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Item Ships From: Florence
K-OVER Champagne, SAFARI, silver 999/°°, Italy
By Marco Fedi
Located in Firenze, IT
SAFARI :
Our K-OVERs, are alternatives to the champagne bucket and the more common glacette. The precious metal that holds the bottle is coated internally with a thermal fabric that...
Category
2010s Italian Tribal Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Silver
Italian Contemporary "Black and Wild" Butterfly Resin Coasters Set of 4
Located in Scandicci, Florence
Elegant printed coasters portraying an exotic natural setting with four differt Butterflies on them. The designs are original from our Black and Wild c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Resin
K-OVER Champagne, YOUR MOON, silver 999/°°, Italy
By Marco Fedi
Located in Firenze, IT
YOUR MOON :
Our K-OVERs, are alternatives to the champagne bucket and the more common glacette. The precious metal that holds the bottle is coated internally with a thermal fabric t...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Silver
K-OVER wine, MOONLIGHT WITH WINDOW, argento 999/°°, Italia
By Marco Fedi
Located in Firenze, IT
K-Over wine Sunlight con finestra
Le nostre K-OVER, sono alternative al secchiello VINO e alla più comune glacette. Il metallo prezioso che custodisce...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Silver
Champagne Bottle Cover, Luxory Bespoke Gift, Gloria, Silver, Hand Made Italy
By Marco Fedi
Located in Firenze, IT
This custom-made champagne cover, crafted from the finest 999/°° silver, was specially commissioned to celebrate a father's toast to his daughter's 18th birthday, an unforgettable m...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Silver
K-OVER Champagne, GATSBY, silver 999/°°, Italy
By Marco Fedi
Located in Firenze, IT
Evoking the Roaring Twenties' splendor, our Gatsby-themed Champagne K-OVER captures the era's iconic luxury. Inspired by Fitzgeral's timeless tale, it's a symbol of classic elegance ...
Category
2010s Italian Art Deco Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Bronze
K-OVER Champagne, SUN, silver 999/°°, Italy
By Marco Fedi
Located in Firenze, IT
SUN :
Our K-OVERs, are alternatives to the champagne bucket and the more common glacette. The precious metal that holds the bottle is coated internally with a thermal fabric that ma...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Silver
K-OVER Champagne, Amore e Psiche, argento 999/°°, Italia
By Giuliano Foglia
Located in Firenze, IT
Questa cover per bottiglia di champagne è una vera opera d’arte, appartiene alla collezione Works of Art. L'opera è stata realizzata dal maestro Giuliano Foglia da sempre grande est...
Category
2010s Italian Neoclassical Revival Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Silver
K-OVER Champagne, Fantasy, argento 999/°°, Italia
By Giuliano Foglia
Located in Firenze, IT
Questa cover per bottiglia di champagne è una vera opera d’arte. Questa
K-OVER appartiene alla collezione Works of Art. L'opera è stata realizzata dal maestro Foglia con l'intento di celebrare l'artista surrealista Daniel Merriam...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Silver
K-OVER Champagne, American Eagle, B&W silver 999/°°, Italy
By Marco Fedi
Located in Firenze, IT
The Bald Eagle, an iconic symbol of the USA since 1872, embodies courage, strength, freedom, and immortality. Renowned artisan Marco Fedi has expertly captured this majestic bird in...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Silver
K-OVER wine, CROCODILE, argento 999/°°, Italia
By Marco Fedi
Located in Firenze, IT
COCCODRILLO
Le nostre K-OVER, sono alternative al secchiello VINO e alla più comune glacette. Il metallo prezioso che custodisce la bottiglia è rives...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Silver
Wine Luxory Glass, Pure Silver, Christmas Gift, medium size, Hand made, Italy
By K-OVER
Located in Firenze, IT
K-OVER's latest creation, our wine glass made of solid silver enriched with green stones, flawlessly combines elegance and practicality. Available for purchase individually or in pa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Silver
Luxory Wine Glass, Christmas Gift, Green Stones, Pure Silver, Medium Size, Italy
By K-OVER
Located in Firenze, IT
K-OVER's latest creation, our wine glass made of solid silver enriched with green stones, flawlessly combines elegance and practicality. Available for purchase individually or in pa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Silver
K-OVER Champagne, WEDDING BAND silver 999/°°, Italy
By Marco Fedi
Located in Firenze, IT
WEDDING BAND :
Our K-OVERs, are alternatives to the champagne bucket and the more common glacette. The precious metal that holds the bottle is coated internally with a thermal fabri...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Silver
K-OVER Champagne, FLOWER CHAIN, argento 999/°°, Italia
By Giuliano Foglia
Located in Firenze, IT
Questa cover per bottiglia di champagne è una vera e propria opera d’arte e appartiene alla collezione Works of Art.
