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Technique: Hand-Carved
12 Dinner Forks
12 Dinner Knives Silver Plate, Ornate Bone Handles, Circa 1910
Located in Worcester Park, GB
This exquisite antique cutlery set is beautifully presented in a handcrafted wooden storage box. The set includes matching knives and forks, e...
Category
1910s English Victorian Vintage Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Silver Plate
Contemporary Brass Modern Mosaic Tray by Jonathan Amar Studio
Located in Paris, FR
A contemporary handcrafted tray composed of a handmade mosaic Moroccan zellige surface, a walnut frame and polished elegant brass handles.
Designed by J...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Moroccan Modern Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Brass
20th century Bohemian Blue Crystal Whisky Decanter, 1950s
Located in LEGNY, FR
Beautiful blue bohemian crystal whisky decanter from the 50s.
Violetta model. Made in Poland.
Perfect condition. Superb hand-cut crystal work.
For lovers of quality pieces. Two other...
Category
1950s Polish Vintage Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Crystal
Vintage Rustic Handcrafted Wooden Pedestal Bowl in Mountain Folk Art Style
Located in Roma, IT
I am offering for sale a Pedestal Bowl handcrafted in Italy probably during the mid-20th century.
The style of this footed fruit bowl is typical of the Folk Art of the mountainous ar...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Brutalist Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Fir
Table Box miniature fire-enameled Aleksej Nikolaevic Romanov Salimbeni.
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table box with inward corners in gold-plated 925/1000 sterling silver with translucent enamel fired on guilloche and a fine round miniature in the centre, diameter cm. 4....
Category
1970s Italian Empire Vintage Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Gold, Enamel, Sterling Silver, Gold Plate
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-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Gold Plate, Enamel, Sterling Silver
Molcajete in Volcanic Stone, Taller Maya, 2016 - Lot 780
By Taller Maya
Located in New York, NY
This image shows a beautifully hand-carved molcajete, a traditional Mexican mortar and pestle, designed in 2016 by Taller Maya, a collective that works with Mayan artisans in the Yuc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Mexican Native American Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Stone
CIRCA 1950
s VINTAGE HEAVILY PATINATED ROBERT MOUSEMAN THOMPSON CHOPPING BOARD
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
Royal House Antiques
Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this stunning vintage circa 1950’s Robert Mouseman Thompson chopping board with the most stunning patina
Th...
Category
1950s English Country Vintage Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Oak
Picture Frame Silver Squared Blue Enamel modern contemporary style Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
A Modern Heirloom: Large Square Guilloché Enamel Frame by Giorgio Salimbeni
Presented is a commanding and radiant square photo frame, a masterwork of contemporary Florentine jewelry...
Category
Early 2000s Italian Modern Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Late 20th Century French Pottery Conscience Vallauris 12"high
By Vallauris
Located in Winter Park, FL
A late 20th Century French Pottery from Vallauris called a Conscience was used to store olive oil. Green glazed in good condition with micro chip at the rim. Circa 1960. Dimensions a...
Category
Late 20th Century French French Provincial Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Terracotta
Belt real black python buckle Sterling silver fire enamel hand painted Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Belt in genuine black python reptile with oval buckle in 925/1000 silver with translucent fire enamel on sunburst guilloche and hand-painted miniature depicting a branch of peach blo...
Category
Early 2000s Italian Modern Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Enamel, Sterling Silver
Mid-19th Century French Oak and Brass Banded Cider Pitcher Jug from Normandy
Located in Dallas, TX
Accessorize your wine cellar or wet bar with this antique cider pitcher jug; crafted in Normandy France circa 1860, the pitcher is made of barre...
Category
Mid-19th Century French Country Antique Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Brass
Table Cigar Box two-tone stripes enamel Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
This divine Table Box is in 925/1000 sterling silver.
Table Box hand-painted miniature has a Rectangular shape with rounded corners.
On the cover there is a beautiful hand-engraved...
Category
1970s Italian Empire Vintage Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Antique Bohemian Amber Crystal Spa Glass or Vase with Floral Enameled Accents
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This Art Deco era amber cut crystal and enameled 'spa glass' beaker or small vase is unsigned but presumed to have been made in Bohemia in circa 1920. The gl...
Category
Early 20th Century Czech Art Deco Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Crystal
Victorian Sterling Silver Tableware Carneool Agate Flatware Serving Set Antique
Located in Wommelgem, VAN
Antique sterling silver & Agate serving set.
Fabulous floral engravings on the fork and spoon.
Handles made of ribbed agate
Condition good.
Fully hallmarked.
Year letter 1899
Sil...
