Table Box Portrait Of Natalia Nikolaevna Pushkina Lanskaja Salimbeni.

Spectacular table box with inward corners in gold-plated 925/1000 sterling silver with translucent enamel fired on guilloche, in Art Nouveau style, and in the center a fine rectangular miniature cm. 4.2 x 5.4 hand painted on mother-of-pearl by the painter Evelina Pastilati, depicting the portrait of Natalia Nikolaevna Pushkina Lanskaja, wife of Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin, by the painter Alexander Pavlovich Brjullon in 1831. With “lost” hinge, i.e. semi-invisible . Dimensions cm. 10 x 13 x 2.7. Weight gr. 601. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1979 and manufactured in Florence at the Salimbeni company headquarters with completely manual execution by artisan artists with a very thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for supporting numerous enamelling firings at around 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 Special Table Box include:manufacturer's mark: 391FImetal mark fineness:925It is a new object that has never been used but is considered vintage because it was built more than 20 years ago.