Italy - Sterling Silver

4-Piece tea and coffee service plus tray, Empire style, 800 silver, Italy, 1980. The service has a total weight of 2,212 kg (coffee pot 439 g and measures 26 x 22 x 11 cm, teapot 38...

800 silver cutlery, 84 pieces, Italy, 1960s Gifted to my grandparents for their wedding, set for 12. The gross weight is 5.4 kg. The net weight (blades ...

Silver Flatware, England 1920s A set of 12 knives and 12 forks with real mother of pearl handles. Original wooden box. Knife 20 cm. Fork 16 cm Exce...

Cutlery set 101 pcs. Calegaro empire style silver 800, Italy, 90s This set is for 12 people and also has cutlery for the fish. Very beautiful and elegant it has its antioxidant cases...

This is a sterling silver champagne bottle holder playfully modeled after a penguin. Its true-to-life quality is remarkable and makes it a very...

Playful true to life silver frog that serves as a lighter other than being a decorative piece of artwork. Expertly handmade by the Florentine silversmiths, the Lisi Brothers, its rea...

Playful true-to-life silver armadillo that serves as a lighter other than being a decorative artwork in its own right. Expertly made by the Florentine...

36-piece 800 silver cutlery set, made in Italy, 1980s Consisting of 12 forks (70 g each), 12 spoons (78 g each), and 12 knives (121 g each, including steel blades). The cutlery is i...

Rectangular with rounded corners table box for cigarettes in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent enamels on a radial guilloché an...

Parallelepiped perfume holder for handbag in 925/1000 sterling silver with screwed cap with translucent fired enamel on guilloché. English style, early 1900s. Measurements cm. 2.5 x ...

5-piece toilet set in 800 silver, Italy, 1960s, never used. Wedding gift from my grandparents. Never used. Purchased in one of the most important jewelers in my city. Regularly stamp...

A rare art deco straw holder designed by Gio Ponti for Bar Pasticceria Alemagna at Piazza Duomo in Milano. The shape is simple and sleek and elegant. ...

Barcaccia/Jatta in hand-beaten 800 silver, Italy, 1980s Purchased by my grandparents in one of the most important silver shops in my city. It weighs almost 3 kg.! Worked and hammered...

Rectangular table box with rounded corners in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated with a beautiful hand-engraved and fire-enamelled frame and in the center a beautiful hand painted miniature by the painter Beatrice Mellana reproducing the painting by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres "Odalisque with slave". Dimensions cm. 9.5 x 12.3 x 3.3. Weight gr. 671. Designed by Giorgio Salimbeni in 1979 and manufactured in Florence in numerous specimens with various subjects and different colors, in the headquarters of the Salimbeni Company with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for withstanding numerous enamelled firings at about 800° C. Miniature is a very ancient technique which consists of painting works in small proportions. It was born for the decoration of the first letter of the paragraph of the books. Over the years, however, this technique is refined and enriched, then moving on to precious personal items. hand painted miniatures can be done with multiple different techniques. The most important that we use on our articles are of three kinds: 1) Fire enamel. 2) Water tempera on an ivory plate. 3) Painted on mother-of-pearl. Fire enameled miniatures: On a first layer of enamel generally white or very clear or even transparent suitably liquefied at a temperature of about 750 ° C, the chosen subject is painted using miniature...

A striking set of ten miniature sword-form cocktail picks crafted in sterling silver. Each skewer is modeled as a slender ceremonial sword with a tapered blade, curved crossguard, and twisted grip handle terminating in a rounded pommel. These elegant novelty accessories were designed for serving cocktails, olives, canapés, or hors d’oeuvres, bringing a playful yet refined touch to barware and entertaining. The stylized medieval sword...

Impressive sterling silver chess board medieval style chess set. The chess board, made by ARVAL ARGENTI VALENZA, was made in white marble and sodalite is supported by a STERLING SILVER frame made with the casting method and finished with a chisel, subsequently burnished and reproducing the bricks of a wall of a fortress. This "frame" is supported at the four horses two tone...

4-piece tea and coffee service plus tray, 800 silver, Italy, 1980s. Worked entirely by hand, it weighs 4170.00 grams. It is a very important silver set. Purchased in the 1980s at ...

Vintage Silver Flatware Service realized by Georg Jensen in the mid-20th Century. Sterling silver. The service comprises 12 forks, 12 knives, 12 spoons, 12 butter knoves, 12 butter...

Tureen in sterling silver in Baroque style. The dish measures 31cm in diameter and was left smooth with the brim raised. On the plate, scrolls and shells typical of the Italian Bar...

Sterling silver bi-color chessboard and chess game in "Florence" style. The chessboard is in molten silver with red jasper and white color marble The work was engraved with the anc...

Sterling silver photo frame. The frame was made in Italy by the Argenteria Raddi of Florence. The design is typically Libeerty with the characteristic flowers, festoons and ribbons...

Rectangular table box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent two-tone striped fired enamels on guilloché and hand-engraved motifs. English Empire style George V. Di...

Vintage Harley Davidson motorcycle in sterling silver with very accurate detail reproduction. The first is a Harley Davidson FXSB l...

Elegant table bell in solid 925 sterling silver. The bell is smooth and features some circular lines that make the object balanced and increase the sound of the bell. The wooden h...

Sterling silver cylindrical tankard gilded inside. The body is embossed an engraved by hand with scrolls and flowers Measure: 730 grams.

