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Period: 18th Century and Earlier
Italian Tooled Letter Box With Barberini Coat Of Arms
Located in Essex, MA
Slant hinged lid opening to a fitted compartment and conforming case with overall tooled decoration. Iron handle and latches.
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Boxes
Materials
Leather, Wood
18th Century Oak French Silver Chest Strongbox
Located in Buisson, FR
Beautiful handmade oak silver chest. It was made to hold valuables such as silver coins, jewels or maps. This was the precursor to the modern day safe. It is...
Category
French Primitive Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Boxes
Materials
Iron
Italian Box in High Relief Carved Oak Wood 18th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Italian Box in High Relief Carved Oak Wood 18th Century
on the top lid a lion's head in relief.
Dim. 14x30x18 cm
very good condition
Category
Italian Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Boxes
Materials
Oak
18th/19th Century Chinese Cinnabar Circular Box with Multiple Cartouches
Located in New York, NY
An 18th/19th Century Chinese cinnabar circular box with multiple cartouches of Families. This is a marvelous piece with very fine details on the main top panel of the box. The top pa...
Category
Chinese Qing Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Boxes
Materials
Lacquer
18th Century Welsh Strong Box with Carved Detail
Located in Atlanta, GA
18th Century Welsh strong box with carved detail.
Category
Welsh Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Russian Carved bone table box - 18th century
Located in Bruxelles, BE
Russian Carved bone table box
Carved bone table box
North of Russia, 18th century
12,5 x 23,2 x 7 cm
Rectangular box with a wooden core in bone veneer...
Category
Russian Louis XV Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bone, Wood
Antique 18th Century Box of Georgian Keys Honble J A Ellis Kings Agent 1763-1776
Located in GB
We are delighted to offer for sale this very rare small box of 27 Georgian keys of great importance
The box is stamped to the top “Honble J.A Ellis” an...
Category
English Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Boxes
Materials
Iron
Antique 18th Century Dutch Brass Oval Etched Snuff Tobacco Trinket Box 5"
Located in Dayton, OH
Antique Dutch 18th century oval shaped brass tobacco snuff box with hinged lid, engraved with a low relief pattern of two figures flanked by angels.
Category
Dutch Colonial Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Antique Indo-Portuguese Table Cabinet
Located in Schellebelle, BE
Exceptional Indo-Portuguese table cabinet from the 17 th Century,
the rare Cabinet is in a very good condition, has a hinged front and has 8 drawers, b...
Category
Indian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Boxes
Materials
Rosewood
18th Century German Hammered Copper & Brass Bread Box, Kitchen Utensil
Located in Nuernberg, DE
Beautiful antique 18th century German bread box. Perfect for decoration in your old country kitchen. The piece is in good used vintage condition with patina and a view minor dents. S...
Category
German Brutalist Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass, Copper
17th Century Figured Walnut and Seaweed Marquetry Lace Box
Located in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
A fine and extremely rare figured walnut and seaweed marquetry 'lace box', circa.... let’s break it down - Seaweed marquetry first appeared in Englis...
Category
English Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Boxes
Materials
Walnut
Gold box of Louis XVI period
Located in Paris, FR
Three-tones gold oval snuff box. The hinged lid is decorated with a country trophy medallion. The medallion is framed by a garland of green gold foliage and roses. The medallion is d...
Category
French Louis XVI Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold
19th Century Cutlery Caddy
Located in High Point, NC
Late 18th century English cutlery caddy made from mahogany. The simplicity of this caddy is elegant and timeless. It has a sloping handle with a cutout f...
Category
English Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Boxes
Materials
Mahogany
Vintage Glass Golf Dish with Raised Golfer in the Lid
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Vintage glass golf box & cover.
An Art Deco glass Jewelry box, dish, of rectangular form with lid. The pressed lid moulded with relief golfer in full backswing. We have had a 'Golf Baccarat...
Category
French Art Deco Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Boxes
Materials
Glass
Antique Irish Georgian Hand Cut Crystal Sterling Silver Tea Caddy George III
Located in Dublin, Ireland
An exceptionally rare Irish George III hand cut full lead crystal single tea caddy of rectangular outline with canted corners and outstanding quality, first quarter of the nineteenth century.
