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Creator: Franco Salimbeni
Table Box Green in French Empire Louis XVI style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco 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 Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Box with green enamel on fine hand engraving of a landscape with ruins Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco 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 Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold Plate
Cigar Box Cylindrical for table blue enamel on guilloche Salimbeni.
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Cylindrical table cigar box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamels on guilloché, with hinged lid. Modern contemporary style. Diameter cm. 5 height cm....
Category
1990s Italian Modern Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Snuffbox with Flowers miniature Art Nouveau style Sterling Silver Salimbeni.
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent enamels fired on guilloche and hand-painted floral miniature; external blue staff. Art Nouveau sty...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Snuffbox with English Queen Anne style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Octagonal snuff box in gilded 925/1000 silver with English Queen Anne style borders and sides with fired enamels painted like lapis lazuli stone. On the lid, a very fine fire-enamell...
Category
1980s Italian Queen Anne Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Pill Box Silver Sterling Enamel hand-painted Louis XVI style miniature Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Shaped pill box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with hand-painted miniature fire enamelled in Louis XVI style, second half of the 19th century, and fine hand engravings. Siz...
Category
1980s Italian Louis XVI Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box pure gold paillons and fired enamel miniature Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Round table box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fire enamels, with pure gold “paillons” on the upper circle, fine fire enamelled miniature hand painted by the painter Br...
Category
1960s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Pill Box shaped Silver Sterling Enamel hand-painted striped Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Shaped pill box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent 2-color striped fire enamel on guilloché and fine hand engravings in Viennese Art Nouveau style, second half...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Pill Box fired Enamel Miniature Louis XVI style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Shaped pill box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with hand painted miniature with fire enamelling in Louis XVI style, second half of the 19th century, and fine hand engravings...
Category
1970s Italian Louis XVI Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Table Box for Cigarettes in Sterling Silver Sterling Enamel Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table box for cigarettes in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated with hand-engraved design in Baroque style with two-tone fired enamels. Measure cm. 6.5 x 10.2 x 2. Weigh...
Category
1970s Italian Baroque Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold Plate
Pill Box Rectangular rounded horse
s head miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular, rounded pill box in 925/1000 gold-plated sterling silver with white enamel on the top and bottom, with a miniature horse hand-painted by the painter Romano Buccioni. Dim...
Category
1960s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table box oval 925 Silver Enamel handpainted miniature and paillons Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Oval table box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fired enamels, with pure gold “paillons” on the upper circle, fine fired enamel miniature with an image of a “landscape wi...
Category
1960s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Belgian Black Marble, Gold, 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 Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Enamel, Sterling Silver
Box with fired enamels and fine horse racing miniature Salimbeni.
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Large shaped table box in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated with translucent fired enamels on guilloche and large fire enamelled rectangular miniature hand painted by the painter ...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Pill Box Hand Painted Miniature Enamel Louis XVI Style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco 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 Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Black Box Erté inspiration with woman, leopard and flames hand painted Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Black Box Erté inspiration is in 925/1000 sterling silver.
Black Box Erté inspiration has black fired enamels.
Black Box Erté inspiration has an fired miniature by the painter Renato...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
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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 Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Box engraving on the lid and hand-painted floral miniature Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Shaped table box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fine fire-enameled engraving on the lid and hand-painted floral miniature in 18th century French Empire style. Dimension...
Category
1970s Italian Empire Vintage Franco Salimbeni 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 Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Enamel, Sterling Silver
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 Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Gold Plate, Enamel
Table Box Enamel on Guilloche and Hand Painted Miniature Sterling Silver Salimb
By Salimbeni, Franco 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 Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box Sterling Silver Striped Paillons in pure Gold and flowers Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Round table box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fired enamels, with “paillons” in pure gold on the upper circle, fine floral miniature fired enamelled by the painter Renato Dainelli, enamelled border with vertical stripes. Napoleon III French Empire...
Category
1960s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Enamel, Sterling Silver
Snuff box Enamel Double opening Sterling Silver flower bouquet Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Square snuff box with two slightly domed sides in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè and hand-painted miniature of flower bouquet, late 1...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
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 Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Pill Box Hand Painted Miniature of a Lady with Small Dog, Art Nouveau Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Domed round 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated pillbox with fire enamels above and below, and hand-painted miniature of a lady with small dog, in Viennese Art Nouveau style second ...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Snuffbox Miniature Pastoral Image Sterling Silver Enamel Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, 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 Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Pill Box White Enamel Art Nouveau style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Round rounded pillbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè and hand-painted floral miniature on the lid. Viennese Art Nouveau style. Dia...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Cigarette Box like lapis lazuli stone enamel on guilloche Salimbeni.
