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Technique: Hand-Carved
Picture Frame Silver Enamel with oval laurel in style Napoleon III Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Giorgio Salimbeni Gold-Plated Sterling Silver and Enamel Photo Frame, Florence, 1970
Elegant rectangular photo frame in 925/1000 sterling silver, gold plated, and richly decorated wi...
Category
1970s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Photo Frame Oval with Two-color Translucent strips Enamel Fired Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Oval frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with two-color translucent strips fire-enameled on guillochè and hand-engraving and with French Empire Napoleon III style ornament...
Category
1980s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Picture Frame Silver Enamel with edges and frieze in Louis XVI style Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fire enamel on guilloché with edges and frieze in French Empire Louis XVI style. External cm. 16 x 23...
Category
1960s Italian Louis XVI Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Striking English Cut Crystal and Sterling Silver Art Deco Decanter, 1935
Located in Bath, GB
A truly striking Art Deco decanter made from a hefty piece of glass, beautifully hand-cut. The towering stopper sits in a collar which is wrapped in English sterling silver, fully ha...
Category
1930s Art Deco Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Glass
Emilia Castillo Sterling Silver
Volcanic Stone Molcajete with Spoon
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Emilia Castillo Sterling Silver & Volcanic Stone Molcajete with Spoon, Mexico, Later 20th Century
A sterling silver and volcanic stone molcajete (mortar) set is a functional sculptural object that bridges traditional craftsmanship and modern luxury. The handmade serving piece is modeled after the ancient Mesoamerican molcajete, traditionally used for grinding spices and preparing salsa or guacamole. Castillo’s refined interpretation elevates the form with a hammered sterling silver bowl adorned with bold silver orbs encircling the rim, paired with a substantial curved-handled sterling silver spoon. The inner bowl rests within a hand-carved, tripod-footed volcanic stone base, offering both contrast and stability.
This sculptural piece draws inspiration from the traditional Mexican molcajete...
Category
Late 20th Century Mexican Modern Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Stone, Sterling Silver
Cigarette Case Fired Enamel with Still Life Miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table cigarette case with rounded corners in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated with beautiful miniature fire enamelled and hand painted by the painter Beatrice Mellana reproducing a "still life" by the Flemish painter Willem Claes Heda. Dimensions cm. 5.7 x 9 x 1.7. Weight gr. 174. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1969 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 colors which are as many colored crystals, ground and reduced to a very fine, almost impalpable powder washed and purified in distilled water with the addition of small quantities of deoxidizing acids which, diluted with essential oils (usually essential oil of solder), can be mixed to form a palette of colors.
With very fine sable hair brushes you draw the subject starting from the perimeter and then gradually adding various layers of color.
It is necessary to carry out various firings very often so that the colors harden and are not absorbed by the underlying glaze as, during the subsequent firings at 750 ° C, during liquefaction, it would spread irremediably. Hence the need to form the painting a little at a time, cooking it numerous times.
Therefore it is necessary to proceed with numerous retouching, often overlapping different colors that only the painter's experience knows. A beautiful miniature needs from 20 to over 50 firings and is finished when the painter deems he does not have to further intervene.
Some colors must have darker tones than others because then, by superimposing the transparent enamel placed at the end of the miniature, they fade. This transparent layer, called “fondant” in jargon, must be smoothed and polished like all other translucent enamel colors.
The miniatures with water tempera colors are painted on real ivory...
Category
1960s Italian Art Deco Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold
Picture Frame oval photos French Empire Napoleon III style Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular photo frame in 925/1000 gold-plated sterling silver with translucent enamel fired on guilloche and hand-painted miniature of a garland of flowers with oval border, intern...
Category
1970s Italian Empire Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Jewelry box inward corners miniature hand painted Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Large rectangular tabletop jewelery box with inward corners in gilded 925/1000 silver with translucent fired enamel on guillochè also on the sides and finished with fine hand engraving. In the center, a beautiful rectangular miniature cm. 4 x 5.5 hand painted in tempera on vegetable ivory plate by Roberto Masi depicting the portrait of Madame Boucard by Tamara De Lempicka (1931). Size cm. 14 x 19 x 3.2. Weight gr. 1,248. Designed by Giorgio Salimbeni in 1998 and manufactured in Florence in various specimens with different subjects and colours, in the headquarters of the Salimbeni company with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for withstanding numerous glazing firings at high heat 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
1990s Italian Art Deco Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Picture Frame with two-tone enamel stripes on guilloché Salimbeni.
