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Place of Origin: European
Silver snuffbox with raised plant motifs surrounding a monogram card
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Silver snuff box with raised plant motifs surrounding a monogram card. Metal: Silver. Origin: English. Brand: Birmingham. Weight: 80.68 grams. Dimensions: 9x3.5cm. Conte...
Category
20th Century European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
$375 Sale Price
50% Off
Circular silver snuffbox with pressure system on the hinged lid
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Circular silver snuff box with pressure system on the hinged lid. Metal: Silver. Origin: English. Brand: Birminham. Weight: 60.66 grams. Dimensions: 6.5x6.5cm. Content: ...
Category
Early 20th Century European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
$250 Sale Price
50% Off
Silver Art Nouveau snuffbox with female figure
paper holder
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Silver snuffbox in Art Nouveau style with a female figure in relief and a holder for rolling papers inside. Metal: Silver. Origin: Portuguese. Brand: Javali II. Title: W...
Category
19th Century Antique European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
$350 Sale Price
50% Off
Rectangular silver snuffbox
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Rectangular silver snuff box with engraved floral motifs surrounding a monogram card. Metal: Silver. Origin: Portuguese. Brand: boar II Title. Weight: 140.83 grams. Dime...
Category
19th Century Antique European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
Guilloche silver snuffbox
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Guilloche silver snuffbox with bands along the length and support for rolling papers inside. Metal: Silver. Origin: Portuguese. Brand: boar II Title. Weight: 90.08 grams...
Category
19th Century Antique European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
Silver snuffbox embossed with everyday scenes and gold interior
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Silver snuffbox embossed with everyday scenes and gold interior. Metal: Silver. Origin: German. Brand: Unknown. Weight: 110.75 grams. Dimensions: 9cmx7cm. Content: 800/1...
Category
20th Century European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
$475 Sale Price
50% Off
Snuffbox white enamel sterling silve stylised birdr miniature on the lid Salimba
By Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Round curved snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling silver with translucent fired enamels on guilloché, above and below, and miniature on the lid of a stylised bird, hand painted by the paint...
Category
1960s Art Nouveau Vintage European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
19th Majolica Parrot Tobacco Jar Onnaing
By Onnaing
Located in Austin, TX
French Majolica tobacco jar with a parrot Onnaing, circa 1880.
Category
1880s French Provincial Antique European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Majolica
Rare large Swiss Black Forest Tobacco box with Chickens 19th century Humidor
Located in Ijzendijke, NL
A charming and finely detailed 19th-century Black Forest–style hand-carved tobacco jar. Entirely carved from wood and executed with remarkable depth and texture. A rare large size to...
Category
Late 19th Century Black Forest Antique European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Oak
Rectangular silver snuff box
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Rectangular silver snuff box with fluting and wreaths engraved on the hinged lid. Metal: Silver. Origin: Portuguese. Brand: Porto Coroa. Weight: 59.01 grams. Dimensions:...
Category
Early 18th Century Antique European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
$500 Sale Price
50% Off
19th Century French Gilt Bronze and Guilloché Enamel Portrait Box
Located in Dublin, IE
A superbly crafted circular gilt bronze box of exceptional quality, featuring a rich turquoise-blue guilloché enamel top centered with an oval medallion bearing a finely hand-painted...
Category
19th Century Louis XVI Antique European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Enamel, Ormolu
18th Century, English Georgian Lead Tobacco Keeper - Horse Finial
Located in Atlanta, GA
English, mid 18th century.
A great neoclassical example of an English community tobacco keeper. These traditional boxes are made of lead and design...
Category
Mid-18th Century Neoclassical Antique European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Lead
A Gold Mounted Moss Agate Snuff Box
Located in Spencertown, NY
The mottled brown agate with translucence when held to light. The cover with a gold rope twist edge above hinged clasp with wreath and berry design above a cushion base
Category
Mid-19th Century Neoclassical Antique European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Agate, Gold
French Hand-Crafted and Painted Ceramic Trinket or Jewelry Box
Located in Miami, FL
A beautiful hand-crafted ceramic lidded trinket or jewelry box.
Mid-20th century, French.
Used as decorative item, this piece would enhance any shelf or tabletop.
Measures: 6 1/8...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
$490 Sale Price
24% Off
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...
Category
Mid-19th Century Antique European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
19th Century Austrian Majolica Tablescape Smoker Set
Located in Austin, TX
19th century fine Austrian Majolica smoking set match striker harvest theme with a willow baskets, fruits and pitcher.
