Antique Chinese Export Silver Picture Frame

Edwardian sterling silver picture frame. Retailed by JE Caldwell in Philadelphia. Rectangular with alternating vertical plain and pinstripes. At top horizontal frame between engraved...

Classical sterling silver picture frame. Made by McChesney Co. in New York, circa 1910. Rectangular window and flat surround with abstract egg-and-dart rim. With glass, silk lining, ...

Sweet American Edwardian sterling silver picture frame, circa 1910. Rectangular window with scalloped border and shaped surround with concave sides and bottom arched top, and double-...

German 800 silver picture frame, circa 1920. Oval window in chased and tooled surround comprising flower heads and leaves. Textural with irregular rims. With glass, silk lining, and ...

Art Nouveau sterling silver picture frame. Made by William B. Kerr in Newark. Rectangular with beveled and acid-etched sides: Wraparound reading entwined with fluid foliate scrollwor...

Pretty Edwardian sterling silver picture frame. Made by Mauser in New York, circa 1900. Rectangular window and wide border engraved with scrollwork, foliage, and pendant bow-tied flo...

Chinese export dragon motif silver plate picture frame. Newly replaced. New low glare clear glass. Original burgundy leather easel back. Opening ...

Large, sterling silver, wood-backed picture frame, Birmingham, England, 1921, Gulienetti and Co., Ltd. - makers. Measures 10 inches high (at highest point) x 8 inches wide at widest ...

A rare large English solid silver photograph frame with a magnificent sporting / Tennis theme with mounted net and two Tennis rackets. The back is created in solid English Oak wit...

Antique sterling silver large picture frame Made in England, Birmingham, 1927 Makers: Ernest Wilfred Sanders & Henry Arthur Mackenzie of Sanders & Mackenzie. Fully hallmarked. ...

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...

An exceptional, fine and impressive Chinese Export Silver photograph frame; an addition to our Chinese/Asian silverware collection This exceptional antique Chinese silver frame has a shaped rectangular form with a rectangular internal window. The photograph frame has been realistically modelled in the form of bamboo stalks, accented with a cast and applied foliate motif to the upper corner. This fine example of antique Chinese silverware is fitted with an impressive back and original silver strut. This silver frame is inset with a removable glass panel. The hallmarks struck to the reverse of this fine Chinese silver frame include: Silver quality/purity mark: 90 (90 standard, 900/1000) Artisan mark: ? (Ren, Canton) Retailer's mark: C* NOTE: * This mark should be displayed as the Roman letter 'C' with themark for ? ZHONG [Cantonese ZUNG] within; a logo that denotes 'CENTRAL', referencing the main commercial Hong Kong district known as 'Central'. The artisans mark REN ? often appears alongside the Central/Zhong symbol on items that were made for the Hong Kong department store SINCERE & Co [???? Xianshi gongsi]. We are grateful to Adrien von Ferscht for his information and help in identifying the hallmarks of this exceptional antique piece. Condition This silver frame in Chinese silver is an exceptional gauge of silver, exceptional quality and in exceptional condition. The engraved decoration very crisp. The Chinese hallmarks struck to the reverse of the frame are very clear; the hallmarks are struck deeply due to the exceptional gauge of silver. Reflections in photographs may detract from the true representation of this piece of antique Chinese Export Silver frame...