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Technique: Hand-Painted
Stunning Erhard & Sohne Gilt Bronze Icon w. Filigree & Hand Painted Saints 1800s
Located in Lisse, NL
Museum quality and marked Erhard & Sons work of religious art.
In almost all countries on the globe there are -for good reasons- collectors of antiques that were handcrafted by Germ...
Category
19th Century German Gothic Revival Antique Hand-Painted Picture Frames
Materials
Brass, Bronze, Gold Leaf
Small Picture Frame Blue enamel round and curved Art Nouveau style Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Round curved frame in 925/1000 silver with translucent enamel on Art Nouveau guilloche, with hand engravings. External diameter cm. 9 internal cm. 6 thickness cm. 1. Weight gr. 98. ...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Hand-Painted Picture Frames
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Italian Florentine Gold Black Gilded Wood Art Frame
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Florentine Black and Gold Gilded Frame, Italy.
Fantastic art frame with incredible patina that would work with your favorite watercolor or oil painting. This frame certainly capture...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Renaissance Hand-Painted Picture Frames
Materials
Wood, Giltwood, Paint
Picture Frame pearl gray enamel and hand-painted Garlands 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 Hand-Painted Picture Frames
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Collection of Five Italian Florentine Mirrors and Art Frames
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Great grouping of gold gilt mirrors and frames from Italy. Can be used in a grouping as part of a gallery wall or certainly stand alone.
Individual measurements: Pair of mirrors ea...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Hand-Painted Picture Frames
Materials
Giltwood, Paint
Art Deco Wood Painted Mirror circa 1930
Located in Labrit, Landes
French mirror made circa 1930.
This frame mirror has been painted circa 1960.
The mirror has be changed later.
Good antique condition.
Shipping:
5 / 68 / 98 cm 13 kg
Category
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Hand-Painted Picture Frames
Materials
Wood
Picture Frame Sterling Silver Blue enamel on guilloché Salimbeni
By Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular photo frame in 9251000 sterling silver gold-plated with translucent fired enamel on guilloché. Modern contemporary style. Ground glass. Blue alcantara panel. External dim...
Category
1960s Italian Neoclassical Revival Vintage Hand-Painted Picture Frames
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Picture Frame Green and pink enamel Guilloche Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table photo frame in 925/1000 sterling Silver gold plated with translucent two-tone striped enamels fired on guilloche and hand-engraved ornaments. Late Empire Napoleon ...
Category
1970s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Hand-Painted Picture Frames
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Small shaped Picture Frame 2 oval portrait Blue Navy color enamel Salimbeni
By Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Small shaped frame for 2 oval photographs in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guilloche in Art Nouveau style. External dimensions cm. 5.2 x 7 int...
Category
1980s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Hand-Painted Picture Frames
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold, Gold Plate
Spherical frame for 2 portrait translucent fire enamel on guilloché Salimbeni.
Located in Firenze, FI
Spherical frame for 2 hinged photographs in 925/1000 sterling silver goldplated with translucent fire enamel on guilloché. Modern contemporary style. Sphere diameter cm. 7.5. Weight ...
Category
1960s Italian Modern Vintage Hand-Painted Picture Frames
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Picture Frame Oval Emerald Green enamel and hand-carved Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Oval photo frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent emerald green fired enamel on guilloché and with ornaments in the French Empire Napoleon III style. External...
Category
1980s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Hand-Painted Picture Frames
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Small shaped Picture Frame Four-leaf clover turquoise Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Four-leaf clover shaped frame for oval photo in 925/1000 gold-plated sterling silver with translucent turquoise fired enamel on guilloche, modern contemporary style. External cm. 8.5...
Category
1960s Italian Modern Vintage Hand-Painted Picture Frames
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Picture Frame miniatures and borders in Russian Empire Fabergé style Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table photo frame in gold-plated 925/1000 sterling silver with translucent fired enamels on guilloche and fine hand-painted miniatures of laurel friezes and borders in Ru...
Category
1960s Italian Empire Vintage Hand-Painted Picture Frames
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Picture Frame Viennese Art Nouveau style Oval portrait Salimbeni
By Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Oval shaped external photo frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamels on guilloché and hand-painted floral miniatures. Viennese Art Nouveau style, s...