Category
1880s Rustic Antique European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
Snuff Box "Soap" Shaped with Horse
s Head Sterling Silver Enamel Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Oval rounded "soap" shaped snuff box in 925/1000 sterling silver with fired enamels above and below and hand-painted miniature of a horse's head, English "Art Nouveau" style, early 1900s. Measurements cm. 4.7 x 6.7 x 2. Weight gr. 96. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1980 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 enamelled 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 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
1980s Art Nouveau Vintage European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Antique Snuff Tin, English Gilt Metal, Lidded Box, Relief Decor, Victorian, 1880
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique snuff tin. An English, gilt metal lidded box with relief decor, dating to the Victorian period, circa 1880.
Fascinating decorati...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Antique European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Metal
KPM Shell and Flower Motif Cabinet or Patch Box
By KPM Porcelain
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
KPM shell and flower motif cabinet or patch box, The top realistically modelled as a clam shell, the interior revealing painted florals, and the blue undergl...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Porcelain
$452 Sale Price
34% Off
Very Early 19th Century Engine Turned Silver Gilt Musical Snuff Box
Located in London, GB
A very early 19th century and fine engine turned silver gilt musical snuffbox. The case stamped F.M. and with early 19th century Swiss export marks and European import marks. Comb bar stamped C.Z bedplate C6. Serial number 147. The cylinder movement with three train weighted escape, 23 part sectional comb with all teeth in pairs, comb bar and fitting screws blued, engraved in script in bedplate verso- 'Jn. Pre. Desire, A Geneva, fecit, an 1813'. Playing a complex single air, in the small superbly engine tooled case...
Category
1810s Antique European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silk
18-C English Bilston Battersea Enamel Memento Mori, Memory of a Friend Snuff Box
By Bilston Battersea
Located in Philadelphia, PA
An 18th century Georgian English Bilston Battersea enameled snuff or patch box, the motto reads, “In Memory of a Friend.” An example of Memento Mori, which translates from the Latin,...
Category
Late 18th Century Georgian Antique European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Copper
Vintage Cigarette Box Red Polkadot Art Deco Werkstatte Argentor Vienna Austria
By Bauhaus, Werkstätte Carl Auböck
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Stamped into coin shaped feet, 273 and, Made in Austria. Chips to paint, tarnish to brass, oxidation to lid surface. Functioning properly.
W 4 x D 3 x H 1.5 in.
Category
1930s Mid-Century Modern Vintage European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Metal
$796 Sale Price
20% Off
Snuff box Enamel Stripes and miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Shaped snuff box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fire-enameled stripes and fine oval enameled miniature in center cm. 3 x 4 hand-painted by ...
Category
1970s Napoleon III Vintage European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Silver snuff box w/ relief everyday motifs in the Oriental style
a hinged lid
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Silver snuff box with embossed Oriental-style everyday motifs and hinged lid. Metal: Silver. Origin: Oriental. Mark: Absent. Weight: 32.76 grams. Dimensions: 5.8x1.5cm. ...
Category
20th Century European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
$150 Sale Price
50% Off
Snuff box in guilloche silver w/ reliefs on the lid, surrounding a monogram card
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Snuff box in guilloche silver with reliefs on the lid surrounding a monogram card. Metal: Silver. Origin: French. Brand: Cabeça de Mercury. Weight: 48.71 grams. Dimensio...
Category
19th Century Antique European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
$300 Sale Price
50% Off
Rectangular silver snuff box
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Rectangular silver snuff box with a smooth lid and a fluted base. Metal: Silver. Origin: Portuguese. Brand: Porto Coroa. Weight: 68.77 grams. Dimensions: 7cmx1.7cm. Cont...
Category
Early 18th Century Antique European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
Guilloche silver snuff box with monogram, friezes and floral lid
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Snuff box in guilloche silver with floral motifs on the lid and friezes along the cartouche. Metal: Silver. Origin: Portuguese. Brand: Javali II Title. Weight: 99.65 gra...
Category
19th Century Antique European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
$875 Sale Price
50% Off
19th Century French Treen Pot with Lid
Located in Vosselaar, BE
This elm pot was probably used to store Tabaco. It is finely turned and has an attractive patina.
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Antique European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Elm
Silver snuff box w/ borders on the edge
a hinged lid w/ engraved floral motifs
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Silver snuff box with friezes on the surroundings and hinged lid with engraved floral motifs. Metal: Silver. Origin: Portuguese. Brand: boar II Title. Weight: 96.03 gram...
Category
19th Century Antique European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
$550 Sale Price
50% Off
Silver snuff box with floral motifs in relief on the hinged lid
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Silver snuff box with embossed floral motifs on the hinged lid. Metal: Silver. Origin: Pakistani. Brand: Farouk Industries Karachi. Weight: 109.01 grams. Dimensions: 8.3...
