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1980s Elegant Brass and Green Enamel Cigarette Box by Gucci
By Gucci
Located in Aci Castello, IT
This is a captivating, elegant piece of 1980s Gucci Florence craftsmanship. This Vintage Cigarette or Card Case is a fantastic example of the luxury accessories the brand was known f...
Category
Italian Modern Late 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Brass, Enamel
Pill Box Silver Sterling Enamel Blue shades Art Deco-style engraving Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Round pill box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold-plated with Art Deco-style engraving, early 1900s, with translucent fired enamels in various shades. Diameter 4 cm, height 1.3 cm. Wei...
Category
Italian Art Deco Vintage Late 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Snuffbox Art Nouveau style sterling silver white enamel with flowers Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
A Viennese Bouquet: Art Nouveau Snuff Box by Franco Salimbeni, 1973
This exceptional round snuffbox is a profound homage to the opulent artistry of late 19th-century Viennese Art No...
Category
Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Late 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Pill Box Silver Sterling Enamel hand-engraved Baroque-style design Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rounded rectangular pill box in 925/1000 sterling silver with a fine hand-engraved Baroque-style design and fire-enamelled finish. Dimensions: 3.5 x 4.3 x 1.4 cm. Weight: 36 g. Desi...
Category
Italian Baroque Vintage Late 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Snuffbox savonette shape 925 silver handpainted head running horse Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Snuff box "savonette" shape in 925/1000 sterling silver with fire enamel and hand painted miniature on white background depicting a heads of running horse . English "Art Nouveau" st...
Category
Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Late 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Italian Silver and Enamel Box
Located in Newark, England
GUILLOCHE ENAMEL AND SILVER GILT
From our collectables category, we are delighted to offer this incredible quality Italian Mid-Century Modern Silver and Enamel Box. The Silver and E...
Category
Italian Mid-Century Modern Late 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Silver, Enamel
Vintage Lapis Lazuli, Onyx
Sterling Silver Pill Box - Mexico - Circa 1970
s
Located in Chatham, ON
Vintage sterling silver pill box - hand made - featuring a chevron pattern hard stone lid set with lapis lazuli and black onyx with silver spacers - round sterling silver box and bas...
Category
Mexican Mid-Century Modern Late 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Lapis Lazuli, Onyx, Sterling Silver
Snuff Box Black enamel Art Deco style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Snuff Box Silver is in 925/1000 sterling.
Snuff Box Silver has black fired enamels on guilloché.
Snuff Box Silver has a lid with geometric design ...
Category
Italian Art Deco Vintage Late 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Cigar Humidor Burl Wood Cigar Box France 1970 Brown Black Color
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
Very nice humidor cigar box, in Burl Wood. This box is large, was made in France in the 1960s. It has a brown and Black color.
Under the box, you have some scratch ,see detailed pic...
Category
French Vintage Late 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Wood, Burl
Vintage Gucci Enamel and Gilt Cigarette/Card Case
By Gucci
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A rare vintage Gucci cigarette or card case, featuring the brand’s iconic design elements. The exterior is crafted with a glossy black enamel finish em...
Category
Italian Modern Vintage Late 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Enamel
Pill Box Round, domed in Silver Sterling Enamel on a guilloche pattern Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Giorgio Salimbeni Gold-Plated Sterling Silver and Enamel Pill Box with Miniature by Renato Buccioni, Florence, 1978
Exquisite round, domed pill box in 925/1000 sterling silver, gold...
Category
Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Late 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Tabacco Pot With a Lid in Brown Color French 1970
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
Tabacco box with a Lid in wood. With brass. Brown color.
It has been made in France Circa 1970.
Category
French French Provincial Vintage Late 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Wood
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 Late 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Pill Box Art Nouveau handpainted by Renato Dainelli Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
A Painterly Jewel: Art Nouveau Enameled Pill Box by Giorgio Salimbeni & Renato Dainelli
This exquisite oval pill box represents a rare collaboration between masterful design and fin...