Category
1960s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Hand-Painted Picture Frames
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
American Oil on Board Landscape with Young Lady and Rabbit, Circa 1820
Located in Charleston, SC
American oil on board landscape of young lady standing by rabbit in foreground with the original molded pine frame and wood backing. Early 19th century.
Category
1820s American American Classical Antique Hand-Painted Picture Frames
Materials
Pine, Paint
Small shaped Picture Frame Four-leaf clover lilac Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Four-leaf clover shaped frame for oval photo in 925/1000 gold-plated sterling silver with translucent lilac fired enamel on guilloche, modern contemporary style. External cm. 8.5 x 8...
Category
1960s Italian Modern Vintage Hand-Painted Picture Frames
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold, Gold Plate
Indian Chief Oil Painting in Gold Frame
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Painting of a Native American man with a head dress believed to by a tribal chief. This is signed and dated by Fred Grosson in 1981.
Category
Late 20th Century American Native American Hand-Painted Picture Frames
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint
Pair Vintage Cottagecore Hand Painted Ivory Colored Round Wood Picture Frames
Located in New York, NY
Charming pair of Cottagecore/ English Country Style hand painted ivory colored hand turned wood round picture frames
Early 20th Century
Romantic, enchanting, easy elegance are some o...
Category
20th Century American Country Hand-Painted Picture Frames
Materials
Wood
Photo Frame Yellow Enamel and Flower Garlands Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular photograph frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè and hand-painted miniature of flower garlands in the late 19th century...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Hand-Painted Picture Frames
Materials
Gold Plate, Enamel, Sterling Silver
Small Picture Frame Round English style, early 1900s. Salimbeni
By Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Small round frame with flat edge in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guilloche, English style, early 1900s. External diameter cm. 7.2, internal c...
Category
1950s Italian Modern Vintage Hand-Painted Picture Frames
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Picture Frame Classic rectangular Enamel light blue on guilloche Salimbeni
By Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Cornice portafotografie rettangolare in argento 9251000 dorato con smalto traslucido a fuoco su guillochè. Stile moderno contemporaneo. Vetro molato. Pannello in velluto blu. Dimensi...
Category
1960s Italian Modern Vintage Hand-Painted Picture Frames
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Picture Frame Sterling Silver Octagonal Yellow Enamel Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Octagonal photo frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fire enamels on guillochè. Modern contemporary style. Exterior 17 x 18.5 cm, interior for round photo d...
Category
1990s Italian Modern Hand-Painted Picture Frames
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Picture Frame oval photos French Empire Napoleon III style Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular photo frame in 925/1000 gold-plated sterling silver with translucent enamel fired on guilloche and hand-painted miniature of a garland of flowers with oval border, intern...
Category
1970s Italian Empire Vintage Hand-Painted Picture Frames
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
18th Century, Roman Architectural Capriccio Attributed to Francesco Chiarottini
Located in IT
Francesco Chiarottini (1748-1796)
Roman Architectural Capriccio
Oil on glass, cm 52 x 67 without frame, 63.5 x 79cm with frame
The valuable painting, attributed to the Italian p...
Category
Mid-18th Century Italian Neoclassical Antique Hand-Painted Picture Frames
Materials
Glass
English Regency Period Original Watercolor Fruitwood Frame Portrait of Young Man
Located in Philadelphia, PA
An original British School Regency Period watercolor portrait, mounted in a Georgian Period fruitwood frame – Dated 1834.
These watercolors were largely painted by young girls fro...
Category
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Hand-Painted Picture Frames
Materials
Fruitwood, Paper
Imperial Russian Silver-Gilt Depicting Icon of Madonna and Child, 19th Century
Located in Islamabad, PK
Imperial Russian Silver-Gilt Depicting Icon of Madonna and Child, 19th Century
The silver surface of the rizza is adorned with intricate embossing and engraving, creating a textured...
Category
19th Century Russian Antique Hand-Painted Picture Frames
Materials
Silver
Salimbeni Pocket Photos Holder in Sterling Silver 2 Photographs
Located in Firenze, FI
Salimbeni Pocket photos holder in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated with two-tone translucent fired enamels on guillochè, with hand-engraved edge. Empire style Napoleon III. Octag...
Category
1980s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Hand-Painted Picture Frames
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Italy Early 19th Century Neoclassical Rectangular Wood Frame
Located in Brescia, IT
This is an elegant wood frame, lacquered in mat gold. The thick hand carved border also is lacquered in gold.
