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Technique: Hand-Painted
Antique Russian Lacquered Box with Hand Painted Top
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This antique wooden box is unmarked and unsigned, but believed to have been made in Russia in circa 1890. The top of the box portrays a vignette of a shore scene where several men in...
Category
Late 19th Century Russian Victorian Antique Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Softwood
Vintage Tibetan Style Dragon Stacking Picnic Box, Painted Wood, 1990
s, China
Located in Austin, TX
A highly decorative vintage Chinese red painted stacking picnic box and carrier, painted in the Tibetan style, circa 1990's, China.
The large painted and textured wood picnic box and carrier comprised of three trays or boxes, and one lid, all housed in a handled carrier. The red painted boxes and cover stack.
A large roundel design of a golden dragon face within a cloud collar...
Category
1990s Chinese Tibetan Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Russian U.S.S.R Papier Mache Box
Located in Northampton, GB
Signed and Dated 1961 USSR
From our Boxes collection, we are delighted to offer this unusual Russian Papier Mache Box. The box of slim rectangula...
Category
20th Century Russian Mid-Century Modern Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Lacquer
Snuff Box with 2 slightly rounded sides and erotic miniature Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Snuff Box Snuff Box with 2 slightly rounded sides is in 925/1000 sterling silver.
Snuff Box Snuff Box with 2 slightly rounded sides has fire-enamelled miniature hand-painted by the ...
Category
1970s Italian Romantic Vintage Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold, Gold Plate
Majolica Ceramic Dresser Box with Lid, Teal Blue White, Italy 1950s
Located in Clifton Springs, NY
Large round dresser or trinket box with lid features graphic decor with stylized leaves and scrolls motifs on the sides and the lid. The handle is sculpted in shape of a large knot o...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic, Pottery, Majolica
Table Cigarette Box fine hand-engraved and two-colour fire-enamelled. Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Octagonal table cigarette box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold-plated with a fine hand-engraved design and two-colour fire-enamelled with other fi...
Category
1970s Italian Baroque Vintage Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Large Chinese Gilt Lacquered Box with Porcelain Medallion
Located in Norton, MA
A large Chinese gilt lacquered box with porcelain medallion in the center top depicting floral pattern and bird.
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood, Lacquer, Porcelain
Pill Box Silver Sterling Enameled Rectangular Louis XVI style Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Pill Box Silver is in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated 24 carats.
Pill Box Silver is Rectangular with translucent fired enamels on guilloché.
Pill Box Silver has a hand-painted m...
Category
1970s Italian Louis XVI Vintage Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
1920s Hand Painted Tin Bin Box by Chicago Globe Soap Co.
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Large Rectangular Hand Painted Tin Bin Box by Chicago Globe Soap Company. The box is decorated with dancing Nymphs Fairies Nudes holding musically instruments.
Category
Early 20th Century American Neoclassical Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sheet Metal
Snuff Box White with noble coat of arms Baroque style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Snuff Box noble coat of arms is in 925/1000 sterling silver.
Snuff Box noble coat of arms has White fired enamels on guilloché and handpainted miniature of arabesques with noble coat...
Category
1990s Italian Baroque Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Pair of Large Danish 1900
s Faux Porcelain Tin Container Blue and White Paint
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Set of Two Charming Blue and White Painted Cylindric Kitchen Tins, Denmark circa 1910.
The pair is painted in the style of Royal Copenhagen's Blue Fluted ...
Category
Early 20th Century Danish French Provincial Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Tin
Meissen Gilt-Metal Mounted Etui / Bodkin Case, circa 1755
Located in Basildon, GB
Meissen Gilt-Metal Mounted Etui / Bodkin Case, circa 1755, cylindrical case painted with floral trails between blue-scale borders, the ends painted with pe...
Category
1750s German Rococo Antique Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Porcelain
$1,679 Sale Price
30% Off
Decorative Russian Hand Painted Lacquered Box With Fox
Fish
Located in Bridgeport, CT
Decorative Russian hand painted lacquered hinged box with red interior. The box with a fox licking his mouth over his discovery of a proudly displ...
