Chinese Altar Box
Chinese Crackled Lacquer Autumn Altar Box, circa 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
other accessories. This box has four shallow drawers and was likely used atop a domestic altar to store
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century Chinese Qing Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Brass
Chinese Export Famille Rose Diminutive Altar Fruit 'Peach' Box, Rare
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Chinese Export Famille Rose Diminutive Altar Fruit 'Peach' Box, Rare
China, Late Qing period 1890
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
19th Century Chinese Small Altar Cabinet
Located in Singapore, SG
An antique carved box from Chaozhou city, in Guangdong, China. The black and gold colours, as well
Category
Antique 1880s Chinese Qing Antiquities
Materials
Pine
Chinese 1900 Qing Dynasty Bodhisattva Altar Temple-Pagoda In Wood And Carvings
Located in Miami, FL
, Buddhist Altar Temple-Pagoda. It was created in China during the late Qing Dynasty to early Republic Period
Category
Antique 1890s Chinese Qing Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Wood, Ivory
H 27.25 in W 9.1 in D 24.2 in
Set of Ki-Seto Ceramic Altar Pieces from Korean Empire Period
Located in Atlanta, GA
A set of three ki-seto (yellow-seto) ceramic altar pieces made in the period of Korean Empire (1897
Category
Early 20th Century Korean Other Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Two Chinese Famille Verte Porcelain HeHe Groups Kangxi Period
Located in Dallas, TX
A Pair of Chinese famille verte laughing twins 'HeHe Erxian' biscuit group, Kangxi (1662-1722), the
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Antique 17th Century Chinese Chinese Export Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Marinescape with Boat Long Island NYC Oil Painting
By Boris Vassiloff
Located in Surfside, FL
moment begins the travels of the young painter, never separated from his sketch book and paint box
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
European Architectural Colonnaded Arcade Watercolor Painting
By Boris Vassiloff
Located in Surfside, FL
moment begins the travels of the young painter, never separated from his sketch book and paint box
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Board
Woman in Kimono
By Boris Vassiloff
Located in Surfside, FL
moment begins the travels of the young painter, never separated from his sketch book and paint box
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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H 18.51 in W 63 in D 19.69 in
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Located in Sammu-shi, Chiba
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Japanese Antique Small Wooden Drawer / 1865-1868 / Late Edo Period / Storage Box
Located in Sammu-shi, Chiba
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Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Edo Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Cedar
H 12.37 in W 16.54 in D 8.47 in
19th Century Chinese Apothecary Cabinet with Drawers
Located in Pasadena, CA
A remarkable 19th century Chinese apothecary cabinet. With 24 drawers and 2 larger lower drawers. Each smaller drawer with Chinese script and brass pull handles.
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Antique 19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
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Wood
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Located in Chicago, IL
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Japanese Edo Period Six Panel Screen of Chinese Scholars
Located in Rio Vista, CA
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Located in Topeka, KS
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H 99 in W 99 in D 71 in
Petite Famille Rose Chinese Ginger jar, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
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Decorative Antique Chinese Chinoiserie Floral Painted and Lacquered Sideboard
Located in GB
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Hardwood
H 34.06 in W 60.24 in D 17.92 in
Chinese Famille Rose Scholarly Gathering Baluster Jar, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
During the 18th century, Europeans provided an eager market for Chinese export porcelain, especially the colorful and fanciful ware known as “famille rose.” Named for a palette of op...
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Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Ceramics
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Porcelain
Portrait of Lady Caroline Price
By George Romney
Located in Miami, FL
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20th Century Chinese Sculpture, Censer in Carved Jade
Located in Casale Monferrato, IT
20th century Beautiful sculpture in precious green jade made in china. Fine censer with carved decorations. The censer rests on a wooden base. Perfect conditions.
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Patinated Bronze & Pietra Dura Decorative Box, Italy circa 1880
Located in Pasadena, CA
Patinated Bronze & Pietra Dura Decorative Box, Italy circa 1880
Pietra Dura, called parchin kari or
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Chinese Altar Stand
Located in Chicago, IL
drawer for incense sticks. The piece dates to the early 20th century and came from Northern China.