The frame has the look of the past and shows all the signs of the age, ...
Category
Early 19th Century Italian Neoclassical Antique Hand-Painted Picture Frames
Materials
Lacquer, Wood
Picture Frame Oval Ruby Red enamel and hand-carved Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Oval photo frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent ruby red fired enamel on guilloché and with ornaments in the French Empire Napoleon III style. External size...
Category
1980s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Hand-Painted Picture Frames
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Louis XVI White Photo Frame Sterling Silver Enamel on Guillochè Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular photo frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè and hand-painted miniature of a garland of flowers with oval border interna...
Category
1970s Italian Empire Vintage Hand-Painted Picture Frames
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Small Picture Frame Rectangular for oval portrait Salimbeni
By Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular for oval photo frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guilloche, English style, early 1900s. External cm. 6 x 9, internal oval cm....
Category
1950s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Hand-Painted Picture Frames
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Antique Hudson River School Landscape Painting, c1890
Located in Big Flats, NY
An antique Hudson River School landscape painting offers oil on canvas river scene, seated in giltwood frame, unsigned, c1890
Measures- 24.25''H ...
Category
Late 19th Century American Antique Hand-Painted Picture Frames
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Giltwood
Small shaped Picture Frame red heart Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Heart-shaped frame in 925/1000 gold-plated sterling silver with translucent fired enamel on guilloche, modern contemporary style. External cm. 7.4 x 7.6 internal cm. 4.5 x 4.8. Weigh...
Category
1950s Italian Modern Vintage Hand-Painted Picture Frames
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold, Gold Plate
English Regency Period Original Watercolor Fruitwood Frame, a Willow Wrens Nest
Located in Philadelphia, PA
An original British School Regency Period watercolor study of a Willow Wren’s nest and egg, mounted in a Georgian Period fruitwood frame – Dated 1863.
These watercolors were large...
Category
Mid-19th Century English Regency Antique Hand-Painted Picture Frames
Materials
Fruitwood, Paper
Small Picture Frame Rounded Round English style, early 1900s. Salimbeni
By Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Small rounded round frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guilloche, English style, early 1900s. External diameter 7 cm, internal 5 cm. Weigh...
Category
1950s Italian Modern Vintage Hand-Painted Picture Frames
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Berlin KPM Porcelain Hand Painted Oval Plaque Portrait of a Girl
Located in Guaynabo, PR
A porcelain plaque portrait from KPM that depicts a young girl sitting in a stone bench after gathering some roses in her shawl and embellish her turban with one of them. Beautifully...
Category
Mid-19th Century German Victorian Antique Hand-Painted Picture Frames
Materials
Porcelain, Wood
Picture Frame vertical lines Art Deco style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Picture Frame vertical lines Art Decois in 925/1000 sterling silver.
Picture Frame vertical lines Art Deco has white fired enamels on guilloché.
Picture Frame vertical lines has two...
Category
1980s Italian Art Deco Vintage Hand-Painted Picture Frames
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
18th Century French Miniature Genre Painting
Located in Vero Beach, FL
Superb French hand-painted watercolor/gouache miniature on a bone panel. It depicts Bacchus and Ariane in a courting scene set in a mountainous landscape. The 18th century miniature is a version of the painting by Charles Joseph Natoire (1700-1777). It is a small but elegant painting with amazing quality details. It is mounted in a hand carved polychrome and gilded Spanish Baroque style wood frame...
Category
18th Century French Baroque Antique Hand-Painted Picture Frames
Materials
Bone
Picture Frame internal border with enamelled leaves Salimbeni.
Located in Firenze, FI
Behold the epitome of elegance and craftsmanship: a square table photo frame, meticulously crafted from 925/1000 gold-plated sterling silver. This masterpiece features translucent fi...
Category
1980s Italian Empire Vintage Hand-Painted Picture Frames
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Picture Frame with enamel on a sunburst guilloché Salimbeni.
Located in Firenze, FI
Embrace a timeless treasure that echoes grandeur: an exquisite oval-shaped photo frame, sculpted from 925/1000 gold-plated sterling silver. Its translucent enamel adorns a sunburst g...
