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Technique: Hand-Crafted
England Late 18th Century Regency Sterling Silver Toast Rack
Located in Brescia, IT
This elegant silver sterling toast rack is a piece that can't miss in an organized home. The toast rack has an oval shape and it is an elegant and...
Category
Late 18th Century English Regency Antique Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Victorian Style Crystal and Silver French Toilet Bottle
Located in Prato, Tuscany
We kindly suggest that you read the entire description, as with it we try to give you detailed technical and historical information to ensure the authenticity of our objects.
Origin...
Category
Early 20th Century French Late Victorian Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Crystal, Silver
NAPOLEON III Antique 1860 French 12 Sterling Coffee Spoons Set In Fitted Ebony
By Napoléon III
Located in Miami, FL
A Napoleon III boxed set of twelve coffee spoons.
This is a fantastic unused set of twelve coffee spoons created in Paris France during the Napoleon III period, back in 1860. The sp...
Category
1860s French Napoleon III Antique Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Rare circa 1900 Sterling Silver Diamond
Enamel Powder Compact with Lipstick
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer this stunning circa 1900 French or Italian Sterling silver Diamond & Enamel powder compact with lipstick
A very good...
Category
Early 1900s European Victorian Antique Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Georg Jensen Danish Sterling Siver Bowl 17 B Designed by Johan Rohde
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A classic Georg Jensen style bowl designed by Johan Rohde - the attention to details on the base is exquiste and quite indicative of a Jensen piece. The base and foot detailing is ...
Category
20th Century Danish Art Nouveau Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Table Box Octagonal Black Enamel with light Blue Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Octagonal table box in 925/1000 sterling silver with fire-enamelled Art Deco design. Dimensions diameter cm. 15.8 high cm . 8.2. Weight gr. 974. Designed by Giorgio Salimbeni for Cartier USA in the 1980s, inspired by objects designed by Louis Cartier around 1920 and manufactured in Florence in various specimens, also in parure with other objects and in different colors, in the headquarters by the Salimbeni firm with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for withstanding numerous high-fire enamelled firings at about 750°<800° C.
About cooperation Salimbeni and Cartier.
Our first meetings with the Cartier USA Company took place through the Giorgini Company, the first "Buying Office" set up in Florence immediately after the Second World War, which had the purpose of bringing together Florentine, and also Italian, producers with American buyers, who especially appreciated the artistic objects still manufactured by artisans who still took inspiration from the Italian Renaissance, using techniques handed down from generation to generation.
Mrs. Gina Pestelli, wife of a Florentine retail jeweller, was in charge of contacts with Cartier USA, above all an employee, while her daughter, also for Giorgini, took care of the fashion that in those years was affirmed in Florence with the events of "Pitti ".
With their help, we began to supply frames and boxes in sterling silver gold plated with malachite and other semi-precious stones.
At the same time, the official buyer of Cartier, Mr. William Smith, began to appreciate and commission the first objects with fired enamels, a process of which we have always been specialists.
In 1975 we began exhibiting at the prestigious New York Jewellery Association Show, which we participated in both the February and July editions, for a good 26 years until 2001.
In New York in those years the "Art deco style" was still very much appreciated, still mindful of the beautiful early 20th century architecture of the great buildings such as the "Crysler" or the "Empire State".
We then began to produce frames, boxes, evening bags, "objets de vertu" and other objects in "art deco style" which were very popular with Mr. Smith who gave us some photocopies of Louis Francois Cartier drawings to reproduce them. Thus, numerous cigarette cases, powder compacts, evening bags, frames and table boxes were created exclusively for Cartier USA which, at the time, had the prestigious "Silver Department" on the first floor of the Cartier store on Fifth Avenue.
An evening bag, with matching cigarette case and powder compact, were redone on the design created for a gift given to Mary Pickford at the time. In a 1986 Cartier...
Category
1980s Italian Art Deco Vintage Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Picture Frame Green two-tones enamel Guilloche Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
This important Picture Frame Green is in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated 24 carats. It is rectangular shaped photo frame.
The surface of this Picture Frame Green is fired enamel...
Category
1970s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Enamel, Sterling Silver
Round Box enamel light blue and black Salimbeni
By Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Round box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold-plated with translucent fired enamel on guilloché in a modern contemporary style. Dimensions: diameter cm. 7.5 height cm. 3.8, Weight g. 24...
