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Item Ships From: Florence
Fountain pen, Ballpoint pen and tray for a Desk Set green enamel Salimbeni
By Giorgio Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
4640-5320 - Rectangular tray with rounded corners in 925/1000 sterling silver with translucent fired enamels on guilloché, cm. 9 x 17.5. For fountain pen (4568-5201) with two-tone st...
Category
1970s Italian Modern Vintage Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Gold, Sterling Silver, Enamel
21st Century, Hand-Carved Clear Crystal and Golden Bronze Vase
By Oggetti D'Arte
Located in Calenzano, FI
21st Century hand carved clear crystal and golden bronze potiche. This potiche is finely chiseled lost wax castings and hand ground crystal. On request to customer can modificate the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Louis XVI Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Photograph Frame Large Imperial Style White Enamel on Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Large gold-plated 925/1000 sterling silver shaped photograph frame with translucent fired enamel on guillochè and rich friezes in Louis XVI French Empire style. External measurements...
Category
1960s Italian Empire Vintage Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
21st Century Hand-Carved Clear Crystal and Golden Bronze Bowl
By Oggetti D'Arte
Located in Calenzano, FI
21st Century hand carved clear crystal and golden bronze bowl. This bowl is finely chiseled lost wax castings and hand ground crystal. On request to customer can modificate the color of crystal: pink, amber, amethist etc and we can change also the metal finishing: french gold, burnished...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Louis XVI Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
21st Century White Veined Marble and Golden Bronze Potiche
By Oggetti D'Arte
Located in Calenzano, FI
21st century potiche in white veined marble with finely chiseled lost wax castings. On request to customer can modificate the color of marble: pink, amber, brown, green, etc .and we ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Louis XVI Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Marble, Bronze
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 - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Picture Frame White flowers hand painted miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Giorgio Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Picture Frame is in 925/1000 sterling silver and gold plated 24 carats.
Picture Frame has white fired enamels on guilloché.
Picture Frame has an hand-painted floral miniature by the ...
Category
1980s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Reggia viola macinata a mano con decorazioni in fusione di bronzo
Located in Firenze, FI
La reggia viola macinata a mano, impreziosita da decorazioni in fusione di bronzo, conferisce un tocco di lusso ed eleganza senza tempo. Gli scintillanti cristalli aggiungono, inoltr...
Category
2010s Italian Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Table Box for Cigarettes Art Deco style designed for Cartier USA Sterling Silver
By Salimbeni, Giorgio 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 Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Italian Contemporary Black and White Ancient Profile Resin Coasters Set of 2
Located in Scandicci, Florence
Elegant printed coasters portraying two different ancient profile on a black background.
Completely produced in Florence, Italy by Artecornici design. All articles all exclusivel...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Resin
21st Century, Hand Carved Clear Crystal and Golden Bronze Vase
By Oggetti D'Arte
Located in Calenzano, FI
21st century hand carved clear crystal and golden bronze vase. This vase is finely chiseled lost wax castings and hand-grounded crystal. On request to customer can modificate the col...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Louis XVI Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Meissen Small Bust Emblematic of Winter, circa 1750
By Meissen Porcelain
Located in Firenze, IT
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As a bearded man wearing a fur-lin...
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1750s German Georgian Antique Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
21st Century, Hand Carved Clear Crystal and Golden Bronze Centrepiece
By Oggetti D'Arte
Located in Calenzano, FI
21st century hand carved clear crystal and golden bronze centrepiece. This Centrepiece has got the porcelain base with pure gold decorations and hand-grounded crystal. On request to...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Louis XVI Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Sterling Bowl by Tiffany & Co.
By Tiffany & Co.
Located in Firenze, IT
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Tiffany & Co. Art Deco Cast Sterli...
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1930s American Art Deco Vintage Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Silver
Picture Frame Art Deco Chinese influence Enamel Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Giorgio Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular photo frame in 925/1000 silver with geometric design and fire-enameled with Chinese influence style. External cm. Internal 11.6 x 14.6 cm. 6 x 9. Weight gr. 194. Created in Art Deco style for Cartier USA in the 1980s, inspired by drawings by Louis Cartier from the early 1900s. Manufactured in Florence in the Salimbeni company headquarters with completely manual execution by artisan artists with high thickness plate and large reinforcements suitable to support numerous high-fire enamelling firings at approximately 750° < 800° C.
It is a new object that has never been used but is considered vintage because it was built more than 20 years ago.
The hallmarks struck to the underside of this fine box include:
manufacturer's mark: 391FI
metal mark fineness:925
Art Deco was also born in France and is the abbreviation of "Art Decoratif".