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular with rounded corners table box for cigarettes in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent enamels on a radial guilloché an...
Category
1970s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Snuff Box Octagonal English Queen Anne style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco 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 Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Cigarette Case hunting dog on point Enamel Sterling Silver Art Nouveau Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Franco Salimbeni Gold-Plated Sterling Silver and Enamel Cigarette Case with Hunting Dog Miniature by Romano Buccioni, Florence, 1976
Exquisite rectangular cigarette case with softl...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Box enamel miniature and fine hand engraving Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco 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 enamels fired on guilloché and beautiful ena...
Category
1960s Italian Baroque Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Gold, Enamel, Sterling Silver
Table Box Sterling Silver Paillons in Pure Gold and Miniature Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Oval table box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fired enamel, with “paillons” in pure gold on the upper circle, fine miniature fired enamelled with an image of “fox hunti...
Category
1960s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Egg style Faberge Blue Sapphire Enamel Medium Size Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, 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 late 1800s, early 1900s. Measurem...
Category
1960s Italian Empire Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Snuff Box hand engraving, black “niello” type Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Snuff Box rectangular in 925/1000 sterling silver with fine hand engraving, black fired enameled “niello” type, in early 19th century “Rococo” style. Snuff Box measurements cm. 4.5 x...
Category
1980s Italian Rococo Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Pill Box Sterling Silver Art Nouveau with floral miniature Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Gold-Plated Sterling Silver and Enamel Pill Box with Floral Miniature by Romano Buccioni for Salimbeni, Florence, 1980
Charming shaped pill box in 925/1000 sterling silver, gold pla...
Category
1980s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Egg style Faberge Blue Savoia Enamel Medium Size Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, 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 late 1800s, early 1900s. Measurem...
Category
1960s Italian Empire Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
X-Small Egg style Faberge Yellow Enamel hand painted wreaths Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
X-Small egg in 925/1000 gilded silver with translucent enamel on fire on guilloché and hand-painted miniature of garlands in Russian Art Nouveau style, inspired by the eggs of Carl F...
Category
1960s Italian Empire Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Enamel, Sterling Silver
Cigarette Case Fired Enamel with Still Life Miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table cigarette case with rounded corners in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated with beautiful miniature fire enamelled and hand painted by the painter Beatrice Mellana reproducing a "still life" by the Flemish painter Willem Claes Heda. Dimensions cm. 5.7 x 9 x 1.7. Weight gr. 174. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1969 and manufactured in Florence in numerous specimens with various subjects and different colors, in the headquarters of the Salimbeni Company with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for withstanding numerous enamelled firings at about 800° C.
Miniature is a very ancient technique which consists of painting works in small proportions.
It was born for the decoration of the first letter of the paragraph of the books.
Over the years, however, this technique is refined and enriched, then moving on to precious personal items.
Hand-painted miniatures can be done with multiple different techniques.
The most important that we use on our articles are of three kinds:
1) Fire enamel.
2) Water tempera on an ivory plate.
3) Painted on mother-of-pearl.
Fire enameled miniatures:
On a first layer of enamel generally white or very clear or even transparent suitably liquefied at a temperature of about 750 ° C, the chosen subject is painted using miniature colors which are as many colored crystals, ground and reduced to a very fine, almost impalpable powder washed and purified in distilled water with the addition of small quantities of deoxidizing acids which, diluted with essential oils (usually essential oil of solder), can be mixed to form a palette of colors.
With very fine sable hair brushes you draw the subject starting from the perimeter and then gradually adding various layers of color.
It is necessary to carry out various firings very often so that the colors harden and are not absorbed by the underlying glaze as, during the subsequent firings at 750 ° C, during liquefaction, it would spread irremediably. Hence the need to form the painting a little at a time, cooking it numerous times.
Therefore it is necessary to proceed with numerous retouching, often overlapping different colors that only the painter's experience knows. A beautiful miniature needs from 20 to over 50 firings and is finished when the painter deems he does not have to further intervene.
Some colors must have darker tones than others because then, by superimposing the transparent enamel placed at the end of the miniature, they fade. This transparent layer, called “fondant” in jargon, must be smoothed and polished like all other translucent enamel colors.
The miniatures with water tempera colors are painted on real ivory...
Category
1960s Italian Art Deco Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold
Pocket Pill Box like Egg sea color Enamel Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Pocket pill box shaped like a small egg.
Pocket pill box like egg hinged opening.
Pocket pill box like egg in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated 24ca...
Category
1960s Italian Empire Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
X-Small Egg style Faberge Ruby Red Enamel Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
X-Small egg in 925/1000 gilded silver with translucent enamel on fire on guilloché in Russian Art Nouveau style, inspired by the eggs of Carl Fabergé late 19th century, early 20th c...
