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Material: Sterling Silver
Pill Box Fired Enamel with Hand Painted Horse Head Sterling Silver 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 Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Sterling Silver Baroque style biscuit box
Located in VALENZA, IT
Baroque-style round box.
The body and lid of the box are engraved with scrolls, typical of the Baroque style.
To highlight this workmanship, a knurling, that is, a dense hammering, w...
Category
2010s Baroque Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
$2,317 / item
French Art Deco Sterling Silver, Enamel Glass-Mounted Burled Walnut Table Box
Located in New York, NY
Fabulous, rare, Art Deco, sterling silver, rust colored enamel and beveled glass-mounted burled walnut table box with hinged lid, Paris, circa 1910...
Category
1910s French Art Deco Vintage Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Tiffany American Midcentury Modern Box with Chinese Dragon Finial
By Tiffany
Co.
Located in New York, NY
Midcentury Modern sterling silver box. Made by Tiffany & Co. in New York. Rectangular with straight sides. Cover hinged and flat with scalloped corners and slight overhanding. Cast C...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Antique English Glass
Sterling Silver String / Twine Jar or Box, 1899
Located in Bath, GB
A most unusual late Victorian fine string or twine box made from glass with a star cut base, the base mounted with a sterling silver foot and fitted with a solid silver lid topped wi...
Category
1890s British Late Victorian Antique Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Smart
Modern American Sterling Silver Desk Box by Tiffany
By Tiffany
Co.
Located in New York, NY
Smart and Modern sterling silver box. Made by Tiffany & Co. in New York. Rectangular with straight sides. Cover flat and hinged with slight overhang. Stylish Midcentury design. Box i...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Victorian Burl Walnut Gentlemans Dressing Box
Located in Essex, MA
Rectangular hinged top opening to a box fitted with sterling capped jars and tools. One lid is damaged.
Category
1850s English Victorian Antique Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Hawkes Sterling Silver and Crystal Rectangular Box, 1950
s
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
T.G. Hawkes & Co. was founded in 1880 by Thomas Gibbons Hawkes in Tiffin Ohio. This impressive cut crystal and sterling silver box by Hawkes features a classic sterling lid. The inte...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Sterling Silver
19th/20th C. Repoussé Silver Box Mythical Guardian Figure, Tibet or South India
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Repoussé Silver Box with Mythical Guardian Figure, Tibet or South India
Late 19th–Early 20th Century
Two pieces, the top and bottom, fit securely for a total weight of 58 grams.
A...
Category
Early 20th Century Tibetan Tibetan Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Small Egg style Faberge Enamel hand painted wreaths Sterling Silver 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 Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Enamel, Sterling Silver
Egg style Faberge Dark Brown Enamel Small Size Sterling Silver 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 Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
George Reevers, Dutch .934 Silver Biscuit Box, Rope Borders, Holland, C.1838
Located in Chatham, ON
GEORGE REEVERS (Maker - Silversmith) - Extraordinary and rare Dutch fine silver round biscuit box - 934/1000 silver - finest quality and timeless design (nearly 200 years old) - classic rope twist borders (two to the top and one to the base) - indent to the edge of the hinged lid for easy opening and grip - original green wool felt base liner (not photographed...
Category
1830s Dutch Neoclassical Antique Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
$2,730 Sale Price
30% Off
Tall Silver
Guilloche Enamel Lidded Jar by Goldsmith
s and Silversmith
s Co.
Located in Bath, GB
A stunning tall vanity / dressing table jar, probably used for either hatpins or a toothbrush, hence the little cork lining to the interior of the base.
The glass is channel cut...
Category
1930s British Art Deco Vintage Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Heart table box Yellow enamel Sterling Silver 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 Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Victorian Sterling Silver Repoussé Trinket Box Putti Garden Scene, London, 1886
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Victorian Sterling Silver Repoussé Trinket Box with Putti Garden Scene, London, 1886, by Jacob & John Keyser
Dimensions: 3.75” W x 2.5” D x 1.25” H, 79 grams
Country of Origin: En...
Category
Late 19th Century American High Victorian Antique Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Antique Kirk Baltimore Small Sterling Silver Box with Pastoral Scene
By S. Kirk
Sons
Located in New York, NY
Edwardian sterling silver box. Made by S. Kirk & Son Co. in Baltimore, ca 1910. Round with straight sides. Cover raised and overhanging with pictorial pastoral scene: A watermill in ...
Category
Early 20th Century American Edwardian Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Snuffbox with miniature of Venice, English Queen Anne style, 925 silver Salimben
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 Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Antique Victorian English Sterling Silver Vinaigrette
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
A fine antique Victorian English sterling silver vinaigrette; an addition to our silver boxes collection
This fine antique Victori...