With more decisive and geometric features than Art Nouveau, therefore more evident and "harder", with always contrasting and strong colours, Art Deco spread throughout the world, from Shanghai's China to the under construction New York and in various parts of Europe.
Many artists and designers of the time dedicated themselves to the creation of drawings, paintings, objects for personal use and furniture, interior furnishings, entire buildings and skyscrapers, in this new style.
Sandoz in Paris, Lalique with its crystals, Puiforcat with its silverware, Erté with its "ante litteram" fashion designs, Tiffany with its table lamps, Louis Cartier with its objects inspired by the Far East (hence the connection with Shanghai).
Salimbeni was able to interpret and propose new objects inspired by Art Deco, in precious metals, semiprecious stones and fired enamels, when, exhibiting at jewelery exhibitions in the United States, and more precisely in New York, he made contact with Cartier buyers first, and also with Tiffany later, and for them he created objects in this style inspired by the original drawings of Louis Cartier, obtained from the buyer of the time, but with absolutely different and original designs and interpretations.
Many of the objects produced by Salimbeni for Cartier in the United States had taken inspiration from famous Cartier objects belonging to famous people. An example of all is Mary Pickford's set consisting of a powder compact, cigarette case, pill case and evening handbag.
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 - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Space age clear lucite table lighter, Italy 1970s
Located in Firenze, IT
Space age clear lucite table lighter,
Italian manufacture 1970s
H 11 × 11 × 5 cm
Conditions: excellent consistent with age and use. In working conditions.
Category
1970s Italian Space Age Vintage Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Lucite
Piero Fornasetti, Oranges Tray, Atelier Fornasetti, ca. 1955
By Fornasetti, Piero Fornasetti
Located in Firenze, IT
Rare oranges aluminum Tray
Prod. Fornasetti, Milan, Italy, ca. 1955
Serigraphed metal.
Label not present
H 4.5 cm x 39 x 51 cm
Bibliography: Mariuccia Casadio, Barnaba Fornasett...
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Metal
Piero Fornasetti, mod. 187 "Theme and Variations" series plate, Fornasetti 1960
By Fornasetti, Piero Fornasetti
Located in Firenze, IT
Mod. 187 "Theme and Variations" series serigraphed porcelain plate
Prod. Fornasetti, Milan, Italy, ca. 1960
Serigraphed porcelain.
Diam: 25.5 cm
Marked
Conditions: Excellent, no...
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
Art Deco Cubist Vide-Poche / Centerpiece, France, 1930s
Located in Firenze, IT
Art Deco centerpiece / vide poche
France 1930- 1940
glass, wood, metal
Measures: 11 cm H
44.5 x 18 cm
Conditions: Very good consistent with age and use. Barely visible...
Category
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Metal
Igor Balbi Murano Pauly Venice Pair of Turtoise Murano Glass Goblets
By Igor Balbi, Pauly & Co.
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 - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Art Glass, Murano Glass
Cigarette Case Two-Tone Striped Fired Enamel Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, 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 - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Bauhaus style jug, Germany 1970s
Located in Firenze, IT
Bauhaus style Jug
Germany, 1970s
Metal and glass.
H 28 cm - 16 cm diam.
Conditions: excellent consistent with age and use.
Category
1970s German Bauhaus Vintage Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Metal
Box Black and White Art Deco style designed for Cartier USA Silver Salimbeni
By Giorgio Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Box Black and White enamel is Inspired by drawings by Louis Cartier from the early 1920s in Art Deco style and recreated for Cartier USA in 1976.
It is in 925/1000 sterling.
Box Blac...
Category
1970s Italian Art Deco Vintage Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Blue Tea Cups Stack Vase, Italy, 1980s
Located in Firenze, IT
Blue tea cups stack vase
Italy 1980s
Measures : 31 cm H - 20 cm diam.
Conditions: defects & repairs. Check the pictures.
Category
1980s Italian Post-Modern Vintage Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Ceramic
Collector's Eclectic Set of 8 Cenedese Flutes, Each in Different Design, Unique
By Cenedese, Amelio Cenedese
Located in Tavarnelle val di Pesa, Florence
A rare find. This is from the personal collection of Amelio Cenedese.
I had the privilege to access and become the owner of this large collection of Cenedese single pieces and grouped them in eclectic sets...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Art Glass, Blown Glass, Murano Glass
Gaston brass knife holder
Located in Firenze, FI
Add some sophistication and organization to your kitchen with our brass knife holder. Perfect for storing and displaying your knives, this elegant accesso...
Category
2010s Italian Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Nickel
Table clock blue enamel Swiss mechanical skeletal movement. Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Table clock in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fire enamel on guilloché and fine hand engravings. The clock has a base of cm. 4 x 10 and is rectangular cm. 8 x...
