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Cigarette Case red lines and and hand-engraved finishing Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Vertical cigarette case in 925/1000 sterling silver with fire-enameled red stripes and hand-engraved finishing. In a modern contemporary style. Measurements cm. 6 x 2.3 cm high. 11. ...
Category
1980s Italian Modern Vintage Florence Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
X-Small Egg style Faberge Aquamarine Enamel Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
X-Small egg in 925/1000 gilded silver with translucent enamel on fire on guilloché in Russian Art Nouveau style, inspired by the eggs of Carl Fabergé late 19th century, early 20th c...
Category
1960s Italian Empire Vintage Florence Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Small Egg style Faberge Enamel hand painted wreaths Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Small egg in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guilloché and an hand-painted miniature of garlands in Russian Art Nouveau style, inspired by the e...
Category
1960s Italian Empire Vintage Florence Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
21st Century, Clear Crystal and Golden Bronze Box
By Oggetti D'Arte
Located in Calenzano, FI
Hand carved clear crystal and patinated golden bronze clinex-holder. Each object is handcrafted and the care for every detail makes each item unique in its kind.
The style of this Kl...
Category
2010s Italian Louis XVI Florence Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
$1,770 Sale Price / item
20% Off
21st Century, Clear Crystal and Golden Bronze Box
By Oggetti D'Arte
Located in Calenzano, FI
Hand carved clear crystal and patinated golden bronze box. Each object is handcrafted and the care for every detail makes each item unique in its kind.
The style of this box is a mo...
Category
2010s Italian Louis XVI Florence Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
$1,036 / item
Table Box portrait of Empress Eugenia de Montijo miniature Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Giorgio Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
More than a kilo of sterling silver was needed to create this stunning rectangular tabletop box.
Worked with the very complicated guilloche technique, it was then enamelled at high heat with translucent enamel to make the superb workmanship shine through.
The fine rectangular miniature cm. 7.5 x 10.7 on vegetable ivory.
The small masterpiece handmade by the painter Anna Maria Manfriani reproduces the famous portrait of Empress Eugenia de Montijo, by the painter Franz Xaver Winterhalter.
The unenamelled sterling silver parts were then gilded with a 24-carat galvanic bath.
In Art Nouveau style, with a “lost” zip, i.e. semi-invisible. Dimensions cm. 15 x 18 x 3.5. Weight gr. 1095. Designed by Giorgio Salimbeni in 1980 and manufactured in Florence at the Salimbeni company headquarters with completely manual execution by artisan artists with a very thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for supporting numerous enamelling firings at around 800°
Doña María Eugenia Ignacia Agustina de Palafox y Kirkpatrick, 19th Countess of Teba, 16th Marquise of Ardales known as Eugénie de Montijo was Empress of the French from her marriage to Napoleon III on 30 January 1853 until the fall of the Emperor on 4 September 1870. From July 28 to September 4...
Category
1980s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Florence Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Pill Box Silver Sterling Enamel hand-painted Louis XVI style miniature Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Giorgio Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Pill Box Silver is in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated 24carats.
Pill Box Silver is Round with translucent fired enamels on guilloché.
Pill Box Silver has a hand-painted miniatur...
Category
1970s Italian Louis XVI Vintage Florence Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
21st Century, Hand-Carved Amber Crystal and Bronze Box in Style of Luigi XVI
By Oggetti D'Arte
Located in Calenzano, FI
Amber crystal box with opaque cut engravings embellished with brass detail made with the artisan lost wax technique with patinated gold finish. Each ...
Category
2010s Italian Louis XVI Florence Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
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 Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Pill Box Floral miniature and fine hand-engravings Art Nouveau style Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Pill Box Floral miniature and fine hand-engravings Art Nouveau style Salimbeni.Shaped pillbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucen...
Category
1980s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Florence Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Gold Plate, Enamel
Cigarette Case Fired Enamel with Still Life Miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table cigarette case with rounded corners in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated with beautiful miniature fire enamelled and hand painted by the painter Beatrice Mellana reproducing a "still life" by the Flemish painter Willem Claes Heda. Dimensions cm. 5.7 x 9 x 1.7. Weight gr. 174. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1969 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 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 Art Deco Vintage Florence Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold
21st Century, Hand-Carved Amethyst Crystal and Golden Bronze Box
By Oggetti D'Arte
Located in Calenzano, FI
Amethyst crystal box with cut engravings and golden patinated bronze. Each object is handcrafted and the care for every detail makes each item unique in its kind.
