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Item Ships From: Florence
21st Century, Hand-Carved Clear Crystal and Silver Bowl in Classic Style
By Oggetti D
Arte
Located in Calenzano, FI
21-st century hand carved clear crystal centrepiece with silver925 frame (gr 185).
This centrepiece is a limited edition, we have only a few pieces. It's particular hand -carved and...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Art Nouveau Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Crystal, Silver
Hollywood regency shell shaped centerpiece, Italy 1970s
Located in Firenze, IT
Hollywood regency shell shaped bowl, vide poche, centerpiece
Italy 1970s
plastic, brass
H 5,5 cm
40 × 40 cm
Conditions: excellent consistent with age and use
Category
1970s Italian Hollywood Regency Vintage Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Brass
Table Box pure gold paillons and fired enamel miniature Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, 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 Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Perfume Holder 3 color fired enamel on guilloche Salimbeni.
By Salimbeni, Franco 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 Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Centerpiece winged lions blue fired enamel sterling silver Salimbeni
By Giorgio Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Large centerpiece in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guilloche. Round base with rounded edge, diameter 15 cm, height 3.5 cm, with sculptures of ...
Category
1990s Italian Napoleon III Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Box with fired enamels and fine horse racing miniature Salimbeni.
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Large shaped table box in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated with translucent fired enamels on guilloche and large fire enamelled rectangular miniature hand painted by the painter ...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
19th Century Antique Burmese Solid Silver Silver Hand Crafted Thabeik Bowl
Located in Firenze, IT
This is a sensational pair of 19th century antique Burmese silver repousse Thabeik bowls, both richly decorated in the round in high relief depicting different traditional scenes from the Burmese mythology and history, showing very detailed figures, animals, chariot and trees the whole scene is set against a finely chiseled matted background in landscapes. Around the top chased with scrolling foliage, bands and geometrical triangular patterns perfectly proportioned complete this intriguing design. The base decorated with large over-lapping leaves. These extremely decorative bowls rest on three silver ball feet...
Category
Late 19th Century Burmese Tibetan Antique Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Silver
Photograph Frame Large Imperial Style White Enamel on Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Large gold-plated 925/1000 sterling silver shaped photograph frame with translucent fired enamel on guillochè and rich friezes in Louis XVI French Empire style. External measurements...
Category
1960s Italian Empire Vintage Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Picture Frame pearl gray enamel and hand-painted Garlands Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Square photo frame in 925/1000 sterling Silver gold plated with translucent pearl gray enamel fired on guilloche and hand-painted miniature of late 19th century Viennese Art Nouveau ...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
18th Century Italian Capodimonte White Glazez Porcelain Figural Centerpiece
Located in Firenze, IT
This 18th century Italian Capodimonte white glazed porcelain centrepiece is an oustanding sculptural artwork expertly hand carved with finely detailed figurines, putto angels playing...
Category
18th Century Italian Rococo Antique Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
Small shaped Picture Frame tiles of the Baptistery of Florence Salimbeni
By Giorgio Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamels on guillochè. Shaping taken from the tiles of the North Door of the Baptistery of the Florence Cathedral ...
Category
1970s Italian Renaissance Vintage Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold Plate
Box Black Red Art Deco style designed for Cartier USA Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Giorgio Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table box with rounded corners in 925/1000 sterling silver with fire-enamelled Art Deco design. Dimensions cm. 10.4 x 13.4 x 3.2. Weight gr. 530. Designed by Giorgio Sali...
Category
1970s Italian Art Deco Vintage Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box miniature fire-enameled Aleksej Nikolaevic Romanov Salimbeni.
By Salimbeni, Franco 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 Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Gold, Enamel, Sterling Silver, Gold Plate
Hollywood regency cruet-set, Manifattura Zani Italy, 1970s.
By Serafino Zani
Located in Firenze, IT
Hollywood regency cruet-set
Manifattura Zani Italy, 1970s.
Steel and glass set, consisting of rectangular section tray, oil cruet, vinegar cruet, salt, ...