Category
20th Century European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
$450 Sale Price
50% Off
Guilloche silver snuff box with floral motifs and monogram
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Snuff box in guilloche silver with floral motifs surrounding a monogram card and gold interior. Metal: Silver. Origin: French. Brand: Tête Minerve. Weight: 44.68 grams. ...
Category
19th Century Antique European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
$625 Sale Price
50% Off
Silver snuff box with engraving and hinged lid
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Silver snuff box with engraving and hinged lid. Metal: Silver. Origin: European. Mark: Absent. Weight: 53.32 grams. Dimensions: 8.3cm x 4.5cm. Content: 833/1000. Assay M...
Category
20th Century European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
$500 Sale Price
50% Off
Rectangular silver snuff box
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Rectangular silver snuff box with plant motifs surrounding a monogram card and caninha-style fluting. Metal: Silver. Origin: European. Brand: Unknown. Weight: 79.51 gram...
Category
20th Century European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
$500 Sale Price
50% Off
Snuff box in guilloche silver with bands along the length
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Snuff box in guilloche silver with bands throughout, floral motifs surrounding a monogram card and rectangular shape. Metal: Silver. Origin: French. Brand: Tête Minerve....
Category
19th Century Antique European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
$250 Sale Price
50% Off
Nose Box
By Halcyon Days, (after) Salvador Dali
Located in Hanover, MA
Dali-esque gilt metal snuff box bejeweled with light blue rhinestones and shaped like a surrealist human nose and lips . Magnetic closure. Yellow enameled interior.
Amusing containe...
Category
Late 20th Century Post-Modern European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Multi-gemstone, Metal
$495
Silver tobacco box with engraved Belém Tower and wood-lined interior
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Silver tobacco box with engraved Belém Tower and wood-lined interior. Metal: Silver. Origin: Italian. Brand: Portuguese eagle head brand. Weight: 390.67 grams. Dimension...
Category
20th Century European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
$1,000 Sale Price
50% Off
Snuff box in guilloche silver with engravings
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Snuff box in guilloche silver with engravings surrounding the monogram card and fluted friezes. Metal: Silver. Origin: Portuguese. Brand: boar II Title. Weight: 70.73 gr...
Category
19th Century Antique European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
Silver snuff box with borders on the edge and a scalloped hinged lid
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Silver snuff box with grooves on the surround and cut-out hinged lid. Metal: Silver. Origin: Portuguese. Brand: Eagle Head. Weight: 122.81 grams. Dimensions: 8.1x5cm. Co...
Category
20th Century European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
$500 Sale Price
50% Off
Silver snuff box with friezes and engraved city-scene lid
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Silver snuff box with friezes on the surround and engraved with city scenes on the hinged lid. Metal: Silver. Origin: Portuguese. Brand: Porto Coroa. Weight: 54.26 grams...
Category
Early 18th Century Antique European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
$550 Sale Price
50% Off
Silver snuff box with floral embossing around monogram card
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Silver snuff box with embossed floral motifs surrounding a monogram card and hinged lid. Metal: Silver. Origin: Portuguese. Brand: Porto Coroa. Weight: 206.46 grams. Dim...
Category
Early 18th Century Antique European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
$1,125 Sale Price
50% Off
Guilloche silver snuff box with monogram, gilt interior, Edward VII period
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Guilloche silver snuff box with a monogram card and gold interior, and a hinged lid, from the Edward VII period. . Metal: Silver. Origin: English. Brand: Birmingham. Wei...
Category
Early 20th Century European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
$625 Sale Price
50% Off
Snuff box in guilloche silver with monogram plaque and opening application
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Guilloche silver snuff box with monogrammed card and opening application. Metal: Silver. Origin: English. Brand: Birmingham. Weight: 115.49 grams. Dimensions: 7.8cmx4.8c...
Category
19th Century Antique European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
$750 Sale Price
50% Off
Guilloché silver snuff box with monogram cartouche and gold interior
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Guilloche silver snuff box with monogram card and gold-tone interior. Metal: Silver. Origin: English. Brand: Birmingham. Weight: 76.62 grams. Dimensions: 7cmx3.8cm. Cont...
Category
19th Century Antique European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
$750 Sale Price
50% Off
Rectangular snuff box in guilloche silver
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Rectangular snuff box in guilloche silver and relief on the hinged lid. Metal: Silver. Origin: English. Brand: London. Weight: 48.54 grams. Dimensions: 6.3cmx1.8cm. Content: 925/1000. Assay Mark: Yes, 1820 by Charles Reeves...
