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Item Ships From: Florence
Black Oval Photo Frame Baroque Style Sterling Silver Enamel Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Oval photograph frame, shaped edge in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated with fine hand engraving, interspersed with black fired enamel in Baroque style. External cm. 7.4 x 11.3. W...
Category
1980s Italian Baroque Vintage Florence - Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold Plate
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 - Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Picture Frame Louis XVI Green and sky blue, French Empire style Sterling Silver
By Giorgio Salimbeni, 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 - Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Perfume Holder Black and White Art Deco style octagonal base 925 Salimbeni
By Giorgio Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Perfume holder with octagonal base in black and white fired enamelled 925/1000 sterling silver with screw cap, in Art Deco style. Base cm, 4.3 x 4.7 bottle height cm. 8, total height...
Category
1980s Italian Art Deco Vintage Florence - Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Red Photo Frame French Empire Louis XVI style Sterling Silver Enamel Salimbeni
By Giorgio Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular photo frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè, with French Empire Louis XVI style border and rich ornamentation around th...
Category
1980s Italian Empire Vintage Florence - Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Black Box Octagonal with black edge enamel with pure Gold Paillons Salimbeni.
By Salimbeni, Giorgio Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Table Box Octagonal is in 925/1000 sterling silver.
Table Box Octagonal
Table Box Octagonal has translucent fired enamels on guilloché.
Table Box Octagonal has black edge with pure g...
Category
1980s Italian Art Deco Vintage Florence - Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold
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 - Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
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 - Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold Plate
Box with fired enamels painted like lapis lazuli stone and horse racing Salimben
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Shaped table box in 925/1000 sterling Silver gold plated with fired enamels painted like lapis lazuli stone and with fired enameled oval miniature, hand painted by the painter Renato...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Florence - Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
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 - Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Photo Frame Heart-Shaped Fired Enamel on Guillochè Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Giorgio Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Heart-shaped rounded frame with oval photo in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè. With hinged silver-gilt foot engraved in Empire style. ...
Category
1970s Italian Empire Vintage Florence - Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
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 - Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box Enamel on Guilloche and Hand Painted Miniature Sterling Silver Salimb
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular box with inward corners in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated with beautiful miniature fire enameled and hand painted by the painter Beatrice Mellana depicting the painting "The Turkish slave" by Francesco Mazzola known as "il Parmigianino" (National Gallery of Parma). Dimensions cm. 8.5 x 11.5 x 3. Weight gr. 345. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1965 and manufactured in Florence in numerous specimens with various different subjects, in the headquarters of the Salimbeni company with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for withstanding numerous high-fire enameled firings at about 800° C.
Miniature is a very ancient technique which consists of painting works in small proportions.
It was born for the decoration of the first letter of the paragraph of the books.
Over the years, however, this technique is refined and enriched, then moving on to precious personal items.
Hand-painted miniatures can be done with multiple different techniques.
The most important that we use on our articles are of three kinds:
1) Fire enamel.
2) Water tempera on an ivory plate.
3) Painted on mother-of-pearl.
Fire enameled miniatures:
On a first layer of enamel generally white or very clear or even transparent suitably liquefied at a temperature of about 750 ° C, the chosen subject is painted using miniature colors which are as many colored crystals, ground and reduced to a very fine, almost impalpable powder washed and purified in distilled water with the addition of small quantities of deoxidizing acids which, diluted with essential oils (usually essential oil of solder), can be mixed to form a palette of colors.
With very fine sable hair brushes you draw the subject starting from the perimeter and then gradually adding various layers of color.
It is necessary to carry out various firings very often so that the colors harden and are not absorbed by the underlying glaze as, during the subsequent firings at 750 ° C, during liquefaction, it would spread irremediably. Hence the need to form the painting a little at a time, cooking it numerous times.
Therefore it is necessary to proceed with numerous retouching, often overlapping different colors that only the painter's experience knows. A beautiful miniature needs from 20 to over 50 firings and is finished when the painter deems he does not have to further intervene.
Some colors must have darker tones than others because then, by superimposing the transparent enamel placed at the end of the miniature, they fade. This transparent layer, called “fondant” in jargon, must be smoothed and polished like all other translucent enamel colors.
The miniatures with water tempera colors are painted on real ivory...
Category
1960s Italian Baroque Vintage Florence - Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Photo Frame baroque style engraving Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Octagonal notched photo frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fine fire-enamelled baroque style engraving. External dimensions cm. 14.2 x 17.8, internal oval cm. 8 x 12....
Category
1970s Italian Baroque Vintage Florence - Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
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 - Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Salimbeni Table Box Art Nouveau Painting Pre-Raphaelite School Fired Enamel
By Salimbeni, Giorgio Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
This rectangular table box is a masterpiece of craftsmanship. Crafted from 925/1000 sterling silver and gold-plated, it features a hand-painted fire-enameled miniature by Beatrice Me...
Category
1980s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Florence - Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
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Travel Photo Frame Fire Enamel Stripes Art Deco Style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular travel photo frame with hinged booklet for 2 photos in 925/1000 sterling silver with fire-enamelled stripes in Art Deco style. Measureme...
