Beautiful Silver filigree art
Beautiful Silver filigree art
Traditionally, Italian, Russian, Indian and French metalwork masters made delicate lace like jewellery metalwork art pieces from 1660 to the late 19th century. In fact, filigree has become a special branch of jewellery in modern times. However, historically it was a part of the ordinary work of a jeweler. The stunning jewelry of the Greek and Etruscan filigree of the 6th to the 3rd centuries BC preserved in the Louvre and in the British Museum. Italian and European silver from seventeen-twenty century is mostly silver artworks of precious and rare unique silver filigree works.
Italian antique silverware represented by the leading engineering companies, including Roman jeweler Vincenzo Bailey, one of Baroque masters belonging to the eighteenth century. The museum of the Hermitage at Saint Petersburg has an amazingly rich collection of Scythian jewelry from the tombs of the Crimea. Many bracelets and necklaces in that collection – made of twisted wire. And some, in as many as seven rows of plaiting, with clasps in the shape of heads of animals. Besides, silver filigree art pieces from UK, France and Russia are among the most prestigious fashion houses of the twentieth century, including Bulgari, Buccellati and Tiffany.
- A pair of two-handled silver filigree vase, Palermo Sicily, 18th century
- Jewellery art – Circular gilt silver filigree and polychrome enamel boxe, Genoa 20th century
- Closeup of Circular gilt silver filigree and polychrome enamel box
- Fragments of filigree patterns, Genoa 18-19 century (detail)
- Refined work of art – Circular silver filigree raised back, Genoa 18-19 century
- Large silver filigree dish Genoa 18-19 century
- Dish detail. Genoa 18-19 century
- Exceptional and just brilliant craftsmanship. Oval silver filigree mirror, India 19th century (detail)
- Exquisite Oval silver filigree mirror, India 19th century
- Peacock-shaped incense burner, Peru 19th century
- Blue glass inkwell in silver filigree, Genoa 19th century
- Powder compact. Silver filigree and gold-plated silver, Greece 19th-century
- Central part of powder compact, Greece 19th-century
- Gold-plated silver filigree powder compact, closeup, Greece 19th-century
- Beautiful Basket Silver filigree, Central Europe of the 19th century
Silver filigree art
- A box with a pair of scissors inside, silver filigree. Genoa 19th century
- Red egg , silver filigree, jeweler V. Akhimov, Russia 1908-17
- Carriage with horse model, Genoa 19-20 century
- casket, Venice 18th century
- Astonishing details of a silver filigree casket, Venice 18th century
- Cigarette case, Genoa 19th century
- Intricate work of art – Silver filigree fish, Genoa 20th century
- Fish, Genoa 20th century
- Handled basket, Egisto Sivelli, Genoa 19th century
- Egisto Sivelli, Genoa 19th century
- Latin America, 19th century. Silver filigree handled basket
- Mirror with peacock feathers motives, India 19th century
- Miniature piano model, Genoa 19-20 th century
- Elegant filigree purse, Genoa 19th century
- Pisa tower, Italy 19-20 th century
- Violin bow model, Genoa early 20th century
- Small gilt silver filigree box, Russian art in the early 20th century (closeup)
- 20th century Russian silver filigree box
- The case of silver filigree book, Liguria 19th century
- The case of silver filigree card Iberia 19th century
- Three blown glass and filigree bottle shaped vase, Venice 18-19 century
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