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Item Ships From: Italy
Clock Red fired enamel on guillochè, with columns in Neoclassico Salimbeni
By Giorgio Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Clock Red fired enamel on guillochè, with columns in Neoclassico Salimbeni. Small gold-plated 925/1000 sterling silver table clock with translucent fired enamel on guillochè, with co...
Category
1970s Italian Neoclassical Revival Vintage Italy - Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
20th Century Italian Sterling Silver Barocco Style Table Lamp
Located in VALENZA, IT
Superb lamp in solid sterling silver completely worked, embossed and hand chiselled. The square base and the stem are enriched with acanthus leaves, fruits and leaflets, typical of t...
Category
1970s Italian Baroque Vintage Italy - Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
$21,168 Sale Price
38% Off
19th Century Italian Sterling Silver Glass and Wine Coasters, circa 1830
By Antonio Mantelli
Located in Milano, IT
Twelve silver glass coasters and four silver wine coasters.
Silversmith Antonio Mantelli
Milan, circa 1830
They measure:
Glass coasters: 0.78 in high x 3.46 in diameter (2 cm x 8.8 c...
Category
1820s Italian Neoclassical Antique Italy - Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Table Box blue and gold with handpainted miniature fire-enameled on guilloche Sa
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Octagonal table box in 800/1000 silver gold plated with translucent enamel on guilloché and beautiful enamel miniature hand painted by the painter Renato Dainelli in early 1900s Engl...
Category
1980s Italian Empire Vintage Italy - Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
20th Century Italian Silver Table Clock Barocco revival
By Argenterie di Milano
Located in VALENZA, IT
An Italian Baroque style Table Clock, it is made of embossed sheet silver with typical Baroque style swirls. Cast details decorate its four...
Category
1970s Italian Baroque Vintage Italy - Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Picture Frame Napoleon III French Empire style laurel ornament Sterling Silver.
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
This exquisite Picture Frame Napoleon III is in 925/1000 sterling silver.
it has a Squared Shape and sky colour for the fire enameled surface on guilloche.
Picture Frame Napoleon III...
Category
1980s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Italy - Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Picture Frame Holder pocket Sterling Silver Enamel 3 Photographs
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Pocket photos holder in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated with two-tone translucent fired enamels on guillochè, with hand-engraved edges. Empire style Napoleon III. Octagonal hing...
Category
1980s Italian Empire Vintage Italy - Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Letter Opener Sterling Silver Blue Enamel on Guillochè Salimbeni
By Giorgio Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Shaped letter opener with rectangular base in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamels on guillochè. Base cm. 7.5 x 15.5 long letter opener cm. 21. Weight ...
Category
Early 2000s Italian Islamic Italy - Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Pair of Sheffield Sterling 925 Wine Bottle Holders
By Sheffield
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Antique English sterling silver 925 wine cradle holder or caddy / Made in Sheffield in 1922
Original stamps on the body
Measures: Height 12 inches, width 4 inches, depth 5.5 inches
1...
Category
Early 20th Century British Italy - Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Table Box pure gold paillons and fired enamel miniature Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco 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 Italy - Sterling Silver
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 Italy - Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
2oth Century Italian Solid Silver Violinist statue with wooden violin
By Creazioni Sacchetti
Located in VALENZA, IT
Violinist statue in solid 800 silver and with wooden violin and wooden base.
The state was made with the casting method and subsequently finished with a chisel. The details of the statue are very realistic and highlight the concentration of the musician in performing the sonata.
The violin is made of wood with solid silver...
Category
1990s Italian Other Italy - Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
$1,433 Sale Price
20% Off
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 Italy - Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
20th Century Italian Sterling Silver Vase
By Argenterie Lala
Located in VALENZA, IT
925 Sterling silver vase.
The round pot-bellied vase was made entirely by hand and subsequently embossed with a torchon motif.
The concave grooves have be...
Category
1990s European Other Italy - Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
$3,945 Sale Price
20% Off
Sterling silver table bell, a woman with a fan, USA end of 19th century.
Located in Milan, IT
Sterling Silver figured table bell, 925/1000, depicting a woman with a fan. United States, late 19th century.