La K-OVER è stata realizzata interamente a mano da Giuliano Fog...
Category
2010s Italian Neoclassical Revival Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Silver
Luxor Wine Bottle Cover, Christmas Gift, Silver, Hand Made in Italy, 2019
By Marco Fedi
Located in Firenze, IT
This custom-made wine cover, crafted from the finest 999 silver. As part of our Wine Collection, this cover represents the pinnacle of personalized design, allowing you to create win...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Silver
Champagne Bottle Cover, Moon, Luxory Personalized Wedding Gift, Silver, Italy
By Marco Fedi
Located in Firenze, IT
Embark on a journey of individual expression with K-OVER's Bespoke creations, customized to mirror your unique essence. Our artisans meticulously craft each piece to tell your story,...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Silver
K-OVER Champagne, Falcon, argento 999/°°, Italia
By Marco Fedi
Located in Firenze, IT
Falcon
Le nostre K-OVER, sono delle alternative al secchiello champagne ed alle” glacette” . Il metallo prezioso che custodisce la bottiglia è rivestito internamente di un tessuto t...
Category
2010s Italian Renaissance Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Silver
Luxory Wine Glass, Wedding Gift, Small size, Hammered, Solid Silver, Italy
By K-OVER
Located in Firenze, IT
K-OVER's latest creation, our wine glass made of solid silver enriched with green stones, flawlessly combines elegance and practicality. Available for purchase individually or in pa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Silver
Cigarette Case Fired Enamel on a Fine Hand-Engraved Mountain Landscape Sterling
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rounded rectangular snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with beautiful fire enamelled miniature hand painted by the painter Simone Dainelli inspired by the paintings of Boris Vallejo, in fantastic contemporary style, with hand-engraved frame. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1967 and manufactured in Florence in numerous specimens with various subjects and different colors, in the headquarters of the Salimbeni company with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for withstanding numerous high-fire enamelled firings at about 800° C.
Miniature is a very ancient technique which consists of painting works in small proportions.
It was born for the decoration of the first letter of the paragraph of the books.
Over the years, however, this technique is refined and enriched, then moving on to precious personal items.
hand painted miniatures can be done with multiple different techniques.
The most important that we use on our articles are of three kinds:
1) Fire enamel.
2) Water tempera on an ivory plate.
3) Painted on mother-of-pearl.
Fire enameled miniatures:
On a first layer of enamel generally white or very clear or even transparent suitably liquefied at a temperature of about 750 ° C, the chosen subject is painted using miniature colors which are as many colored crystals, ground and reduced to a very fine, almost impalpable powder washed and purified in distilled water with the addition of small quantities of deoxidizing acids which, diluted with essential oils (usually essential oil of solder), can be mixed to form a palette of colors.
With very fine sable hair brushes you draw the subject starting from the perimeter and then gradually adding various layers of color.
It is necessary to carry out various firings very often so that the colors harden and are not absorbed by the underlying glaze as, during the subsequent firings at 750 ° C, during liquefaction, it would spread irremediably. Hence the need to form the painting a little at a time, cooking it numerous times.
