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Item Ships From: Italy
Hollywood regency lucite tuxedo set, Guzzini Italy 1970
By Guzzini
Located in Firenze, IT
Smoking Set, ashtray, table lighter and cigars box
Italy 1970
Lucite
Ashtray: H 14.5 x 14.5 x 4 cm
Table Lighter: H 6.5 x 8.5 x 7 cm
Cigars box: H 7.5 x 18 x 10.5 cm
Label on t...
Category
1970s Italian Space Age Vintage Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Lucite
Late 18th Century Enamelled and Gilt Metal Circular Table Snuff Box
Located in Firenze, IT
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The cover set with an enamel panel...
Category
1790s English Georgian Antique Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Enamel
Table Box Hand-Engraved and Miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Giorgio Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table box with rounded corners in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated with a beautiful hand-engraved and fire-enamelled frame and in the center a beautiful hand painted miniature by the painter Beatrice Mellana reproducing the painting by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres "Odalisque with slave". Dimensions cm. 9.5 x 12.3 x 3.3. Weight gr. 671. Designed by Giorgio Salimbeni in 1979 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...
Category
1970s Italian Art Deco Vintage Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Snuff Box Octagonal English Queen Anne style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Octagonal snuff box in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated with borders in the English Queen Anne style and sides with translucent fired enamels on ...
Category
1980s Italian Queen Anne Vintage Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Travel Case Wood France 19th Century
Located in Milano, IT
Mahogany wood trunk with brass sockets. Inside, a set in French porcelain finely decorated in pure gold and polychrome with ribbons and garlands of flowers. Service consisting of six...
Category
19th Century French Other Antique Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Mahogany
Snuffbox Vessel Miniature Hand-Painted Sterling Silver Enamel Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Shaped snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fired enamel inserted in a fine hand engraving and with round miniature diameter cm. 3.3 hand painted always with fire enamels depicting a sailing ship. Early 19th century Viennese Baroque style. Fine hand engraving on all sides and bottom. Measurements cm. 7.5 x 7.5 x 2. Weight gr. 151. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1976 on inspiration of ancient original artifacts and manufactured in Florence at the Salimbeni company headquarters in several specimens, also with different colors and miniatures, with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick slabs and large reinforcements suitable for supporting numerous high-fire enamelled firings at approximately 750 < 800° C.
Miniature is a very ancient technique which consists of painting works in small proportions.
It was born for the decoration of the first letter of the paragraph of the books.
Over the years, however, this technique is refined and enriched, then moving on to precious personal items.
Hand-painted miniatures can be done with multiple different techniques.
The most important that we use on our articles are of three kinds:
1) Fire enamel.
2) Water tempera on an ivory plate.
3) Painted on mother-of-pearl.
Fire enameled miniatures:
On a first layer of enamel generally white or very clear or even transparent suitably liquefied at a temperature of about 750 ° C, the chosen subject is painted using miniature colors which are as many colored crystals, ground and reduced to a very fine, almost impalpable powder washed and purified in distilled water with the addition of small quantities of deoxidizing acids which, diluted with essential oils (usually essential oil of solder), can be mixed to form a palette of colors.
With very fine sable hair brushes you draw the subject starting from the perimeter and then gradually adding various layers of color.
It is necessary to carry out various firings very often so that the colors harden and are not absorbed by the underlying glaze as, during the subsequent firings at 750 ° C, during liquefaction, it would spread irremediably. Hence the need to form the painting a little at a time, cooking it numerous times.
Therefore it is necessary to proceed with numerous retouching, often overlapping different colors that only the painter's experience knows. A beautiful miniature needs from 20 to over 50 firings and is finished when the painter deems he does not have to further intervene.
Some colors must have darker tones than others because then, by superimposing the transparent enamel placed at the end of the miniature, they fade. This transparent layer, called “fondant” in jargon, must be smoothed and polished like all other translucent enamel colors.
The miniatures with water tempera colors are painted on real ivory...