Category
Early 1900s English Victorian Antique Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Pillbox round fire enamel hand painted landscape miniature Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Round pillbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fire enamel and landscape miniature hand painted by the painter Renato Dainelli in Art Nouveau style. Dimensions diameter c...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Maitland Smith Tessellated Marble and Tortoise Shell Box
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Maitland Smith tessellated stone box with a mother of pearl finial handle. The interior of the box is lined with a black felt and has a removable lid. The box rests on sterling silver ball and claw feet as well as the entirety of the box is framed with a sterling silver border.
History and craftsmanship for nearly four decades Maitland-Smith has been in the business of creating exquisite and unique decorative accessories, lighting and accent furniture and elegant mirrors from our La Barge Collection. Founded by a London antiques dealer with the eye of a connoisseur, Maitland-Smith has carried on the tradition of creating stunning accents for the home of the highest quality. From the beginning, our many workrooms have been artisan based and employ time-honored techniques developed before the machine age. Many of these skills date back to the world’s earliest civilizations, and are associated with Fine quality furniture and decorative arts. Maitland-Smith is well-known for many handcrafted specialties, including hand carved tropical mahogany, handcut and inlaid exotic wood veneers, lost wax cast metal mounts and decorative objects, as well as, traditional vegetable tanned and hand-tooled leather. Other areas of expertise include finely executed porcelains, sophisticated finishing techniques, and detailed hand painting. Maitland Smith draws inspiration from great works from the 18th, 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries and in collaboration with design partners Tony Duquette Studios and its president, Hutton Wilkinson and also Celerie Kemble, Donald Bustraan...
Category
Late 20th Century Philippine Modern Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Stone, Marble, Sterling Silver
$1,840 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique Sterling Silver
Enamel Arabian Box with Chased Decoration
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This antique box is signed by an unknown maker, but presumed to have originated from the UAE and date to approximately 1920 and done in the period Bessarabian style. The box is compo...
Category
Late 19th Century Emirian Bessarabian Antique Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Rare Antique English Sterling Silver Postage Stamp Box by Grey
Co.
Located in Bath, GB
A stunning and rare Edwardian triple postage stamp box made from solid English sterling silver fully hallmarked for London 1909 together with the makers mark for the top notch silver...
Category
Early 1900s English Edwardian Antique Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
$2,497 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique Silver Card Case, Birmingham 1910, Adie and Lovekin
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Antique silver card case, Birmingham 1910, Adie and Lovekin. The card case in the form of a purse with chain attached and ring finger loop. Ri...
Category
1910s English Vintage Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
$440 Sale Price
20% Off
Box shaped enamel hand painted, engraved and miniature Sterling Silver 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 Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Pill Box oval Silver Sterling Enameled and handcarved Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Domed oval pillbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamels on guillochè, top and bottom, with fine hand-engravings. Viennese Art Nouveau style second h...
Category
Early 2000s Italian Louis XVI Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Enamel, Sterling Silver
American Modern Sterling Silver
Enamel Polo Horse Box
Located in New York, NY
Modern sterling box, ca 1920. Rectangular with straight sides. Cover hinged with overhanging rim and curved top; in black enamel, a polo player on charging pony with raised mallet. C...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box Squared Green Enamel with oval miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Square table box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamels on sunburst guillochè and Louis XVI French Empire style ornaments. External measurements cm. 12 x 12 x 2.5. Weight gr. 636- Fine oval miniature cm. 3.2 x 4.2 hand painted in tempera on a vegetable ivory plate by the painter Anna Maria Manfriani reproducing a portrait of a Flemish lady...
Category
1990s Italian Louis XVI Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
EDWARDIAN 1900 Pforzheim Guilloché Enamel Pendant Mirror-Box In .925 Sterling
Located in Miami, FL
German pendant mirror box in Guilloché enamel.
This is a beautiful guilloche open-box pendant created in Pforzheim Germany during the belle Epoque-Edwardian period, back in the begi...
Category
Early 1900s German Edwardian Antique Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Sterling Silver, Enamel, Silver
1890s Chinese Export Silver Locking Box
By Heng Li
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique Chinese export silver box with lock; an addition to our oriental silver collection.
This exceptional antique Chinese Export Silver (CES) locking box has a rectangular form.
The surface of this antique box with lock is embellished with a chased decorated matte texture with a variety of embossed and chased decorated stemmed floral and foliate designs to the sides, including cherry blossom and iris arrangements.
The upper surface of the cover is ornamented with an embossed and chased decorated scene depicting a grassy terrain surrounding a tree with fan shaped leaves by the side of a winding stream, with a traditional Chinese crane...