Therefore it is necessary to proceed with numerous retouching, often overlapping different colors that only the painter's experience knows. A beautiful miniature needs from 20 to over 50 firings and is finished when the painter deems he does not have to further intervene.
Some colors must have darker tones than others because then, by superimposing the transparent enamel placed at the end of the miniature, they fade. This transparent layer, called “fondant” in jargon, must be smoothed and polished like all other translucent enamel colors.
The miniatures with water tempera colors are painted on real ivory...
Category
1960s Italian Modern Vintage Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Gold Plate, Enamel, Sterling Silver
K-OVER Champagne, American Eagle, argento 999/°°, Italia
By Marco Fedi
Located in Firenze, IT
Cover Champagne : American Eagle
Le nostre K-OVER, sono delle alternative al secchiello champagne ed alla più comune glacette avendo la stessa funzione . Il metallo prezioso che cus...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Silver
K-OVER Champagne, MOON, argento 999/°°, Italia
By Marco Fedi
Located in Firenze, IT
K-OVER CHAMPAGNE MOON
La tecnica innovativa con la quale è stata realizzata questa K-Over champagne la rende un oggetto di gran valore. Come si può vedere chiaramente dalle immagini, la superficie della K-OVER è brillante e scintillante come la luna. Questa texture innovativa la rende molto resistente all’uso quotidiano offrendo anche un vantaggio tecnico, nel maneggiarla non rimangono impresse le impronte delle dita. La K-Over Moon è perfetta per festeggiare eventi speciali e ogni genere di ricorrenza come compleanni, matrimoni e anniversari.
La K-over è stata realizzata completamente a mano da Marco...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Silver
Picture Frame Black high relief engraving grape leaves Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Picture Frame Black high relief is in 925/1000 sterling silver .
Picture Frame Black high relief has black fired enamels.
Picture Frame Black high relief has fine high relief engravi...
Category
1980s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Champagne Bottle Cover, Merry Christmas, Luxury Christmas Gift, Hand made, Italy
By Marco Fedi
Located in Firenze, IT
We are happy to present our latest creation: our Merry Christmas champagne bottle cover.
This K-Over is perfect to celebrate the most magical and happiest time of the year. Your sp...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Bronze
Table Cigar Box two-tone stripes enamel Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Giorgio Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
This superb Table Cigar Box two-tone stripes enamel is in 925/1000 sterling silver.
it has a rectangular shape with rounded sides Table Cigar Box has hand engraving, with orange and ...
Category
1980s Italian Empire Vintage Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
21st Century Crystal and Golden Bronze potiche with malachite stones
By Oggetti D'Arte
Located in Calenzano, FI
21st Century potiche in hand-carved clear crystal and with finely chiseled lost wax castings embellished with malachite stones, the base is in white marble. On request to customer ca...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Louis XVI Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Crystal, Malachite, Marble
Small shaped Picture Frame tiles of the Baptistery of Florence Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Giorgio Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamels on guillochè. Shaping taken from the tiles of the North Door of the Baptistery of the Florence Cathedral ...
Category
1970s Italian Renaissance Vintage Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold Plate
Evening Bag with fire enamelled stripes in Art Deco style Salimbeni.
By Giorgio Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Oval evening bag in 925/1000 sterling silver with fire enamelled stripes in Art Deco style. Measurement cm. 5.5 x 10 x 14.8, interior with ground mirror. Weight gr. 748. Created in 1...
Category
1970s Italian Art Deco Vintage Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Gold, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Antique French Faience Lidded Bowl Tureen Hand Painted with Flowers and Insects
By Rouen
Located in Firenze, IT
A French 18th century large polychrome Faience lidded soup toureen or entree dish with scallop-shaped edges attributable to Rouen manufacture.
This lovely...
Category
18th Century French Rococo Antique Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Maiolica, Faience, Pottery, Porcelain
Baroque Style Green Table Box with Miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Baroque style shaped table box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fine hand engraving interspersed with spaces with translucent fired enamels on guillochè and a beautiful h...