Category
1980s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Florence - Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box Octagonal Black Enamel with light Blue Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Giorgio Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Octagonal table box in 925/1000 sterling silver with fire-enamelled Art Deco design. Dimensions diameter cm. 15.8 high cm . 8.2. Weight gr. 974. Designed by Giorgio Salimbeni for Cartier USA in the 1980s, inspired by objects designed by Louis Cartier around 1920 and manufactured in Florence in various specimens, also in parure with other objects and in different colors, in the headquarters by the Salimbeni firm with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for withstanding numerous high-fire enamelled firings at about 750°<800° C.
About cooperation Salimbeni and Cartier.
Our first meetings with the Cartier USA Company took place through the Giorgini Company, the first "Buying Office" set up in Florence immediately after the Second World War, which had the purpose of bringing together Florentine, and also Italian, producers with American buyers, who especially appreciated the artistic objects still manufactured by artisans who still took inspiration from the Italian Renaissance, using techniques handed down from generation to generation.
Mrs. Gina Pestelli, wife of a Florentine retail jeweller, was in charge of contacts with Cartier USA, above all an employee, while her daughter, also for Giorgini, took care of the fashion that in those years was affirmed in Florence with the events of "Pitti ".
With their help, we began to supply frames and boxes in sterling silver gold plated with malachite and other semi-precious stones.
At the same time, the official buyer of Cartier, Mr. William Smith, began to appreciate and commission the first objects with fired enamels, a process of which we have always been specialists.
In 1975 we began exhibiting at the prestigious New York Jewellery Association Show, which we participated in both the February and July editions, for a good 26 years until 2001.
In New York in those years the "Art deco style" was still very much appreciated, still mindful of the beautiful early 20th century architecture of the great buildings such as the "Crysler" or the "Empire State".
We then began to produce frames, boxes, evening bags, "objets de vertu" and other objects in "art deco style" which were very popular with Mr. Smith who gave us some photocopies of Louis Francois Cartier drawings to reproduce them. Thus, numerous cigarette cases, powder compacts, evening bags, frames and table boxes were created exclusively for Cartier USA which, at the time, had the prestigious "Silver Department" on the first floor of the Cartier store on Fifth Avenue.
An evening bag, with matching cigarette case and powder compact, were redone on the design created for a gift given to Mary Pickford at the time. In a 1986 Cartier...
Category
1980s Italian Art Deco Vintage Florence - Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Picture Frame Napoleon III French Empire style laurel ornament Sterling Silver.
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
This exquisite Picture Frame Napoleon III is in 925/1000 sterling silver.
it has a Squared Shape and sky colour for the fire enameled surface on guilloche.
Picture Frame Napoleon III...
Category
1980s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Florence - Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Cigarette Case Fired Enamel on a Fine Hand-Engraved Mountain Landscape Sterling
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rounded rectangular snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with beautiful fire enamelled miniature hand painted by the painter Simone Dainelli inspired by the paintings of Boris Vallejo, in fantastic contemporary style, with hand-engraved frame. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1967 and manufactured in Florence in numerous specimens with various subjects and different colors, in the headquarters of the Salimbeni company with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for withstanding numerous high-fire enamelled firings at about 800° C.
Miniature is a very ancient technique which consists of painting works in small proportions.
It was born for the decoration of the first letter of the paragraph of the books.
Over the years, however, this technique is refined and enriched, then moving on to precious personal items.
hand painted miniatures can be done with multiple different techniques.
The most important that we use on our articles are of three kinds:
1) Fire enamel.
2) Water tempera on an ivory plate.
3) Painted on mother-of-pearl.
Fire enameled miniatures:
On a first layer of enamel generally white or very clear or even transparent suitably liquefied at a temperature of about 750 ° C, the chosen subject is painted using miniature colors which are as many colored crystals, ground and reduced to a very fine, almost impalpable powder washed and purified in distilled water with the addition of small quantities of deoxidizing acids which, diluted with essential oils (usually essential oil of solder), can be mixed to form a palette of colors.
With very fine sable hair brushes you draw the subject starting from the perimeter and then gradually adding various layers of color.
It is necessary to carry out various firings very often so that the colors harden and are not absorbed by the underlying glaze as, during the subsequent firings at 750 ° C, during liquefaction, it would spread irremediably. Hence the need to form the painting a little at a time, cooking it numerous times.
Therefore it is necessary to proceed with numerous retouching, often overlapping different colors that only the painter's experience knows. A beautiful miniature needs from 20 to over 50 firings and is finished when the painter deems he does not have to further intervene.
Some colors must have darker tones than others because then, by superimposing the transparent enamel placed at the end of the miniature, they fade. This transparent layer, called “fondant” in jargon, must be smoothed and polished like all other translucent enamel colors.
The miniatures with water tempera colors are painted on real ivory...
Category
1960s Italian Modern Vintage Florence - Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Picture Frame large size Red Enamel on Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Large shaped photograph frame in gold plated 925/1000 sterling silver with translucent fired enamel on guillochè with borders and laurel frieze in Louis XVI French Empire style. Exte...