Category
Mid-19th Century Dutch High Victorian Antique Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Agate, 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-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
A Rare 18th Century Meissen Porcelain Marcolini Period Watteau Covered Potpourri
Located in New York, NY
A Rare 18th Century Meissen Porcelain Marcolini Period Watteau Covered Potpourri. This rare Meissen porcelain potpourri vase, dating ...
Category
1770s German Neoclassical Antique Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
German ANRI Wood Carved Figure Figural Bottle Stopper with Stand, vintage 1920s
By ANRI
Located in Nuernberg, DE
Adorable wood carved and hand colored Bottle Stopper with stand made in the 1920s - 1930s or older. Ideal decoration for any table or bar. Great idea to surprise your guests or a ver...
Category
1920s German Folk Art Vintage Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Wood
An Incredible Royal Worcester Porcelain Double-Handled Urn with Relief Soldiers
Located in New York, NY
A Royal Worcester Porcelain Double-Handled Urn/Vase/Ice Bucket/Champagne Bucket with Relief Soldier and Military Head Decoration, Hand-Gilt with 24k gold. The urn is formed with an o...
Category
1850s English Other Antique Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
Base Talcum Powder Holder Black and White Art Deco 925 Salimbeni.
Located in Firenze, FI
Hexagonal base talcum powder holder in black and white fired enamel in 925/1000 sterling silver with perforated screw cap and pressure counter-cap, in Art Deco style. Base cm, 5.3 x ...
Category
1980s Italian Art Deco Vintage Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Picture Frame Green with concave corner for oval photo Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table frame with concave corners for oval photo cm. 5.5 x 8.5 in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamels on guilloche, with French Empire Napo...
Category
1970s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
French 19th Century, Thick Wooden Chopping or Cutting Board
Located in Buisson, FR
Unique thick wooden chopping-cutting board with a beautiful form. Never seen before is this shape. Great statement on your countertop,
France, circa 1850
Weathered. If needed items w...
Category
19th Century French French Provincial Antique Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Wood
$352 Sale Price
48% Off
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
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
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-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Dragonfly Cooler Ice Bucket for Champagne Magnum (1.5L) and Wine
By Boucher
Co
Located in Queensland, AU
Imagine the wonder on your guest’s faces when you reveal your next special bottle of champagne out of this astonishing, limited-edition, organic sculpture.
This cast bronze, stainles...
Category
2010s Australian Modern Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Brass, Bronze, Stainless Steel
Table Box “The Great Odalisque” Fired Enamel on Guilloche Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
table box in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated with edges with fire - enamelled stripes and upper frame with insertion of paillons in pure gold and beautRectangular iful fire-enam...
Category
1960s Italian Empire Vintage Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Gold Plate, Enamel, Sterling Silver
Monoxyl pitcher olive wood, French folk art, Alexandre Noll style, circa 1950s
Located in leucate, FR
French Folk Art.
Huge monoxyl pitcher olive wood.
Free-form and organic design.
Fantastic patina.
Measures: - Height 27 cm / 10,63''
- Width 14 cm / 5,51''
...
Category
1950s French Folk Art Vintage Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Wood
Table Box Enamel on Guilloche and Hand Painted Miniature Sterling Silver Salimb
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular box with inward corners in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated with beautiful miniature fire enameled and hand painted by the painter Beatrice Mellana depicting the painting "The Turkish slave" by Francesco Mazzola known as "il Parmigianino" (National Gallery of Parma). Dimensions cm. 8.5 x 11.5 x 3. Weight gr. 345. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1965 and manufactured in Florence in numerous specimens with various different subjects, 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 enameled 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 Baroque Vintage Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Super Rare Pair Of Paris (Darte Freres) Porcelain Gold-Ground Models Of Temples
By Darte Frères
Located in New York, NY
An Ultra Rare and Impressive 19th Century Pair Of French Paris (Darte Freres) Porcelain Gold-Ground Models Of Temples with Iron-Red Stenciled Marks. Each round dome with biscuit lau...
Category
1810s French Empire Antique Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
Rococo Revival French Silver and Crystal Claret Jug, Late 19th Century
Located in CANNES, FR
An exceptional 19th century French claret jug crafted from finely hand-engraved crystal and mounted in high-quality sterling silver (.950), bearing t...
Category
Late 19th Century French Rococo Revival Antique Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Crystal, Sterling Silver
A Rare Set of 5 Edo Period Japanese Arita Porcelain Imari Style Vases
Located in New York, NY
An Exclusive and Rare Set of Five Edo Period Japanese Arita Porcelain Imari Style Vases. This garniture set reflects the demand for decorative porcelain ensembles across Europe, part...