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with two-tone enamel stripes on guilloché and fine hand engravings French Empire style. With 2 oval photo holders, internal ...
Category
1970s Italian Empire Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold, Enamel, Sterling Silver, Gold Plate
Picture Frame Oval Emerald Green enamel and hand-carved Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Oval photo frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent emerald green fired enamel on guilloché and with ornaments in the French Empire Napoleon III style. External...
Category
1980s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Handbag powder compact enamel sterling silver black and red Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Handbag powder compact in 925/1000 sterling silver with black and red fired enamel. Spring button opening. Ground mirror and mesh inside. Small, barely visible crack in the red ename...
Category
1970s Italian Art Deco Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Picture Frame Enamel two-tone ruby red and emerald green Salimbeni.
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular photo frame in gold-plated 925/1000 sterling silver, with translucent fired enamel stripes on guilloche, two-tone ruby red and emerald green, in a modern contemporary sty...
Category
Early 2000s Italian Modern Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Picture Frame Oval Ruby Red enamel and hand-carved Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Oval photo frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent ruby red fired enamel on guilloché and with ornaments in the French Empire Napoleon III style. External size...
Category
1980s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Picture Frame Louis XVI Green and sky blue, French Empire style Sterling Silver
Located in Firenze, FI
This stunning Picture Frame is in 925/1000 sterling silver.
Picture Frame Louis XVI has a squared shape with green and sky blue color for the fire enameled surface on guilloche and h...
Category
1980s Italian Louis XVI Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Ballpoint Pen Modern Contemporary Style Blue Enamel Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Ballpoint Pen cylindrical for large Desk.
Ballpoint Pen in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated 24carats.
Ballpoint Pen with translucent fired enamels on guilloché Modern Contemporar...
Category
Early 2000s Italian Art Deco Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold Plate
Evening Bag Sterling Silver Shape of an Envelope Black Fired Enamel Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Evening bag in the shape of an envelope in 925/1000 sterling silver with black fired enamel. Measure cm. 8.2 x 4.7 x 13.5 - interior with beveled mirror and velvet lining. With trian...
Category
1970s Italian Art Deco Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold
$8,708 Sale Price
20% Off
Photo Frame Large two-tone striped enamel Black and Yellow Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular photo frame in gold plated 925/1000 sterling silver with translucent fired enamels on two-tone striped guillochè. In a contemporary style. Ground glass and velvet panel. ...
Category
1970s Italian Modern Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box autumn colours, Art Nouveau style Sterling Silver, Enamel and Coral Sa
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table box with rounded corners in 925/1000 sterling silver brossè with very fine hand engraving, also on the sides, of “ramage” with leaves and bunches of grapes fire-ena...
Category
1960s Italian Art Deco Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
19th Century Sterling Silver Centerpiece Bowl
Located in Tarry Town, NY
Mid 19th century sterling silver footed centerpiece bowl with exterior floral band design details and gold wash interior. The centerpiece bowl is in great antique condition. Minor we...
Category
1860s North American Antique Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold, Sterling Silver
Swann Sterling Silver A Pair of Antique Salt
Pepper Shaker Swann Wings Tray
Located in Wembley, GB
Silver Swan Vintage Salt and Pepper, Set of 2 with Sterling Silver Tray
Antique valuable silver salt and pepper shaker or Decorative tableware pressed, cast and chased pair of swann....
Category
1940s European Hollywood Regency Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver, Silver Plate, Sterling Silver, Silver Leaf
$596 Sale Price
20% Off
A Pair Antique Silver Salt Pepper Shaker Art Deco Decorative Condiment Set Tray
Located in Wembley, GB
A pair of modernist Silver Condiment sets comprising a Salt shaker, a Pepper Shaker, a Mustard Pot & a spoon. The mustard pot has a blue glass bowl and a silver spoon. Each item's ex...
Category
1940s English Art Deco Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Metal, Silver, Silver Plate, Sterling Silver
$1,285 Sale Price / set
39% Off
Art Nouveau Sterling Silver Hand-Blown Cranberry Crystal Decanter with 7 Glasses
Located in Wembley, GB
Art Nouveau Sterling Silver Overlay Hand-Blown Cranberry Crystal Decanter with 7 Matching Glasses – Rare Antique American Wine Service, Circa 1880s
This tall hand-blown cranberry cr...