Category
1960s Italian Baroque Vintage Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Space age yellow ceramic ashtray, Viba Italy 1970s
Located in Firenze, IT
Space age yellow ceramic ashtray
Viba Italy 1970s
H: 11.5 cm - 20 cm diam.
Labelled on the base
Conditions: excellent, no defects
Category
1970s Italian Space Age Vintage Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Ceramic
Fountain Pen Sterling Silver fired Enamel Guilloche Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Giorgio Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Fountain Pen Sterling Silver 925/1000 with translucent fired enamel on guilloche.
Fountain Pen Sterling Silver has 14 carats gold nib and ink cartridge.
Fountain Pen Sterling Silve...
Category
1970s Italian Art Deco Vintage Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold
Lava Tray by Slow Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Lava Tray by Slow Design
Unique Piece.
Dimensions: D 1 x W 26 x H 34 cm.
Materials: Glass and pigments.
Our mirrors are handmade one by one. This means that each mirror and tray is...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Glass
Treasure medium square brass napkin holder
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 functional design adds sophisticatio...
Category
2010s European Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Brass
21st Century, Hand Carved Clear crystal and Golden Bronze Candelabra
By Oggetti D'Arte
Located in Calenzano, FI
21st century hand carved clear crystal and golden 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
Heart table box Yellow enamel Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Giorgio Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Heart-shaped table box in 925/1000 sterling silver with translucent enamel fired on guilloche above and below. Contemporary modern style. Dimensions cm. 9 x 9.5 cm high. 3.Weight gr....
Category
1990s Italian Modern Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Collector's Eclectic Set of 8 Cenedese Glass, Each in Different Design. Unique
By Cenedese, Amelio Cenedese
Located in Tavarnelle val di Pesa, Florence
A great find. This is from the personal collection of Amelio Cenedese.
I had the privilege to access to 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
Gold Leaf
Clock Red fired enamel on guillochè, with columns in Neoclassico Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Giorgio Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Clock Red fired enamel on guillochè, with columns in Neoclassico Salimbeni. Small gold-plated 925/1000 sterling silver table clock with translucent fired enamel on guillochè, with co...
Category
1970s Italian Neoclassical Revival Vintage Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Small Picture Frame Rectangular English style, early 1900s. Salimbeni
By Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guilloche, English style, early 1900s. External cm. 7 x 9 internal cm. 3.8 x 5.8. Weight g...
Category
1950s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box Octagonal Black Enamel with light Blue Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Giorgio Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Octagonal table box in 925/1000 sterling silver with fire-enamelled Art Deco design. Dimensions diameter cm. 15.8 high cm . 8.2. Weight gr. 974. Designed by Giorgio Salimbeni for Cartier USA in the 1980s, inspired by objects designed by Louis Cartier around 1920 and manufactured in Florence in various specimens, also in parure with other objects and in different colors, in the headquarters by the Salimbeni firm with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for withstanding numerous high-fire enamelled firings at about 750°<800° C.
About cooperation Salimbeni and Cartier.
Our first meetings with the Cartier USA Company took place through the Giorgini Company, the first "Buying Office" set up in Florence immediately after the Second World War, which had the purpose of bringing together Florentine, and also Italian, producers with American buyers, who especially appreciated the artistic objects still manufactured by artisans who still took inspiration from the Italian Renaissance, using techniques handed down from generation to generation.
Mrs. Gina Pestelli, wife of a Florentine retail jeweller, was in charge of contacts with Cartier USA, above all an employee, while her daughter, also for Giorgini, took care of the fashion that in those years was affirmed in Florence with the events of "Pitti ".
With their help, we began to supply frames and boxes in sterling silver gold plated with malachite and other semi-precious stones.
At the same time, the official buyer of Cartier, Mr. William Smith, began to appreciate and commission the first objects with fired enamels, a process of which we have always been specialists.
In 1975 we began exhibiting at the prestigious New York Jewellery Association Show, which we participated in both the February and July editions, for a good 26 years until 2001.