Category
Early 1700s Japanese Edo Antique Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
American Mahogany Hinged Bottle Box on Stand with Exposed Dovetails, Circa 1800
Located in Charleston, SC
American mahogany hinged bottle box on stand with exposed dovetails, interior dividers, original brass side handles, and centered brass knob with original locking key. Early 19th cen...
Category
Early 1800s American American Colonial Antique Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Brass
Crystal Whiskey Lowball Glasses 6 pcs (10.8 fl oz) multicolored
Located in Opole, PL
Hand-crafted Crystal Lowball Whisky Glasses (10.8 fl_oz) - 6 pcs.
Limited edition called Stellum - multicolored (yellow, blue, green, red, grey, violet...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Polish Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Crystal
$368 Sale Price / item
20% Off
A Pair of Red Meissen Porcelain Potpourri Vases w 4 Mythological Painted scenes
Located in New York, NY
A Rare and Quite Sought After Pair of Red Meissen Porcelain Double Handled Potpourri Vases with Four Hand painted Mythological Panels. Both vases are marked on the underside with th...
Category
1880s German Rococo Antique Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
Valle Medium Rectangular Tray Silver Alpaca
Horn Tray
By AIREDELSUR
Located in Buenos Aires, AR
Other sizes:
8" x 15" x 08"
8" x 23" x 0.8"
This family is inspired by the forms and figures shaped by the wind of the Moon Valley (in the province of San Juan, in the North of Argentina). It comes from this magical and inspiring place, blended with Horns or stones and their colors. It has rectangular and square trays, mini decorative trays, champagne buckets for 1, 2, 3 and up to 6 bottles, and Pitchers.
Our pieces are made by hand. One of a kind.
All natural stones may vary in color.
About AIREDELSUR:
With its rustic chic personality and the elegant designs of Marcelo Lucini...
Category
2010s South American Modern Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Metal
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
1990s Italian Baroque Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Sterling Silver, Gold Plate, Enamel
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 Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Agate, 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-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
A 19th C. Meissen Porcelain Covered Potpourri, After the Model by J.F. Eberlein
Located in New York, NY
A 19th-century Meissen Porcelain Covered Potpourri, after the model by Johann Friedrich Eberlein. The potpourri features a large, lobed body with a pierced domed lid, surmounted by a...
Category
1870s German Rococo Antique Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
Jean Lurcat Grand plat forme libre
By Jean Lurçat
Located in PAU, FR
Grand plat de forme libre en céramique émaillée rouge à décor polychrome d'un quartier de lune à visage humain et feuillages blancs.
Signé et numéroté au dos 4/50
Category
1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Ceramic
Photo Frame Black and White Enamel Squared Shape Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Square photo frame in 925/1000 sterling silver with fire-enamelled Art Deco-style geometric design. External dimensions cm. 14.5 x 14.5 internal cm. 9 x 9. Weight gr. 260. Designed b...
Category
1970s Italian Art Deco Vintage Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
A set of 4 Four Tea Coffee Spoon Stainless Sheffield England 1930s Art Deco
Located in Wembley, GB
A Set of 4 English Stainless Sheffield England Espresso Coffee or Tea Demitasse Spoons
Four beautiful English stainless Sheffield espresso coffee or tea demitasse spoons in the styl...
Category
1930s English Art Deco Vintage Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Metal, Steel, Stainless Steel
$87 Sale Price
25% Off
Antique Judaica Sterling Silver Torah Pointer/Yad 1873
Located in PAU, FR
Silver Yad with twisted decoration surmounted by a lion.
Inlaid red stone.
Dating from 1873 in 84 zolonik silver.
Height: 15 cm
Category
1870s Russian Baroque Antique Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Sterling Silver
Archimede Seguso Ashtray in Murano Glass with Gold and Air Bubbles
Located in Rio De Janeiro, RJ
Murano ashtray made by Archimede Seguso for cigars with bubbles and gold.
Category
1950s Italian International Style Vintage Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Murano Glass
Photo Frame Large Imperial Style White and Green enamel on Sterling Silver Salim
Located in Firenze, FI
Large shaped frame for photographs in gold plated 925/1000 sterling silver with translucent two-tone fired enamels on guillochè and rich friezes in the French Empire Louis XVI style ...
Category
1960s Italian Empire Vintage Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Pair of 19th C. French Green Opaline Crystal Cachepots Engraved Gilt Decoration
Located in New York, NY
A Fantastic Pair of 19th Century Louis XVI Style French Green Opaline crystal cachepots/wine coolers with hand-engraved Neoclassical decoration and 24K Gilt Decorations. Each is beau...
Category
19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Crystal
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...
