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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 Italy Decorative Boxes
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 Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Round Favor Box with Lid in 925/1000 Sterling Silver Green Enamel Art Nouveau St
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Round favor box with lid in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè and hand-painted miniature of a bouquet of flowers in Art Nouveau style. B...
Category
1960s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Italian 1960s pewter monkey shaped box
Located in Milan, IT
Splendid pewter monkey-shaped box.
Signed F.M.C Italy
yellow fabric lining.
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Pewter
$779 / item
20th Century Italian Mushroon shape Silver Box. Embosse and chiselled by hand
By Arval Argenti Valenza
Located in VALENZA, IT
Decorative silver 800 mushroom shape box,
The body is embossed and cheased completely by hand.
Category
1960s Italian Modern Vintage Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
1960s Italian Decorative Box in Wood
Located in Catania, IT
Elegant wooden box with solid brass handle.
The box is covered by small square pieces lacquered wood
*There's a tiny bit of lacquer missing noticeable only when lifting the lid, ple...
Category
1960s Italian Hollywood Regency Vintage Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
$661 Sale Price
20% Off
1750 Venezia Italy Lacquered Dark Blue Wooden Box with Golden Decoration
Located in Brescia, IT
This is a refined and exquisite lacquered wooden box, with polychrome and golden decoration on dark blue background. The dark blue color could seems a dark green. On the lid bright red and ivory volutes with lace inserts meticulously painted. Inside an exotic garden are depicting two Oriental human figures dressed in golden clothes. Band decorated with floral and volute motifs. It could be a magnificent jewelry case.
One of the distinctive characteristics of Venetian Baroque and Rococo furniture and decorative objects is the skilful use of lacquers. Lacquer is a natural resin that was very rare in the past, imported from the East and used to create smooth and colored surfaces on furniture, ready to be finely decorated with refined floral designs or exotic animals.
Venetian artisans became masters in lacquer processing which required time and patience because it was made with many steps.
The Venetian style deeply influenced furniture design throughout Europe, but none reached the Venetian level in terms of beauty. The skillful use of lacquer and carvings defined Venice's unique style during the Rococo period, its Golden Age.
Referring bibliography:
A similar shaped and lacquered wooden box is presentin the Cà Rezzonico, in Venice and it is featured in
S. Levy Lacche veneziane settecentesche II, Milano 1967, tav. 444.
The piece is in excellent state of maintenance and it is guaranteed original in every parts. The surface was only cleaned not restored and it is original. The wooden dark blue lacquered box...
Category
Mid-18th Century Italian Rococo Antique Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood, Lacquer
Snuffbox basket with flowers, in Florentine Renaissance style, Salimbeni
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 Renato Dainelli of a basket with flowers, in ...
Category
1960s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
17th Century, Italian Wooden Box Coated in Engraved Leather
Located in Firenze, FI
Wooden box lined with leather engraved with damask motifs, studded with convex bronze nails. This casket was used by placing it on the altars of the family chapels to house the candl...
Category
Late 17th Century Italian Antique Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Leather, Wood
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 Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
$3,192 Sale Price
20% Off
Jug by Sirio Pellegrini, 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Painted Terracotta sculpture realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s.
Good condition.
Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome on March 1, 1922, of Abruzzo origins (Capestrano), spent his chil...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Terracotta
Urn by Sirio Pellegrini, 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Painted Terracotta sculpture realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s.
Good condition.
Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome on March 1, 1922, of Abruzzo origins (Capestrano), spent his chil...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Terracotta
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 Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
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 Italy Decorative Boxes
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 Italy Decorative Boxes
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 Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Mug by Sirio Pellegrini, 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Painted Terracotta sculpture realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s.
Good condition.
Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome on March 1, 1922, of Abruzzo origins (Capestrano), spent his chil...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Terracotta
Galloping Cart by Sirio Pellegrini, 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Painted Terracotta sculture realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s.
Good condition.
Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome on March 1, 1922, of Abruzzo origins (Capestrano), spent his child...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Terracotta
Mother and Child by Sirio Pellegrini, 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Painted Terracotta sculture realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s.
Good condition.
Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome on March 1, 1922, of Abruzzo origins (Capestrano), spent his child...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Terracotta
Ball by Sirio Pellegrini, 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Painted Terracotta sculture realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s.
Good condition.
Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome on March 1, 1922, of Abruzzo origins (Capestrano), spent his child...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Terracotta
Mother and Child by Sirio Pellegrini, 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Painted Terracotta sculpture realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s.
Good condition.
Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome on March 1, 1922, of Abruzzo origins (Capestrano), spent his chil...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Terracotta
Candelabra by Sirio Pellegrini, 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Painted Terracotta scuplture realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s.
Good condition.
Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome on March 1, 1922, of Abruzzo origins (Capestrano), spent his chil...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Terracotta
Ballerina Sirio Pellegrini, 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Painted Terracotta sculture realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s.
Good condition.
Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome on March 1, 1922, of Abruzzo origins (Capestrano), spent his child...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Terracotta
Vintage Terracotta Vase by Sirio Pellegrini, 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Painted Terracotta vase realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s.
Good conditione except for a loss on one side.
Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome on March 1, 1922, of Abruzzo origins (C...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Terracotta
Jar by Sirio Pellegrini, 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Painted Terracotta sculture realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s.
Very Good condition.
Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome on March 1, 1922, of Abruzzo origins (Capestrano), spent his ...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Terracotta
Snuff Box "Soap" Shaped with Horse's Head Sterling Silver Enamel Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Oval rounded "soap" shaped snuff box in 925/1000 sterling silver with fired enamels above and below and hand-painted miniature of a horse's head, English "Art Nouveau" style, early 1900s. Measurements cm. 4.7 x 6.7 x 2. Weight gr. 96. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1980 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 enamelled 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 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
1980s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Wedding Favor Box Art Noveau hand painted on lid Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Round wedding favor with lid in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fine manual engraving of flower shoots, fire-enamelled with various colours, in early 1900s Art Nouveau styl...
Category
1960s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver
Wedding Favor Box fine engraving of flower shoots on lid 925 Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Round wedding favor with lid in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fine manual engraving of flower shoots, fire-enamelled with various colours, in early 1900s Art Nouveau styl...
Category
1960s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver
1970's Hollywood Regency Tray
Located in Catania, IT
For sale an elegant and refined tray in wood and brass with an unmistakable Hollywood Regency style, perfect for adding a touch of glamour and sophistication to any environment. This...
Category
1970s American Hollywood Regency Vintage Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Snuffbox Miniature Pastoral Image Sterling Silver Enamel Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Round snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling Silver gold plated with hand-painted miniature pastoral image fired enamelled. 18th century French style. Diameter cm. 8 cm high. 1.8. Weight gr. 171. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1968 on inspiration from previous boxes also manufactured in the Salimbeni company headquarters with manual workmanship by talented artisan artists with a thick plate suitable for supporting numerous glazing firings at high heat 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...
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
20th Century Italian Sterling Silver Oblong Box
By Arval Argenti Valenza
Located in VALENZA, IT
Hinged Sterling Silver Box.
The box is embossed and chiselled with diagonal lines, leaving the central part smooth and shiny to interpose a different space between the workings.
The ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Other Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
$1,525 Sale Price / item
20% Off
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 Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Snuffbox Head of the Statue of Liberty in New York hand painted Sterling Silver
By Giorgio Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rounded rectangular snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling silver with fine hand-painted fire-enamelled miniature depicting the Head of the Statue of Liberty in New York. Dimensions cm. 5.5 x 7 x 1.8. Weight gr. 105. Designed by Giorgio Salimbeni in 1975 in Art Deco style and executed in numerous specimens, at the specific request of the firm Tiffany & Co., in Florence in the headquarters of the Salimbeni firm with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for sustaining 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...