Category
20th Century Russian Aesthetic Movement Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Lacquer
Erotic Snuff Box
Located in New Orleans, LA
A scintillating Sapphic scene adorns the cover of this rare erotic snuff box. Set into the top of this burlwood and tortoiseshell container, this high...
Category
19th Century European Other Antique Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Tortoise Shell, Glass
$7,850
Mid 19th century Swedish painted table top writing desk
Located in Debenham, Suffolk
Mid 19th century Swedish painted table top writing desk circa 1850.
Good quality table top bureau, presented in original scraped back paint. Made from solid pine and scraped back t...
Category
Mid-19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Pine, Paint
Japanese Hand-Painted Porcelain Lidded Serving Dish, Trinket or Jewelry Box
Located in Miami, FL
Beautiful Japanese hand painted porcelain decorative trinket, pill or jewelry box or serving dish of Meiji period.
The decoration cons...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Porcelain
Limoges Porcelain Box with Teddy Bear on Book Hand-Painted France
By Limoges
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Vintage Limoges Porcelain Box with Teddy Bear on Book, Hand-Painted, France, ca. 20th Century
A charming hand-painted Limoges porcelain trinket box featuring an adorable teddy bear s...
Category
20th Century French French Provincial Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Porcelain
Two Japanese Lacquer Lunch Boxes
Located in Norton, MA
Japan, 19th/20th century, one red-lacquered with an inner compartment; one black-lacquered with an inner compartment.
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Lacquer
French 19th Century
Sevres
Porcelain Mounted Casket
By Tahan Paris
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A fine quality late 19th century gilded ormolu and Sevres style porcelain mounted casket, the hinged lid opening to a silk lined interior (needing repair) and raised on ormolu melon ...
Category
Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Porcelain, Walnut
Table Box blue and gold with handpainted miniature fire-enameled on guilloche Sa
Located in Firenze, FI
Octagonal table box in 800/1000 silver gold plated with translucent enamel on guilloché and beautiful enamel miniature hand painted by the painter Renato Dainelli in early 1900s Engl...
Category
1980s Italian Empire Vintage Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box miniature fire-enameled Aleksej Nikolaevic Romanov Salimbeni.
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table box with inward corners in gold-plated 925/1000 sterling silver with translucent enamel fired on guilloche and a fine round miniature in the centre, diameter cm. 4....
Category
1970s Italian Empire Vintage Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Enamel, Sterling Silver, Gold Plate
Egg 4 Picture frames in Dark Red enamel with tripod Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Egg 4 Picture frames is in 925/1000 sterling silver.
Egg 4 Picture frames has fired enamels on guilloché has fired enamels on guilloché and design engraved by hand.
Egg 4 Picture fr...
Category
1960s Italian Empire Vintage Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Snuff Box Black enamel Baroque style engraving Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Shaped table snuff box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fine fire-enamelled baroque style engraving. Very fine hand engraving on all surfaces. Dimensions cm. 6.2 x 7.8 cm...
Category
1970s Italian Baroque Vintage Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Southeast Asian Painted Offering Box
Located in Chicago, IL
This footed offering box from southeast Asia brings vibrant color and folk charm to modern interiors as a vide-poche or catch-all dish. The vintage box is shaped of hand-turned wood ...
Category
20th Century Southeast Asian Folk Art Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Chinese Wooden Small Rectangular Chest with Hand Painted Exotic Birds
Located in Queens, NY
Chinese Mid-Century small rectangular hinged chest with metal latch and two side ring handles, hand painted featuring two exotic birds (depicted on the top and front), pine, berries,...
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Table Box Octagonal Black Enamel with light Blue Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Octagonal table box in 925/1000 sterling silver with fire-enamelled Art Deco design. Dimensions diameter cm. 15.8 high cm . 8.2. Weight gr. 974. Designed by Giorgio Salimbeni for Cartier USA in the 1980s, inspired by objects designed by Louis Cartier around 1920 and manufactured in Florence in various specimens, also in parure with other objects and in different colors, in the headquarters by the Salimbeni firm with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for withstanding numerous high-fire enamelled firings at about 750°<800° C.
About cooperation Salimbeni and Cartier.
