THE COLLECTION

Our Collection is born of long experience and expresses the great tradition of Florentine silversmiths.

It is composed of pieces of sophisticated craftsmanship, made in our workshop using the antique artisan techniques of chiselling, embossing and engraving. These works are inspired by the classical connection between the silversmith’s art and painting, sculpture and architecture.

Some of the pieces in the Collection are fruit of the 1950s collaboration with Giovanni Battista Giorgini, an iconic figure amongst 20th century businessmen and important champion overseas, particularly in North America, of the highest forms of Florentine craftsmanship.
Giorgini understood that the promotion of the best Italian craftsmen was a way to widen recognition and appreciation of our country, spreading an image of full economic recovery.
He personally visited the young Paolo Pagliai and his father Orlando in the Piazzetta de’ Rossi workshop, proposing a collaboration with Tiffany & Co. to create beautiful ornaments.
Today we still conserve a pair of Tritons, the fish salt cellars, the frog box and the snail box. The latter was found and bought by the Pagliai family from a shop on the Ponte Vecchio.

Certain small “jewels” have remained part of our production, enduring in time, impossible for us to relinquish or stop creating.

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SNAIL

Solid silver box in the shape of a snail, a symbol of prosperity and wealth. The snail’s spiral shell represents a universal numerical scheme which exists naturally in very many living species. Part of the Pagliai collection since...

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PAIR OF FISH SALT CELLARS

Pair of fish shaped salt cellars with solid silver spoons, handmade using the lost wax method and hand chiselled with gold elements. Produced in our workshop since the 1950s for Tiffany & Co....

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PAIR OF GENOA SALT CELLARS

Pair of solid silver salt cellars with gold cups, entirely handmade and inspired by a model of salt cellar from Genoa, early half of the nineteenth century....

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PAIR OF FLORENTINE SALT CELLARS

Pair of solid silver salt cellars with gold cups, entirely handmade and inspired by a model of eighteenth century Florentine salt cellar....

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SILVER FROG

Solid silver box incorporating built-in lid with bud and leaves endpiece. Part of the Pagliai collection since 1950 when it was first commissioned by Tiffany & Co. in New York....

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SILVER TRITON

Inspired by a jug with Triton found in the Silver Museum of Palazzo Pitti in Florence, made using the lost wax method and chiselled by hand....

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SHELL

Made with the lost wax casting method in solid silver and completely hand chiselled. Part of the Pagliai collection since 1950 when it was first commissioned by Tiffany & Co. in New York. The style is based on a Florentine model....

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SMALL BOAR WITH BRONZE BASE

An exact replica in miniature of the bronze Porcellino statue made by Pietro Tacca around 1633. Florentine tradition holds that touching the nose of the Porcellino brings good luck....

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CANDELABRA, REPRODUCTION EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

Solid silver candelabra in eighteenth century Italian style with cast and chiselled elements....

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CHERUB CANDELABRA

Pair of solid silver candelabra in mirror style (one left and one right), handmade and hand-chiselled, with cherubs cast using the lost wax method and chisel-finished, inspired by a Roman model from the workshop of Francesco Ossani,...

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