production. It's costolato sfumato with typical hansw handles and the curl at the upper end.
Has the costolato...
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Florence - Decorative Objects
Materials
Art Glass, Blown Glass, Murano Glass
Perfume holder Empire style ornaments enamel like wood Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Experience the epitome of refined luxury with this cylindrical handbag perfume holder, masterfully crafted from 925/1000 gold-plated sterling silver. Topped with a screwed cap, it sh...
Category
1970s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Florence - Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
19th CENTURY AUGUSTE MOREAU'S BRONZE STATUETTE DIONYSUS CHILD
By Auguste Moreau
Located in Firenze, FI
Important lost wax cast bronze sculpture with dark patina depicting Dionysus as a child. The god holds his characteristic attributes in his hands: a laurel branch in his left hand, s...
Category
19th Century French Art Nouveau Antique Florence - Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze
Cigar Box Cylindrical for table blue enamel on guilloche Salimbeni.
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Cylindrical table cigar box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamels on guilloché, with hinged lid. Modern contemporary style. Diameter cm. 5 height cm....
Category
1990s Italian Modern Florence - Decorative Objects
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Powder Case Art Deco style designed for Cartier USA Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Giorgio Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Powder case for handbag in 925/1000 sterling silver with black and red fired enamel. Opening with spring button. Ground mirror and retina inside. Measure cm. 7.3 x 7.3 x 1.5. Weight gr.250. Created in the Art Deco style for Cartier USA in the 1980s, inspired by designs by Louis Cartier from the early 1900s. Manufactured in Florence in the Salimbeni company headquarters 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 Florence - Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Forziere Ore Bianche White Chest with Nine Watch Winders
By Agresti
Located in New York, NY
Counter size armoured chest in shiny white bird’s eye maple. Bullets proof glass (6 Joule out of 8), emergency opening system, leds lights. Nine high tech winders entirely made in Sw...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Florence - Decorative Objects
Materials
Birdseye Maple
$67,500 / item
Agresti Tempo Unico Watch Winder
By Agresti
Located in New York, NY
Watch winder for automatic watch. Leather lined. Winder made in Switzerland, battery operated. Available in polished red briar, polished ebony, or polishe...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Florence - Decorative Objects
Materials
Leather, Wood
Louis XVI Style set of Gilt Bronze and Enamel Sconces by Gherardo Degli Albizzi
By Gherardo Degli Albizzi
Located in Florence, Tuscany
Louis XVI Style set of Gilt Bronze and Enamel Sconces by Gherardo Degli Albizzi. This fine set of wall sconces is crafted entirely of gilded bronze and decorated with elements typica...
Category
2010s Italian Louis XVI Florence - Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze, Enamel
Igor Balbi Murano Pauly Venice Pair of Turtoise Murano Glass Goblets
By Pauly & Co., Igor Balbi
Located in Tavarnelle val di Pesa, Florence
Two collector's goblet.
The finesse and details of his pieces are excellent. See the photos.
Finish is different. One has a sort of feather patter and has aquamarine light transparency. The other is darker and from outside the cup might look black but against the light shows it's beauty
Young Igor Balbi is a world wide known glass artist. He developed his finish and teaches at Corning Museum. Belongs to the new generation of Lume artist, starting from Cesare Toffolo, Lucio Bubacco and Vittorio...
Category
Early 2000s Italian Modern Florence - Decorative Objects
Materials
Art Glass, Murano Glass
Pocket Cigarette Case Geometric Design Sterling Silver Enamel Salimbeni
By Giorgio Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Shaped rectangular pocket cigarette case in 925/1000 sterling silver with translucent fired enamels on guillochè with Art Deco style geometric de...
Category
1970s Italian Art Deco Vintage Florence - Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
END OF THE 19th CENTURY ENGLISH TRAVELING WRITING DESK
Located in Firenze, FI
This solid mahogany travel desk is a fine piece of English manufacture from the late 19th century. Made with high quality mahogany wood, it has an elegant and refined appearance. The...
Category
Late 19th Century English Antique Florence - Decorative Objects
Materials
Leather, Wood
Modern Commode in Marble and Powder Coated Steel from "Disused Collection"
By Supaform
Located in Florence, IT
This Avant Garde commode is made of Carrara marble and high-quality powder-coated steel. The function of this piece is more sculptural and decorative but at the same time, it can be ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary European Modern Florence - Decorative Objects
Materials
Marble, Steel
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