Category
1970s Italian Empire Vintage Hand-Painted Picture Frames
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
"The Three Ages of Man" Oil on Canvas After Titian 19th Century
Located in Beuzevillette, FR
This very beautiful oil on canvas is a reworking of the left part of the painting The Three Ages of Man" by the Italian Renaissance master of the Venetian school, Tiziano Vecellio, k...
Category
19th Century Renaissance Antique Hand-Painted Picture Frames
Materials
Paint
Picture Frame White flowers hand painted miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Picture Frame is in 925/1000 sterling silver and gold plated 24 carats.
Picture Frame has white fired enamels on guilloché.
Picture Frame has an hand-painted floral miniature by the ...
Category
1980s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Hand-Painted Picture Frames
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Picture Frame for oval photos enamel Guilloche Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table frame for oval photos cm. 3 x 4 in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel, plum purple, on guilloche, with French Empire Louis XVI style...
Category
1970s Italian Louis XVI Vintage Hand-Painted Picture Frames
Materials
Gold, Enamel, Sterling Silver, Gold Plate
Picture Frame with two-tone enamel stripes on guilloché Salimbeni.
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with two-tone enamel stripes on guilloché and fine hand engravings French Empire style. With 2 oval photo holders, internal ...
Category
1970s Italian Empire Vintage Hand-Painted Picture Frames
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Photo Frame baroque style engraving Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Octagonal notched photo frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fine fire-enamelled baroque style engraving. External dimensions cm. 14.2 x 17.8, internal oval cm. 8 x 12....
Category
1970s Italian Baroque Vintage Hand-Painted Picture Frames
Materials
Gold Plate, Enamel, Sterling Silver
Picture Frame Art Deco Chinese influence Enamel Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular photo frame in 925/1000 silver with geometric design and fire-enameled with Chinese influence style. External cm. Internal 11.6 x 14.6 cm. 6 x 9. Weight gr. 194. Created in Art Deco style for Cartier USA in the 1980s, inspired by drawings by Louis Cartier from the early 1900s. Manufactured in Florence in the Salimbeni company headquarters with completely manual execution by artisan artists with high thickness plate and large reinforcements suitable to support numerous high-fire enamelling firings at approximately 750° < 800° C.
It is a new object that has never been used but is considered vintage because it was built more than 20 years ago.
The hallmarks struck to the underside of this fine box include:
manufacturer's mark: 391FI
metal mark fineness:925
Art Deco was also born in France and is the abbreviation of "Art Decoratif".
With more decisive and geometric features than Art Nouveau, therefore more evident and "harder", with always contrasting and strong colours, Art Deco spread throughout the world, from Shanghai's China to the under construction New York and in various parts of Europe.
Many artists and designers of the time dedicated themselves to the creation of drawings, paintings, objects for personal use and furniture, interior furnishings, entire buildings and skyscrapers, in this new style.
Sandoz in Paris, Lalique with its crystals, Puiforcat with its silverware, Erté with its "ante litteram" fashion designs, Tiffany with its table lamps, Louis Cartier with its objects inspired by the Far East (hence the connection with Shanghai).
Salimbeni was able to interpret and propose new objects inspired by Art Deco, in precious metals, semiprecious stones and fired enamels, when, exhibiting at jewelery exhibitions in the United States, and more precisely in New York, he made contact with Cartier buyers first, and also with Tiffany later, and for them he created objects in this style inspired by the original drawings of Louis Cartier, obtained from the buyer of the time, but with absolutely different and original designs and interpretations.
Many of the objects produced by Salimbeni for Cartier in the United States had taken inspiration from famous Cartier objects belonging to famous people. An example of all is Mary Pickford's set consisting of a powder compact, cigarette case, pill case and evening handbag.