Category
Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Late 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
French Rustic Olive Wood Salt Box – Wall-Mounted – 1970s Artisan Craft
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
French Rustic Olive Wood Salt Box – Wall-Mounted – 1970s Artisan Craft
Description:
This is a beautiful rustic salt box, handcrafted in solid olive wood, made in France in the 1970s...
Category
French Brutalist Vintage Late 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Wood, Olive
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 Late 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Snuff Box Sterling Silver Green and Sky Stripes Guilloche Enamel Box Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with two-tone translucent stripes fired enamelled on guillochè and fine hand-engraved on all sides, French Empire Napoleo...
Category
Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Late 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
$3,127 Sale Price / item
20% Off
Pill Box Empire style handpainted Sterling Silver fine hand engravings Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Shaped pill box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with a hand-painted miniature with fired enamel by the painter Romano Buccioni in the Louis XVI Empire style of the second hal...
Category
Italian Empire Vintage Late 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Whimsical Limoges France Halloween Ghost With Ball
Chain Porcelain Trinket Box
By Limoges
Located in Tustin, CA
Collectible and whimsical, limited edition Limoges porcelain Halloween motif miniature trinket box is handmade and hand painted in France and fe...
Category
French French Provincial Late 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Porcelain
Pill Box shaped Louis XVI hand painted miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Elegant Pill Box in 925/1000 Sterling Silver
Description:Elevate your collection with this exquisite shaped pill box, beautifully crafted from 925/1000 sterling silver and elegantly ...
Category
Italian Louis XIV Vintage Late 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Post-Modern Tessellated Pink Marble and Red Travertine Box by Maitland Smith
Located in Miami, FL
Post Modern tobacco or snuff box rendered in tessellated pink marble and rosso travertino, red travertine with brass inlay, brown velvet and wood interior by Maitland Smith.
Match...
Category
Philippine Post-Modern Late 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Travertine, Marble, Brass
$384 Sale Price
61% Off
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
Italian Baroque Vintage Late 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Snuffbox guilloche pattern and a hand-painted floral miniature Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Shaped snuffbox in gold-plated 925/1000 sterling silver with translucent fired enamels on a guilloche pattern and a hand-painted floral miniature, with fine hand-engravings on the si...
Category
Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Late 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Tobacco Box from the 1970s Italian Design Solid Brass
Located in Palermo, Sicily
Tobacco box from the 1970s, Italian design. Measures: Height 7 cm, diameter 15 cm in golden brass.
Category
European Mid-Century Modern Vintage Late 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Brass
$548 Sale Price
30% Off
Sterling Silver Box Striped Fire Enameled Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Sterling silver Jewel box with Rectangular rounded corners gold plated with translucent fire enamel stripes on guilloche and hand engraved with late Russian Empire style ornament app...
Category
Italian Empire Vintage Late 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Gold, Enamel, Sterling Silver, Gold Plate
Snuff Box fine hand engraving, fire enamelled, in “Rococo” style Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fine hand engraving, fire enamelled, in “Rococo” style from the early 19th century. Measurements cm. 4.5 x 7.7 x 2. ...
Category
Italian Rococo Vintage Late 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold Plate
Snuffbox with English Queen Anne style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Octagonal snuff box in gilded 925/1000 silver with English Queen Anne style borders and sides with fired enamels painted like lapis lazuli stone. On the lid, a very fine fire-enamell...
Category
Italian Queen Anne Vintage Late 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
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
Italian Romantic Vintage Late 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold, Gold Plate
Mahogany Wood Tobacco Box with Golden and Blue Brass Lid, 1970
Located in Palermo, Sicily
Mahogany wood tobacco box with golden and blue brass lid, 1970.
Category
Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Late 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Brass
$548 Sale Price
30% Off
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 Late 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
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 Late 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
$1,146 / item
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 Late 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Italian Silver and Enamel Circular Box
Located in Newark, England
ENAMEL AND SILVER GILT TABLE SNUFF
From our collectables category, we are delighted to offer this incredible quality Italian Mid-Century Modern Silver and Enamel Circular Box. The S...