The style of this ...
Category
2010s Italian Art Deco Florence Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Egg style Faberge Savoia blue Enamel Small Size Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Small egg in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guilloché, Russian Empire style inspired by the eggs of Carl Fabergé, late 19th century, early 20th...
Category
1960s Italian Empire Vintage Florence Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Pill Box Silver Sterling Enamel hand-painted Louis XVI style miniature Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Shaped pill box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with hand-painted miniature fire enamelled in Louis XVI style, second half of the 19th century, and fine hand engravings. Siz...
Category
1980s Italian Louis XVI Vintage Florence Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box Baroque style with two-tone fired enamels Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
This awesome Table Box Baroque style is in 925/1000 sterling silver.
it has a Rectangular shape with hand-engraved intricate design Black and Green color fire enameled.
Table Box Bar...
Category
1970s Italian Baroque Vintage Florence Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Egg style Faberge Dark Brown Enamel Small Size Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Small egg in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guilloché, Russian Empire style inspired by the eggs of Carl Fabergé, late 19th century, early 20th...
Category
1960s Italian Empire Vintage Florence Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Snuff Box Venetian landscape miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Snuff Box Snuff Box Venetian landscape is in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated 24 carats..
Snuff Box Snuff Box Venetian landscape has translucent fired enamel on guilloche and min...
Category
1960s Italian Baroque Vintage Florence Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Italian Contemporary "Black and Wild" Butterfly Alabaster Box - 1 of 2
Located in Scandicci, Florence
Elegant alabaster box printed with decal portraying an exotic natural setting with a beautiful Butterfly, "Le P. Polydamas" finished with lacquer. The ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Florence Decorative Boxes
Materials
Alabaster
Pill Box Sterling Silver Hand Painted Miniature Enamel on Guillochè Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Shaped pillbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with hand-painted miniature in Louis XVI style, second half of the 19th century, and fine hand engravings. Measure cm. 3,5 x 4,...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Florence Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Snuff Box Round Guilloche Enamel Box Gold Paillons Stars of Sky Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Round table snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent blue fired enamel on guillochè and with the insertion of pure gold “paillons” in the shape of stars to create a starry sky effect. With turquoise enamel circle with hand-engraved motif. Late 1600s Baroque style. Diameter cm. 7.7 cm high. 2.3. Weight gr. 226. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1967 and produced in Florence in several specimens in the Salimbeni company headquarters with manual workmanship by skilled artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for withstanding numerous enamelled firings at high heat at about 800° C -
The Paillons processing, now almost disappeared, and a rare technique recognized as a craft. Several layers of enamel are applied to the object, baked one by one in the oven.
Afterwards, the designs cut out of thin gold leaves, the paillons foils, are applied one by one by hand to form the desired figure. These sheets are then in turn coated...
Category
1960s Italian Baroque Vintage Florence Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Sterling Silver, Enamel
$2,225 Sale Price
20% Off
X-Small Egg style Faberge Enamel hand painted wreaths Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, 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 Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Kingdom rectangular kleenex box
Located in Firenze, FI
Add a touch of elegance to your tissue storage with our classic rectangular kleenex box. Made from high-quality materials, its stylish and minimalist desig...
Category
2010s Italian Florence Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
$384 / item
X-Small Egg style Faberge Sapphire Blue Enamel Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
X-Small egg in 925/1000 gilded silver with translucent enamel on fire on guilloché in Russian Art Nouveau style, inspired by the eggs of Carl Fabergé late 19th century, early 20th c...
Category
1960s Italian Empire Vintage Florence Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Jewelry box inward corners miniature hand painted Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Giorgio Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Large rectangular tabletop jewelery box with inward corners in gilded 925/1000 silver with translucent fired enamel on guillochè also on the sides and finished with fine hand engraving. In the center, a beautiful rectangular miniature cm. 4 x 5.5 hand painted in tempera on vegetable ivory plate by Roberto Masi depicting the portrait of Madame Boucard by Tamara De Lempicka (1931). Size cm. 14 x 19 x 3.2. Weight gr. 1,248. Designed by Giorgio Salimbeni in 1998 and manufactured in Florence in various specimens with different subjects and colours, in the headquarters of the Salimbeni company with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for withstanding numerous glazing firings at high heat 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...