About cooperation Salimbeni and Cartier. Our first meetings with the Cartier USA Company took place through the Giorgini Company, the first "Buying Office" set up in Florence immediately after the Second World War, which had the purpose of bringing together Florentine, and also Italian, producers with American buyers, who especially appreciated the artistic objects still manufactured by artisans who still took inspiration from the Italian Renaissance, using techniques handed down from generation to generation. Mrs. Gina Pestelli, wife of a Florentine retail jeweller, was in charge of contacts with Cartier USA, above all an employee, while her daughter, also for Giorgini, took care of the fashion that in those years was affirmed in Florence with the events of "Pitti ". With their help, we began to supply frames and boxes in sterling silver gold plated with malachite and other semi-precious stones. At the same time, the official buyer of Cartier, Mr. William Smith, began to appreciate and commission the first objects with fired enamels, a process of which we have always been specialists. In 1975 we began exhibiting at the prestigious New York Jewellery Association Show, which we participated in both the February and July editions, for a good 26 years until 2001. In New York in those years the "Art deco style" was still very much appreciated, still mindful of the beautiful early 20th century architecture of the great buildings such as the "Crysler" or the "Empire State". We then began to produce frames, boxes, evening bags, "objets de vertu" and other objects in "art deco style" which were very popular with Mr. Smith who gave us some photocopies of Louis Francois Cartier drawings to reproduce them. Thus, numerous cigarette cases, powder compacts, evening bags, frames and table boxes were created exclusively for Cartier USA which, at the time, had the prestigious "Silver Department" on the first floor of the Cartier store on Fifth Avenue. An evening bag, with matching cigarette case and powder compact, were redone on the design created for a gift given to Mary Pickford at the time. In a 1986 Cartier...
Category
1980s Italian Art Deco Vintage Hand-Painted Picture Frames
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Picture Frame Green two-tones enamel Guilloche Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
This important Picture Frame Green is in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated 24 carats. It is rectangular shaped photo frame.
The surface of this Picture Frame Green is fired enamel...
Category
1970s Italian Napoleon III Vintage Hand-Painted Picture Frames
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold
Set of Two 18th Century Italian Silk Frames with Embroidery and Saints Figures
Located in Milano, MI
Pair of antique embroidered frames, rectangular shape, in ivory colored silk satin with embroidery in cotton and gold lamé of floral elements and love knots. These are devotional monastic Italian...
Category
Late 18th Century Italian Rococo Antique Hand-Painted Picture Frames
Materials
Paste, Silk
American Oil on Canvas Ship Captain with Spyglass in Orig, Gilt Frame, C. 1840
Located in Charleston, SC
American portrait oil on canvas of a young ship captain holding a spyglass with a sailing ship, crew in rowboat, and gulls in lower background mounted in the original decorative gilt...
Category
1840s American American Empire Antique Hand-Painted Picture Frames
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Wood, Giltwood, Paint
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-Painted Picture Frames
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Picture Frame in pure Florentine Renaissance style Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Large photo frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with painted fire enamels like lapis lazuli stone. Shaping taken from the tiles of the North Door of the Baptistery of the F...
Category
1980s Italian Renaissance Vintage Hand-Painted Picture Frames
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold Plate
English Regency Period Original Watercolor Maple Frame Blackbird Nest and Eggs
Located in Philadelphia, PA
An original British School Regency Period watercolor study of a Blackbird’s nest and eggs, mounted in a Georgian Period Maple frame – Dated 1863.
These...
Category
Mid-19th Century English Regency Antique Hand-Painted Picture Frames
Materials
Paper, Birdseye Maple
19th Century French School Still Life of Field Flowers
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
A brightly colored 19th century French school still life of field flowers
Signed J. Levy, lower Left.
The painting measures: 25 5/8" inches ...
Category
Mid-19th Century French International Style Antique Hand-Painted Picture Frames
Materials
Paint
Collection of Italian Florentine Gilt Trays and Art Frames Circa 1950's
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Great grouping of gold gilt frames and 2 small trays from Italy. Can be used in a grouping as part of a gallery wall or certainly stand alone. The trays are perfect for trinkets as w...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Hand-Painted Picture Frames
Materials
Giltwood, Paint
Collection of Four Italian 1950's Florentine Gilt Mirrors
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Great grouping of Florentine gilt mirrors from Italy. This charming mirror collection includes three wooden and one resin. Can be used in a grou...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Hand-Painted Picture Frames
Materials
Giltwood, Paint
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-Painted Picture Frames
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Pocket Photos holder Enamel hand carved Napoleon III Style 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 Napoleon III Vintage Hand-Painted Picture Frames
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Antique Miniature Portrait Painting on Celluloid of a Young Lady Late 19th C
Located in Big Flats, NY
An antique miniature portrait painting on celluloid of Marie Antoinette seated in parcel gilt frame, artist signed Alex lower right...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Hand-Painted Picture Frames
Materials
Paint