Category
1970s Italian Hollywood Regency Vintage Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Metal
Cigarette Case Romantic couple Art Nouveau Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Giorgio 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 Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Gold Plate, Enamel, Sterling Silver
Gio Ponti Silver Cutlery Set for Twelve by Krupp Italy 1950s
By Gio Ponti, Arthur Krupp
Located in Cascina, Pisa
Cutlery silver set for twelve in nickel silver or German silver, this set includes a total of 36 pieces; 12 spoons, 12 forks, and 12 knives with a steel blade.
Set designed by Gio ...
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Nickel, Stainless Steel
1960s Christofle silver ice bucket with tongs
By Christofle, Lino Sabattini
Located in Florence, Tuscany
Made by the silversmith, Christofle for the Italian design house, Lino Sabattini in 1960s this classicly designed silver-plated ice bucket is in very good condition. It comes with th...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Metal, Silver
Luxory Champagne Coupe Glasses, Silver, Customizable, Set of 2, Made in Italy
By K-OVER
Located in Firenze, IT
Introducing K-OVER's latest creation, the customizable diamond-cut silver stem champagne coupe glasses, which effortlessly combine elegance and practicality. Available as a set of tw...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Crystal, Silver
Belt real black python buckle Sterling silver fire enamel hand painted Salimbeni
By Giorgio Salimbeni, 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 Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Enamel, Sterling Silver
Table Cigar Box two-tone stripes enamel Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Giorgio Salimbeni, 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 Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Box engraving on the lid and hand-painted floral miniature Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Shaped table box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fine fire-enameled engraving on the lid and hand-painted floral miniature in 18th century French Empire style. Dimension...
Category
1970s Italian Empire Vintage Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Hollywood regency glass smoking set, France 1970s
Located in Firenze, IT
Hollywood regency glass smoking set. 2 ashtrays, 1 table lighter
France 1970s
Glass, brass
H 5.5 cm - 12 × 12 cm
H 5.5 cm - 15 × 15 cm
H 9 cm - 7 × 8 cm
Conditions: very good c...
Category
1970s Italian Hollywood Regency Vintage Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Brass
Picture Frame Red enamel Empire Style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Giorgio 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 Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Base Talcum Powder Holder Black and White Art Deco 925 Salimbeni.
By Giorgio Salimbeni, 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 Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Cigarette Case Two-Tone Striped Fired Enamel Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent two-tone striped fired enamel on guillochè and hand-engraved ornament. Late Empire Napoleon III style. ...
Category
1970s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Mid-century brown parchment ice bucket, Aldo Tura Italy 1950s
By Aldo Tura
Located in Firenze, IT
Mid-century brown parchment ice bucket
Aldo Tura Italy 1950s
h 23 cm - 19 × 19 cm
Along with artists like Piero Fornasetti and Carlo Bugatti, Aldo Tura (1909-1963) definitely bel...
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Metal
Picture Frame Green with concave corner for oval photo Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Giorgio 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 Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Snuff box Enamel Double opening Sterling Silver flower bouquet Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco 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 Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box Enamel on Guilloche Hand Painted Miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco 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 Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Set of 6 Murano tumblers, Tartan, 4 amethyst, 3 Blue, 4 greens, one red Ritorto
By Silvio Piattelli
Located in Tavarnelle val di Pesa, Florence
Set of six Murano glass tumblers with an incredible sequence of 11 different color glass canes in hue sequence and bright colors.
The technique is called Piera, one of the most difficult Murano glass way of creating a pattern of colors, where a mosaic of Murano rods...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Mid-Century Modern Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Murano Glass
Table Box “The Great Odalisque” Fired Enamel on Guilloche Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco 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 Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Gold Plate, Enamel, Sterling Silver
Table Box Enamel on Guilloche and Hand Painted Miniature Sterling Silver Salimb
By Salimbeni, Franco Salimbeni
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 Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Picture Frame Silver Squared Blue Enamel modern contemporary style Salimbeni
By Giorgio Salimbeni, 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 Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Piero Fornasetti, mod. 187 "Theme and Variations" series plate, Fornasetti 1960
By Fornasetti, Piero Fornasetti
Located in Firenze, IT
Mod. 187 "Theme and Variations" series serigraphed porcelain plate
Prod. Fornasetti, Milan, Italy, ca. 1960
Serigraphed porcelain.