Category
1970s Italian Baroque Vintage Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Dior Style Jewel Box in Tortoiseshell Lucite and Chrome, API Italy, 1970s
By Christian Dior
Located in Roma, IT
Lovely Midcentury box in Christian Dior style produced by API in Italy in the 1970s.
This charming box is made in a gorgeous tortiseshell effect lucite and chrome.
A fantastic it...
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal
Capricia Square Box in Pebbled Leather with Handle in Corno Italiano, Mod. 4475
By Filippo Dini, Arcahorn Srl.
Located in Recanati, Macerata
With its refined appearance, our Capricia square box can easily fit both traditional and contemporary décor. Its clean traditional shape is enriched by a lining in Onyx color pebbled...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Leather, Wood
Squared Box in Green Goatskin and Brass Attributed to Aldo Tura, Italy, 1960s
By Aldo Tura
Located in Rome, IT
Squared box in green goatskin with brass details attributed to the Italian designer Aldo Tura.
Made in Italy in the 1960s.
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal, Brass
Pill Box Fired Enamel with Hand Painted Horse Head Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rounded square pill box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with white fired enamel, above and below, with hand painted horse head. Dimensions cm. 5.2 x 5.2 x 2.3. Weight gr. 117. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1966 on the inspiration of previous artefacts made in the English Art Nouveau style of the early 1900s and manufactured in the Salimbeni company headquarters in Florence in numerous specimens also with different subjects, with completely manual execution by artisan artists with a slab of high thickness suitable for supporting numerous enamelled firings at around 800°C.
Miniature is a very ancient technique which consists of painting works in small proportions.
It was born for the decoration of the first letter of the paragraph of the books.
Over the years, however, this technique is refined and enriched, then moving on to precious personal items.
Hand-painted miniatures can be done with multiple different techniques.
The most important that we use on our articles are of three kinds:
1) Fire enamel.
2) Water tempera on an ivory plate.
3) Painted on mother-of-pearl.
Fire enameled miniatures:
On a first layer of enamel generally white or very clear or even transparent suitably liquefied at a temperature of about 750 ° C, the chosen subject is painted using miniature colors which are as many colored crystals, ground and reduced to a very fine, almost impalpable powder washed and purified in distilled water with the addition of small quantities of deoxidizing acids which, diluted with essential oils (usually essential oil of solder), can be mixed to form a palette of colors.
With very fine sable hair brushes you draw the subject starting from the perimeter and then gradually adding various layers of color.
It is necessary to carry out various firings very often so that the colors harden and are not absorbed by the underlying glaze as, during the subsequent firings at 750 ° C, during liquefaction, it would spread irremediably. Hence the need to form the painting a little at a time, cooking it numerous times.
Therefore it is necessary to proceed with numerous retouching, often overlapping different colors that only the painter's experience knows. A beautiful miniature needs from 20 to over 50 firings and is finished when the painter deems he does not have to further intervene.
Some colors must have darker tones than others because then, by superimposing the transparent enamel placed at the end of the miniature, they fade. This transparent layer, called “fondant” in jargon, must be smoothed and polished like all other translucent enamel colors.
The miniatures with water tempera colors are painted on real...
Category
1960s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
20th Century Sterling Silver Box George III° Style
By Cesani Virginio
Located in VALENZA, IT
Handmade George III style oblong box in sterling silver.
On the body of the box typical lines with fluted. The lid has the same design but embossed. The han...
Category
1990s Italian George III Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Snuff Box Round Guilloche Enamel Box Gold Paillons Stars of Sky Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Round table snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent blue fired enamel on guillochè and with the insertion of pure gold “paillons” in the shape of stars to create a starry sky effect. With turquoise enamel circle with hand-engraved motif. Late 1600s Baroque style. Diameter cm. 7.7 cm high. 2.3. Weight gr. 226. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1967 and produced in Florence in several specimens in the Salimbeni company headquarters with manual workmanship by skilled artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for withstanding numerous enamelled firings at high heat at about 800° C -
The Paillons processing, now almost disappeared, and a rare technique recognized as a craft. Several layers of enamel are applied to the object, baked one by one in the oven.