Category
1970s Italian Art Deco Vintage Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
"Quadra" Square Leather Box Designed by Oscar Maschera
By Oscar Maschera
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Quadra" is a square leather box, designed and manufactured by Oscar Maschera. Genuine Italian leather vegetable tanned. Colors combination to be chosen from the available range: tan...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Leather
Italian Sterling Silver essence holder round box stand
By Arval Argenti Valenza
Located in VALENZA, IT
The essence holder box is spherical, hinged and hand-drilled to allow the fragrance to escape.
A rotating silver plate has been fixed on the edge which serves as a safety lock.
The s...
Category
Early 2000s Italian Other Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
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 Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
XXI Century Italian Sterling Silver Lipstick Box
By Arval Argenti Valenza
Located in VALENZA, IT
Sterling Silver Lipstick Box with Mirror and Velvet Interior in a Triangular Shape, Practically a Miniature of a Small Purse.
The lid is hinged. The box is worked with hand-engraved ...
Category
2010s Italian Other Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Antique Renaissance Style Italian Wood Lacquered Apothecary Box
Located in Firenze, IT
This lovely antique lacquered apothecary box was crafted in Italy in late 19th century in the style of medicinal herbs casket in use in pharmacies during the Middle Age and Renaissan...
Category
19th Century Italian Renaissance Antique Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Jug by Sirio Pellegrini, 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Painted Terracotta sculture realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s.
Good condition.
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Terracotta
Venice Blown Contemporary Smooth and Striped Glass Minimal Container 'Innesti S'
By Hands On Design, Gumdesign
Located in Milan, IT
Innesti S is a container in borosilicate glass masterfully blown in Venice by Soffieria for Hands on Design. Designed by GumDesign this piece is characterized by the contrast between striped glass of the bottom and the smooth finish of the top; this element, combined to the simple shape, makes this container beautiful even when it's empty and suitable for many spots of the house. The Innesti collection, which includes a large container...
Category
2010s Italian Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Glass
20th Century Italian Mushroom shape Silver Box. Enbossed and chiselled by hand
By Arval Argenti Valenza
Located in VALENZA, IT
Decorative silver 800 mushroom shape box.
The body is embossed and cheased completely by hand.
Category
1960s Italian Modern Vintage Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
$1,055 Sale Price
28% Off
XX Century Italian Sterling Silver oblong decorative box
By Mario Poli
Located in VALENZA, IT
Decorative oblong table box in 925 sterling silver.
The bottom of the box was hand-shaped from a sterling silver sheet and hammered and then finished with a flat edge.
The hinged and...
Category
1980s Italian Other Vintage Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Nanni Valentini Ceramic Container for Ceramica Arcore, Italy, 1960s
By Nanni Valentini
Located in Milan, IT
Nanni Valentini ceramic container for ceramica arcore, Italy, 1960s.
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
Mid-19th Century Decorative Lacquered Wooden Tobacco Snuff Box Black
Located in Brescia, IT
This antique and elegant lacquered snuff box was handmade in The Netherlands.
It is painted on both sides: there's the scene of the fire in Hamburg on the right so detailed to be as ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Dutch Late Victorian Antique Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood, Lacquer
$815 Sale Price
20% Off
Jug by Sirio Pellegrini, 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Painted Terracotta sculture realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s.
Good condition, except for some signs of age.
Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome on March 1, 1922, of Abruzzo origins...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Terracotta
20th Century Silver Box, Hungary, circa 1980
By Artex
Located in Cagliari, IT
Magnificent box in sterling silver and wood. On the lid are set reproductions of ancient coins of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
In fact the producer of this article, Artex, was a bra...
Category
1980s Hungarian Modern Vintage Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
Silver Turtle, Italy, 2000s
Located in Roma, IT
Silver turtle realized by italian manufacture in the 2007.
Date 2007 engraved on bottom.
Very good condition.
Category
Early 2000s Italian Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
20° Century Italian Solid Silver oval biscuit or candy box
By Arval Argenti Valenza
Located in VALENZA, IT
The box was made from an 800 silver plate and subsequently shaped into an oval shape.