Category
20th Century European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
Saint-Cloud snuff box in the form of a shepherd, circa 1735
By Saint-Cloud Porcelain
Located in Spencertown, NY
The silver hinged snuff box with the resting shepherd and dog at his feet, above hand painted floral sprays. The silver hinged mount with loose closur...
Category
Mid-18th Century Rococo Antique European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
Silver snuff box with floral motifs around monogram and gold interior
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Silver snuff box with engraved floral motifs surrounding a monogram card, gold interior and application on the opening. Metal: Silver. Origin: Portuguese. Brand: boar II...
Category
19th Century Antique European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
$375 Sale Price
50% Off
Snuff box in guilloche silver with monogram card and hinged lid
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Snuff box in guilloche silver with monogram plaque and hinged lid. Metal: Silver. Origin: French. Brand: Tête Minerve. Weight: 51.12 grams. Dimensions: 7.5cmx3cm. Conten...
Category
19th Century Antique European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
$300 Sale Price
50% Off
Snuff box in embossed silver
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Snuff box in embossed silver. Metal: Silver. Origin: English. Brand: Birmingham. Weight: 56.32 grams. Dimensions: 11.5x3cm. Content: 925/1000. Assay Mark: Yes, 1904 by D...
Category
Early 20th Century European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
$225 Sale Price
50% Off
Silver snuff box with engraving on the hinged lid
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Silver snuff box with engraving on the hinged lid. Metal: Silver. Origin: French. Brand: Tête de Minerve. Weight: 34.59 grams. Dimensions: 6x1.5cm. Content: 950/1000. As...
Category
19th Century Antique European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
$175 Sale Price
50% Off
Snuff box in nickel silver in the Russian style with a gold base and city motifs
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Snuff box in nickel-plated silver in the Russian style with a gold bottom and city motifs. Metal: Silver. Origin: Russian. Mark: St Petersburg grams. Weight: 103.49 gram...
Category
Early 19th Century Antique European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
$2,000 Sale Price
50% Off
Midcentury Leather and Porcelain Ceramic Tobacco Pot with Gold Finishes, 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Fantastic midcentury leather and porcelain ceramic tobacco pot with gold finishes. This amazing piece was produced in United Kingdom during the 1950s.
T...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Metal
Victorian Sterling Silver Table Snuff/Vesta/Trinket Barrel Box
By Frederick Edmonds
Edward J.W. Johnson
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive, rare antique Victorian English sterling silver table snuff/vesta/trinket box modelled in the form of a barrel; an addition to our diverse silverware collection
This exceptional and rare antique sterling silver box has been realistically modelled in the form of a barrel.
The surface of this unusual Victorian trinket box...
Category
1890s Victorian Antique European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Unique Limoges France Hand Painted Bellows Porcelain Trinket Box
By Limoges
Located in Tustin, CA
Collectible and very unique, Limoges porcelain miniature trinket box is handmade and hand painted in France and features a very detailed bellows...
Category
Late 20th Century French Provincial European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Porcelain
Duke of Clarence Sterling Silver Snuff Box
Located in New York, NY
Duke of Clarence sterling silver snuff box. Antique ebonized wood and sterling silver box with the profile of the son of Queen Victoria. England, la...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Antique European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Shepherd
s box or snuff box. Carved antler or horn. Spain, 1861.
Located in Madrid, ES
Pastoral box. Carved antler, wood, metal. Spanish school, 1861.
Submit registrations.
Oval box made of antler carved in its color, with wood on the lid to reinforce it, decorated o...
Category
1860s Neoclassical Revival Antique European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Other
Antique English Brass Anvil Matchstrike
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Antique English Brass Anvil Matchstrike, Realistically cast and modeled, as an anvil, with lift top revealing the match caddy and strike on the lid, resting on a rope edge oval base....
Category
19th Century High Victorian Antique European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Brass
$636 Sale Price
20% Off
Snuffbox with miniature of Venice, English Queen Anne style, 925 silver Salimben
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
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 Queen Anne Vintage European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Snuffbox Vessel Miniature Hand-Painted Sterling Silver Enamel Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco 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 Baroque Vintage European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Antique George IV Sterling Silver Gilt Table Snuff Box
By John Linnit
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
A magnificent, fine and impressive antique George IV English sterling silver gilt table snuff box; an addition to our antique box collection.
This...
Category
1820s Antique European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
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 Baroque Antique European Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Fabric, Wood, Lacquer
$717 Sale Price
20% Off
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