Afterwards, the designs cut out of thin gold leaves, the paillons foils, are applied one by one by hand to form the desired figure. These sheets are then in turn coated...
Category
1960s Italian Baroque Vintage Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Enamel, Sterling Silver
Chinese Wooden Jewelry Box
Located in Lugo, IT
Chinese Wooden Jewelry Box
Good Condition
Thanks
Category
1950s Chinese Victorian Vintage Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Poseidon Square Bathroom Set
By Pinetti
Located in Milan, IT
This exquisite bathroom set is an elegant addition to a contemporary bathroom or powder room, where it will provide a precious collection of item...
Category
2010s Italian Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Leather
21st Century, Animal Box Collection, Porcelain Box with Golden Bronze Geko
By Oggetti D'Arte
Located in Calenzano, FI
Porcelain box with cut engravings embellished with brass detail made with the artisan lost wax technique with patinated golden finish. Each object is handcrafted and the care for eve...
Category
2010s Italian Louis XVI Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Art Deco Earthenware or Terracotta Pair - Possible F.A.C.I. Guerrino Rossi
Located in Lugo, IT
Pair of Art Deco earthenware or terracotta.
Possible F.A.C.I. ceramic production. Possible airbrush decoration by the painter Guerrino Rossi.
Good condition.
Thank you
Category
1920s European Art Deco Vintage Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Pottery
Box shaped enamel hand painted, engraved and miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Box shaped enamel is in 925/1000 sterling.
Box shaped enamel has handpainted fired enamels miniature.
Box shaped enamel is engraved and fire-enamelled ornaments.
Box shaped enamel is...
Category
1970s Italian Baroque Vintage Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Hand painted ceramic box by Arte Casa Albisola, 1940s
Located in Varese, Lombardia
Delightful and rare painted ceramic box made in the 40s by the Arte Casa factory in Albisola. Fairly good condition, slight defects in the ceramic. Manufacturer's mark on the base.
Category
1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
Italian decorative ceramic box 1940 Perugia Coral red Rometti Dog
By Zulimo Arezzo of Perugia
Located in Palermo, Sicily
Italian decorative ceramic box 1940 Perugia Coral red Rometti style
Category
1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
Table Box Green in French Empire Louis XVI style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Table Box Green in French Empire Louis XVI style Sterling Silver Salimbeni.
Table box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel inserted in a very fine ha...
Category
1970s Italian Louis XVI Vintage Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Enamel, Sterling Silver, Gold Plate
Ebony Tissue Box
By Arcahorn Srl.
Located in Milan, IT
An elegant reinterpretation of an everyday household item, this superb tissue box is expertly fashioned of prized horn and ebony wood with a glossy lacquere...
Category
2010s Italian Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Horn, Wood, Ebony
Table Box Fired Enamel on Guillochè Arab-Style Ornament Sterling Silver Salimben
By Salimbeni, Giorgio Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular box with rounded corners in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè with hand-engraved and enamelled Arab-style ornament. Dimensio...
Category
1990s Italian Modern Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Monkey Ceramic Box Sculpture by Vivai del Sud, Italy, 1970s
By Vivai del Sud
Located in Rome, IT
White ceramic box animal sculpture in the shape of a monkey by Vivai del Sud. Made in Italy in the 1970s.
The original label is still attached on ...
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
1810 Table Box, Red Floral Painted, Central Europe
Located in Vo', Veneto
Painted table top box/case
Measures: H.30 cm, W.48 cm, D.32 cm
Small hand-painted Tyrolean antique box, with red background. Decorated on all sides...