Category
1970s Italian Modern Vintage Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
WILLIAM ELEY - George III Sterling Silver Tea/Dessert Spoon - U.K. - Circa 1813
Located in Chatham, ON
WILLIAM ELEY WILLIAM FEARN WILLIAM CHAWNER - George III sterling silver tea or dessert spoon - hallmarked - United Kingdom (London) - circa 1813.
Excellent antique condition - no ...
Category
Early 19th Century English George III Antique Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Mappin
Webb Sterling Silver and Blue Glass Salt and Pepper cellars dated 1919
By Mappin
Webb
Located in London, GB
Presenting for sale a stunning pair of Art Deco Sterling Silver Hallmarked Salt (and/ or Pepper) Cellars with their original Blue Glass liners made by the renowned UK silversmiths Ma...
Category
1910s British Art Deco Vintage Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
$603 Sale Price
20% Off
Stilton Cheese Scoop by Dominick
Haff- Old English Antique Pattern-Sterling
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Sterling silver stilton cheese scoop by Dominick & Haff in the "Old English Antique Pattern-Hammered". Deeply incised hallmark on the reverse and void o...
Category
1880s American Late Victorian Antique Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
18th Century Empire Silver Baccarat Crystal Salt Cellars F. Durand Napoleonic
By Francois Durand, Charles Nicolas Odiot
Located in Wommelgem, VAN
18th Century Museal French masterpieces.
A pair sterling silver and Baccarat crystal salt cellars.
The 2 oval crystal bowls carried by 2 ...
Category
19th Century Antique Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Sterling Silver / Gilt Barware / Centerpiece Bowl
Located in Tarry Town, NY
Late 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 w...
Category
Late 19th Century American Antique Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold, Sterling Silver
Photo Frame White Enamel and Hand Painted Flower Garlands Sterling Silver Salimb
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular photo frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with hand-painted floral miniature by the painter Renato Dainelli, fire-enamelled on a white background in Art Nouveau...
Category
1980s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
RODEN BROTHERS - Edwardian Sterling Silver Grooming Set - Canada - Circa 1910
Located in Chatham, ON
RODEN BROTHERS - Fine quality rare Edwardian antique sterling silver grooming set - heavy weight - featuring engraved and chased over-all scrolling...
Category
Early 20th Century Canadian Edwardian Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Antique French Silver Wine Taster Honoring Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This very unique and ornate antique silver wine taster was made in France in circa 1780 and is hallmarked, however the maker cannot be ident...
Category
Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Table Box floral miniature fire-enameled on guilloche and stripes Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Oval table box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fired enamel, with fine floral miniature fire-enamelled on guilloche, enamelled edge with vertical stripes. Viennese Art N...
Category
1960s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold Plate
20th Century Italian Sterlig Silver Art. Deco
Teaset
By Mario Poli
Located in VALENZA, IT
Three-piece tea set in 925 sterling silver completely handmade.
Teapot: H 23, D 15cm.
The body is round, rounded and shaped with a hammered recess.
The handle and lid are made o...
Category
1990s Italian Art Deco Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
$6,263 Sale Price
20% Off
Box with wedges Enamel Sterling Silver black and white Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Octagonal wedge box in 925/1000 sterling silver with black and white colors fire enameled in Art Deco style. Measures 7.8 x 7.8 x 6 cm. Weight gr. 281. Designed by Giorgio Salimbeni ...
Category
1970s Italian Art Deco Vintage Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
21th Century Italian Sterling Silver Gilded Enameled Frame
By Salimbeni
Located in VALENZA, IT
Oval Fabergè style frame in gilded 925/1000 silver with translucent yellow fired enamel on guilloché and ribbon on the upper part.
12x8,5 cm
photo 5,5x4 ...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Other Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
$2,760 Sale Price
20% Off
Sterling Silver Big Oval Jewel Box Baroque Style, with Miniature Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Jewel box Baroque style, in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated.
Jewel Box has fine hand engravings around fired enameled spaces with lapis lazuli type painting.
Jewel Box Baroqu...
Category
Early 2000s Italian Baroque Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold, Enamel, Sterling Silver, Gold Plate
Fountain pen, Ballpoint pen
Tray for Desk Set enamel Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular tray with rounded corners in 925/1000 sterling silver with hand-painted fired enamel like turquoise stone, cm. 9.5 x 18. For fountain pen (4577-5210) with 18 carat gold n...
