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Table Box Fired Enamel Guillochè and Hand Engravings Sterling Silver 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 Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Enamel, Sterling Silver
Javanese Solid Teak Storage Box with Engravings Mid-20th Century
Located in Jimbaran, Bali
This teak storage box comes for the Island of Java, Indonesia. Dating to the Mid-20th Century it was crafted from a single block of teak. It features ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Indonesian Folk Art Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Teak
19th century Swedish hand painted oak strong box
Located in Debenham, Suffolk
19th century Swedish hand painted oak strong box circa 1820.
We are pleased to offer this beautiful box, which has many uses around the home.
Made from solid oak, featuring origina...
Category
Early 19th Century Swedish Baroque Revival Antique Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Iron
English Georgian Chinroserie Tortoise Shell Tea Caddy with Ball Feet, C. 1800
Located in Charleston, SC
English Georgian Chinroserie bow front tortoise shell tea caddy with a hinged tiered lid, Chinese landscape mother of pearl inlays with flanking pagodas, fences, & foliage trees, central paktong plaque and escutcheon, bone fitted interior border with two lidded tortoiseshell foil lined compartments, and resting on the original four bone ball...
Category
Early 1800s English Georgian Antique Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Foil
19th Century French Provencal Decorative Box or Fariniere
Located in Winter Park, FL
An 18th century French fariniere, made of walnut with nicely detailed hand carved sunflower relief on front panel. Good craftsmanship with dovetailed construction. Waxed patina. From...
Category
19th Century French French Provincial Antique Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Walnut
Early 20th Century Hand Painted / Tooled Decorative Wood Jewelry or Keepsake Box
Located in Wainscott, NY
This detailed wooden jewelry or keepsake box is likely of European origin as it was found in Italy. The upholstered interior and key lock lean into the idea of a jewelry box origina...
Category
20th Century Italian Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Fruitwood
French Art Deco sewing box in sculpted wood, ca. 1900
Located in Meulebeke, BE
France / 1900 / sewing box / wood, fabric / Art Deco / Mid-century / Vintage
Very decorative French sewing box with graphical carvings and a yellow ...
Category
Early 1900s Belgian Art Deco Antique Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Fabric, Wood
Vintage Japanese Temple Style Box
Located in Dallas, TX
PRESENTING A LOVELY Vintage Japanese Temple Style Box.
Made of rosewood, this box has a cover featuring ‘Buddhist Swastikas’ on the front.
The cover lifts off to reveal a tabernacle with 2 carved dragons on wither side.
Probably made in the first quarter of the 20th Century, circa 1920-30.
Rectangular shaped for the storage of deities statues...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Japonisme Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
19th century Scandinavian rustic pine cutlery box
Located in Debenham, Suffolk
19th century Scandinavian rustic pine cutlery box circa 1880.
Good quality item which we have labelled a cutlery box, but could quite easily have been a tool box.
Shaped handle for...
Category
Late 19th Century Swedish Rustic Antique Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Pine, Paint
20th Century Italian Silvered Bronze Mounted Clear-over-red Domed Crystal Box
Located in New York, NY
An Unusual 20th Century Italian Silvered Bronze Mounted Clear-Over-red crystal box The box is composed of two sections of Italian clear-over-red crysta...
Category
Early 1900s Italian Art Nouveau Antique Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Cigarette Case Fired Enamel on a Fine Hand-Engraved Mountain Landscape Sterling
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...
Category
1960s Italian Modern Vintage Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
21st Century, Hand-Carved yellow and pink Crystal and Bronze Box
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 Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
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 Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
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 Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Enamel, Sterling Silver
Salimbeni Box with Swiss Musical Mechanism by Maison Reuge Art Deco 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 Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Vintage Moroccan Burlwood Jewelry Box
Located in Middleburg, VA
A captivating and finely crafted vintage Moroccan box, made circa 1900, fashioned from richly figured burled Amboyna wood. Designed in the form of a stacked set of antique books, thi...
Category
20th Century Moroccan Moorish Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
21st Century, Hand-Carved Green and Amber Crystal and Bronze Box
Located in Calenzano, FI
Amber and green crystal box with cut engravings embellished with brass detail made with the artisan lost wax technique with patinated silver finish. Each object is handcrafted and th...
Category
2010s Italian Louis XVI Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Early 20th Century French Louis XIV Carved Walnut Bombe Miniature Commode Chest
Located in Dallas, TX
Decorate a master bathroom counter with this miniature chest of drawers. Crafted in France, circa 1920, the petite fruitwood "Commode de Maitrise" (or masterwork created by a cabinetmaker's apprentice to prove mastery of his craft at the end of his apprenticeship), sits on four bun feet; the chest features three bombe drawers across the front decorated with intricate handles. The small antique cabinet...