In New York in those years the "Art deco style" was still very much appreciated, still mindful of the beautiful early 20th century architecture of the great buildings such as the "Crysler" or the "Empire State".
We then began to produce frames, boxes, evening bags, "objets de vertu" and other objects in "art deco style" which were very popular with Mr. Smith who gave us some photocopies of Louis Francois Cartier drawings to reproduce them. Thus, numerous cigarette cases, powder compacts, evening bags, frames and table boxes were created exclusively for Cartier USA which, at the time, had the prestigious "Silver Department" on the first floor of the Cartier store on Fifth Avenue.
An evening bag, with matching cigarette case and powder compact, were redone on the design created for a gift given to Mary Pickford at the time. In a 1986 Cartier...
Category
1980s Italian Art Deco Vintage Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
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 vase. This vase is finely chiseled lost wax castings and hand ground crystal. On request to customer can modificate the color...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Louis XVI Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Centrepiece gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guilloche Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Centrepiece in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired
enamel on guilloche. Round plate diameter cm. 18 mounted on an inverted funnel base diameter cm. 9.5, total...
Category
1970s Italian Modern Vintage Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
A 20th Century Capodimonte bisque group of the putti
By Capodimonte
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).
Height : 17cm
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Neoclassical Revival Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
Box with wedges Enamel Sterling Silver black and white Salimbeni
By Giorgio Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Octagonal wedge box in 925/1000 sterling silver with black and white colors fire enameled in Art Deco style. Measures 7.8 x 7.8 x 6 cm. Weight gr. 281. Designed by Giorgio Salimbeni ...
Category
1970s Italian Art Deco Vintage Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Large Façon De Venise Goblet Late 16th Century
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).
The large cylindrical straight-side...
Category
16th Century Italian Renaissance Antique Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Glass
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
21st Century Crystal and Golden Bronze Bowl with malachite stones
By Oggetti D'Arte
Located in Calenzano, FI
21st Century bowl in hand-carved clear crystal and with finely chiseled lost wax castings embellished with malachite stones, the base is in white marble. On request to customer can m...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Louis XVI Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Marble, Crystal, Malachite
Snuff box Enamel Double opening Sterling Silver flower bouquet Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Square snuff box with two slightly domed sides in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè and hand-painted miniature of flower bouquet, late 1...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
19th Century French Silver Two-Bottle Cruet Stand
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).
The central loop carrying-handle w...
Category
1820s French Empire Antique Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Silver
Table Box portrait of Empress Eugenia de Montijo miniature Salimbeni
By Giorgio Salimbeni, 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 - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Roberto Rigon, Space age red ceramic ashtray, Bertoncello Italy ca. 1970
By Bertoncello
Located in Firenze, IT
Space age red ceramic ashtray designed by Roberto Rigon
Bertoncello Italy ca. 1970
H 12 cm - 22 x 22 cm
Conditions: very good consistent with age and use. Small chip, check the pi...
Category
1970s Italian Space Age Vintage Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Ceramic
Small shaped Picture Frame 2 oval portrait Plum Purple color enamel Salimbeni
By Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Small shaped frame for 2 oval photographs in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guilloche in Art Nouveau style. External dimensions cm. 5.2 x 7 int...
Category
1980s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Cigarette Case Fired Enamel on a Fine Hand-Engraved Mountain Landscape Sterling
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table cigarette case with rounded corners in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on a fine hand-engrave...
Category
1970s Italian Modern Vintage Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Unique Set of 6 Cenedese Twisted Stem, Cobalt and Pulegoso Murano Glass. Signed
By Cenedese, Amelio Cenedese
Located in Tavarnelle val di Pesa, Florence
Own a rare and exceptional set of Cenedese stem glass
This unrepeatable set of stemware reproduces the Georgian 18th Century classic twisted stem glass...
Category
1950s Italian Georgian Vintage Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Glass, Art Glass, Murano Glass
Cigarette Case Fired Enamel with Still Life Miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, 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...
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