Category
1960s Italian Empire Vintage Florence - Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Animalier Pattern Frame hand painted Sterling Silver Enamel Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with hand-painted fired enamel spotted tiger fur type in a modern contemporary style. External measurements cm. 14 x 17.5, i...
Category
Early 2000s Italian Modern Florence - Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box “The Great Odalisque” Fired Enamel on Guilloche Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
table box in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated with edges with fire - enamelled stripes and upper frame with insertion of paillons in pure gold and beautRectangular iful fire-enam...
Category
1960s Italian Empire Vintage Florence - Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box Fired Enamel Guillochè and Hand Engravings Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table box in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated with very fine hand-engraving Baroque style on the lid, fire-enamelled in 2 colours. In the center an ancient oval plate...
Category
1970s Italian Baroque Vintage Florence - Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Snuff Box reproducing the painting of a Roman glimpse late 1800s Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Snuffbox Rectangular for table with rounded corners in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated with very fine fire-enamelled miniature hand-painted by the painter Renato Dainelli repro...
Category
1990s Italian Baroque Florence - Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Gold Plate, Enamel
Photo Frame Empire Style Squared Shape Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Gold-plated 925/1000 silver square photo frame with fire-enamelled Empire-style leaves on a rounded edge. External dimensions cm. 9 x 9, internal cm. 7.7 x 7.7. Weight gr. 87. Design...
Category
1970s Italian Baroque Vintage Florence - Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Frame for 2 Photographs Fired Enamel on Guillochè Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Shaped frame for 2 photographs in sterling Silver 925/1000 gold plated with translucent fired enamels on guillochè and hand-painted floral miniatures. Viennese Art Nouveau style seco...
Category
1960s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Florence - Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Photo Frame Butterfly-Shaped Fired Enamel on Guillochè and Hand Engravings Sterl
By Giorgio Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Butterfly-shaped photo frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent polychrome fired enamels on hand engraving that imitates the veins of the wings. External dimens...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Florence - Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box Octagonal Light Blue Fired Enamel and Miniature Madame Drouais on Sali
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Octagonal table box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè and beautiful hand-painted enamelled miniature by the painter Beatrice Mellana reproducing the portrait of Madame Drouais painted by her husband Francois Hubert in 1785 and conserved in the Louvre Museum. Fine hand-engravings on the sides. French Empire style. Measure cm. 8x8x3.7. Weight gr. 285. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1989 and manufactured in Florence in the headquarters of the Salimbeni company with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for withstanding numerous eamelled firings at high heat 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...
Category
1980s Italian Other Vintage Florence - Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Salimbeni Box with Swiss Musical Mechanism by Maison Reuge Art Deco Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, 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 - Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Perfume Holder with black stripes enameled Art Deco style Salimbeni.
By Giorgio Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Perfume Holder with black stripes is in 925/1000 sterling silver.
Perfume Holder with black stripes has black fired stripes enamels.
Perfume Holder with black stripes has a screw cap...
Category
1980s Italian Art Deco Vintage Florence - Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Perfume Holder Black and White Art Deco style Squared base 925 Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Giorgio Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Square base perfume holder in black and white fired enamelled 925/1000 sterling silver with screw cap, in Art Deco style. Base cm, 3.6 x 3.6 bottle height cm. 8, total height cm. 10....
Category
1980s Italian Art Deco Vintage Florence - Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Photo Frame inserted into a harp-shaped object Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Giorgio Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Oval photo frame inserted into a harp-shaped object, in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamels on guilloché inspired by a model created by Peter Carl Fab...
Category
1980s Italian Empire Vintage Florence - Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Luigi Genazzi Ovoidal Vase in Hammered Silver by Calderoni Jewels 20th Italy
By Calderoni, Luigi Genazzi
Located in Montecatini Terme, IT
Ovoidal vase in hammered silver with a light ashlar surface.
This elegant centerpiece was designed by Luigi Genazzi and produced by Calderoni Jewels.
Marked under the base with the manufacturer's mark (Calderoni Jewellery)
Datable in the second half of the 20th century.
Calderoni was established in 1840 in Milan’s Via della Lupa, known today as Via Torino. At that time, Milan was a romantic city, dominated by the Habsburg dynasty.
In 1870, Calderoni opened a prestigious establishment in Piazza Duomo, which soon became a point of reference for the city’s aristocracy. Calderoni became the official supplier of the House of Savoy...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Other Florence - Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Orange Square Table Framel French Empire Napoleon III Style Sterling Silver Enam
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Square table frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè with edges in French Empire Napoleon III style. External cm. 18 x 18, internal c...
Category
1970s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Florence - Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
19th Century English Cut Glass and Sterling Silver Oil and Vinegar Cruet Set
Located in Firenze, IT
These oil and vinegar bottles are a sleek cruet condiment set, made of fine and elaborate cut crystal and sterling silver with a neoclassical appeal thanks to the Greek key pattern t...
Category
Mid-19th Century English Neoclassical Antique Florence - Sterling Silver
Materials
Crystal, Sterling Silver
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