Category
Late 19th Century American Antique Italy - Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Photo Frame Art Deco Style Black and White Enamel Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Giorgio Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Black with white milk design Rectangular photo frame in 800/1000 silver gold plated with fire enamels. External cm. 13.4 x 17.4 Internal cm. 9 x 13. Weight gr. 199. Created in Art De...
Category
1980s Italian Art Deco Vintage Italy - Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold Plate
Photograph Frame Large Imperial Style White Enamel on Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco 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 Italy - Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
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 Italy - Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
$17,127 Sale Price
20% Off
20th Century Italian Solid Silver Camel Sculpture
By Arval Argenti Valenza
Located in VALENZA, IT
Solid 800 silver camel.
The sculpture was made with the casting technique and then finished completely by hand by expert chisellers to make the camel's f...
Category
1980s Italian Other Vintage Italy - Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
$2,059 Sale Price
20% Off
Picture Frame pearl gray enamel and hand-painted Garlands Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco 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 Italy - Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
21st Century Italian Sterling Silver Miniature of Saddle, Boots, Hat and Whip
By La Medusa Oro
Located in VALENZA, IT
Miniature in 925 sterling silver depicting a saddle, boots, hat and whip for a jockey resting on a wooden fence.
The workmanship is in fusion and finished with chisel.
The object c...
Category
2010s Italian Other Italy - Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
$303 Sale Price / item
20% Off
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 Italy - Sterling Silver
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 Italy - Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
21th Century Italian Sterling Silver Gilded Enameled Frame
By Salimbeni
Located in VALENZA, IT
Silver, gilded and enamelled frame with scroll designs and blue enamels.
At regular and symmetrical intervals, ovals with flower motifs different from each other were completely han...
Category
2010s Italian Other Italy - Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
$5,532 Sale Price
20% Off
Sterling Silver and Glass Whiskey Pocket Flask, 1920s
Located in Alessandria, Piemonte
American (or English ?) pocket flask of whiskey in silver sterling and glass, with initials -
Punched J.B. Caldwell & Co - An idea for a beautiful gift.
....
Category
Early 20th Century English Late Victorian Italy - Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Italian Sterling Silver Table Clock with Enamels as Lapilazuli, Swiss Movement
By Salimbeni
Located in VALENZA, IT
20th century sterling silver table clock 925/1000 with fire enamel painted as lapis lazuli, Swiss quartz movement "Nepro".
Made in Italy.
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 Italy - Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
$3,945 Sale Price
20% Off
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 Italy - Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold, Enamel, Sterling Silver, Gold Plate
20th Century Italian Sterling Silver Handmade Triptych Mirror Baroque revival
By Arval Argenti Valenza
Located in VALENZA, IT
This Italian Baroque style Sterling Silver mirror is fully hand embossed and chiselled on silver sheet by hand. The two side mirrors are attached by silver hinges.
4.600 grams.
Ita...
Category
1960s Italian Baroque Vintage Italy - Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Twelve 800 Silver Underplates, Italy, 1980s
Located in Palermo, IT
Twelve 800 silver underplates, Italy, 1980s.
Very elegant, each weighs gr. 430. The total weight of the 800 silver is gr. 5160.00!!
Purchased by my ...
Category
1980s Italian Vintage Italy - Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
$31,272 / set
Cigarette Case Romantic couple Art Nouveau Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Giorgio Salimbeni, 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 Italy - Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Enamel, Sterling Silver
20th Century Italian Solid Silver Inkstans Empyre Style
By Arno Fassi
Located in VALENZA, IT
Empire style 800 silver inkstand
The base of the inkstand, completely handmade, is shaped like a "cathedral". The classic "palmettes" of the Empire style have been chiseled around i...
Category
1990s Empire Italy - Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
$4,618 Sale Price
20% Off
Sterling Silver Jewellery Box, Completely Handmade, Made in Italy
By Ganci Argenterie
Located in Milano, IT
Sterling silver jewelry box, completely handmade, made in Italy.
Embossed, chiselled, engraved in our workshop, in Milano
Ganci Argenterie - Hallmark 110MI, one of the oldest Italian Silversmith
ag...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Italy - Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling 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 Italy - Sterling Silver
Materials
Enamel, Sterling Silver
20th Century Italian Sterling Silver 3 Lights Telescopic Candelabra
By Vavassori
Located in VALENZA, IT
Elegant candelabra in 925 sterling silver with central stem and striped arms.