The external band has been engraved faithfully reproducing the o...
Category
1990s Italian Other Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
$1,199 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique Bulldog Head Wooden Box, England, 1900
Located in Milan, IT
Antique bulldog head wooden box, England, 1900.
Category
Early 1900s English Art Deco Antique Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Leather, Glass, Wood
$2,398 Sale Price
20% Off
Turquoise Marbled Wood and Naturel Wood Box, 1940s
Located in Sacile, PN
Turquoise marbled wood and nature wood box, 1940s.
Rectangular box painted in blue faux marble and nature wood with brass closure and ribbon-shape...
Category
1940s Italian Art Deco Vintage Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Ancient Round Box in Bone, Turtle and Gold with Mythological Scene, circa 1805
Located in Roma, IT
Small ancient box in bone, turtle and gold with mythological scene with merman on top.
Rome (Italy), circa 1805.
Good conditions, just a minor defect o...
Category
Early 19th Century Italian Antique Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold
$1,334 Sale Price
30% Off
Art Deco pink ceramic box / sugar bowl, France 1940s
Located in Firenze, IT
Art Deco pink ceramic box
France 1940s
Marked on the bottom
H 12.5 cm - Diam. 16.5 cm
Conditions: excellent consistent with age and use
Category
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
Decorated wooden drawers Box, UK 1900s
Located in Firenze, IT
Decorated wooden drawers Box
United Kingdom 1900s
perspective cubes decoration
H 18 cm
45 × 27 cm
Conditions: excellent consistent with age and use.
Category
20th Century British Mid-Century Modern Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
XXI Century Italian Sterling Silver Modern Table Box
By Arval Argenti Valenza
Located in VALENZA, IT
XXI Century Italian Sterling Silver Modern Table Box
Modern style 925 sterling silver table box.
The box is square in shape and the edge of the body is lined.
The lid is hinged and h...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary European Modern Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
1950s Italian Decorative Box in Silver
Located in Catania, IT
This mid-century decorative box displays the best of Italian craftmanship The exterior features a textured Sterling silver 800 surface reflecting the Italian meticulous attention t...
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
$1,919 Sale Price
20% Off
XXI Century Italian solid 800 Silver Biscuit box
By Arval Argenti Valenza
Located in VALENZA, IT
Large biscuit box in solid 800 silver.
The cup is round, smooth and has been raised with a round stepped base with an English border. A striped border has also been soldered on the u...
Category
Early 2000s Italian Other Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
XXI Century Italian Sterling Silver table box 24kt gold plated inside
By Argenteria Pobbiati
Located in VALENZA, IT
Decorative casket box in 925 sterling silver with 24kt gold plated interior.
The body of the box has been embossed and chiseled with an ovules design, as well as the hinged lid.
A sm...
Category
Early 2000s Other Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Set of 5 Vintage 1970s "Venice" Fabric and Wood Boxes - Italian Mid-Century Deco
Located in Manzano, IT
Set of 5 Vintage 1970s "Venice" Fabric and Wood Boxes - Italian Mid-Century Decor
Product Description:
Add a touch of Italian vintage charm to your home with this exquisite set of f...
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic, Fabric, Velvet, Wood
$124 Sale Price / set
35% Off
Italy Contemporary Fine Cabinetry Jewelery or Watches Wooden Box
Located in Brescia, IT
This is a unique piece, handmade in Italy, Tuscany with elegant and refined kind of wood.
It possible to admire the precision of hand work.
Inside are available two compartments, ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Regency Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
$3,357 Sale Price
20% Off
Small Box with Decorative Scenes of the Reveillon Aerostat
Located in Roma, IT
Paris, Age of Louis XVI
Interesting and rare small rectangular box entirely tempera decorated on each face with scenes of the flight demonstrations of the Reveillon Aerostat invente...
Category
Mid-18th Century French Modern Antique Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal
$6,396 Sale Price
25% Off
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