Vintage Made in Italy Italian Tole Hand Painted Wood Box - Rose Floral Design for Sale

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Vintage Made in Italy Italian Tole Hand Painted Wood Box - Rose Floral Design For Sale

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Vintage Made in Italy Italian Tole Hand Painted Wood Box - Rose Floral Design:
$225.00

Art Deco Made in Italy Italian Tole Wooden Box - Handpainted with Florals - Cream/Red/Slate Blue Colors

One of my greatest passions is Italian Tole - be it of metal or of wood. With the best pieces looking like true antiques, tole work from Italy is really a lost labor of love. The pieces were made as local souvenirs but a lot of pieces were made for export. Some made their way to US shores while others could only be found in Europe. Well, my travels overseas yielded my best pieces and I have decided to part with most of my personal collection. Up for offer now:Another ornate piece from my collection! A smaller size, completely hand painted on all sides, here\'s another trinket box to be proud of. Made of wood, covered in gesso, handpainted in colors of buttercream yellow with a slate/blue trim and lots of roses with leaves of olive green, this box sits on 4 legs, has a curvy lid and is unlined on the inside. With all things old, and the delicate nature of gesso, the piece not only has a patina to the varnish but a bit of chippiness adding to the shabby chic-ness look. The inside of the box is still a bit dusty/dirty and needs a light clean. You certainly could add a fabric interior to make the inside look a little bit more receptive to treasures. Size is 2-3/4\" high. Length is 5-3/4\"; width is 3-9/16\". There is no Italian hallmark but Italian it is! Like a small work of art, this is a piece to be displayed with pride in the house.

Look for the other pieces I have listed (last picture). ***************My thoughts on dating my pieces.....The most famous Italian tole (wooden) is, of course, antique, but there were certain periods of time when the Italians used the techniques and designs of ancient times. In my fact finding, the best tole pieces were from the 1900s to 1930s - wooden items were still of a unique design, were heavily gessoed (covered in a layer of white plaster), hand painted ornately (some pieces would take days to complete), and covered with a varnish that slowly turned a golden yellow over time. As the 40s and 50s came along, the amount of painting decreased quite a bit. The techniques in the making were still the same but the \"ornateness\" of the piece as well as the painting began to show an \"assembly line\" quality. By the time the 1950s-1960s rolled around, the pieces were down to small trinket boxes and you were lucky if you even got a small hand painted floral. By the late 60s into the 70s, transferware appeared as well as \"blank\" pieces, covered only with a layer of gilt paint and maybe a decoupage embellishment. So to put it simply, the best pieces are the oldest pieces. With the advent of shabby chic furnishings/decorative accessories mania back in the 1990s, tolework has been harder and harder to find as anyone who has a collection wants to keep what they have quoted INCLUDES insurance.

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