Category
1990s Italian Art Deco Florence Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Snuffbox female face wearing Art Nouveau style clothing Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Giorgio Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rounded rectangular snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fine hand-painted fire-enamelled miniature depicting a female face wearing Art Nouveau style clothing, hand-...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Florence Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Pill Box Silver Sterling Enameled Rectangular Louis XVI style Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Pill Box Silver is in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated 24 carats.
Pill Box Silver is Rectangular with translucent fired enamels on guilloché.
Pill Box Silver has a hand-painted m...
Category
1970s Italian Louis XVI Vintage Florence Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Pill Box Baroque shaped with pastoral miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Pill Box Baroque shaped with pastoral miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni .Baroque shaped pill-box with hand engravings and green fire enamel, with hand painted enameled miniature of...
Category
1990s Italian Baroque Florence Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
21st Century, Animal Box Collection, Porcelain Box with Silver Bronze Fish
By Oggetti D'Arte
Located in Calenzano, FI
Porcelain box with cut engravings embellished with brass detail made with the artisan lost wax technique with silver finish. Each object is handcrafted and the care for every detail ...
Category
2010s Italian Louis XVI Florence Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Snuff Box round in Art Nouveau style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Round snuff box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamels on guillochè and hand-painted floral miniature, surrounded by a frame with leaves on a blue bac...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Florence Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box portrait of Natalia Nikolaevna Pushkina Lanskaja Salimbeni.
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Spectacular table box with inward corners in gold-plated 925/1000 sterling silver with translucent enamel fired on guilloche, in Art Nouveau style, and in the center a fine rectangul...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Florence Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
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 Florence Decorative Boxes
Materials
Marble
$1,106 / item
Egg 4 Picture frames in Dark Red enamel with tripod Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Egg 4 Picture frames is in 925/1000 sterling silver.
Egg 4 Picture frames has fired enamels on guilloché has fired enamels on guilloché and design engraved by hand.
Egg 4 Picture fr...
Category
1960s Italian Empire Vintage Florence Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box Enamel on Guilloche Hand Painted Miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Square box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè also on the sides. In the center, a beautiful hand painted tempera miniature on a vegetable ivory plate depicting the portrait of a 19th century lady, signed by the painter Anna Maria Manfriani. Dimensions cm. 12 x 12 x 2.5. Weight gr. 618. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1976 and manufactured in Florence in some 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 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
1970s Italian Modern Vintage Florence Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Snuff Box perforated, with a fine round miniature Salimbeni.
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Shaped snuff box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with perforated, embossed and hand-engraved lid, with a fine round miniature, diameter 3.8 cm, hand-painted in tempera on veg...
Category
1960s Italian Art Deco Vintage Florence Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Pill Box Hand Painted Miniature Enamel Louis XVI Style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular rounded pill box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with hand painted miniature fire-enamelled in Louis XVI style, second half of the 18th century, and fine hand-eng...
Category
1960s Italian Louis XVI Vintage Florence Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Exagonal Brass Box
Located in Firenze, FI
Store your small treasures in style with our exquisite hexagonal brass box. Made from high-quality brass, its unique and stylish design adds sophistication t...
Category
2010s Italian Florence Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
$273 / item
Snuff Box White with noble coat of arms Baroque style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Giorgio Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Snuff Box noble coat of arms is in 925/1000 sterling silver.
Snuff Box noble coat of arms has White fired enamels on guilloché and handpainted miniature of arabesques with noble coat...
Category
1990s Italian Baroque Florence Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Belt real black python buckle Sterling silver fire enamel hand painted Salimbeni
By Giorgio Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Belt in genuine black python reptile with oval buckle in 925/1000 silver with translucent fire enamel on sunburst guilloche and hand-painted miniature depicting a branch of peach blo...
Category
Early 2000s Italian Modern Florence Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
21st Century, Animal Box Collection, Clear Crystal Box with Crocodrile
By Oggetti D'Arte
Located in Calenzano, FI
Handcarved clear crystal box with Crocodrile made with the artisan lost wax technique with patinated gold finish. This box has got a oval shape. Each object is handcrafted and the ca...
Category
2010s Italian Louis XVI Florence Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
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 Florence Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
21st Century, Animal Box Collection, Porcelain Box with Golden Bronze Penguin
By Oggetti D'Arte
Located in Calenzano, FI
Porcelain box with cut engravings embellished with brass detail made with the artisan lost wax technique with patinated golden finish. Each object is handcrafted and the care for eve...