Our first meetings with the Cartier USA Company took place through the Giorgini Company, the first "Buying Office" set up in Florence immediately after the Second World War, which had the purpose of bringing together Florentine, and also Italian, producers with American buyers, who especially appreciated the artistic objects still manufactured by artisans who still took inspiration from the Italian Renaissance, using techniques handed down from generation to generation.
Mrs. Gina Pestelli, wife of a Florentine retail jeweller, was in charge of contacts with Cartier USA, above all an employee, while her daughter, also for Giorgini, took care of the fashion that in those years was affirmed in Florence with the events of "Pitti ".
With their help, we began to supply frames and boxes in sterling silver gold plated with malachite and other semi-precious stones.
At the same time, the official buyer of Cartier, Mr. William Smith, began to appreciate and commission the first objects with fired enamels, a process of which we have always been specialists.
In 1975 we began exhibiting at the prestigious New York Jewellery Association Show, which we participated in both the February and July editions, for a good 26 years until 2001.
In New York in those years the "Art deco style" was still very much appreciated, still mindful of the beautiful early 20th century architecture of the great buildings such as the "Crysler" or the "Empire State".
We then began to produce frames, boxes, evening bags, "objets de vertu" and other objects in "art deco style" which were very popular with Mr. Smith who gave us some photocopies of Louis Francois Cartier drawings to reproduce them. Thus, numerous cigarette cases, powder compacts, evening bags, frames and table boxes were created exclusively for Cartier USA which, at the time, had the prestigious "Silver Department" on the first floor of the Cartier store on Fifth Avenue.
An evening bag, with matching cigarette case and powder compact, were redone on the design created for a gift given to Mary Pickford at the time. In a 1986 Cartier...
Category
1980s Italian Art Deco Vintage Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Japanese late Meiji period A Large Organizer Red Lacquered Box, Ric.052
Located in Norton, MA
Japanese late Meiji period A Large Organizer Red Lacquered Box, decorated with irises and butterflies in gold and black.
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Lacquer
Round Box enamel light blue and black Salimbeni
By Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Round box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold-plated with translucent fired enamel on guilloché in a modern contemporary style. Dimensions: diameter cm. 7.5 height cm. 3.8, Weight g. 24...
Category
1970s Italian Modern Vintage Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
19th Century Red Lacquer Hand Painted Circular Wooden Chinese Food Pot
Located in North Salem, NY
An old circular Chinese food pot, traditionally crafted and richly decorated, featuring a rounded, lidded form designed for the storage or serving of food. The vessel is finished in ...
Category
19th Century Antique Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
$280 Sale Price
20% Off
Snuffbox two-tones enamel stripes Guilloche Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with two-tone translucent stripes fired enameled on guillochè and fine hand-engraved on all sides, French Empire Napoleon...
Category
1980s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Palais-Royal Mother-of-Pearl Perfume Box and Flasks
Located in New Orleans, LA
This mother-of-pearl inlay perfume box is a rare and complete treasure from the famed Palais-Royal of France’s Second Empire. The box is a work of art, meticulously fashioned to deli...
Category
19th Century French Other Antique Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ormolu
$22,850 / set
Scandinavian hand painted folk art pine box
Located in Debenham, Suffolk
Scandinavian hand painted folk art pine box circa 1850.
Fine example of traditional Swedish hand painted woodenware.
Slight dome topped lid which opens to reveal a unfitted interio...
Category
Mid-19th Century Swedish Folk Art Antique Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Pine, Paint
Italian Embossed Bronzed Metal Rectangular Trinket/ Jewelry Music Box
Located in Guaynabo, PR
This is an Italian bronzed metal square hinged lidded music box. It depicts a lid decorated in the center with a 19th century hand painted portrait of Madame Recamier adorned with a ...
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Belle Époque Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal
$360 Sale Price
20% Off
Table Box floral miniature fire-enameled on guilloche and stripes Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Oval table box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fired enamel, with fine floral miniature fire-enamelled on guilloche, enamelled edge with vertical stripes. Viennese Art N...
Category
1960s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold Plate
Antique French Louis XVI Style Crystal and Gilt Enameled Jewelry Casket Box
Located in Swedesboro, NJ
Dimensions - H: 3 1/4 in W: 5 1/4 in D: 5 1/4 in
This Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Style Crystal and Gilt Enameled Jewelry Casket Box is truly remarkable and whispers tale...