Category
1970s Italian Modern Vintage Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box floral miniature fire-enameled on guilloche vertical stripes Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Round table box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fired enamels, with “paillons” in pure gold on the upper circle, fine fired enamelled miniature with hand-painted floral ...
Category
1960s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
19th Century Italian Sterling Silver Decorative Box
Located in VALENZA, IT
Completely handmade sterling silver candy box.
The box is round and pot-bellied.
Embossments and chisels of flowers were made all over the body.
The box is divided into three sect...
Category
2010s Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
$1,894 Sale Price
20% Off
Table Box Hand-Engraved and Miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table box with rounded corners in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated with a beautiful hand-engraved and fire-enamelled frame and in the center a beautiful hand painted miniature by the painter Beatrice Mellana reproducing the painting by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres "Odalisque with slave". Dimensions cm. 9.5 x 12.3 x 3.3. Weight gr. 671. Designed by Giorgio Salimbeni in 1979 and manufactured in Florence in numerous specimens with various subjects and different colors, in the headquarters of the Salimbeni Company with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for withstanding numerous enamelled firings at about 800° C.
Miniature is a very ancient technique which consists of painting works in small proportions.
It was born for the decoration of the first letter of the paragraph of the books.
Over the years, however, this technique is refined and enriched, then moving on to precious personal items.
hand painted miniatures can be done with multiple different techniques.
The most important that we use on our articles are of three kinds:
1) Fire enamel.
2) Water tempera on an ivory plate.
3) Painted on mother-of-pearl.
Fire enameled miniatures:
On a first layer of enamel generally white or very clear or even transparent suitably liquefied at a temperature of about 750 ° C, the chosen subject is painted using miniature...
Category
1970s Italian Art Deco Vintage Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box Enamel on Guilloche Hand Painted Miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Square box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè also on the sides. In the center, a beautiful hand painted tempera miniature on a vegetable ivory plate depicting the portrait of a 19th century lady, signed by the painter Anna Maria Manfriani. Dimensions cm. 12 x 12 x 2.5. Weight gr. 618. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1976 and manufactured in Florence in some specimens with various subjects and different colors, in the headquarters of the Salimbeni Company with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for withstanding numerous enamelled firings at about 800° C.
Miniature is a very ancient technique which consists of painting works in small proportions.
It was born for the decoration of the first letter of the paragraph of the books.
Over the years, however, this technique is refined and enriched, then moving on to precious personal items.
Hand painted miniatures can be done with multiple different techniques.
The most important that we use on our articles are of three kinds:
1) Fire enamel.
2) Water tempera on an ivory plate.
3) Painted on mother-of-pearl.
Fire enameled miniatures:
On a first layer of enamel generally white or very clear or even transparent suitably liquefied at a temperature of about 750 ° C, the chosen subject is painted using miniature colors which are as many colored crystals, ground and reduced to a very fine, almost impalpable powder washed and purified in distilled water with the addition of small quantities of deoxidizing acids which, diluted with essential oils (usually essential oil of solder), can be mixed to form a palette of colors.
With very fine sable hair brushes you draw the subject starting from the perimeter and then gradually adding various layers of color.
It is necessary to carry out various firings very often so that the colors harden and are not absorbed by the underlying glaze as, during the subsequent firings at 750 ° C, during liquefaction, it would spread irremediably. Hence the need to form the painting a little at a time, cooking it numerous times.
Therefore it is necessary to proceed with numerous retouching, often overlapping different colors that only the painter's experience knows. A beautiful miniature needs from 20 to over 50 firings and is finished when the painter deems he does not have to further intervene.
Some colors must have darker tones than others because then, by superimposing the transparent enamel placed at the end of the miniature, they fade. This transparent layer, called “fondant” in jargon, must be smoothed and polished like all other translucent enamel colors.
The miniatures with water tempera colors are painted on real ivory...
Category
1970s Italian Modern Vintage Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Perfume Holder Art Deco fired enamel on guilloche Salimbeni.
Located in Firenze, FI
Ovalized handbag perfume holder in 925/1000 sterling silver with screwed cap and geometric engraving fire enamelled, in Art Deco style, early 1900s. Measurements cm. 1.5 x 2 total h...