Category
Early 20th Century French Louis XIV Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Walnut
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 Hand-Carved 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 Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Enamel, Sterling Silver
Art Nouveau jewelry box in sculpted wood, France ca. 1915
Located in Meulebeke, BE
France / 1900 / sewing box / wood / Art Deco / Art Nouveau
An elegant jewelry box in sculpted wood. Crafted around 1900 in France.
A beautiful box to keep your small treasures saf...
Category
1910s French Art Nouveau Vintage Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
An elegant circular boxwith its lid carved from sculpted onyx - France - 1970
Located in SOTTEVILLE-LÈS-ROUEN, FR
An elegant circular box or candy jar with its lid carved from sculpted onyx, embodying timeless elegance in the French craftsmanship style of the 1970s.
Category
1970s French Hollywood Regency Vintage Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Onyx
$363 Sale Price
20% Off
A Rosso Antico Marble Model of the Sarcophagus from the Tomb of the Scipios
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Large Rosso Antico Marble Model of the Sarcophagus from the Tomb of the Scipios. Attributed To The Workshop Of Benedetto Boschetti.
The lid with palm-scrolled ends, is inscribed ...
Category
19th Century Italian Neoclassical Antique Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Marble
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 Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Snuffbox Vessel Miniature Hand-Painted Sterling Silver Enamel 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 Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Vintage Italian Genuine Hand Carved Gold and Green Round Alabaster Trinket Box
Located in Miami, FL
Vintage Italian genuine hand carved tan and green alabaster box, trinket, made in Italy.
Round lidded hinged trinket jewelry box, rich gold and bro...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Stone, Alabaster
French Boite à Sel or Salt Box
Located in Winter Park, FL
An early 20th century French boite à sel, or salt box, made of solid walnut with hinged lid and small drawer. A rustic hand-crafted box with dark waxed finish. This box was used to s...
Category
Early 20th Century French French Provincial Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Walnut
Corru Vessel no4 – Modern Handmade Glazed Ceramic and Carved Sapele Wood Lid
Located in Philadelphia, PA
The fourth in an ongoing series of large vessels in corrugated texture works. Most of these works incorporate a second material in the making of a lid or top. This work features a ha...
Category
2010s American Modern Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware, Sapele Wood
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 Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Wooden Satchel Box Maria Handpainted from 1803 Germany
Located in Hannover, DE
Here you can see a very rare and early wooden satchel from the beginning of the 19th century. An exceptionally decorative object of this period, made with craftsmanship precision and...
Category
Early 1800s French Regency Antique Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bentwood, Paint
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...
Category
1990s Italian Art Deco Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold, Gold Plate
19th Century French Boite à Sel or Salt Box
Located in Winter Park, FL
A 19th century French boite à sel, or salt box, hand-crafted of solid walnut with hinged lid and small dovetailed drawer. Clover leaf detail. Waxed finish. This box was used to store...
Category
19th Century French French Provincial Antique Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Walnut
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 Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Large Decorative Round Copper Box with Lid Northern India
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Very large beautiful vintage handcrafted decorative round copper box with lid, latch and handle
Delicately and intricately hand-hammered with geometric designs.
Hand crafted by skill...
Category
Early 20th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass, Copper, Tin
Mid-18th Century Decorative Lacquered Wooden Tobacco Snuff Box Black
Located in Brescia, IT
This fine wood lacquered wood case is painted both on the sides: there is the elegant portrait of a pretty woman on one side and on the other side, a natura...
Category
Mid-18th Century Austrian Baroque Antique Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Fabric, Wood, Lacquer
$717 Sale Price
20% Off
Snuffbox female face wearing Art Nouveau style clothing Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rounded rectangular snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fine hand-painted fire-enamelled miniature depicting a female face wearing Art Nouveau style clothing, hand-...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Baroque Style Green Table Box with Miniature Sterling Silver 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 fired enamels on guillochè and a beautiful h...
Category
1960s Italian Baroque Vintage Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
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...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, 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 Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, 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 Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Betel Nut Box from Java with Polychromed Finish, Indonesia, c. 1900
Located in Jimbaran, Bali
Betel Nut is consumed on a daily basis in a large portion of the Indonesian Archipelago. In Java, betel nut was offered as a sign of respect and hospitality when people would visit o...
Category
Early 20th Century Indonesian Tribal Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Hardwood
$260 Sale Price
20% Off
Primitive Hand Carved Tripodal Tea Caddy Box with Metal Trim, Belgium 1940
s
Located in New York, NY
Charming hand carved box with metal detail.
Category
1940s Belgian Primitive Vintage Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal
Anglo-Raj Marble Inlay Box Pietra Dura
Located in Fort Washington, MD
Anglo Raj inlaid marble pietra dura decorative box
This handmade marble decorative box is inlaid with semi precious stones, jasper, malachite, carnelian, mother of pearl, lapis lazuli, this type of design is the same art that you see in the Taj Mahal.