Category
1960s Italian Empire Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Egg Navy Blue enamel with tripod Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Egg Navy Blue enamel is in 925/1000 sterling silver.
Egg Navy Blue enamel has fired enamels on guilloché has fired enamels on guilloché and design engraved by hand.
Egg Navy Blue en...
Category
1960s Italian Empire Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Pill Box Silver Sterling Enamel Miniature Sailing Ship Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Immerse yourself in timeless elegance with this rectangular pill box, featuring two subtly rounded sides. Crafted from 925/1000 gold-plated sterling silver, it boasts a hand-painted ...
Category
1970s Italian George IV Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
X-Small Egg style Faberge Enamel hand painted wreaths Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
X-Small egg in 925/1000 gilded silver with translucent enamel on fire on guilloché and hand-painted miniature of garlands in Russian Art Nouveau style, inspired by the eggs of Carl F...
Category
1960s Italian Empire Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Egg style Faberge Savoia blue Enamel Small Size Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Small egg in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guilloché, Russian Empire style inspired by the eggs of Carl Fabergé, late 19th century, early 20th...
Category
1960s Italian Empire Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Small Egg style Faberge Enamel hand painted wreaths Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Small egg in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guilloché and an hand-painted miniature of garlands in Russian Art Nouveau style, inspired by the e...
Category
1960s Italian Empire Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Enamel, Sterling Silver
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 Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
X-Small Egg style Faberge Aquamarine Enamel Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
X-Small egg in 925/1000 gilded silver with translucent enamel on fire on guilloché in Russian Art Nouveau style, inspired by the eggs of Carl Fabergé late 19th century, early 20th c...
Category
1960s Italian Empire Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
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 Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box Fired Enamel Guillochè and Hand Engravings Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, 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 Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Enamel, Sterling Silver
Snuff box Enamel Stripes and miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Shaped snuff box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fire-enameled stripes and fine oval enameled miniature in center cm. 3 x 4 hand-painted by ...
Category
1970s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Franco Salimbeni 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...
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1960s Italian Modern Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Egg style Faberge Dark Brown Enamel Small Size Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Small egg in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guilloché, Russian Empire style inspired by the eggs of Carl Fabergé, late 19th century, early 20th...
Category
1960s Italian Empire Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
X-Small Egg style Faberge Sapphire Blue Enamel Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
X-Small egg in 925/1000 gilded silver with translucent enamel on fire on guilloché in Russian Art Nouveau style, inspired by the eggs of Carl Fabergé late 19th century, early 20th c...
Category
1960s Italian Empire Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
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 Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Cigarette Box hand painted in tempera on a vegetable ivory Salimbeni.
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Square table box for cigarettes in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guilloché also on the sides. In the center beautiful miniature hand painted i...
Category
1970s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Pillbox Queen Victoria English style Shaped Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Shaped pillbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with hand-painted fired enameled miniature. Queen Victoria English style second half of the 19th century. Measurements cm. 2.2 ...
Category
1980s Italian Queen Anne Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Enamel, Sterling Silver
Table Box table box with finely embossed and hand-chiseled Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular shaped table box with finely embossed and hand-chiseled lid in Baroque style. Velvet interior. Dimensions cm. 11.7 x 21 x 4.5. Weight gr. 1000. Designed by Giorgio Salimb...
Category
1970s Italian Baroque Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Table Box hand-engraved wood grain with Coral Salimbeni.
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Table Box wood style and Coral is in 925/1000 sterling silver.
Table Box wood style and Coral has transparent brown fired enamel over hand-engraved wood grain.
Table Box wood style a...
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1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Cigarette Case Fired Enamel on a Fine Hand-Engraved Mountain Landscape Sterling
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table cigarette case with rounded corners in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on a fine hand-engrave...
Category
1970s Italian Modern Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Snuffbox with miniature of Venice, English Queen Anne style, 925 silver Salimben
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Octagonal snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with English Queen Anne style borders and sides with translucent fired enamel on hand engraving similar to wood grain. On t...
Category
1980s Italian Queen Anne Vintage Franco Salimbeni Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Franco Salimbeni boxes for sale on 1stDibs.
Franco Salimbeni boxes are available for sale on 1stDibs. These distinctive items are frequently made of sterling silver and are designed with extraordinary care. There are many options to choose from in our collection of Franco Salimbeni boxes, although gold editions of this piece are particularly popular. Many of the original boxes by Franco Salimbeni were created in the Art Nouveau style in italy during the 20th century. Prices for Franco Salimbeni boxes can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — on 1stDibs, these items begin at $417 and can go as high as $14,212, while a piece like these, on average, fetch $2,410.