The two side candle holders are detachable and become two chambers ticks cm. 11 H. 5.5 .
The "fluted" ...
Category
1990s Italian Neoclassical Revival Italy - Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
$5,532 Sale Price
37% Off
20th Century Italian Silver torchon Chocolate-Pot, completely handcrafted
By Arval Argenti Valenza
Located in VALENZA, IT
Silver 800 Baroque replica chocolate-pot
The torchon body is chiselled completely by hand.
Feet, spout, and lid are melted.
The transversal handle is of precious and shaped wood.
Th...
Category
20th Century Italian Baroque Italy - Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Table Cigar Box two-tone stripes enamel Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Giorgio 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 Italy - Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Box engraving on the lid and hand-painted floral miniature Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, 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 Italy - Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
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 Italy - Sterling Silver
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 Italy - Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Cigarette Case Two-Tone Striped Fired Enamel Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, 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 Italy - Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
20th Century Sterling Silver Box George III° Style
By Cesani Virginio
Located in VALENZA, IT
Handmade George III style oblong box in sterling silver.
On the body of the box typical lines with fluted. The lid has the same design but embossed. The han...
Category
1990s Italian George III Italy - Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
$3,165 Sale Price
33% Off
Picture Frame Green with concave corner for oval photo Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Giorgio Salimbeni, 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 Italy - Sterling Silver
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 Italy - Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box Enamel on Guilloche Hand Painted Miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, 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 Italy - Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
20th Century Italian Sterling Silver Table Lamp
By Silver Fashion Silvan
Located in VALENZA, IT
Two light solid sterling silver lamp.
The base is round while the stem has a double empty tubes where the electric wire passes.
The lamp holders are in the shape of a tulip flowers i...
Category
1990s Italian Other Italy - Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
$2,742 Sale Price / item
22% Off
Vintage Silver Serving Cutlery - England Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Silver Serving Cutlery is a couple of a precious decorative object realized by English manufacturer in the 19th century.
The lot consist in t...
Category
Late 19th Century British Antique Italy - Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
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 Italy - Sterling Silver
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 Italy - Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
George II English Sterling Silver Tea Caddy, London, 1757
Located in Torino, IT
Tea caddy, all-over repousse and hand-chased decoration. Marked underneath.
Category
18th Century and Earlier English Antique Italy - Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Box with green enamel on fine hand engraving of a landscape with ruins Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, 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 Italy - Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold Plate
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 Italy - Sterling Silver
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 Italy - Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Photo Frame Black and White Enamel Squared Shape Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Giorgio Salimbeni, 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 Italy - Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
20th Century Italian Sterling Silver Chalice with Vergin Mary Wrapping the Cup
By Arval Argenti Valenza
Located in VALENZA, IT
Chalice in 925 sterling silver made in cast and embossed and chiseled completely by hand. The figure of the Virgin Mary has a coat, burnished and oxidized in 2 shades, which surrounds the golden cup...
Category
1990s Italian Other Italy - Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
$5,340 Sale Price
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Ghoram Early 20th Century New York Sterling Silver Chocolate Pot
By Gorham
Located in Brescia, IT
New York by Gorham early 20th century chocolate pot in sterling silver
This piece of timeless beauty is made in silver sterling, with an ebonized wooden handle. A delicate bellfl...
Category
Early 20th Century American Art Deco Italy - Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
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 Italy - Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Table Box Green in French Empire Louis XVI style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
By Salimbeni, Franco 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 Italy - Sterling Silver
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
20th Century Italian Solid Silver and Briar Double Bass Player
By Creazioni Sacchetti
Located in VALENZA, IT
Double bass player in 800 solid silver. The double bass is in briar with silver details.
The double bass bow is in silver.
The player and the double bass ...
Category
1980s Italian Other Vintage Italy - Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
$2,068 Sale Price
20% Off
19th Century Italian Sterling Silver Decorative Box
By Arval Argenti Valenza
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 Italy - Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
$1,914 Sale Price
20% Off
Vintage Vanity Set of 5 Brushes and a Mirror in Silver
Located in Milano, IT
Beautiful silver vanity set made in the 30's of fine Italian craftsmanship.
The vanity set is totally made of silver finely crafted and decorated. The set contains 5 pieces and is c...
Category
1930s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italy - Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
$577 Sale Price / set
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