Category
1880s American Art Deco Antique Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Metal, Sheet Metal, Silver
$1,429 Sale Price
25% Off
Fountain pen, Ballpoint pen and tray for a Desk Set green enamel Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
4640-5320 - Rectangular tray with rounded corners in 925/1000 sterling silver with translucent fired enamels on guilloché, cm. 9 x 17.5. For fountain pen (4568-5201) with two-tone st...
Category
1970s Italian Modern Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Photo Frame Bordeaux Enamel Empire style ornaments Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Shaped oval photo frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè and Louis XVI French Empire style ornaments. External dimensions cm. 13.5 x...
Category
1970s Italian Louis XVI Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Clock Cream Enamel on Guilloche Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Small table clock in gold-plated 925/1000 sterling silver with translucent enamel fired on guilloche, with columns in neo-classical Hellenic style. Swiss mechanical movement from Mai...
Category
1970s Italian Neoclassical Revival Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box Fired Enamel Guillochè and Hand Engravings Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table box in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated with very fine hand-engraving Baroque style on the lid, fire-enamelled in 2 colours. In the center an ancient oval plate...
Category
1970s Italian Baroque Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Enamel, Sterling Silver
Perfume holder Empire style ornaments enamel like wood Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Experience the epitome of refined luxury with this cylindrical handbag perfume holder, masterfully crafted from 925/1000 gold-plated sterling silver. Topped with a screwed cap, it sh...
Category
1970s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
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
1970s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Picture Frame for oval photos enamel Guilloche Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table frame for oval photos cm. 3 x 4 in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel, plum purple, on guilloche, with French Empire Louis XVI style...
Category
1970s Italian Louis XVI Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
JACOB MARSH 1766 London Coffee Pot In .925 Sterling Silver And Carved Wood
By Jacob Marsh
Located in Miami, FL
Coffee hot water pot designed in London by Jacob Marsh.
Very rare and important coffee and hot water pot of baluster form on circular spreading foot, created in the city of London i...
Category
1760s English Georgian Antique Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Cigarette Case Fired Enamel on a Fine Hand-Engraved Mountain Landscape Sterling
Located in Firenze, FI
Rounded rectangular snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with beautiful fire enamelled miniature hand painted by the painter Simone Dainelli inspired by the paintings of Boris Vallejo, in fantastic contemporary style, with hand-engraved frame. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1967 and manufactured in Florence in numerous specimens with various subjects and different colors, in the headquarters of the Salimbeni company with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for withstanding numerous high-fire enamelled firings at about 800° C.
Miniature is a very ancient technique which consists of painting works in small proportions.
It was born for the decoration of the first letter of the paragraph of the books.
Over the years, however, this technique is refined and enriched, then moving on to precious personal items.
hand painted miniatures can be done with multiple different techniques.
The most important that we use on our articles are of three kinds:
1) Fire enamel.
2) Water tempera on an ivory plate.
3) Painted on mother-of-pearl.
Fire enameled miniatures:
On a first layer of enamel generally white or very clear or even transparent suitably liquefied at a temperature of about 750 ° C, the chosen subject is painted using miniature colors which are as many colored crystals, ground and reduced to a very fine, almost impalpable powder washed and purified in distilled water with the addition of small quantities of deoxidizing acids which, diluted with essential oils (usually essential oil of solder), can be mixed to form a palette of colors.
With very fine sable hair brushes you draw the subject starting from the perimeter and then gradually adding various layers of color.
It is necessary to carry out various firings very often so that the colors harden and are not absorbed by the underlying glaze as, during the subsequent firings at 750 ° C, during liquefaction, it would spread irremediably. Hence the need to form the painting a little at a time, cooking it numerous times.
Therefore it is necessary to proceed with numerous retouching, often overlapping different colors that only the painter's experience knows. A beautiful miniature needs from 20 to over 50 firings and is finished when the painter deems he does not have to further intervene.
Some colors must have darker tones than others because then, by superimposing the transparent enamel placed at the end of the miniature, they fade. This transparent layer, called “fondant” in jargon, must be smoothed and polished like all other translucent enamel colors.
The miniatures with water tempera colors are painted on real ivory...
Category
1960s Italian Modern Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Small Picture Frame Rectangular English style, early 1900s. Salimbeni
By Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guilloche, English style, early 1900s. External cm. 7 x 9 internal cm. 3.8 x 5.8. Weight g...