Category
1970s Italian Art Deco Vintage Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
1950s Duck-Shaped 800 Silver Salt
Spice Cellar with Tongue by Jetzler Swiss
Located in Bad Säckingen, DE
Charming and whimsical duck-shaped salt or spice cellar crafted in 0.800 silver by Jetzler, Switzerland, circa 1950s. This delightful figural table accessory features a finely sculpt...
Category
1950s Swiss Mid-Century Modern Vintage Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Crystal, Silver
19th Century Sterling Silver Decorative Vase
Located in Tarry Town, NY
19th Century Italian sterling silver decorative vase with two side handles and exterior design details. The vase features a finely chase body with applied foliate motifs and semi pre...
Category
1880s Italian Antique Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Table Box Clock Swiss mechanical skeletal movement on the lid Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Large hexagonal table box with clock on the lid, in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with hand-painted fire enamel like lapis lazuli stone, with engravings and decorations hand-e...
Category
1980s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Amethyst, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Black Box Octagonal with black edge enamel with pure Gold Paillons Salimbeni.
Located in Firenze, FI
Table Box Octagonal is in 925/1000 sterling silver.
Table Box Octagonal
Table Box Octagonal has translucent fired enamels on guilloché.
Table Box Octagonal has black edge with pure g...
Category
1980s Italian Art Deco Vintage Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold
Small Picture Frame Round English style, early 1900s. Salimbeni
By Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Small round frame with flat edge in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guilloche, English style, early 1900s. External diameter cm. 7.2, internal c...
Category
1950s Italian Modern Vintage Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Handbag Perfume Holder enamel on guilloché and fine hand engravings Salimbeni.
Located in Firenze, FI
Cylindrical handbag perfume holder in 925/1000 sterling silver with screw cap and fine hand-engraved design in Art Deco style, fire enamelled in 3 colours. Diameter 2 cm, total heigh...
Category
1970s Italian Art Deco Vintage Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Cigarette Case Romantic couple Art Nouveau Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular desk cigarette case with rounded corners in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated with fine hand-painted fire-enameled miniature depicting a romantic couple in Art Nouveau...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Enamel, Sterling Silver
Sterling Silver Vinaigrette or Decorative box with Ivy and Floral Cut-out
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A hand crafted sterling box with cut-outs in the shape of botanicals of ivy, vines and flowers. The box perhaps a vinaigrette, could now be used for herbs, fragrant florals, or 420.
A compliment to any cocktail table, vanity, desk or work station.. could hold desk supplies...
Category
19th Century English Victorian Antique Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
20th Century Sterling Silver Italian Gilded and Enameled Table Box
By Salimbeni
Located in VALENZA, IT
Round haped silver gilded 925/1000 table box with translucent enamels on guilloche with hand-painted floral miniatures and gold paillons
Made in Italy
1.400 grams
The Miniatures are hand-painted on a usually white homogeneous enamel base. The same colored glazes are used, but ground much finer, which are mixed with special oils to form an infinite palette of colors. The paint must be gradually dried on electric stoves...
Category
1980s Italian Other Vintage Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
$16,943 Sale Price
20% Off
Photo Frame Two-Tone Fired Enamel on Guillochè Louis XVI Style Sterling Silver S
Located in Firenze, FI
Large shaped photo frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent two-tone fired enamel on guillochè and with various ornaments in Louis XVI French Empire style and 4...
Category
1980s Italian Louis XVI Vintage Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
20th Century Italian Solid Silver Jewelery Box Baroque Style
Located in VALENZA, IT
Jewelery box in solid 800 silver in Baroque style.
This box was made by faithfully and perfectly copying the fashion jewelry boxes in the noble houses and villas in Italy in the 18t...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Baroque Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Agate, Silver
$6,234 Sale Price
20% Off
LUC LANEL Paris For Christofle 1930 Art Deco Silver Plated Geometric Hand-Mirror
By Christofle, Luc Lanel
Located in Miami, FL
A geometric hand mirror designed by Lucien "Luc" Lanel for Christofle.