Category
Italian Mid-Century Modern Late 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
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
Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Late 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco 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
Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Late 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
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 Late 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Snuffbox with Flowers miniature Art Nouveau style Sterling Silver Salimbeni.
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent enamels fired on guilloche and hand-painted floral miniature; external blue staff. Art Nouveau sty...
Category
Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Late 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
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 Late 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Metal, Enamel
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 Late 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Gold Plate, Enamel
Pill Box Oval shape Art Nouveau floral miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Art Nouveau Jewel: Guilloché Enamel & Hand-Painted Pill Box by Giorgio Salimbeni, 1977
This exceptional oval pill box is a masterful synthesis of two revered decorative arts: the pr...
Category
Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Late 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Snuff Box Octagonal English Queen Anne style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Octagonal snuff box in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated with borders in the English Queen Anne style and sides with translucent fired enamels on ...
Category
Italian Queen Anne Vintage Late 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
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 Late 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Snuff Box hand engraving, black “niello” type Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Snuff Box rectangular in 925/1000 sterling silver with fine hand engraving, black fired enameled “niello” type, in early 19th century “Rococo” style. Snuff Box measurements cm. 4.5 x...
Category
Italian Rococo Vintage Late 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Snuff Box "Soap" Shaped with Horse
s Head Sterling Silver Enamel 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
Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Late 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Nose Box
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
Italian Post-Modern Late 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Multi-gemstone, Metal
$495
Snuff box Enamel Stripes and miniature Sterling Silver 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
Italian Napoleon III Vintage Late 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
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 Late 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Porcelain
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
Italian Queen Anne Vintage Late 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco 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
Italian Baroque Vintage Late 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
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
Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Late 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, 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 Late 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
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 Late 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
Tabacco Pot, in Wood and Brass, Brown Color, French, 1970
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
Tabacco box in wood. With brass. Leaf Decor pattern. Brown color.
It has been made in France Circa 1970.
Category
French French Provincial Vintage Late 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Brass
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
Italian Art Deco Vintage Late 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
1980s English Metal Black Trinket Box with Egyptian Art Decoration
Located in Marbella, ES
1980s English metal black trinket box with Egyptian art decoration.
Category
English Late 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Metal
Mallard Duck Desk or Smoker Set in Paris Porcelain, 1960s
Located in Paris, France
A mallard duck desk or smoker set in Parisian porcelain, composed of an ashtray, a desk tray, a business card box and a tobacco jar dressed in cellar leather...
Category
French Late 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Leather, Porcelain
Snuff Box “Savonette” Sterling Silver Fire Enamel and Miniature Salimbeni Home
S
Located in Firenze, FI
Snuff box “savonette” shape in 925/1000 sterling silver with fire enamel and hand painted miniature on white background depicting two heads of running horses . English “Art Nouveau” ...
Category
Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Late 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Gold, Enamel, Sterling Silver, Gold Plate
Snuff Box Parrotlets on Flowering Branches. Art Nouveau Style Sterling Silver En
Located in Firenze, FI
Square snuff box with rounded sides in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè and hand painted miniature parrotlets on flowering branches. Ar...
Category
Italian Mid-Century Modern Late 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Snuff Box White Fire Enamel with Miniature of Bird Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Round snuff box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fire enamel on guilloche and hand-painted miniature of stylized blue bird, late 19th-century Viennese Art Nou...
Category
Italian Art Deco Vintage Late 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
20th Century Italian Solid Silver Oval Tobacco Box
Located in VALENZA, IT
Solid silver box for tobacco.
The box was made entirely by hand starting from a silver sheet and subsequently shaped and welded giving it an oval and rounded shape.
The external part of the body of the box has been polished with pumice stone making it smooth and shiny, while the hand hammering is clearly visible inside the box.
The lid was embossed and hand engraved with the figure of a Scottish man...
Category
Italian Other Late 20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver
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