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1970s Italian Louis XVI Vintage Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
French Provincial Hand Made Wooden Bowl Nr.4
Located in Rümmingen, BW
This Bowl is a blend of rustic charm and wood craftsmanship. Handcrafted by french traditional woodworkers, each bowl is a unique piece that captures the essence of french provincial...
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21st Century and Contemporary French French Provincial Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Wood
$191 Sale Price
20% Off
Early 20th Century Czech Royal Dux Bohemian Carved Porcelain Woman Sculpture
Located in Dallas, TX
Decorate a woman's vanity or powder room with this vintage elegant ceramic Bohemian sculpture dish, crafted in the Czech Republic circa 1930. The Art Deco sculpture features a woman ...
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Early 20th Century Czech Art Nouveau Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
London 1750 George IV Silver Cruet Service Set with Two Cut Glass Bottles
Located in Brescia, IT
England Mid -18th century circa sterling silver and cut glass cruets service set in George IV style
The sterling silver basket of the two cut glass cr...
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18th Century English George IV Antique Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Sterling Silver
Salta Place Card Holders, Alpaca Silver
Blue Natural Onyx Stone
By AIREDELSUR
Located in Buenos Aires, AR
Salta province is called the beautiful, and this adjective introduces us to its profound beauty. Its fertile valleys, windy desert, colorful mountains and blue sky are the images tha...
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2010s Argentine Organic Modern Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Stone, Onyx, Metal
Salta Place Card Holders, Alpaca Silver
Blue Natural Onyx Stone
By AIREDELSUR
Located in Buenos Aires, AR
Salta province is called the beautiful, and this adjective introduces us to its profound beauty. Its fertile valleys, windy desert, colorful mountains and blue sky are the images tha...
Category
2010s Argentine Organic Modern Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Stone, Onyx, Metal
Country Style Easter Hand Blown Crystal Vase Glass Sofina Boutique Kitzbühel
Located in Kitzbühel, Tirol
Hand blown Easter crystal vase in green glass with a country style decor all around. The leaves, Easter bunny and deers are hand-engraved by glass artists in Bavaria/Germany. The gla...
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2010s German Country Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Crystal
Pr. 19th C. Meissen Porcelain Covered Potpourri Vases w/ Figural Maiden Handles
Located in New York, NY
A Pair of 19th-Century Meissen Porcelain Covered Potpourri, with Pictorial Landscape Scenes, Lion's Paw Feet, and Figural Maiden Handles. Each urn-shaped vessel rests on three grace...
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1860s German Rococo Antique Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
Exclusive Silver SPOONS, 4 pcs. Antique Silver Dinner Spoon With Box Flat Ware
Located in Wembley, GB
A Rare Cased Set of 4 antique valuable silver Spoons. An Elegant English Patterned Vintage Silver Dinner Spoon Set in 1930 With Hallmarks.
Length 21 cm.
Weight 175.5 grams.
Conditio...
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Early 1900s English Hollywood Regency Antique Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Silver, Silver Plate, Sterling Silver, Silver Leaf
$430 Sale Price / set
51% Off
Chalten Wood
Brass Ice Bucket
By AIREDELSUR
Located in Buenos Aires, AR
Inspired by the trails of the Chalten Mountain, in the south of the Andes mountain range, this family of trays, flower vases, containers and picture frames is born. The mountain hiki...
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2010s Argentine Organic Modern Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Metal
$995 / item
Octagonal Mahogany Buckets
Located in Sturminster Marshall, Dorset
A pair of octagonal constructed mahogany brass band Georgian design peat buckets with circular grip loop handles. . Made entirely from 18th century timber and old surface brass. The ...
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21st Century and Contemporary English George III Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Brass
$10,660 / set
Champagne Bucket Vase Wine Cooler Black Marble Marquinia Sculpture Solid Block
Located in Ancona, Marche
Luxurious and big Champagne bucket sculpted by hand from a solid block of Marquinia marble. Polished finishing.
Champagne bucket dimensions: D 26...
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21st Century and Contemporary European Modern Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Marble
French 19th Century, Wooden Chopping or Cutting Board
Located in Buisson, FR
Unique wooden chopping-cutting board with a beautiful form. Great statement on your countertop,
France, circa 1850-1900
Weathered. If needed items are treated against woodworm.
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19th Century French French Provincial Antique Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Wood
$185 Sale Price
56% Off
Large Scale French Alascian Wine Pitcher
Located in Coeur d
Alene, ID
Mid 20th Century French Alascian wood and iron banded wine pitcher in large scale with handle. A great barware piece!
Period: Mid 20th century
Origin: France
Size: 21 1/2"H x 17"W i...
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Mid-20th Century French Hand-Carved Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Wood
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