Category
Early 19th Century Italian Folk Art Antique Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Fir
Scatola dell'Allegria Ceramic Centerpiece
By Giuseppe Mazzotti
Located in Milan, IT
This collector's item is part of a line of ceramic vessels designed in 2009 by Tullio Mazzotti in honor of the centenary of the founding of the Futurist Movement. Scatola dell'allegr...
Category
2010s Italian Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
Low Large Square Box in Solid Italian 1970s Brass with Lid
Located in Palermo, Sicily
Low large square box in solid Italian 1970s brass with lid.
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Sublime Italian 1940s Bamboo Box
Located in Milan, IT
Sublime Italian 1940s Bamboo Box
Category
1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bamboo
France Late 18th Century Baroque Silver Box
Located in Brescia, IT
France Late 18th century silver carriage shape box in Regency Style
This magnificent piece of art of silver jewelery. It is an example of h...
Category
Late 18th Century French Baroque Antique Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
Two Garouste and Bonetti Bronze Boxes for the Collection of Herbert Blome 2001
By Elizabeth Garouste and Mattia Bonetti
Located in Milan, IT
Two Garouste and Bonetti Bronze Boxes for the Collection of Herbert Blome 2001
Both are fully signed
Category
Early 2000s French Modern Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Table Box Enamel on Guilloche Hand Painted Miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Square box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè also on the sides. In the center, a beautiful hand painted tempera miniature on a vegetable ivory plate depicting the portrait of a 19th century lady, signed by the painter Anna Maria Manfriani. Dimensions cm. 12 x 12 x 2.5. Weight gr. 618. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1976 and manufactured in Florence in some specimens with various subjects and different colors, in the headquarters of the Salimbeni Company with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for withstanding numerous enamelled firings at about 800° C.
Miniature is a very ancient technique which consists of painting works in small proportions.
It was born for the decoration of the first letter of the paragraph of the books.
Over the years, however, this technique is refined and enriched, then moving on to precious personal items.
Hand painted miniatures can be done with multiple different techniques.
The most important that we use on our articles are of three kinds:
1) Fire enamel.
2) Water tempera on an ivory plate.
3) Painted on mother-of-pearl.
Fire enameled miniatures:
On a first layer of enamel generally white or very clear or even transparent suitably liquefied at a temperature of about 750 ° C, the chosen subject is painted using miniature colors which are as many colored crystals, ground and reduced to a very fine, almost impalpable powder washed and purified in distilled water with the addition of small quantities of deoxidizing acids which, diluted with essential oils (usually essential oil of solder), can be mixed to form a palette of colors.
With very fine sable hair brushes you draw the subject starting from the perimeter and then gradually adding various layers of color.
It is necessary to carry out various firings very often so that the colors harden and are not absorbed by the underlying glaze as, during the subsequent firings at 750 ° C, during liquefaction, it would spread irremediably. Hence the need to form the painting a little at a time, cooking it numerous times.
Therefore it is necessary to proceed with numerous retouching, often overlapping different colors that only the painter's experience knows. A beautiful miniature needs from 20 to over 50 firings and is finished when the painter deems he does not have to further intervene.
Some colors must have darker tones than others because then, by superimposing the transparent enamel placed at the end of the miniature, they fade. This transparent layer, called “fondant” in jargon, must be smoothed and polished like all other translucent enamel colors.
The miniatures with water tempera colors are painted on real ivory...
Category
1970s Italian Modern Vintage Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Pill Box Yellow floral miniature in Art Nouveau style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Pill Box Yellow floral miniature in Art Nouveau style Sterling Silver Salimbeni.Round pillbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Enamel, Sterling Silver
Chrome and Braided Brass Italian Decorative Box, Gucci Style 1980s
By Gucci
Located in Roma, IT
Beautiful midcentury decorative jewelry box in chromed metal and brass. This lovely Gucci style box was produced in Italy in the 1980s.
This gorgeous decorative rectangular box is ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal, Brass, Chrome
Gucci Box by Tommaso Barbi, 1970s
Located in Roma, RM
Square box in briar wood and chromed metal. Italian production 1970s attributed to Tommaso Barbi.
