Enamel Decorative Dishes and Vide-Poche

This is a charming mid-century vide-poche in enamel-on-copper. The catchall features an abstraction of multi-colored pebbles on a stunning lustrous gold enamel background. The dish c...

Pair of Samson Plates with Solid Silver Rim – 19th Century French Elegance This exquisite pair of Samson porcelain plates originates from France and dates back to the 19th century. C...

Beautiful trinket dish or eyeglass or sunglasses tray. This piece by Kelvin Chen goes hand in hand with his whimsical designs that juxtapose iconic art leg...

1960s Hildegard abstract modernist art yellow copper enamel plate with Grapes Signed art Hildegard. Measures: 7.75 diameter x .75 d Preowned...

Large size Bovine serving tray or charger . Fused glass on copper . The history of Bovano of Cheshire began in 1952, when artist Jim Bower began experimenting with powdered glass fu...

Impressive art nouveau vase designed by Soyer Et Fils. An extremely rare and very important piece, created in Paris, France at the atelier of Soyer Et Fils during the art nouveau ...

Italian contemporary post-modern Work of Art in the shape of a castle crown in majolica, exclusive design by Ceramica Gatti, an Art Studio of long tradition and Designer Ettore Sotts...

Italian contemporary post-modern Work of Art in the shape of a castle crown in majolica, exclusive design by Ceramica Gatti, an Art Studio of long tradition and Designer Ettore Sotts...

Recognized for his technically superior and beautiful metal patinations for tableware, Munich born Ludwig Vierthaler’s designs and metalwork caught the attention of Tiffany & Co., NY...

Set of French Antique Enameled Canisters France, early 20th century This charming set looks and feels like it has had a full life but still has so much love to give Each rich brick c...

Collection of decorative plates made with the technique of hot enamel on copper. The collection was conceived at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and is a tribute to abstract exp...

Collection of decorative plates made using the technique of hot enamel on copper. The colours and motifs come from a visit to the Guggenheim Museum in New York, while the technique i...

Decorative plate made of enameled copper, a complex decorative technique that involves subjecting a copper object covered with glass powders to firing at a very high temperature, a p...

Copper enameled plate by California artist, Jade Snow Wong c.1950s. The plate features a copper form with a turquoise enamel glaze. Signed on the underside. Dimensions 10.5" diamete...

A lovely large Chinese Canton enamel quatrefoil tray, Republic Period, circa 1920, China. The copper tray of lobed quatrefoil form, and decor...

This valuable bowl is made from massive bronze totally decorated with black, red, yellow and blue enamel. It is signed next to the edge by artist "Marè" and remains in perfect condit...

Collection of decorative plates made with the technique of hot enamel on copper. The collection was conceived at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and is a tribute to abstract exp...

Collection of decorative plates made with the technique of hot enamel on copper. The collection was conceived at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and is a tribute to abstract exp...

Collection of decorative plates made with the technique of hot enamel on copper. The collection was conceived at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and is a tribute to abstract exp...

Important tray made in gilded bronze and “cloisonné” enamel attributed to Elkington and Willms. Ornamented with a centering polychrome enameled peacock plaque, made of very high standard quality, mounted on a gilt-bronze dish, decorated in relief with Japanese Nô theater masks. The great Birmingham firm of Elkingtons, was largely the creation of George Richards Elkington (1800-1865), who worked from 1824 in Birmingham as a manufacturer of silver-mounted scent bottles. By 1829 the business had expanded sufficiently for a branch to have been established in London. In the late 1830s the Elkingtons began making experiments to apply the principles of electro-metallurgy to gilding and plating with silver and in 1840 the patent was at last taken out. Elkingtons owed their rise to a position amongst the most important silversmiths of the country to their exploitation of this new process and the two of the most famous designers then employed, both of them French, Albert Wilms (1827-1899) and Morel-Ladeuil (1820-1888), who helped to make Elkingtons’ reputation with their elaborate exhibition pieces. Albert Willms was apprenticed as modeler and engraver to Klagman, Dieterle and Constant in Paris before working for Morel & Co. in London in 1848. On his return to Paris he was employed by the great Parisian silversmiths including Christofle and Froment-Meurice, for whom he designed pieces to be presented at the 1855 Universal Exhibition in Paris. It was during this period that he joined the firm of Elkington in London as head decorator. Elkington was soon to become one of the first to produce refined pieces in “champlevé” enamel in the Chinese and Japanese styles, which were presented with great success at the London Universal Exhibition in 1862 (see Masterpieces of Industrial Art & Sculpture at the International Exhibition 1862, J.B. Waring, London, 1863, III, pl. 211). Willms’ “champlevé” enamels could not be compared, however, with the delicate “cloisonné” enamels exhibited by Japan at the Universal Exhibition in Paris in 1867. This explains why Elkington adapted the ancient Japanese technique to produce pieces according to European taste and custom. Followings the 1867 Exhibition all the major European artists rivaled in ingenuity for the 1873 Universal Exhibition in Vienna. In London Albert Willms presented his luxurious vases and cups in “cloisonné” enamel for Elkington (see Illustrations of Art Manufacturers in the Precious Metals exhibited by Elkington & Co., Inventors, Patentees and Manufactures of electroplate, 1873), whilst in Paris, Ferdinand Thesmar (1843-1912) produced in the workshops of Ferdinand Barbedienne (1810-1892) a tray decorated with a golden pheasant in “cloisonné” enamel on copper...

Collection of decorative plates made with the technique of hot enamel on copper. The collection was conceived at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and is a tribute to abstract exp...

Trio of petite Danish modern, colored enamel, sterling silver, heart-shaped stacking dishes in shimmering green and glossy black. Marked Meka Denmark on t...

Decorative plates made of enameled copper, a complex decorative technique that involves subjecting a copper object covered with glass powders to firing at a very high temperature, a ...

Collection of decorative plates made using the technique of hot enamel on copper. The colours and motifs come from a visit to the Guggenheim Museum in New York, while the technique i...

Collection of decorative plates made with the technique of hot enamel on copper. The collection was conceived at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and is a tribute to abstract exp...

Richly colored plique a jour beaker, ca 1910. Straight and gently tapering sides. Ornament includes stylized flower heads in rondels and beaded and guilloche borders. Colors red and ...

Decorative plate made of enameled copper, a complex decorative technique that involves subjecting a copper object covered with glass powders to firing at a very high temperature, a p...

The technique of fire enamelling on copper is as simple to describe as it is complex to implement. It consists of subjecting a copper object covered with glass powder to a high-tempe...

Decorative plate made of enameled copper, a complex decorative technique that involves subjecting a copper object covered with glass powders to firing at a very high temperature, a p...

Beautiful pair of polychrome “cloisonné” enamel display dishes attributed to A. Giroux, decorated with birds flying over rushes and flowers on a sky blue background, bordered with a stylized foliate motif frieze. Finely mounted with gilded bronze ornaments such bamboos, masks and scrolls. Alphonse Giroux and company, famous curiosity and luxury goods shop was situated at No. 7 rue du Coq-Saint-Honoré and in business from the time of the Consulate until the end of the Second Empire. The company was founded by Francois-Simon-Alphonse and continued in 1838 by his two sons, Alphonse-Gustave (1810-1886) and André (1801-1879). The father became a close associate of the royal family and specialized in the manufacture of refined items for gifts, winning a silver medal at the in 1834. Kings Louis XVIII and then Charles X were both supplied with gifts for “The Children of France” by Giroux. Making progressively small furniture, they were mentionned for the first time in 1837 in the class “cabinet...

Antique French Jeweled Enamel "Vide Poche" circa 1855-75.