Category
19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Metal, Enamel, Ormolu
Very Cool French Early 1900s Stack of Leather Books Tantalus Liquor / Drinks Box
Located in Lisse, NL
Unique stack of leather books design tantalus with hidden 'shot glasses' & decanters.
If you are looking for the most interesting and worldly gift for yourself, a friend or a loved ...
Category
Early 20th Century French Empire Revival Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Leaf
Box with wedges Enamel Sterling Silver black and white Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Octagonal wedge box in 925/1000 sterling silver with black and white colors fire enameled in Art Deco style. Measures 7.8 x 7.8 x 6 cm. Weight gr. 281. Designed by Giorgio Salimbeni ...
Category
1970s Italian Art Deco Vintage Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Moorcroft Pottery Hibiscus Heart Shaped Box with Lid, England
Located in Clifton Springs, NY
Charming vintage ceramic box with lid features the Hibiscus pattern decor, with a striking red flower and yellow-green leaves hand-painted over a slightly raised relief. The soft sha...
Category
20th Century British Arts and Crafts Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic, Pottery
Old Wooden Camel On Wheels Box Trinket Toys
Located in Poperinge, BE
Beautiful old camel on wheels, trinket or spice box, vintage toy from the second half of the 20th century, made of solid red-colored wood, probably from India.
The object has a beau...
Category
1960s Indian Vintage Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Hand-Painted Dome Top Wood and Brass Decorative Chest
Located in Germantown, MD
A fancy highly decorative, hand painted wooden box in good vintage condition. Heavy solid brass hardware. Meadures 19.5" in width, 10.25" in depth and 14" in height.
Category
Late 20th Century Argentine Modern Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Sterling Silver Big Oval Jewel Box Baroque Style, with Miniature Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Jewel box Baroque style, in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated.
Jewel Box has fine hand engravings around fired enameled spaces with lapis lazuli type painting.
Jewel Box Baroqu...
Category
Early 2000s Italian Baroque Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Enamel, Sterling Silver, Gold Plate
Snuff Box round in Art Nouveau style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Round snuff box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamels on guillochè and hand-painted floral miniature, surrounded by a frame with leaves on a blue bac...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
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 Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Table Box floral miniature fire-enameled on guilloche vertical stripes 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 fired enamelled miniature with hand-painted floral ...
Category
1960s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Antique Limoge Hand Painted Box enamel
brass with Hunting Horse Scene
Located in Neguri, Vizcaya
Antique Limoge 19th Jewellery hand painted porcelain & brass box with hunting horse scene.
aprox 1880 hand painted in yellow porcelaine
Perfect gift for ...
Category
Late 19th Century French Romantic Antique Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
$194 Sale Price
35% Off
A 19th Century Meissen Porcelain Ormolu Mounted Hinged Box with Watteau Scene
Located in New York, NY
A 19th Century Meissen Porcelain Ormolu Mounted Hinged Box with Watteau Scene Cartouche and the Interior Decorated with Floral Designs.
The box features an ormolu-mounted structure w...
Category
1860s German Rococo Antique Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Snuff Box Perforated Lid, Embossed and Engraved Miniature Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Square snuff box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with perforated lid, embossed and engraved by hand, with fine round miniature diameter cm. 3.8 hand painted in tempera on veg...
Category
1970s Italian Renaissance Vintage Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box Hand-Engraved and Miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table box with rounded corners in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated with a beautiful hand-engraved and fire-enamelled frame and in the center a beautiful hand painted miniature by the painter Beatrice Mellana reproducing the painting by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres "Odalisque with slave". Dimensions cm. 9.5 x 12.3 x 3.3. Weight gr. 671. Designed by Giorgio Salimbeni in 1979 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...
Category
1970s Italian Art Deco Vintage Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Snuff Box races miniature fire-enameled guilloche and engraved drawing Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Octagonal table snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with black fired enamel inserted in a hand engraved drawing and with fired enamelled miniature, hand painted by the p...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Enamel, Sterling Silver, Gold Plate
Red Lacquer Wedding Chest with Hand-Painted Décor, Qing Dynasty
Located in Yonkers, NY
An antique Chinese Qing Dynasty period dark red lacquer wooden wedding chest from the 19th century with unusual shape, hand-painted floral décor and brass hardware. Created in China ...