Category
1950s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Fountain Pen Sterling Silver fired Enamel Guilloche Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Fountain Pen Sterling Silver 925/1000 with translucent fired enamel on guilloche.
Fountain Pen Sterling Silver has 14 carats gold nib and ink cartridge.
Fountain Pen Sterling Silve...
Category
1970s Italian Art Deco Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold
Small shaped Picture Frame 2 oval portrait Blue Navy color enamel Salimbeni
By Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Small shaped frame for 2 oval photographs in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guilloche in Art Nouveau style. External dimensions cm. 5.2 x 7 int...
Category
1980s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold, Gold Plate
Picture Frame Art Deco Chinese influence Enamel Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular photo frame in 925/1000 silver with geometric design and fire-enameled with Chinese influence style. External cm. Internal 11.6 x 14.6 cm. 6 x 9. Weight gr. 194. Created in Art Deco style for Cartier USA in the 1980s, inspired by drawings by Louis Cartier from the early 1900s. Manufactured in Florence in the Salimbeni company headquarters with completely manual execution by artisan artists with high thickness plate and large reinforcements suitable to support numerous high-fire enamelling firings at approximately 750° < 800° C.
It is a new object that has never been used but is considered vintage because it was built more than 20 years ago.
The hallmarks struck to the underside of this fine box include:
manufacturer's mark: 391FI
metal mark fineness:925
Art Deco was also born in France and is the abbreviation of "Art Decoratif".
With more decisive and geometric features than Art Nouveau, therefore more evident and "harder", with always contrasting and strong colours, Art Deco spread throughout the world, from Shanghai's China to the under construction New York and in various parts of Europe.
Many artists and designers of the time dedicated themselves to the creation of drawings, paintings, objects for personal use and furniture, interior furnishings, entire buildings and skyscrapers, in this new style.
Sandoz in Paris, Lalique with its crystals, Puiforcat with its silverware, Erté with its "ante litteram" fashion designs, Tiffany with its table lamps, Louis Cartier with its objects inspired by the Far East (hence the connection with Shanghai).
Salimbeni was able to interpret and propose new objects inspired by Art Deco, in precious metals, semiprecious stones and fired enamels, when, exhibiting at jewelery exhibitions in the United States, and more precisely in New York, he made contact with Cartier buyers first, and also with Tiffany later, and for them he created objects in this style inspired by the original drawings of Louis Cartier, obtained from the buyer of the time, but with absolutely different and original designs and interpretations.
Many of the objects produced by Salimbeni for Cartier in the United States had taken inspiration from famous Cartier objects belonging to famous people. An example of all is Mary Pickford's set consisting of a powder compact, cigarette case, pill case and evening handbag.
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-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Salimbeni Box with Swiss Musical Mechanism by Maison Reuge Art Deco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Round box with Swiss musical mechanism (music box) by Maison Reuge. In 925/1000 sterling silver with black and white fired enamels in Art Deco style. Diameter cm. 7.4 total height cm...
Category
1970s Italian Art Deco Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Animalier Zebra Pattern Frame hand painted Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular photo frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fired enamel, hand-painted with spotted zebra fur type in a modern contemporary style. External measurements cm. ...
Category
1990s Italian Modern Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
English Sterling Silver Foliage Winged Cherub Dressing Mirror on Stand, C. 1770
Located in Charleston, SC
English sterling silver dressing mirror with central foliage cartouche, flanking corner winged cherubs, decorative scrolled foliage fil...
Category
1770s English George III Antique Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Sterling, Bone,
Semi-Precious Gems Figure of a Court Jester
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Sterling, Bone, & Semi-Precious Gems Figure of a Court Jester
Germany, Early 20th Century
A meticulously cast and modeled Medieval / Renaissance Figure of the Court Jester...
Category
20th Century German Renaissance Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Multi-gemstone, Sterling Silver
$1,400 Sale Price
20% Off
Table Box table box with finely embossed and hand-chiseled Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular shaped table box with finely embossed and hand-chiseled lid in Baroque style. Velvet interior. Dimensions cm. 11.7 x 21 x 4.5. Weight gr. 1000. Designed by Giorgio Salimb...
Category
1970s Italian Baroque Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Small shaped Picture Frame 2 oval portrait Plum Purple color enamel Salimbeni
By Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Small shaped frame for 2 oval photographs in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guilloche in Art Nouveau style. External dimensions cm. 5.2 x 7 int...
