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Pill Box White Enamel Art Nouveau style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
$1,159.18
£868.89
€976
CA$1,602.98
A$1,745.23
CHF 931.90
MX$21,067.71
NOK 11,715.64
SEK 10,896.91
DKK 7,436.05
About the Item
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. Diameter cm. 4.7 cm high. 3.1 weight gr. 64. Produced in various specimens of different colors in the headquarters of the Salimbeni firm in Florence with manual processing by skilled artisan artists.
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.
- Creator:Salimbeni (Manufacturer),Franco Salimbeni (Designer)
- Dimensions:Height: 1.23 in (3.1 cm)Diameter: 1.86 in (4.7 cm)
- Style:Art Nouveau (In the Style Of)
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- Place of Origin:
- Period:
- Date of Manufacture:1978
- Condition:
- Seller Location:Firenze, IT
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU6492236139702
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