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Art Deco porcelain monkey tabacco box
Located in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Art Deco porcelain monkey tabacco box
Hand-glazed and hand-painted, created by Edouard-Marcel Sandoz and manufactured by Theodore Haviland
By: Edouard-Marcel Sandoz, Theodore Havila...
Category
French Art Deco Vintage 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Enamel
Mid Century 5" Hammered Copper Tin Lined Humidor by Revere Rome N.Y
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Art Deco era humidor features a hand-hammered copper exterior, giving it a distinctive appearance with a textured surface.
Inside. It includes a pull air-tight lid and is signed Reve...
Category
American Vintage 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Copper
$68 Sale Price
44% Off
20th Century Copper Snuff Box
Located in Opole, PL
We present you a snuff box in the shape of a barrel with a lid.
The item is made of copper and brass.
This snuff box in good condition. The handle is distorted.
Moreover, there ...
Category
European 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Brass, Copper
$285 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
Italian Napoleon III Vintage 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
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
Italian Baroque 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Snuff box Enamel Double opening Sterling Silver flower bouquet Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Square snuff box with two slightly domed sides in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè and hand-painted miniature of flower bouquet, late 1...
Category
Italian Art Nouveau Vintage 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Black Forest Hand-Carved Wooden Terrier Box
Located in Northport, MI
This is a joyful novelty- a Black Forest hand-carved Terrier box. A beautifully executed piece with exceptional detail, right down to the tail. This terrier’s hind legs are attached ...
Category
German Folk Art Vintage 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Wood
Italian Goatskin Wrapped Parchment and Teak Humidor by Aldo Tura
By Aldo Tura
Located in San Diego, CA
Rare and beautiful Italian goatskin wrapped lacquered parchment humidor with locking teak and brass lid by Aldo Tura, circa 1960s. The piece is in very good vintage condition and me...
Category
Italian Hollywood Regency 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Goatskin, Teak
Hand-Painted Mughal Miniature Lacquer Box, Persian-Indian Art, Signed Black Box
Located in Wembley, GB
A superbly hand-painted Mughal miniature lacquer box, created in the refined Indo-Persian artistic tradition and signed “Nangua”. This exquisite octagonal decorative box features a f...
Category
Indian Art Deco Vintage 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Bronze
$457 Sale Price / item
28% Off
Antique Sterling silver Vesta case, round, Xmas 1912
Located in NEWARK, GB
A fantastic little antique sterling silver vesta case.
Made in England it is a circular shaped Vesta case designed to be added to an antique silver Albert chain...
Category
British Art Deco 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
$162 Sale Price
20% Off
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
French French Provincial 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Porcelain
Pill Box Rectangular Sterling Silver Art Nouveau with floral miniature Salimbeni
By Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
This is a rectangular, gold-plated sterling silver pill box, exquisitely decorated with translucent enamels over a guilloché (engine-turned) pattern and featuring a hand-painted flor...
Category
Italian Art Nouveau Vintage 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Enamel, Sterling Silver
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
Italian Renaissance Vintage 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
1950s Staved Teak Humidor by ESA Denmark
By ESA
Located in Chula Vista, CA
1950s ESA High quality tobacco humidor made of staved teak wood.
It provides a sufficiently humid microclimate.
Aesthetically pleasing design with a spring-loaded screw lid.
Ideal...
Category
Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Teak
Snuff Box reproducing the painting of a Roman glimpse late 1800s Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Snuffbox Rectangular for table with rounded corners in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated with very fine fire-enamelled miniature hand-painted by the painter Renato Dainelli repro...
Category
Italian Baroque 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Gold Plate, Enamel
Early 20th Century Antique Asian Jeweled Gilt-Brass Trinket Box
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Asian gilt brass jewel box with carnelian and turquoise gemstones. Removable lid has carved Asian soapstone medallion on top. Age wear.
Category
20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Brass
Fine Vintage Enamel Bilston
Battersea Box Victorian Hot Air Balloon Scene
By Limoges
Located in San Juan Capistrano, CA
Vintage Hand Painted Enamel Trinket box by Crummles & Co. The piece features a Victorian ballooning scene.
Category
British Victorian Vintage 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Metal, Enamel
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
Italian Art Nouveau Vintage 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Snuff Box with 2 slightly rounded sides Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table snuff box with 2 slightly rounded sides in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamels on guillochè and hand-painted floral miniature; oute...