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20th Century Chinese Decorative Boxes
Materials
Fir, Lacquer
A Collection of Ten Chinese Altar Fruits and Boxes
Located in Downingtown, PA
A Collection of ten fruits both solid and two-piece boxes. They can be sold separately.
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Antique 19th Century Chinese Boxes
Materials
Porcelain, Paste
Chinese Walnut Table Altar, circa 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
as a home altar for ancestor worship. The plank top surface is framed by everted ends and linked to
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Early 20th Century Chinese Qing Decorative Boxes
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Straits Chinese Lacquer and Gilt Painted Altar Offering Box
Located in Austin, TX
A large and fine Chinese lozenge shaped altar box made for use by the Peranakan (also called
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Antique Late 19th Century Indonesian Qing Lacquer
Materials
Wood
Chinese Export Large Porcelain Peach Form Altar Fruit
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Chinese export porcelain peach. This is the largest size of an altar fruit or temple offering
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Ceramics
Materials
Enamel
Early 19th Century Chinese Ming-Form Altar Table in Elm Wood, Jiangsu Province
Located in Miami, FL
A long altar table in elm wood with recessed top, with inverted ends, on box trestle base with
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Antique Early 19th Century Chinese Qing Furniture
Materials
Elm
H 37.75 in W 97 in D 18 in
A Chinese Carved and Gilt Temple Box
Located in Austin, TX
An intricately carved, lacquered, and gilt Chinese temple box. The lid featuring scenes of
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Antique 19th Century Chinese Sculptures
Materials
Giltwood
Antique Asian Low Tea or Altar Table with Drawer
Located in Topeka, KS
Handsome antique Asian low table with a single drawer originally used for tea or as an altar. It is
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Antique Late 19th Century Chinese Chinese Export End Tables
Materials
Wood
Chinese Spirit Cabinet
Located in Chicago, IL
The basic set up for traditional home-based ancestor worship was an altar table upon which
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Brass
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Woman in Kimono
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Marinescape with Boat Long Island NYC Oil Painting
By Boris Vassiloff
Located in Surfside, FL
moment begins the travels of the young painter, never separated from his sketch book and paint box
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
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Oil, Board
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By Rob Tarbell
Located in New York, NY
, White Box, New York, NY
Bird-Like Things in Things Like Trees, Les Yeux du Monde, Charlottesville, VA
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
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Archival Paper, Soot, Wood Panel
I_NY 9
By Rob Tarbell
Located in New York, NY
, New York, NY
2012 Bird-Like Things in Things Like Trees, White Box, New York, NY
Bird-Like Things
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
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Archival Paper, Soot, Wood Panel
I_NY 5
By Rob Tarbell
Located in New York, NY
, New York, NY
2012 Bird-Like Things in Things Like Trees, White Box, New York, NY
Bird-Like Things
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
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Archival Paper, Soot, Wood Panel
I_NY 6
By Rob Tarbell
Located in New York, NY
, New York, NY
2012 Bird-Like Things in Things Like Trees, White Box, New York, NY
Bird-Like Things
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
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Archival Paper, Soot, Wood Panel
I_NY 1
By Rob Tarbell
Located in New York, NY
, White Box, New York, NY
Bird-Like Things in Things Like Trees, Les Yeux du Monde, Charlottesville, VA
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
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Archival Paper, Soot, Wood Panel
I_NY 8
By Rob Tarbell
Located in New York, NY
, New York, NY
2012 Bird-Like Things in Things Like Trees, White Box, New York, NY
Bird-Like Things
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
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Wood Panel, Archival Paper, Soot
I_NY 7
By Rob Tarbell
Located in New York, NY
, New York, NY
2012 Bird-Like Things in Things Like Trees, White Box, New York, NY
Bird-Like Things
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Contemporary Mixed Media
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Archival Paper, Wood Panel
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By Rob Tarbell
Located in New York, NY
, New York, NY
2012 Bird-Like Things in Things Like Trees, White Box, New York, NY
Bird-Like Things
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Contemporary Mixed Media
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Soot
I_NY 3
By Rob Tarbell
Located in New York, NY
, White Box, New York, NY
Bird-Like Things in Things Like Trees, Les Yeux du Monde, Charlottesville, VA
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