Category
2010s Italian Louis XVI Florence Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Table Box Heart shape Sky tone fire-enameled on guilloche Salimbeni.
By Salimbeni, Giorgio Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Heart-shaped table box in 925/1000 sterling silver with translucent fired enamel on guilloché above and below. Modern contemporary style. Dimensions cm. 8 x 8.8 high cm. 2.8. Weight ...
Category
1990s Italian Modern Florence Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Pill box light green hand-painted floral miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Round domed pill box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent enamel fired on guilloche above and below, and hand-painted floral miniature. Viennese Art Nouveau style...
Category
1960s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Florence Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Aladdin Brass Piggy Bank
Located in Firenze, FI
Keep your money safe and stylish with our brass piggy bank. Its charming design and high-quality construction make it a great addition to any home decor. Sh...
Category
2010s Italian Florence Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
$174 / item
Salimbeni Pillbox Semi-Invisible Lid Sterling Silver Natural
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Salimbeni Pillbox in 925/1000 sterling Silver, oval section with lid with lost hinge, that is, semi-invisible.
Salimbeni Pillbox has guilloche with Art Deco early 20th century styl...
Category
1970s Italian Modern Vintage Florence Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Potion exagonal brass glacette
Located in Firenze, FI
Elevate your table setting with our hexagonal classic brass jug. Made from high-quality brass and featuring a unique hexagonal shape, it adds sophistication ...
Category
2010s Italian Florence Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
$337 / item
Pill Box fired Enamel Miniature Louis XVI style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Shaped pill box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with hand painted miniature with fire enamelling in Louis XVI style, second half of the 19th century, and fine hand engravings...
Category
1970s Italian Louis XVI Vintage Florence Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Pill Box Fired Enamel with Hand Painted Horse Head Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, 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 Florence Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Table Cigar Box two-tone stripes enamel Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Giorgio Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
This divine Table Box is in 925/1000 sterling silver.
Table Box hand-painted miniature has a Rectangular shape with rounded corners.
On the cover there is a beautiful hand-engraved...
Category
1970s Italian Empire Vintage Florence Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Italian 19th Century Renaissance Style Wood Lacquer and Painted Gesso Lidded Box
Located in Firenze, IT
This beautiful 19th century Florentine rectangular lidded box is entirely decorated in the round with all typical Renaissance Italian patterns. The whi...
Category
19th Century Italian Renaissance Antique Florence Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gesso, Plaster, Wood
Treasure squared napkin holder small
Located in Firenze, FI
Add a touch of style to your dining experience with our square napkin holder with fabric cover. Made from high-quality materials, its stylish and functi...
Category
2010s Italian Florence Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
$180 / item
Snuff Box races miniature fire-enameled guilloche and engraved drawing Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Octagonal table snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with black fired enamel inserted in a hand engraved drawing and with fired enamelled miniature, hand painted by the p...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Florence Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Snuff Box Monocrome Miniature Hand Painted Sterling Silver Enamel Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, 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 Florence Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
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 Florence Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box transparent brown fired enamel over hand-engraved wood grain Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table box in gold-plated 925/1000 sterling silver with fine hand-engraved ornaments in late Napoleon III Empire style and transparent brown fired enamel over hand-engrave...
Category
1970s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Florence Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box blue and gold with handpainted miniature fire-enameled on guilloche Sa
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Octagonal table box in 800/1000 silver gold plated with translucent enamel on guilloché and beautiful enamel miniature hand painted by the painter Renato Dainelli in early 1900s Engl...
Category
1980s Italian Empire Vintage Florence Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, 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 Florence Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Pillbox Queen Victoria English style Shaped Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Shaped pillbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with hand-painted fired enameled miniature. Queen Victoria English style second half of the 19th century. Measurements cm. 2.2 ...
Category
1980s Italian Queen Anne Vintage Florence Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box hand-engraved wood grain with Coral Salimbeni.
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Table Box wood style and Coral is in 925/1000 sterling silver.
Table Box wood style and Coral has transparent brown fired enamel over hand-engraved wood grain.
Table Box wood style a...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Florence Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Potion exagonal brass glacette
Located in Firenze, FI
Add a touch of classic elegance to your home decor with our hexagonal brass glacette. Featuring a natural brass finish, its unique and stylish design is perfect for keeping drinks co...
Category
2010s Italian Florence Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
$337 / item
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