Category
Italian Other Vintage 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Snuffbox Miniature Pastoral Image Sterling Silver Enamel Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Round snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling Silver gold plated with hand-painted miniature pastoral image fired enamelled. 18th century French style. Diameter cm. 8 cm high. 1.8. Weight gr. 171. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1968 on inspiration from previous boxes also manufactured in the Salimbeni company headquarters with manual workmanship by talented artisan artists with a thick plate suitable for supporting numerous glazing firings at high heat at around 800° C.
Miniature is a very ancient technique which consists of painting works in small proportions.
It was born for the decoration of the first letter of the paragraph of the books.
Over the years, however, this technique is refined and enriched, then moving on to precious personal items.
Hand-painted miniatures can be done with multiple different techniques.
The most important that we use on our articles are of three kinds:
1) Fire enamel.
2) Water tempera on an ivory plate.
3) Painted on mother-of-pearl.
Fire enameled miniatures:
On a first layer of enamel generally white or very clear or even transparent suitably liquefied at a temperature of about 750 ° C, the chosen subject is painted using miniature...
Category
Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Silver and Shibayama tobacco box with combination vesta case lid
Located in London, GB
A very fine and rare silver shibayama tobacco and combination vesta case lid and strikers on pot. Decorated with individual hand crafted insects in semi precious stones. The Shiba...
Category
English Vintage 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
Composition tortoiseshell and gilt metal singing bird box
Located in London, GB
A good antique composition tortoiseshell and gilt metal singing bird box,
German
circa 1900
Going-barrel movement
Setting the birds free...
When wound and the sta...
Category
Antique 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Tortoise Shell
1930s Arrow "Naughty Hula Girl" Swirled Bakelite Table Striker Lighter
Located in Van Nuys, CA
This vintage table lighter by the company ARROW is an exceedingly rare find: a tastefully nude Hula Girl model crafted from chromed metal, featuring a Bakelite base. Within the base ...
Category
Art Deco Vintage 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Chrome
$266 Sale Price
44% Off
Vintage HERMES Cornucopia Metal and Leather Cigarette Box
By Hermès
Located in Victoria, BC
Here is a handsome and classic 1950s vintage Hermès cigarette box. Cigarette box is heavy and wrapped in leather. Cornucopia (Horn of Plenty) deco...
Category
French Vintage 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Metal
Sterling Silver Machine Turned Engraved Cheroot Case W H Haseler 1920
Located in Reading, Berkshire
Sterling Silver Machine Turned Engraved Cheroot Case W H Haseler Ltd.
1920
Hallmarked W.H.H Birmingham V Hallmark
Engraving to front
85 grams
Category
British Art Deco 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
Pot à tabac Roger Capron décor "soleils" en céramique Française Vallauris 1970
By Roger Capron
Located in London, England
Le pot de tabac, véritable emblème de la culture française, est un objet chargé d'histoire et de tradition qui remonte à plusieurs siècles. Initialement conçu pour conserver le tabac et en faciliter l'utilisation, cet accessoire typiquement français a rapidement transcendé son utilitaire pour devenir un symbole de raffinement et d'élégance.
Au fil du temps, les fumeurs français ont montré un intérêt croissant pour des solutions à la fois pratiques et esthétiques pour stocker leur tabac. Les artisans, inspirés par cette demande, ont commencé à créer des pots...
Category
French French Provincial 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
1960s Jean Gillon Tobacco Jar for Italma Wood Art Brazil
By Jean Gillon
Located in London, GB
Cigar humidor or tobacco jar from the 1960s.
This iconic piece from the Italma Wood Art collection was created by Brazilian designer Jean Gillon. Very well crafted from the finest st...
Category
Brazilian Mid-Century Modern 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Wood
Roger Capron 1 of 4 Tobacco jars France - 1970s
By Roger Capron
Located in Berlin, DE
Roger Capron 1 of 5 Tobacco jars, France - 1970s
Category
French Vintage 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
$1,129 / item
Tobacco box with forest animals, 1910s.
Located in Lisboa, PT
Covered porcelain jar, covered pot, with canted sides, glazed with a relief decoration of brown foliage on a white background, revealing a dog, a cat, a donkey, and a smoking monkey ...
Category
French Vintage 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Sterling Silver Vesta Case with Enamel Portrait of Dog, W J Myatt
Co
Located in Braintree, GB
Antique sterling silver vesta case with enamel portrait of dog
Made in Birmingham 1913
Maker: W J Myatt & Co
Dimensions -
Size: 3.6 x 3...