Category
1980s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
DANIEL
ARTER 1900 London, Bailey Banks
Biddle 6 Pieces Cruet Set Cut Glass
Located in Miami, FL
Cruet set made by Daniel & Arter for Bailey Banks & Biddle.
Here we are offering a beautiful & elegant late Victorian silver & hand-cut glass six bottle cruet in its original stand. This rare piece was made in Birmingham England, circa 1890-1900 by the maker's and silversmiths of Daniel & Arter. This set was retailed in America by the Bailey Banks & Biddle, a luxury company based in Philadelphia and New York City.
Bailey Banks & Biddle
Bailey Banks & Biddle is an American jewelry firm that formed in 1832 and quickly became a recognized leader in jewelry fashion. The firm developed a reputation for offering high quality, well-designed jewelry as evidenced by its commissions to design the first 40,000 Purple Hearts for the United States military as well as to create the Naval Academy and West Point class rings. Bailey Biddle & Banks, was originally known as Bailey & Kitchen. Was founded at 136 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, on September 20, 1832, by Joseph Trowbridge Bailey and Andrew B. Kitchen. This makes Bailey Banks & Biddle the Oldest Nationwide Jeweler in America and quickly became a recognized leader in the jewelry fashion. By the late 19th century, the firm’s reputation was solidified as one of the country’s leading jewelers and go-to source for all manner of fine things. The partnership was dissolved in November 1846. It was reformed with new partners as Bailey & Co. in 1841, and on March 1, 1878, again re-established as Bailey Banks & Biddle. From about 1852-1862, the company made its own silver; they were principally supplied by Taylor and Lawrie before 1852, and from about 1862-1870, by George B...
Category
1890s English Late Victorian Antique Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Table Box portrait of Empress Eugenia de Montijo miniature Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
More than a kilo of sterling silver was needed to create this stunning rectangular tabletop box.
Worked with the very complicated guilloche technique, it was then enamelled at high heat with translucent enamel to make the superb workmanship shine through.
The fine rectangular miniature cm. 7.5 x 10.7 on vegetable ivory.
The small masterpiece handmade by the painter Anna Maria Manfriani reproduces the famous portrait of Empress Eugenia de Montijo, by the painter Franz Xaver Winterhalter.
The unenamelled sterling silver parts were then gilded with a 24-carat galvanic bath.
In Art Nouveau style, with a “lost” zip, i.e. semi-invisible. Dimensions cm. 15 x 18 x 3.5. Weight gr. 1095. Designed by Giorgio Salimbeni in 1980 and manufactured in Florence at the Salimbeni company headquarters with completely manual execution by artisan artists with a very thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for supporting numerous enamelling firings at around 800°
Doña María Eugenia Ignacia Agustina de Palafox y Kirkpatrick, 19th Countess of Teba, 16th Marquise of Ardales known as Eugénie de Montijo was Empress of the French from her marriage to Napoleon III on 30 January 1853 until the fall of the Emperor on 4 September 1870. From July 28 to September 4...
Category
1980s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Victorian Style Pair of English Toilet Flasks Crystal Ground and Sterling Silver
Located in Prato, Tuscany
We kindly suggest you read the whole description, because with it we try to give you detailed technical and historical information to guarantee the authenticity of our objects.
Particular pair of toilet bottles in cut and ground by hand crystal; for their execution it was used crystal with a percentage of lead of 30%; the high lead content, instead of calcium present in the common glass, gives the crystal a remarkable hardness, exceptional transparency, and a high refractive index; with the techniques of cutting, grinding and polishing, scrupulously performed by hand, extraordinary light effects and reflections were created; the bottles with the ball body are surmounted by a silver neck and a hinged lid finely chiseled with Victorian motifs. They bear the Classic English silver punches from which we can tell that they were produced in the Victorian style in the city of Birmingham in 1907 (Edward VII) by the firm Phineas Harris Levi & Joseph Wolfe Salaman. The company was founded in 1870 in Birmingham on Northampton Street, in 1872 moved to larger premises on Hockley Street and in 1885 the business was finally moved to a prestigious building on Newhall Street. Levi & Salaman produced much Fine silverware...