Category
1980s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Plate Enamel on guillochè in Art Nouveau style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Giorgio Salimbeni, 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 Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Malachite, Gold Plate, Enamel, Sterling Silver
Clock and 2 Candlesticks Table set Sterling Silver Enamel Salimbeni.
By Salimbeni, Giorgio Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Table set made up of a clock and 2 candlesticks in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with two-tone translucent stripes fire-enamelled on guillochè and fine hand-engravings.
The cl...
Category
1980s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Amethyst, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table clock Opening lost hinge Swiss clock 8-day Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Giorgio Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table clock with rounded vertical sides in 925/1000 sterling silver with translucent fired enamel on guilloche, in Art Nouveau style from the early 1900s. Hand-engraved e...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
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 - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
1970s Seguso Gold & Pale Green Murano Glass Bowl
By Seguso Vetri d'Arte
Located in Florence, Tuscany
A spectacular large hand-blown bowl made by Seguso Vetri d'Arte in Venice in the 1970s. This piece has gold powder effect throughout its subtle pale green glass. A beautiful bold pie...
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Glass, Art Glass, Blown Glass, Murano Glass
21st Century, Hand Carved Clear crystal and silver Bronze Candelabra
By Oggetti D'Arte
Located in Calenzano, FI
21st century hand carved clear crystal and silver bronze candelabra. This candelabra is finely chiseled lost wax castings and hand-grounded glass. This Candelabra has got 6-flames. O...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Louis XVI Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Eclectic Set of 8 Cenedese Murano Stemmed Glass, each with gold leaf embedded
By Amelio Cenedese
Located in Tavarnelle val di Pesa, Florence
I had the privilege of gaining access to the collection of individual Cenedese glass pieces, which I am curating into eclectic sets of unique pieces.
What ties together this group o...
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Glass, Art Glass, Blown Glass, Murano Glass
Picture Frame in pure Florentine Renaissance style Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Giorgio Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Large photo frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with painted fire enamels like lapis lazuli stone. Shaping taken from the tiles of the North Door of the Baptistery of the F...
Category
1980s Italian Renaissance Vintage Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold Plate
Set of 6 of 12 Cenedese Champagne Goblets Murano Cobalt Glass Gold Accent Signed
By Maestri Muranesi, Amelio Cenedese
Located in Tavarnelle val di Pesa, Florence
Extremely rare set of glass goblets. There are 12 and this is the listing if someone is interested in the set of 6.
The cup and foot base are in cobalt blue. This style of cup is wh...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Modern Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Gold Leaf
Pocket Photos holder Enamel hand carved Napoleon III Style Salimbeni.
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Pocket photos holder in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated with two-tone translucent fired enamels on guillochè, with hand-engraved edges. Empire style Napoleon III. Octagonal hing...
Category
1980s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box Fired Enamel on Guillochè Arab-Style Ornament Sterling Silver Salimben
By Giorgio Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular box with rounded corners in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè with hand-engraved and enamelled Arab-style ornament. Dimensio...
Category
1990s Italian Modern Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Sergio Asti, red Levanto marble ashtray bowl, UP&UP Carrara Italy, 1970s
By Up & Up, Sergio Asti
Located in Firenze, IT
Red Levanto marble ashtray bowl designed by Sergio Asti for UP&UP
Carrara, Italy, 1970s
Levanto red marble
Circular shape with off-center recess in veined marble
15 diam. x 3 cm ...
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Marble
19th Century Russian Silver and Niello Beaker
Located in Firenze, IT
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Maker's mark A.K., Moscow, 1844
ta...
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1840s Russian Charles X Antique Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Silver
Box with green enamel on fine hand engraving of a landscape with ruins Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table box with concave corners in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on fine hand engraving of a landscape with ruins. Contemporary modern...
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold Plate
21st Century, Hand-Carved Clear Crystal and Golden Bronze Vase
By Oggetti D'Arte
Located in Calenzano, FI
21st Century hand carved clear crystal and golden bronze vase. This vase is finely chiseled lost wax castings and hand-grounded crystal. On request to customer can modificate the col...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Louis XVI Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Photo Frame White Enamel and Hand Painted Flower Garlands Sterling Silver Salimb
By Giorgio Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular photo frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with hand-painted floral miniature by the painter Renato Dainelli, fire-enamelled on a white background in Art Nouveau...
Category
1980s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box Enamel on Guilloche Hand Painted Miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, 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 - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Photo Frame Fired Enamel with Two-Tone Stripes on Guillochè and Hand Engravings
By Salimbeni, Giorgio Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular frame with oval photo in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel with two-tone stripes on guillochè and hand engravings. External dimensions cm...