Category
19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Vintage Limoges France Butterfly Trinket Box Handpainted
By Limoges
Located in Neguri, Vizcaya
Vintage Limoges France Butterfly Trinket Box Handpainted
Type Trinket Box
Brand Limoges
Material Porcelain
Subject Butterfly
Finish Painted
Color Multicolor
Shape Hear Shape
Item Len...
Category
Late 20th Century French International Style Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Enamel, Gold Leaf
Table Box Enamel on Guilloche Hand Painted Miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Square box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè also on the sides. In the center, a beautiful hand painted tempera miniature on a vegetable ivory plate depicting the portrait of a 19th century lady, signed by the painter Anna Maria Manfriani. Dimensions cm. 12 x 12 x 2.5. Weight gr. 618. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1976 and manufactured in Florence in some 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
1970s Italian Modern Vintage Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Vintage Limoges 22k Gold Trinket Jewelry Small Tray Louis XVI Courtesan Scene
By Limoges
Located in Neguri, Vizcaya
Elegant vintage Limoges 22-karat gold trinket small tray
French vintage Limoges porcelain in cobalt royal blue with fine gold decor.
Marked on base as “Limoges France" Porcelain D'...
Category
Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Enamel, Gold Leaf
Scandinavian Paint Decorated Box
Located in Greenwich, CT
Early 19th Century Scandinavian folk painted box with domed lid, the whole with pumpkin ground color and having floral decoration, all in original paint.
Category
1830s Norwegian Antique Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Pine
Black Box Octagonal with black edge enamel with pure Gold Paillons Salimbeni.
Located in Firenze, FI
Table Box Octagonal is in 925/1000 sterling silver.
Table Box Octagonal
Table Box Octagonal has translucent fired enamels on guilloché.
Table Box Octagonal has black edge with pure g...
Category
1980s Italian Art Deco Vintage Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold
Persian Lacquer Pen Box Hand Painted with Floral and Gilt Design
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Persian hand painted lacquer pen box in rectangular shape.
Decorated with floral designs on gold background, black interior.
Moorish Mughal pen box papier maché with miniature floral painting in the Persian style.
Great Islamic Art collector museum quality piece on this miniature painting on box.
Nice Mughal Indo Persian pen Box...
Category
Early 20th Century Indian Moorish Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Paper
19th Century hand painted tine decorative box
Located in Debenham, Suffolk
19th century hand painted tine decorative box circa 1860.
Good quality Swedish tine box, used for storing valuables or foods for secure storage. This example in it's original blue ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Swedish Folk Art Antique Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Pine, Paint
Cigarette Case Romantic couple Art Nouveau Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular desk cigarette case with rounded corners in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated with fine hand-painted fire-enameled miniature depicting a romantic couple in Art Nouveau...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Enamel, Sterling Silver
20th Century Sterling Silver Italian Gilded and Enameled Table Box
By Salimbeni
Located in VALENZA, IT
Round haped silver gilded 925/1000 table box with translucent enamels on guilloche with hand-painted floral miniatures and gold paillons
Made in Italy
1.400 grams
The Miniatures are hand-painted on a usually white homogeneous enamel base. The same colored glazes are used, but ground much finer, which are mixed with special oils to form an infinite palette of colors. The paint must be gradually dried on electric stoves...
Category
1980s Italian Other Vintage Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
$17,020 Sale Price
20% Off
Pill Box oval with floral miniature Art Nouveau style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Pill Box oval with floral miniature Art Nouveau style Sterling Silver Salimbeni in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with hand-painted fire-enamel...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Gold Plate, Enamel
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Tole Painted Box
Traveling Writing Desk Box
Trinket Box 1920
Victorian Pill Box
17Th Century Casket
Abalone Alpaca
Agra Inlay
Antique Brass Letter Boxes
Antique Furniture With Secret Compartments
Antique Glass Hinged Box
Antique Korean Box
Baccarat Crystal Casket
Birds Eye Maple Box
Brides Box
Cigar Jewelry Box
Cranberry Glass Box
Enamel 935
Green Lacquer Box