This is a beautiful hand-mirror designed in Paris France during the art deco period by Lucien "Luc" Lanel for the house of Christofle, back in the 1930. The useful hand-mirror has been crafted with sharp geometric shapes in solid silverplate with polished finish. It is a very nice piece of decorative art and is fitted with an octagonal beveled mirror.
Lucien "Luc" Lanel
Luc Lanel (1893-1965) was a very talented sculpture and creator. Very talented designer and ceramist had received his training at the École des arts décoratifs in Paris. He worked mainly with silver or silver-plated metals as well as bronze for the companies Süe et Mare and - as head of the galvanoplastic department - for Christofle, Paris from 1920 to 1946. As a skilled illustrator, he was also responsible for the company's advertisements. Together with the furniture designer Jules Leleu, he received various commissions for interiors and cruise ships. As early as 1928, he created various ceramics in collaboration with his wife Marjolaine Giradet. After the end of the Second World War, the couple concentrated almost exclusively on ceramic work. In addition to regular participation in the Paris Salons and other exhibitions at home and abroad, he also appeared at the Exposition Internationale des Art Décoratifs et Industriels in 1925, as well as at the 1937 Paris World's Fair. His most important creation was the “Odulations” collection and other iconic designs created for the First-Class dining room and the Grand Bar of the great ocean liner the S.S. Normandie which was considered the epitome of Art Deco Design in every way.
Country: Paris, France.
Period: Art-Deco, 1930.
Weight: 391.8 Grams, (0.40 Kg).
Measurements: 250 mm by 103 mm by 16 mm (9.85 x 4.05 x 0.63 Inches).
Hallmarks: Stamped with French marks; the maker's and manufacturer marks and signed as follows, "CHRISTOFLE".
Condition: The overall condition of this Christofle hand...
Category
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Picture Frame large size Red Enamel on Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Large shaped photograph frame in gold plated 925/1000 sterling silver with translucent fired enamel on guillochè with borders and laurel frieze in Louis XVI French Empire style. Exte...
Category
1960s Italian Empire Vintage Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Cigar Box two-tone stripes enamel Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
This superb Table Cigar Box two-tone stripes enamel is in 925/1000 sterling silver.
it has a rectangular shape with rounded sides Table Cigar Box has hand engraving, with orange and ...
Category
1980s Italian Empire Vintage Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Set Picture Frame+Table Box Enamel two-tone ruby red and emerald green Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular Photo Frame in Gold-Plated 925/1000 Silver: Imagine a frame that frames your most precious memories with elegance and modernity. This frame is made of gold-plated 925/100...
Category
Early 2000s Italian Modern Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold, Gold Plate
Table Box Green in French Empire Louis XVI style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Table Box Green in French Empire Louis XVI style Sterling Silver Salimbeni.
Table box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel inserted in a very fine ha...
Category
1970s Italian Louis XVI Vintage Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Box with green enamel on fine hand engraving of a landscape with ruins Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table box with concave corners in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on fine hand engraving of a landscape with ruins. Contemporary modern...
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold Plate
Table Box Blue and Light Blue Stripes Guillochè and Enamel Sterling Silver Salim
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table box with rounded corners in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with two-tone translucent fired enamels with guillochè stripes and hand-engraved motifs. George V E...
Category
1970s Italian George IV Vintage Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Enamel, Sterling Silver
Picture Frame Red enamel Empire Style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Large octagonal table frame for round photos diameter cm. 7, in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on sunburst guilloche, with Napoleon III French Empire style borders and ornaments. External cm. 17 x 17. Weight gr. 483. Designed by Giorgio Salimbeni in 1978 on the inspiration of previous artefacts from the early 1900s and manufactured in Florence at the headquarters of the Salimbeni company with completely manual execution by artisan artists with a very thick plate and large reinforcements suitable to support numerous high-fire enameling 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
1970s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Cigar Box Cylindrical for table blue enamel on guilloche Salimbeni.
Located in Firenze, FI
Cylindrical table cigar box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamels on guilloché, with hinged lid. Modern contemporary style. Diameter cm. 5 height cm....
Category
1990s Italian Modern Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Small Picture Frame Rectangular for oval portrait Salimbeni
By Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular for oval photo frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guilloche, English style, early 1900s. External cm. 6 x 9, internal oval cm....