Category
British Edwardian Vintage 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Mid-century Raymor Glazed Ceramic Smoking Set Italy, Box, Lighter and Ashtray
By Raymor
Located in Miami, FL
Mid-century Raymor Glazed Ceramic Smoking Set Italy, Box, Lighter and Ashtray
Offered for sale is an Italian mid-century modern Raymor smoking set including a covered cigarette box,...
Category
Italian Mid-Century Modern 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
$475 Sale Price / set
31% Off
19th Century English Long Silver Trinket Box
Located in Marbella, ES
19th century English long silver trinket box.
Category
English 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
French Majolica Hound Medor Tobacco Jar Saint Clement
Located in Austin, TX
French Majolica hound Medor tobacco jar Saint Clement, circa 1900.
Category
French Country Antique 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
$544 Sale Price
20% Off
Italian Pill Box Micro Mosaic Millefiori
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful oval Italian brass pill box with an inlayed floral glass micro mosaic millefiori design and twisted rope top lid, finished with a brass ...
Category
Italian 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Brass
Hammered Copper Tin Lined Humidor w/ Bakelite Handles by Revere
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Art Deco era humidor features a hand-hammered copper exterior, giving it a distinctive appearance with a textured surface.
Inside. It includes Bakelite handles on each, with a side p...
Category
American Vintage 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Copper
$151 Sale Price
44% Off
Dunhill Cork and Leather Tobacco Jar
By Dunhill
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Handsome cork and leather tobacco jar from London. Beautiful patina to the cork and leather. Jar can be used as a tobacco, weed, or stash jar. Cork is a clas...
Category
English Vintage 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Leather, Cork
9k Yellow Gold Vesta Case (1919)
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique George V English 9-carat yellow gold vesta case; an addition to our boxes and cases collection.
This exceptiona...
Category
British George V Vintage 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Gold
Chinese Bronze Opium Box, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
A petite bronze canister once used to store a smoker's personal supply of opium paste. A keepsake from a bygone era, the small box dates to the early 20th century and provided an air...
Category
Chinese Qing 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Italian 1920 Renaissance Revival Enameled Octagonal Box in .800 Silver
Located in Miami, FL
An Italian enamelled snuff box.
Colorful box, created in Italy, back in the 1920. It was crafted in an octagonal shape with neoclassical and renaissance Revival motifs in solid .8...
Category
Italian Renaissance Revival Vintage 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver, Enamel
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Piero Fornasetti, Ashtrays, prod. Fornasetti Milan 1960s
Located in Rivoli, IT
Rare tall screen-printed metal ashtray designed by Piero Fornasetti and produced by Fornasetti Milano in the 1960s
Excellent condition
Fornasetti was born in the fibrillating post-W...
Category
Italian Vintage 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Metal, Brass
Pill Box Round, domed in Silver Sterling Enamel on a guilloche pattern Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Gold-Plated Sterling Silver and Enamel Pill Box with Floral Miniature by Romano Buccioni, Salimbeni, Florence, 1980
Exquisite shaped pill box in 925/1000 sterling silver, gold plate...
Category
Italian Art Nouveau Vintage 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Antique 9k Yellow Gold Vesta Case by Adie Brothers Ltd (1922)
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique George V English 9 karat yellow gold vesta case; an addition to our boxes and cases collection.
This exceptional antique George V English...
Category
English George V Vintage 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Gold
Antique Austrian Silver Table Snuff Box
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique Austrian silver table snuff box; an addition to our ornamental silverware collection.
This excepti...
Category
Austrian Antique 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Aldo Tura, Pipe Shaped Parchment Tobacco Box, Macabo Italy 1950s
Located in Firenze, IT
Pipe shaped parchment and brass tobacco box designed by Aldo Tura
Macabo Italy 1950s
The box has two compartments, one for storing tobacco and anoth...
Category
Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Brass
Antique sterling silver snuff box made in London in 1922
Located in London, London
Hallmarked in London in 1922 by Wright & Davies, this George V period, Antique Sterling Silver Snuff Box, is rectangular in shape, and features engine turned decoration to the outsid...
Category
English Vintage 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Art Deco Silver and Enamel "Risque" Cigarette Case. Circa 1920
Located in Incline Village, NV
Offered is an Art Deco silver and hand painted enamel cigarette case; often referenced in "sin" and other tobacco collectible circles as a "naughty" themed accessory. While it could ...
Category
German Art Deco Vintage 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver, Enamel
$1,295 Sale Price
30% Off
Ceramic and Silver Plate Biscuit Box, Art Deco Period, circa 1920, Signed G.A.
Located in Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
Ceramic and silver plate biscuit box. Art Deco period, circa 1920. Probably German, signed in the silver plate G.A.