Very nice fine pietra dura art...
Category
Mid-20th Century Indian Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Marble
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 Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Pill Box monochrome hand-painted miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Octagonal pillbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired asu guillochè enamel also on all sides and monochrome hand-painted miniature on the lid. Dimensions c...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
19th Century French Provencal Walnut Fariniere Box
Located in Winter Park, FL
A 19th century French Provençal fariniere, or decorative box made of walnut with fine hand-carved decoration. Waxed patina. This beautifully crafted household item was commonly given...
Category
19th Century French Antique Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Walnut
Charles II Needlework Casket, Second Half of the 17th Century
Located in Milford, NH
A fine example of an English needlework casket from the Charles II period (1660-1685), with silk work exterior panels depicting various figures and animals, a top mirrored compartmen...
Category
Late 17th Century English Charles II Antique Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass, Iron
Pill Box Hand Painted Miniature of a Lady with Small Dog, Art Nouveau 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 Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
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 Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
$3,181 Sale Price
20% Off
Pill Box Sterling Silver Hand Painted Miniature Enamel on Guillochè Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Shaped pillbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with hand-painted miniature in Louis XVI style, second half of the 19th century, and fine hand engravings. Measure cm. 3,5 x 4,...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Table Box Fired Enamel on Guillochè Arab-Style Ornament Sterling Silver Salimben
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 Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Carved
Polished Cow Horn William IV Portrait Patch Box, England, 19th Century
Located in San Francisco, CA
This 19th-century English patch box dates to the early–mid 1800s and is carved and polished from cow horn. It consists of two carved sections and measures approximately 2 inches in d...
Category
19th Century English William IV Antique Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Horn
Art Deco Box Dankarmen Paris
Located in Northampton, GB
Lined in Royal Blue Padded Velvet
From our Boxes collection, we are pleased to offer this Art Deco Macassar Ebony Box. The box of slim rectangular form with an inset scene featuring...
Category
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Velvet, Ebony, Macassar
Snuffbox Head of the Statue of Liberty in New York hand painted Sterling Silver
Located in Firenze, FI
Rounded rectangular snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling silver with fine hand-painted fire-enamelled miniature depicting the Head of the Statue of Liberty in New York. Dimensions cm. 5.5 x 7 x 1.8. Weight gr. 105. Designed by Giorgio Salimbeni in 1975 in Art Deco style and executed in numerous specimens, at the specific request of the firm Tiffany
Co., in Florence in the headquarters of the Salimbeni firm with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for sustaining 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...
Category
1970s Italian Art Deco Vintage Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box Octagonal Light Blue Fired Enamel and Miniature Madame Drouais on Sali
Located in Firenze, FI
Octagonal table box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè and beautiful hand-painted enamelled miniature by the painter Beatrice Mellana reproducing the portrait of Madame Drouais painted by her husband Francois Hubert in 1785 and conserved in the Louvre Museum. Fine hand-engravings on the sides. French Empire style. Measure cm. 8x8x3.7. Weight gr. 285. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1989 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 eamelled 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...
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1980s Italian Other Vintage Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
French Art Deco Carved Love Doves Oak, Walnut and Rosewood Box Signed R.Vidal
Located in Haarlem, NL
Very pretty Art Deco love letter box in carved walnut wood, would also be great to keep jewellery in.
Two detailed carved doves lying in an amorous em...
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Early 19th Century French Art Deco Antique Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Oak, Rosewood, Walnut
$2,360 Sale Price
20% Off
19th Century French Boite à Sel or Salt Box
Located in Winter Park, FL
An early 19th century French boite à sel, or salt box, made of walnut with hinged lid and small drawer with turned knob. Bold hand-carved decoration. Waxed...
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Early 19th Century French French Provincial Antique Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Walnut
Scottish Regency Mahogany Hinged Cellarette with Original Lead Liner, Circa 1810
Located in Charleston, SC
Scottish Regency mahogany hinged cellarette with foliage cartouche, gadrooned molded edge, original brass circular side handles, lead lined interior with stopper, and resting on carved foliage scrolled triangular feet...
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1810s Scottish Regency Antique Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass, Lead
Anglo Raj Hand Carved Wooden Decorative Jewelry Box
By Rajhastani
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Hand carved large wooden Anglo-Raj jewelry box.
Early 20th century wood box richly decorated overall with arabesques and floral carving.
Hinged lid shallow relief carving with inte...
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Early 20th Century Indian Anglo Raj Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sandalwood
18th Century French Decorative Hand Carved Box
Located in Winter Park, FL
An 18th century French Provencal fariniere beautifully carved and constructed. A sliding front panel features two carved fish. The box is dovetailed with a false bottom drawer. Lovel...
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Late 18th Century French French Provincial Antique Hand-Carved Decorative Boxes
Materials
Fruitwood
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