Diam: 25.5 cm
Marked
Conditions: Excellent, no...
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
Box with green enamel on fine hand engraving of a landscape with ruins Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco 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 Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold Plate
Pair of Early 20th Century White Ceramic Chinese Vases Antique Decorative Pieces
Located in IT
This elegant pair of white ceramic Chinese vases, dating back to the early 20th century, embodies timeless craftsmanship and classic design. Their smooth white finish and simple yet ...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Ceramic
Space age yellow ceramic ashtray, Viba Italy 1970s
Located in Firenze, IT
Space age yellow ceramic ashtray
Viba Italy 1970s
H: 11.5 cm - 20 cm diam.
Labelled on the base
Conditions: excellent, no defects
Category
1970s Italian Space Age Vintage Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Ceramic
Snuff Box reproducing the painting of a Roman glimpse late 1800s Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco 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 Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Sterling Silver, Gold Plate, Enamel
Table Box Octagonal Black Enamel with light Blue Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Giorgio Salimbeni, 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 Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Photo Frame Black and White Enamel Squared Shape Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Giorgio 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 Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Photo Frame Large Imperial Style White and Green enamel on Sterling Silver Salim
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
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 Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box Green in French Empire Louis XVI style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, 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 Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Early 19th Century French Provincial Tian Bowl – Light Yellow, Time-Worn Patina
Located in IT
This antique French Provincial Tian bowl, circa early 19th century, boasts a beautiful time-worn patina and a light yellow glaze. Discovered in Provence, France, this earthenware bow...
Category
19th Century French French Provincial Antique Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Ceramic
Hollywood Regency silverplate cocktail set, Italy 1970s
Located in Firenze, IT
Important cocktail set, Italy 1970s
Silverplate, glass
Service consisting of carafe and 8 cylindrical-section glasses made of clear glass with silvered metal base
H cm 27×11.5
H ...
Category
1970s Italian Hollywood Regency Vintage Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Silver Plate
Opinion Ciatti Ptolomeo Vino Wall Mounted Wine Rack Large
By Bruno Rainaldi, Opinion Ciatti
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Ptolomeo vino is the bottle holder version of original Ptolomeo, the famous free-standing bookshelves designed by Bruno Rainaldi, winner of the Compasso d’Oro 2004 and soon became an icon of contemporary design. A glass of our favourite wine and that book that we are engrossed in. Very often our moments of greatest relaxation are imagined in the company of a good book and an excellent glass of wine. Launched at the 2018 Salone del Mobile, Ptolomeo Vino becomes the “summa” of this suggestive idea, representing the transformation of the famous Original Ptolomeo bookshelf...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Steel
Italian Contemporary "Black and Wild" Butterfly Resin Coasters Set of 4
Located in Scandicci, Florence
Elegant printed coasters portraying an exotic natural setting with four differt Butterflies on them. The designs are original from our Black and Wild c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Resin
Tommaso Barbi, rare egg shaped large parchment box, TB Italy, ca. 1970
By Tommaso Barbi
Located in Firenze, IT
Hollywood regency rare egg shaped large cream parchment box / ice bucket
Tommaso Barbi, Italy, ca. 1970
Parchment, wood
Label on the base
H 40 x diam. 27 cm
Conditions: overall ...
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Wood, Parchment Paper
Antique French Provincial Tian Bowl – Light Yellow Glaze, Early 19th Century
Located in IT
This Antique French Provincial Tian bowl, dating back to the early 19th century and found in Provence, France, showcases a beautiful light yellow glaze with a time-worn patina. Tradi...
Category
Early 19th Century French French Provincial Antique Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Terracotta
Set of 3 French Provincial 19th Century Stoneware Pottery Water Jugs with Patina
Located in IT
This charming set of three French Provincial stoneware pottery water jugs dates back to the 19th century and showcases a stunning time-worn patina. Each jug is uniquely crafted, refl...