Category
German Art Deco Vintage 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver Plate
Russian USSR Made Black and Red Lacquered Snuff Box, Signed and Dated
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Rectangular Black and Red Lacquered Snuff Box, Signed and Dated 1971.
This tobacco snuff box is richly and colorfully decorated with a winter scene showing 3 people riding a sleigh in the snow being pulled by 3 wild horses.
This Soviet-era box has a strong and great condition red lacquer on the inside and fine gilded decorations running around the edges of the box.
The box is signed and dated on the front cover and with hand-written "Made in USSR...
Category
Russian Empire 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Brass
Antique BENEDICT STUDIO Arts
C Hammered Copper Humidor Sticklea era- W7976
Located in Shamokin Dam, PA
Antique Benedict Studio Arts & Crafts Hammered Copper Humidor - W7976
This is an antique c. early 1900s Arts & Crafts Hammered Copper Humidor by Benedict Studios. Looks like it has ...
Category
American Arts and Crafts 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Copper
Antique Asian Silver Betel Nut Box in Foo Lion Form Southeast Asia
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Antique Asian Silver Betel Nut Box in Foo Lion Form, Southeast Asia, 19th–20th Century
A finely crafted antique South Asian silver betel nut box, ...
Category
Thai Anglo Raj 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver Plate
Cigarette dice dispenser by Legros Marius for Dunhill Paris 1930s
Located in Autonomous City Buenos Aires, CABA
Our Beautiful and limited Jeweler-made Cigarette Dispenser hallmarked by the silversmith Legros Marius for Dunhill that resembles a stacked pair of dice with playing cards on top.
Discover the allure of a vintage pre-War Dunhill dice...
Category
French Art Deco Vintage 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
Set of 3 Japanese Inro Pill Boxes
Located in Munich, DE
These three antique handcrafted inro cases, are a wonderful collection of Japanese Sagemono (hanging object). These inro have several sections stacked ...
Category
Japanese Anglo-Japanese 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Bone, Bamboo, Wood
$927 / set
A Very Fine Early 20th Century Enamelled Sterling Silver Cigarette Case
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
The front of the case exhibiting an exquisite hand painted panel depicting sprays of irises in shades of lavender, royal blue & green, set against a radiant white enamelled machined ...
Category
English Machine Age 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Ashtray
cigarette holder Dice by Legros Marius for Dunhill Paris 1930s
Located in Autonomous City Buenos Aires, CABA
Dunhill opened the Paris location in 1924 to meet the growing demand for luxury goods pertaining to motoring and tobacco. Both the box and cover are marked with the Goddess Minerva in an octagon, the French punch mark for 950 Fine Silver, a grade of silver finer then sterling silver.
Alfred Dunhill Art Deco Dice cigarette holder box, circa 1925-30. The box is identified Alfred Dunhill Paris underneath the lip of the cover and inside the box!
This beautiful and autenthic Dunhill cigarette holder...
Category
French Art Deco Vintage 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
Pill Box Sterling Silver Art Nouveau with floral miniature Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Gold-Plated Sterling Silver and Enamel Pill Box with Floral Miniature by Romano Buccioni for Salimbeni, Florence, 1980
Charming shaped pill box in 925/1000 sterling silver, gold pla...
Category
Italian Art Nouveau Vintage 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Vintage French Baccarat Style Crystal Cigarette Box In The Shape Of A Bell
Located in Tampa, FL
This is a fascinating Baccarat style crystal cigarette box is in the shape of a bell. It is brass with a silver finish and some neoclassical desi...
Category
French Vintage 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Brass
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
Italian Baroque Vintage 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Petite Indonesian Brass Betel Box, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
This petite brass box was originally part of an early 20th century betel box set from Indonesia, one of several small containers that held the individual ingredients of a betel quid....
Category
Indonesian Folk Art 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Brass
Leather Covered Tobacco Box Wood Brown Jacques Adnet Style France 1940 by Lancel
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
Leather Covered Tobacco Box Wood Brown Jacques Adnet Style France 1940 by Lancel
Category
Art Deco Vintage 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Brass
$256 Sale Price
20% Off
Sigvard Nilsson for Söwe Konst Sweden Teak Tobacco Tobak Box
Located in Clifton Springs, NY
Vintage teak container, vessel, or box was designed by Sigvard Nilsson for Söwe Konst Sweden in 1950s-1960s. The box features the rectangular form with rounded corners and circular s...
Category
Swedish Scandinavian Modern 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Teak, Wood
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