Category
Early 20th Century English Victorian Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Crystal, Sterling Silver
Red Photo Frame French Empire Louis XVI style Sterling Silver Enamel Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular photo frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè, with French Empire Louis XVI style border and rich ornamentation around th...
Category
1980s Italian Empire Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Baroque Style Green Table Box with Miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Baroque style shaped table box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fine hand engraving interspersed with spaces with translucent fired enamels on guillochè and a beautiful h...
Category
1960s Italian Baroque Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Photo Frame Butterfly-Shaped Fired Enamel on Guillochè and Hand Engravings Sterl
Located in Firenze, FI
Butterfly-shaped photo frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent polychrome fired enamels on hand engraving that imitates the veins of the wings. External dimens...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box portrait of Natalia Nikolaevna Pushkina Lanskaja Salimbeni.
Located in Firenze, FI
Spectacular table box with inward corners in gold-plated 925/1000 sterling silver with translucent enamel fired on guilloche, in Art Nouveau style, and in the center a fine rectangul...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box Squared Green Enamel with oval miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Square table box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamels on sunburst guillochè and Louis XVI French Empire style ornaments. External measurements cm. 12 x 12 x 2.5. Weight gr. 636- Fine oval miniature cm. 3.2 x 4.2 hand painted in tempera on a vegetable ivory plate by the painter Anna Maria Manfriani reproducing a portrait of a Flemish lady...
Category
1990s Italian Louis XVI Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Picture Frame 3 oval photos French Empire Napoleon III style Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table frame for 3 oval photos cm. 3.2 x 4.2 each in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guilloche, with French Empire Napoleon III style...
Category
1970s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Enamel, Sterling Silver
Photo Frame Red Enamel Guillochè and Hand Engravings Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Shaped oval photo frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on sunburst guillochè and Louis XVI French Empire style ornaments. External dimensions c...
Category
1970s Italian Louis XVI Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Enamel, Sterling Silver
Perfume holder manual engraving peach blossom shoots Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Cylindrical handbag perfume holder in 925/1000 sterling Silver gold plated with screwed cap and fine manual engraving of peach blossom shoots, fire enamelled with various colours, in...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Picture Frame Silver Enamel Red on guilloche convex shaped upper side Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular frame with a convex shaped upper side in gold-plated 925/1000 sterling silver and translucent fired enamel on guilloché, with external and internal borders in the French ...
Category
1970s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Clock and 2 Candlesticks Table set Sterling Silver Enamel Salimbeni.
Located in Firenze, FI
Table set made up of a clock and 2 candlesticks in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with two-tone translucent stripes fire-enamelled on guillochè and fine hand-engravings.
The cl...
Category
1980s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Amethyst, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Salimbeni Table Box Art Nouveau Painting Pre-Raphaelite School Fired Enamel
Located in Firenze, FI
This rectangular table box is a masterpiece of craftsmanship. Crafted from 925/1000 sterling silver and gold-plated, it features a hand-painted fire-enameled miniature by Beatrice Me...
Category
1980s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
$3,167 Sale Price
20% Off
Table Box Fired Enamel on Guillochè Arab-Style Ornament Sterling Silver Salimben
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular box with rounded corners in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè with hand-engraved and enamelled Arab-style ornament. Dimensio...
Category
1990s Italian Modern Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Photo Frame Heart-Shaped Fired Enamel on Guillochè Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Heart-shaped rounded frame with oval photo in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè. With hinged silver-gilt foot engraved in Empire style. ...
Category
1970s Italian Empire Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Perfume Holder Black and White Art Deco style Squared base 925 Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Square base perfume holder in black and white fired enamelled 925/1000 sterling silver with screw cap, in Art Deco style. Base cm, 3.6 x 3.6 bottle height cm. 8, total height cm. 10....
Category
1980s Italian Art Deco Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Photo Frame inserted into a harp-shaped object Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Oval photo frame inserted into a harp-shaped object, in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamels on guilloché inspired by a model created by Peter Carl Fab...
Category
1980s Italian Empire Vintage Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
$4,604 Sale Price
23% Off
Victorian Sterling Silver Tableware Carneool Agate Flatware Pie Scoop Server
Located in Wommelgem, VAN
Antique Dutch sterling silver cake server
Made of silver and carneool agate
Engraved with typical Victorian - Biedermeier pattern
Origin The Netherlands
Hallmarked : on the back ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Dutch High Victorian Antique Hand-Carved Sterling Silver
Materials
Agate, Sterling Silver
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