Category
1980s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Silvered Pineapple Ice Bucket and Sugar Bowl
By Mauro Manetti
Located in Firenze, IT
This Italian vintage set of decorative lidded bowls in the shape of pineapple will brighten your table. Stylish Mid-century Modern ice bucket and sugar bowl or candy box clad in a naturalistic silvered metal finish, manufactured in 1970 circa in the style of Mauro Manetti, Florence.
The largest container is an ice bucket, so useful for ice cubes and even ice cream or sorbet, the cold is guaranteed by the internal removable tin liner, frozen for a long time as the lid sits tight on the bucket.
The smaller pineapple, fitted with a removable blue glass vase can be used as a decorative candy box, sugar bowl or ashtray or trinket case...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Metal, Tin
Photo Frame Oval with Two-color Translucent strips Enamel Fired Salimbeni
By Giorgio Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Oval frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with two-color translucent strips fire-enameled on guillochè and hand-engraving and with French Empire Napoleon III style ornament...
Category
1980s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
21st Century, White veined marble and Golden Bronze Candelabra
By Oggetti D'Arte
Located in Calenzano, FI
21st century white veined marble and golden bronze candelabra. This candelabra is finely chiseled lost wax castings. This Candelabra has got 5-flames. On request to customer can modi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Louis XVI Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Marble, Bronze
21st Century, Hand-Carved Clear Crystal and Golden Bronze Tray in Classic Style
By Oggetti D'Arte
Located in Calenzano, FI
21-st Century hand carved clear crystal tray with frame in lost wax golden bronze leaves.
This tray is a limited edition, we have only a piece. It's particular hand -carved and the ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Louis XVI Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Opinion Ciatti Ptolomeo Vino Wall Mounted Wine Rack Large
By Opinion Ciatti, Bruno Rainaldi
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Ptolomeo vino is the bottle holder version of original Ptolomeo, the famous free-standing bookshelves designed by Bruno Rainaldi, winner of the Compasso d’Oro 2004 and soon became an icon of contemporary design. A glass of our favourite wine and that book that we are engrossed in. Very often our moments of greatest relaxation are imagined in the company of a good book and an excellent glass of wine. Launched at the 2018 Salone del Mobile, Ptolomeo Vino becomes the “summa” of this suggestive idea, representing the transformation of the famous Original Ptolomeo bookshelf...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Steel
Collector's Eclectic Set of 6 Cenedese Flutes, 3 Pairs, Different Design, Unique
By Cenedese
Located in Tavarnelle val di Pesa, Florence
From the Cenedese personal collection. Here a set of 6 stem glass made in 3 different designs.
All in light fume.
This group is absolutely unique and would become the focus of a ta...
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Art Glass, Murano Glass
Antique French Sterling Silver Coffee Pot
Located in Firenze, IT
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Shipping costs will be totally covered by the seller (customs duties included).
Magnificent 19th century French Na...
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1870s French Louis Philippe Antique Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Silver
18th Century, Italian Venice Silver Sugar Bowl
Located in Firenze, IT
SHIPPING POLICY:
No additional costs will be added to this order.
Shipping costs will be totally covered by the seller (customs duties included).
Of circular plain form, the reeded...
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Mid-18th Century Italian Louis XVI Antique Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Sterling Silver
1950s Extra Large Turquoise Blue Soda Bottle
Located in Florence, Tuscany
1950s Green Soda Bottle with the name of the (bar) owner - Rocco Chiari on the front and Aqua di Seltz on the back. A spectacular decorative piece for a home bar and display.
Category
1950s Italian Vintage Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Metal
Picture Frame Napoleon III French Empire style laurel ornament Sterling Silver.
By Salimbeni, Franco 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...
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1980s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Picture Frame Louis XVI Green and sky blue, French Empire style Sterling Silver
By Salimbeni, Giorgio Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
This stunning Picture Frame is in 925/1000 sterling silver.
Picture Frame Louis XVI has a squared shape with green and sky blue color for the fire enameled surface on guilloche and h...
Category
1980s Italian Louis XVI Vintage Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Hollywood regency cruet-set, Manifattura Zani Italy, 1970s.
By Serafino Zani
Located in Firenze, IT
Hollywood regency cruet-set
Manifattura Zani Italy, 1970s.
Steel and glass set, consisting of rectangular section tray, oil cruet, vinegar cruet, salt, ...
Category
1970s Italian Hollywood Regency Vintage Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Metal
Mid-century green ceramic ashtray, Sicart Italy 1969
By Sicart
Located in Firenze, IT
Midcentury green ceramic ashtray
Sicart 1969s Italy
H: 6 cm
Diam. 15.5cm
Labeled on the base.
Conditions: excellent consistent with age and use.
Category
1960s Italian Space Age Vintage Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Ceramic
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