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Archival Paper, Soot, Wood Panel
I_NY 10
By Rob Tarbell
Located in New York, NY
, New York, NY
2012 Bird-Like Things in Things Like Trees, White Box, New York, NY
Bird-Like Things
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
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Archival Paper, Soot, Wood Panel
Antique Pair of French Marquetry Cabinet Wardrobes, circa1910
Located in London, GB
"-work of inlaid marble floors, altars and columns. The technique is known in English as pietra dura, for
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Chinese Incense Box with Mother of Pearl Inlay, C. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
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Chinese Cixi Incense Tray, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
-functional boxes used tabletop in lieu of a chest of drawers. While some were used to store cosmetics
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Early 20th Century Chinese Qing Decorative Boxes
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Brass
Straits Chinese Lacquer and Gilt Altar Offering Box
Located in Austin, TX
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Chinese Export Porcelain Altar Fruit-Peach
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Chinese export porcelain hand decorated altar fruit in the form of a peach. These were left at
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Antique 1890s Chinese Chinese Export Ceramics
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Enamel
Monumental 19th Century Chinese Buddhist Altar Shrine
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Monumental Chinese carved temple shaped altar piece featuring a pagoda top and finished in red
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Antique 19th Century Chinese Qing Furniture
Antique Timeless Design Chinese Altar Table with Meaningful Crane Bird Carvings
Located in Lisse, NL
the great advantages of this antique Chinese side or altar table is that it can be incorporated in all
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Antique Early 19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
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Wood
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H 30.25 in W 42 in D 13.25 in
Chinese Painted Red Lacquer Shrine Box, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
tablets, and images of ancestors were placed. Often the altar was supplemented with a shrine box such as
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Brass
Chinese Pewter Squash Container
Located in Chicago, IL
This small hand-formed pewter box, which was likely used as an offering on an altar table, takes
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Offering Box "Chanab", Carved and Polychrome Wood, 19th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Offering box "Chanab". Carved and polychrome wood, 19th century.
Rectangular carved wooden box
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Mixed Media Under Sea Fish Fantasy Oil Painting
By Boris Vassiloff
Located in Surfside, FL
moment begins the travels of the young painter, never separated from his sketch book and paint box
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Russian American Oil Painting Bucolic Pastoral Landscape with Lake
By Boris Vassiloff
Located in Surfside, FL
moment begins the travels of the young painter, never separated from his sketch book and paint box
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Oil, Board
Still Life With Fruit Modernist Oil Painting
By Boris Vassiloff
Located in Surfside, FL
moment begins the travels of the young painter, never separated from his sketch book and paint box
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Canvas, Oil
Gilt Bronze & Pietra Dura Jewlery Box, Italy, circa 1880
Located in Pasadena, CA
Ormolu & Pietra Dura Jewlery Box, Italy circa 1880
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C. 1880 Chinese Famille Rose Altar Fruit Boxes
Located in Los Angeles, CA
These c. 1880 Chinese Export Famille Rose Altar fruit pieces are rare and beautiful as decorative
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Antique 19th Century Chinese Decorative Objects
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Chinese Altar Box For Sale on 1stDibs
At 1stDibs, there are many versions of the ideal Chinese altar box for your home. A Chinese altar box — often made from wood, ceramic and metal — can elevate any home. You’ve searched high and low for the perfect Chinese altar box — we have versions that date back to the 19th Century alongside those produced as recently as the 20th Century are available. Boris Vassiloff each produced at least one beautiful Chinese altar box that is worth considering.
How Much is a Chinese Altar Box?
Prices for a Chinese altar box start at $400 and top out at $48,500 with the average selling for $1,265.
Questions About Chinese Altar Box
- What is a Chinese hat box?1 Answer1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022A Chinese hat box is a storage container traditionally used in China and other areas of East Asia to store hats and other headwear. Normally, the boxes feature lacquer construction and have a conical shape. On 1stDibs, find a range of Chinese hat boxes.
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