Rectangular/octagonal table box in 925 silver. The box was completely handmade in Florence at the end of the last century. Engraved with floral and abstract motifs, it has been fin...

Semi-round and flattened 800 solid silver vase. The vase was completely handmade in Milan - Italy - by the silversmith "L'artigiano del cesello" for Arva...

Pr. of Italian Barocco revival five light candelabras. These Candlesticks are the result of the excellence of Italian craftsmanship that cures to perfection details and design balan...

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...

Gorgeous handmade sterling silver champagne bucket. The body is shaped, embossed and chiseled completely by hand. Four shells of two d...

Silver frame made with the lost wax casting technique. The frame is in Art Nouveau style and the verifiable weight is all in silver, except for the wooden back. The decorations are...

Pendant perfume holder in the shape of a cruet in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with screwed cap and branch with ivy leaves engraved and fire enamelled on both sides. Art Nouv...

New complete cutlery set 101 pieces in solid silver "Seashell" CELLINI by Ricci Argenteria Alessandria - Italy. The service is composed as follows: N ° 36 Table...

Baroque oval silver tray. Made in Milan, Italy in the mid-19th century. Completely hand engraved with scrolls and central flowers. The swirls and flo...

Giorgio Salimbeni Gold-Plated Sterling Silver and Enamel Photo Frame, Florence, 1970 Elegant rectangular photo frame in 925/1000 sterling silver, gold plated, and richly decorated wi...

Pocket photo frame in 925/1000 sterling silver, gold plated with two-tone translucent fired enamels on guilloché, with hand-engraved edge. Napoleon III Empire style. Hinged octagona...

Exceptional table cigar or cigarette box in 925/1000 sterling silver, gold plated, and decorated with translucent two-tone striped fired enamels over guilloché engraving. Finely hand...

Oval table box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold-plated with fired enamels, with a fine floral miniature fired enamelled on a white background on a guilloché pattern, edge enamelled w...

Playful true-to-life silver rhinoceros that serves as a lighter other than being a decorative artwork in its own right. Expertly handcrafted by the F...

800 Silver Crumb collector and brush, Made in Italy, 1980s The shovel measures 20 cm x 17 cm x 4 cm and weighs 216.00 grams. The brush measures 12 cm x 8.5 cm x 4 cm and weighs 84.00...

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...

800 silver champagne bucket, Italy, 1980s. Belonged to my grandparents and never used. Small signs of wear, overall in more than good condition. Regularly stamped with state marks. ...

Rectangular shaped photo frame in gold-plated 925/1000 sterling silver with translucent fired enamel on guilloché with borders in the French Empire Louis XVI style. External dimensio...

A very rare and beautiful 1960s cocktail set with modernist jug and six aperitivo cups designed by Lino Sabattini for Christofle. Each piece is stamped Christofle Gallia ITALY on the...

Ecclesiastical chalice in sterling silver in Baroque style. The shape is unusual, characterized by the oval cast base with volutes typical of the Baroque style. The stem is also worked in fusion, while the golden cup...

A very good quality French Empire Egyptian taste 950/°°° silver coffee pot, Paris 1819. Oviform body supported on three claw feet ornamented wit...

Collection of 4 Bonsai miniatures in solid silver handmade, gilded, enamelled and burnished 1. Japanese apricot bonsai gr. 220 cm. 6 x 10.5 H. 8.5 wooden base 5 x 9 H.2 cm. 2. J...

Decorative pumpkin-shaped 800 solid silver box. The body of the box is round and has been embossed and chiseled with the typical stripes of the pumpkin. The knob is cast and has th...

The table base is in solid silver 925°°/°°° gr. 6.000 in Italian Baroque style bearing the typical embossed and chiseled shells, with three layers of leaves and ovules. The central s...

Cigarette case in the shape of a packet of long cigarettes in 925/1000 sterling silver with black fired enamel in Art Deco style, early 1900s. With lost hinge, i.e. semi-invisible. ...

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...

800 solid silver thermo jug made entirely by hand from the silver sheet. The body is square and developing it in its height forms a parallelepiped. The spout is shaped to allow the l...

Vintage Sterling Silver Grape Shears/Scissors by Watson of Attleboro, MA. They were manufacturers of silver novelties from 1880 onwards. These grape shears feature floral style handl...

Made in Italy sterling solid silver sulky with horse and driver. The sulky, the horse and the driver are made with the casting method and finished with chisel. The bridles are in l...

Wonderful big vase with shaped round body embossed, chiselled and engraved with oak leaves. On the body are soldered melting made acorns Above the handles are placed two children. Th...

Round dish/tray completely handmade. The dish was hand hammered starting from a flat 800 silver plate. The wide edge is reamed and has been embossed, chiseled and engraved with flowe...

Rectangular photo frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with hand-painted floral miniature by the painter Renato Dainelli, fire-enamelled on a white background in Art Nouveau...

Large oval table box with mechanical musical movement by the Swiss company Reuge S.A. in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamels on guilloché and on fine ...

21th Century Italian sterling silver and wood conductor' baton. Conductor's baton in sterling silver with wood inlays. The wand is complete...

Octagonal table box in semi-precious tiger's eye stone with a hinged 925/1000 sterling silver hull. The interior of the lid is in black Belgian marble. Dimensions: 11.4 x 18.4 x 4 c...