Category
1950s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
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19th Century Italian Silver Vase Barocco Style with Handles and Gilded Inside
Located in VALENZA, IT
Gorgeous Italian solid silver vase. Body made in one piece without welding. Embossed and chiseled, of rare beauty and precision. Two important handles made of fusion and finely chiseled were welded onto the vase. The inside of the vase has been gilded in thickness with a non-glossy technique in order to make the overhangs visible and appreciable also on the inside.
The vase was marked with the "800" but it was not possible to identify the master silversmith
On both sides, the names of the owners of the vase, Maria and Gianni, have been engraved by hand
Weight:
1184 grams
Sizes:
Height cm. 30 at the handles
Height cm. 23 vase
Width cm. 33 at the handles
Width cm. 18 vase.
Category
Mid-19th Century Italian Baroque Antique Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
$5,663 Sale Price
34% Off
Italy Late 19th Century Renaissance Revival Fruit Plate Tray In .800 Silver
Located in Miami, FL
An antique Renaissance revival plate for fruits.
Beautiful piece created in Florence Italy at the end of the 19th century, circa 1880's. Crafted with stunning patterns in solid .8...
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Renaissance Revival Antique Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Table Box Enamel two-tone ruby red and emerald green Salimbeni.
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table box in 925/1000 gold-plated sterling silver with translucent fired enamel stripes on guilloche, two-tone ruby red and emerald green, in a modern contemporary style....
Category
Early 2000s Italian Modern Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
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1800s CAT Handle Silver Sauce Boat by DRAGSTED for Simon Groth, Denmark
Located in Skien, NO
A Very Fine 19th Century Danish Silver Sauce Boat by Simon Groth, crafted at the end of the 19th century in Danish solid silver (.826 fine silver).
This one-of-a-kind antique sauce boat...
Category
19th Century Danish Antique Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Art Nouveau French Tetard Sterling Wash Basin / Jug
Located in Tarry Town, NY
Early 20th century Art Nouveau French tetard sterling wash basin and jug . The silver pedestal jug is decorated with exterior foliate swags and scrolls design details with multi tiered ruffed edge decoration . The handle is also designed with foliate decoration including pussy willows and terminates in a forward facing dolphins head surrounded by leaves . The matching pedestal wash basin base...
Category
Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
$15,985 / set
18th Century Silver Salver by Paul de Lamerie
Located in London, GB
18th century silver salver by Paul de Lamerie
English, 1744
Height 3cm, diameter 27cm
Hailing from the workshop of the eminent Dutch-born English sil...
Category
18th Century English Rococo Antique Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Picture Frame for a round and a rectangular picture Fabergé style
Located in Firenze, FI
Large shaped frame for a round and a rectangular photograph in gold-plated 925/1000 sterling silver with translucent fired enamel on a radial guilloché and rich friezes in the Russia...
Category
1960s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
21st Century Italian Solid Silver Cruet in the Shape of a Watering Can
Located in VALENZA, IT
Nice cruet in solid 800 silver. Completely handmade, it faithfully reproduces the shape of a watering can. It can be used for pouring other types of liquids or sauces.
Very elegant ...
Category
Early 2000s Italian Modern Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
$1,608 Sale Price
20% Off
Damian Garrido 2003 Spain Modernist Geometric ARCO Vase .925 Sterling
Located in Miami, FL
Geometric modern "Arco" vase designed by Damian Garrido.
A beautiful sculptural piece, created in Madrid Spain in the silversmith workshop of Damián Garrido, back in 2002. This ar...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Spanish Modern Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Perfume Holder 3 color fired enamel on guilloche Salimbeni.
Located in Firenze, FI
Cylindrical handbag perfume holder in 925/1000 sterling silver with screw cap and fine manual engraving of Art Deco style decorations, with 3 colours of fired enamels. Diameter cm. 2...
Category
1970s Italian Modern Vintage Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box pure gold paillons and fired enamel miniature Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Round table box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fire enamels, with pure gold “paillons” on the upper circle, fine fire enamelled miniature hand painted by the painter Br...
Category
1960s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Antique Sterling Silver Bowl Small Fruit Basket Relief Pictori Decorative Object
Located in Wembley, GB
Antique silver bowl small fruit basket with relief, openwork decorative object hallmarked sterling silver oval bon bon dish bowl intricate cut out ...
Category
1930s Swedish Baroque Vintage Hand-Crafted Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
$493 Sale Price
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