Category
1890s Chinese Antique Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
20th Century Italian Sterling Silver Oblong Box
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 Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
$1,511 Sale Price / item
20% Off
Rare Important Estate Hand Hammered STERLING Silver Frank M Whiting Dish Bowl
Located in New York, NY
The Following Item is A Spectacular and Very Beautiful Hand Hammered and Etched Scrolled Sterling Silver Frank M Whiting Candy Dish. Beautifully done with Exquisite Sterling Silver ...
Category
20th Century English Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
$350 Sale Price
30% Off
Egg Purple Red enamel with tripod Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Egg Purple Red enamel is in 925/1000 sterling silver.
Egg Purple Red enamel has fired enamels on guilloché has fired enamels on guilloché and design engraved by hand.
Egg Purple Red...
Category
1960s Italian Empire Vintage Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
American Midcentury Modern Sterling Silver Box
By Becht
Hartl
Located in New York, NY
Midcentury Modern sterling silver box. Made by Becht & Hartl, Inc. in Newark. Rectangular with straight sides and beaded rim. Cover hinged and gently curved. Box interior cedar lined...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Pillbox Queen Victoria English style Shaped 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 Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Enamel, Sterling Silver
Rosewood, Silver and Enamel Box by Silversmith Ottaviani
By Ottaviani
Located in Uccle, BE
Rosewood box decorated with a sterling silver and enamel plaque by the Italian silversmith Ottaviani, circa 1960s. Signed with the maker’s signature and “925”.
Notes: Ottaviani (1945-contemporary) is a jewelry and silver firm located in the small seaside...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
X-Small Egg style Faberge Yellow Enamel hand painted wreaths 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 Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Enamel, Sterling Silver
X-Small Egg style Faberge Sapphire Blue Enamel Sterling Silver 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 Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
X-Small Egg style Faberge Aquamarine Enamel Sterling Silver 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 Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
DEAKIN
FRANCIS 1935 Birmingham Guilloche Green Enamel Box In .925 Sterling
Located in Miami, FL
An art deco guilloche enamel box designed by Deakin & Francis.
This is a fabulous squared antique case-box, created in the city of Birmingham England at the silversmiths of Deakin &...
Category
1930s English Art Deco Vintage Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver, Enamel, 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 Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Fine Cloisonné Enamel Silver Pill Box
Located in Worcester, GB
Fine Cloisonné Enamel Silver Pill Box
A finely crafted kidney-shaped sterling silver pill box, delicately enamelled throughout in vibrant shades of cobalt blue, turquoise, burgundy...
Category
Mid-20th Century Indian Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box hand-engraved wood grain with Coral 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...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box Heart shape Red passion fire-enameled on guilloche Salimbeni.
Located in Firenze, FI
Heart-shaped table box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold-plated with translucent fired enamel on guilloché above and below. Modern contemporary style. Dimensions cm. 8.8 x 8 cm high....
Category
1990s Italian Modern Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Salimbeni Pillbox Semi-Invisible Lid Sterling Silver Natural
Located in Firenze, FI
Salimbeni Pillbox in 925/1000 sterling Silver, oval section with lid with lost hinge, that is, semi-invisible.
Salimbeni Pillbox has guilloche with Art Deco early 20th century styl...
Category
1970s Italian Modern Vintage Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Pill Box Brown and Turquise Stripes Enamel Guilloche Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Square pill box with oval section in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with two-tone translucent fired enamels with guillochè stripes and hand-engraved motifs on all sides. George...
Category
1970s Italian George IV Vintage Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Table Box table box with finely embossed and hand-chiseled 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 Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Table Box portrait of Empress Eugenia de Montijo miniature Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
More than a kilo of sterling silver was needed to create this stunning rectangular tabletop box.
Worked with the very complicated guilloche technique, it was then enamelled at high heat with translucent enamel to make the superb workmanship shine through.
The fine rectangular miniature cm. 7.5 x 10.7 on vegetable ivory.
The small masterpiece handmade by the painter Anna Maria Manfriani reproduces the famous portrait of Empress Eugenia de Montijo, by the painter Franz Xaver Winterhalter.
The unenamelled sterling silver parts were then gilded with a 24-carat galvanic bath.
In Art Nouveau style, with a “lost” zip, i.e. semi-invisible. Dimensions cm. 15 x 18 x 3.5. Weight gr. 1095. Designed by Giorgio Salimbeni in 1980 and manufactured in Florence at the Salimbeni company headquarters with completely manual execution by artisan artists with a very thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for supporting numerous enamelling firings at around 800°
Doña María Eugenia Ignacia Agustina de Palafox y Kirkpatrick, 19th Countess of Teba, 16th Marquise of Ardales known as Eugénie de Montijo was Empress of the French from her marriage to Napoleon III on 30 January 1853 until the fall of the Emperor on 4 September 1870. From July 28 to September 4...