The box was created for “Gucci Boutique” which in those years was located in Rome in via Borgognona and sold household items as well as small leather goods.
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal
Egg on Tripod hand painted Sterling Silver Enamel on Guillochè Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Egg on tripod in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè, Russian Empire style inspired by Carl Fabergè eggs ...
Category
1960s Italian Other Vintage Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Snuffbox two-tones enamel stripes Guilloche Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with two-tone translucent stripes fired enameled on guillochè and fine hand-engraved on all sides, French Empire Napoleon...
Category
1980s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Mid-Century Brass and Walnut Pocket Emptier by Tommaso Barbi, Italy 1970s
By Tommaso Barbi
Located in Roma, IT
Gorgeous vide poche in walnut wood and solid brass. This elegant item was designed by Tommaso Barbi in Italy in the 1970s.
This lovely item is made in the shape of a crate combining...
Category
1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal, Brass
Egg on Tripod with folding frame for 6 photos Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Egg on tripod with folding photo frame for 6 photos, inside, in 925/1000 sterling Silver gold plated, with translucent fired enamels on guillochè. ...
Category
1960s Italian Empire Vintage Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Enamel, Sterling Silver, Gold Plate
Pair of Box in Lucite & Rattan Christian Dior Home Style, Italy, 1970s
By Christian Dior
Located in Rome, IT
Pair of boxes in lucite and rattan in the style of Christian Dior Home. Made in Italy in the 1970s.
The boxes come in different dimensions:
- Big box: 9.5...
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wicker, Rattan, Acrylic, Lucite, Plexiglass
Snuff Box Parrotlets on Flowering Branches. Art Nouveau Style Sterling Silver En
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Square snuff box with rounded sides in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè and hand painted miniature parrotlets on flowering branches. Ar...
Category
1990s Italian Mid-Century Modern Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Chinese box
Located in Torino, IT
Chinese box.
Delightful jewelry box of Chinese origin, composed of a hand-chiseled silver frame and hand-painted ceramic with oriental representations.
The box is in perfect conser...
Category
1910s Chinese Vintage Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal
Midcentury box designed by Gabriella Crespi, Italy
By Gabriella Crespi
Located in Piacenza, Italy
Elegant small box by Gabriella Crespi
Decorated wooden box designed by Gabriella Crespi.
Recorded by Archivio Gabriella Crespi, Milan.
Italy 1970s
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Set of Four Glazed Ceramic Boxes by Angelo Spagnolo for Sicart, Italy, 1970s
Located in Milan, IT
Set of four ceramic boxes by Angelo Spagnolo for Sicart.
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
21st Century, Hand-Carved yellow and pink Crystal and Bronze Box
By Oggetti D'Arte
Located in Calenzano, FI
Yellow and pink crystal box with cut engravings embellished with brass detail made with the artisan lost wax technique with patinated silver finish. E...
Category
2010s Italian Louis XVI Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Pill box big size Florentine Renaissance Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Large round pillbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fine fire-enamelled engraving in two colours, in Florentine Renaissance style. Diameter cm. 5 cm high. 2. Weight gr. ...
Category
1980s Italian Renaissance Vintage Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Snuff Box White with noble coat of arms Baroque style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Giorgio Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Snuff Box noble coat of arms is in 925/1000 sterling silver.
Snuff Box noble coat of arms has White fired enamels on guilloché and handpainted miniature of arabesques with noble coat...
Category
1990s Italian Baroque Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
1750 Venezia Italy Green Light Blue Lacquered and Shaped Wooden Box with Flowers
Located in Brescia, IT
This is a refined lacquered and shaped wooden box, with polychrome Chinese figures and fine floral decoration on green and light blue background.
The curved shape of the box, on the front, on the sides and of the feet, the rich carving, are the result of the high level craftemanships of the Venetian master cabinetery.
This magnificent piece hails from the Mid-18th Century in Venezia and masterfully shows the lacquered Venetian style.