Category
19th Century French French Provincial Antique Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Pottery
K-OVER Champagne, I GIGANTI, silver 999/°°, Italy
By Lorenzo Foglia
Located in Firenze, IT
THE GIANTS :
Our K-OVERs, are alternatives to the champagne bucket and the more common glacette. The precious metal that holds the bottle is coated internally with a thermal fabric ...
Category
2010s Italian Renaissance Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Silver
Space age blue plastic Ice Bucket, Studio Opi, Cini
Nils Italy, ca. 1970s
By Cini
Nils
Located in Firenze, IT
Space age blue plastic Ice Bucket designed by Studio Opi
Cini & Nils Italy, ca. 1970s
Manufacture's logo
H 16.5 × 16.5 cm diam.
Conditions: excellent consistent with age and use.
Category
1970s Italian Space Age Vintage Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Plexiglass
K-OVER Champagne, RUBY, silver 999/°, Italy
By Stefano Vigni
Located in Firenze, IT
RUBY :
Our K-OVERs, are alternatives to the champagne bucket and the more common glacette. The precious metal that holds the bottle is coated internally with a thermal fabric that m...
Category
2010s Italian Beaux Arts Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Silver
1960s Pair of Green and Orange da Ros for Cenedese Bowls
By Cenedese, Antonio da Ros
Located in Florence, Tuscany
A pair of incredible hand-blown Murano glass bowls made in the 1960s. These were made by the great glass designer, Da Ros for the glassware house, Cenedese. The slightly larger (by 1...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Glass, Art Glass, Blown Glass, Murano Glass
Art Deco silver-plated coup / vide poche, Ercuis France 1940s
By Maison Ercuis
Located in Firenze, IT
Art Deco centerpiece / coup / vide poche
Maison Ercuis, France 1940
silver-plated metal
12 cm H x 25.5 cm diam.
Conditions: excellent consistent with age and use.
Category
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Silver Plate
Space age clear lucite ashtray, Italy 1970s
Located in Firenze, IT
Space age clear lucite ashtray
Italian manufacture 1970s
lucite, aluminum
H 9.5 × 9 × 9 cm
Conditions: excellent consistent with age and use. Small stain on the top
Category
1970s Italian Space Age Vintage Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Metal
Modern silver-plated Pear wine cooler / ice bucket, Teghini Firenze Italy 1970s
By Teghini
Located in Firenze, IT
Important Hollywood regency pear-shaped wine cooler / ice bucket
Teghini Florence Italy 1970s
Silverplated brass, hand-crafted
Marked on the base.
H 37 cm - 20 cm diam.
Conditi...
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Silver Plate
Centerpiece young women blue fired enamel sterling silver Salimbeni
By Giorgio Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Large centrepiece in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guilloche. Round base with rounded edge, diameter cm. 15, height cm. 3.5 with sculptures o...
Category
1990s Italian Napoleon III Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Mid-century mother-of-pearl flakes ice bucket, Italy 1950s
Located in Firenze, IT
Mid-century mother-of-pearl flakes ice bucket
Italy 1950s
h 21 cm - 20 × 20 cm
Conditions: very good conditions consistent with age and use.
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Wood
Table Box Heart shape Sky tone fire-enameled on guilloche Salimbeni.
By Salimbeni, Giorgio Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Heart-shaped table box in 925/1000 sterling silver with translucent fired enamel on guilloché above and below. Modern contemporary style. Dimensions cm. 8 x 8.8 high cm. 2.8. Weight ...
Category
1990s Italian Modern Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Hollywood regency tuxedo set, lucite and Vienna stray, Italy 1970s
Located in Firenze, IT
Smoking Set, ashtray, table lighter and cigars box
Italy 1970
Lucite, Vienna stray & brass
Ashtray: H 16 x 16 x 1.5 cm
Table Lighter: H 7.5 x 8 x 8 cm
Cigars box: H 6 x 18 x 11...
Category
1970s Italian Hollywood Regency Vintage Florence - Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Straw, Plexiglass
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