Category
1980s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Cigarette Case Fired Enamel with Still Life Miniature Sterling Silver 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 Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold
Sterling Silver Boxes, Antique George IV
1823
By John Reily
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive, rare pair of antique George IV English sterling silver boxes; an addition to our 19th century silverware collection.
These exceptional and rare antique George IV sterling silver boxes have a plain rectangular form.
The surface of each silver box is plain and unembellished, with applied thread decoration to the lower rim.
Each box is fitted with a plain hinged hallmarked cover, ornamented with further applied thread decoration to the upper rim.
The upper plateaus of the covers are individually embellished with an impressive contemporary bright cut engraved crest: one bears out of a ducal coronet a wyvern below the motto 'Avi Numerantur Avorum' - The forefathers of our forefathers are numbered and to the other an eagle regardant with wings extended grasping an escutcheon charged with a lion's head, below the 'Virtute et Robore' - By Virtue and Strength.
By virtue of its size these versatile 19th century boxes could be used for a multitude of functions.
Such original boxes of this period and size are becoming increasingly difficult to locate.
Condition
These antique silver dressing table...
Category
19th Century English George IV Antique Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Belt with Napoleon III style enameled Sterling silver decoration Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Belt in real black lizard reptile with rectangular buckle in gilded 925/1000 silver with translucent fired enamel on guilloche surrounded by engraving of enamelled leaves, in French ...
Category
1990s Italian Napoleon III Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
George Betjemann Art Deco Sterling Silver Mounted White Onyx and Lapis Box
By George Bentjemann
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
George Betjemann & Sons George V Art Deco Sterling Silver Mounted White Onyx Box with stepped Lapis Lazuli corners.
Box features three compartments. Imp...
Category
1930s English Art Deco Vintage Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Onyx, Sterling Silver
Salimbeni Table Box Art Nouveau Painting Pre-Raphaelite School Fired Enamel
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 Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
$3,164 Sale Price
20% Off
Fine French Sterling Art Deco Ram Motif Square Table Box, Circa 1925
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Fine French Sterling Art Deco Ram Motif Square Table Box, Circa 1925
French Silver hallmark Minervas Head with #3 and Silversmith mark of KISS F
An Extraordinary example of signed ...
Category
20th Century French Art Deco Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
$1,516 Sale Price
20% Off
Victorian Sterling Silver and Enamel Flag Vesta Case
By Joseph Walton
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique Victorian sterling silver and enamel flag vesta case; an addition to our maritime silverware collection.
This antique Victorian sterling silver vesta case has a plain rectangular rounded form.
The anterior surface is embellished with a central enamel design depicting British Navy Code of Signal flags: 'Blue Ball' - a white flag with a blue center, a red flag with a yellow St George's Cross and a blue field with a central horizontal white stripe.
These flags represent the individual letters 'S', 'R' and 'J'; their combined definition is untraced.
The posterior surface of this antique vesta case is plain and unembellished.
This fine silver flag...
Category
Early 1900s English Victorian Antique Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Table Box portrait of Natalia Nikolaevna Pushkina Lanskaja Salimbeni.
Located in Firenze, FI
Spectacular table box with inward corners in gold-plated 925/1000 sterling silver with translucent enamel fired on guilloche, in Art Nouveau style, and in the center a fine rectangul...
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1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Belt real black python buckle Sterling Silver Art Deco Style Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Belt in real black python reptile with rectangular buckle in 925/1000 gold-plated silver with columns, with Art Deco design fire-enamelled in 3 colors enriched with pure gold sequins...
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1990s Italian Art Deco Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold, Gold Plate
Sterling Silver and Bone Box
Located in New York, NY
Sterling silver and bone box. Antique Continental dark bone/horn fitted case with sterling silver mounts and central oval for monogram; originally a t...
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Mid-19th Century European Antique Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Pill Box Silver Sterling Enamel Miniature Sailing Ship 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 Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Egg Plum enamel with tripod Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Egg Plum enamel is in 925/1000 sterling silver.
Egg Plum enamel has fired enamels on guilloché has fired enamels on guilloché and design engraved by hand.
Egg Plum enamel is Russian...
Category
1960s Italian Empire Vintage Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Set Picture Frame+Table Box Enamel two-tone ruby red and emerald green Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular Photo Frame in Gold-Plated 925/1000 Silver: Imagine a frame that frames your most precious memories with elegance and modernity. This frame is made of gold-plated 925/100...
Category
Early 2000s Italian Modern Sterling Silver Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold, Gold Plate
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