Its carefully considered proportions, refined carvings, magnificent color of the lacquer, and premium materials culminate in this wooden box that shows sophistication and grace.
This is a little jewel, a case to contain jewels.
One of the distinctive characteristics of Venetian Baroque and Rococo furniture 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.
The iron little key is not working. Inside are visible some scribbles.
The piece is in very good state of maintenance and guaranteed original in every parts. The surface was only cleaned not restored and it is original.
The wooden light blue lacquered...
Category
Mid-18th Century Italian Rococo Antique Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood, Lacquer
Snuff Box "Soap" Shaped with Horse's Head Sterling Silver Enamel Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, 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
Art Deco Vase, Bowl in Carved Crystal Color Amber and Silver 800, Italy, 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Beautiful bowl in circular crystal and handcut silver, the glass is thick, cut deep and evenly, without a single thread or a flow of glass inside. No chipping or scratches.
Bowl in ...
Category
1930s Italian Art Deco Vintage Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Silver
20th Century Italian Sterling Silver Ceased Table Box
By Argenterie Lala
Located in VALENZA, IT
Oblong sterling silver hinged table box.
The body of the box is smooth. The lid is smooth with embossed bellflowers
The lid is embossed and chiseled with bellflowers-shaped motifs
Th...
Category
1980s Italian Other Vintage Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Rectangular Carved Travertine Box in the style of Fratelli Mannelli Italy 1970s
By Fratelli Mannelli
Located in Roma, IT
An essential and elegant box made in Italy that can contain whatever you want, cigarettes, business cards or use as a jewelry box.
Dating back to around the 70s, it is made of traver...
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Travertine, Metal
Rare Labyrinth Cigarette Box by Lalaounis, Brass and Silver, 1970s
Located in Firenze, IT
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Ilias Lalaounis 925 silver Medalli...
Category
1970s Greek Arts and Crafts Vintage Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Decorative Round Box in Glass Steel Gilded Brass Italian Design 1970 Romeo Rega
By Romeo Rega
Located in Palermo, Sicily
Round box in glass steel and gilded brass Italian Design 1970 Romeo Rega.
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass, Steel
Pill Box Hand Painted Miniature Enamel Louis XVI Style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular rounded pill box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with hand painted miniature fire-enamelled in Louis XVI style, second half of the 18th century, and fine hand-eng...
Category
1960s Italian Louis XVI Vintage Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Italian Sterling Silver Handmade decorative Table Box
By Osvaldo Monti
Located in VALENZA, IT
Decorative box in 925 sterling silver made in Milan - Italy - in the artisan workshop of the silversmith Osvaldo Monti.
The box is round, curved and was hand-made from a sheet of 925...
Category
Early 2000s Italian Other Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Samples Vienna Chair
Located in Milan, Lombardy
Samples of wood for chairs.
Included in the envelope
- 1 piece beech wood natural finishing
- 1 piece Cane, straw
- 1 piece Beech wood stained Canaletto walnut
- 1 piece Colé I...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Vintage Glass Candy Box, 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Glass candy box is an original decorative object realized by Anonymous artist in the 1970s.
A vintage decorated candy box entirely realized in glass...
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Glass
19th Century Italian Renaissance Walnut Carved Miniature Blanket Chest or Coffer
Located in Casale Monferrato, IT
Rare and fine quality 19th century Italian Renaissance walnut carved miniature blanket chest or coffer. Fine carving in walnut wood on the fron...
Category
1830s Italian Renaissance Antique Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Italian Nickel plated & brass 1970s "Solaria" boxes by Nella Longari
By Romeo Rega, Nella Longari
Located in Varese, Lombardia
Elegant set of 2 metal boxes mod. Solaria in nickel & brass designed and made in Italy by Nella Longari, a well-known Milanese antique dealer, decorator and designer from the 1970s. ...
Category
1970s Italian Regency Revival Vintage Italy Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass, Nickel
