Replica of Taj Mahal model, India 19-20th century. 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 Louvre and in the British Museum preserved stunning filigree jewelry pieces of the Greek and Etruscan craftsmen of the 6th to the 3rd centuries. Italian and European silver from seventeen-twenty century is mostly silver artworks of precious and rare unique silver filigree works.
Detail of Taj Mahal model, India 19-20 century
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
The art of filigree
Circular gilt silver polychrome enamel box, Genoa 20th centuryCloseupGenoa 18-19 century (detail)Circular silver filigree raised back, Genoa 18-19 centuryLarge dish Genoa 18-19 centuryDish detail. Genoa 18-19 centuryOval mirror, India 19th century (detail)Mirror, India 19th centuryPeacock-shaped incense burner, Peru 19th centuryBlue glass inkwell, Genoa 19th centuryPowder compact, gold-plated silver, Greece 19th-century
Exquisite silver filigree at
Central part of powder compact, Greece 19th-centuryGold-plated silver filigree powder compact, closeup, Greece 19th-centuryBasket, Central Europe of the 19th centuryA box with a pair of scissors inside, silver filigree, Genoa 19th centuryRed egg, jeweler V. Akhimov, Russia 1908-17Carriage with horse model, Genoa 19-20 centurycasket, Venice 18th centuryAstonishing details of a silver filigree casket, Venice 18th centuryCigarette case, Genoa 19th centuryFiligree fish, Genoa 20th centuryFish, Genoa 20th centuryHandled basket, Egisto Sivelli, Genoa 19th centuryEgisto Sivelli, Genoa 19th centuryLatin America, 19th century, basketMirror with peacock feathers motives, India 19th centuryMiniature piano model, Genoa 19-20 th centuryPurse, Genoa 19th centuryPisa tower, Italy 19-20 th centuryViolin bow model, Genoa early 20th centurySmall gilt silver box, Russian art in the early 20th century (closeup)20th century Russian silver filigree boxThe case of silver filigree book, Liguria 19th centuryThe case of silver filigree card Iberia 19th centuryThree blown glass and filigree bottle shaped vase, Venice 18-19 century