The finely chased silver mounted rim and hinged cover, hand cut with three bands of lozenges on a plain ground, decorative star cut base underneath.
Condition: Exceptional condition for such an early piece, with no losses or clouding inside, silver mounts are unmarked but test positive for silver. Wonderful age wear underneath on base. Lock is present but key does not turn. Back and front views are similar.
Measures: Height: 5.25” (13.5cm). Width: 3.75” (9.5cm). Depth: 3” (7.5cm).
Location: Dublin City, Ireland.
Stunning and rare Tea Caddy...
Category
Irish Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Sterling Silver
Baroque Guild Chest, Mid-18th Century
Located in Greding, DE
Baroque guild drawer with side brass handles and domed lid. The body stands on pressed ball feet, has rounded corners and is veneered on all sides in walnut with strapwork marquetry.
Category
Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Medieval Patinated Iron-Mounted Oak Casket, 15th Century
Located in Gardena, CA
Medieval patinated iron-mounted oak casket, 15th century
A Continental Medieval patinated iron mounted oak wood box. 15th Century or earlier.
Addition...
Category
Medieval Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Boxes
Materials
Iron
German, Dutch Hand Carved Wood Chest Box or Trunk w. Iron Mounts, 18th Century
Located in Gardena, CA
German - Dutch Hand Carved Wood Chest Box or Trunk w. Iron Mounts, 18th Century
18th century German - Dutch hand carved wood chest box or tr...
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Late 18th C. English Carved Wood Document Box
Located in Atlanta, GA
An English small-sized wooden box, circa 1770-1800. This antique box from England has been lovingly hand-carved with four quartered-wheels at each inner corner of the central panel, ...
Category
English Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Silver Salt Box, Lizasoain, Spain, Madrid, 1768
Located in Madrid, ES
Salt or spice shaker. Silver. Lizasoain. Spain, Madrid, 1768.
With contrast markings.
Silver spice rack in its color with a frustoconical body, sinuou...
Category
Spanish Neoclassical Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
Antique 18th Century, Georgian Cutlery Open Caddy
Located in Norton, MA
Antique 18th Century English oak cutlery caddy with an elegant form.
Category
American Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Antique Battersea Box Depicting a Hunting Scene
Located in Tampa, FL
A wonderful 18th century Battersea box depicting a hunting scene with hunters on horseback with dogs, deer and boar depicted against a wood...
Category
English Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Boxes
Materials
Enamel
Late 18th Century Table Top Writing Desk
Located in Dallas, TX
Rare English table top fall front writing desk in burl walnut and blue eglomise painted oval panels. Ten panels inside painted with flowers and...
Category
English Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood, Walnut, Paint
Japanese Lacquered and Gold Leaf Storage Trunk (Nagamochi)
Located in London, GB
A fine lacquered and gold leaf Nagamochi dating from the late 18th century or early 19th century.
The exterior of the trunk and its gilded metal fittings are decorated with a folia...
Category
Japanese Edo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Leaf
Georgian Mahogany Oblong Tea Caddy
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
A Good Quality 18th Century Georgian Mahogany
Oblong Tea Caddy Having Well Figured & Inlaid
Hinged Lid Enclosing Original Paper Lined Interior
With Original Solid Lead Lid
(Te...
Category
English Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Boxes
Materials
Mahogany
17th C. Diminutive William and Mary Kingwood Strongbox or Coffre Fort, C. 1690
Located in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
A William and Mary Kingwood / Princes Oyster Strongbox or Coffre Fort of Diminutive Proportions, Circa 1680-1700, England.
Adorned with highly decorative gilt brass strapwork and decorated entirely in knife cut oysters of kingwood, this box is fit for the most discerning of collectors. The large gilt brass shield-shaped clasp opens on a push-spring release to reveal a box interior lined in rosewood with one drawer and securing bolts.
Once the lid is opened you can reach inside to slide the original gilt brass bolt lock to open the fall. Once the fall is open you will find a drawer lined in oak and simulated kingwood.
The box appears decorative, but it was also very difficult to break open or steal. It has a strong lock to the centre and two bolts concealed in the sides, so that it could be screwed down into floorboards if necessary or that of a horse-drawn carriage. Strong boxes veneered in oysters of Princewood such as this were luxury objects.
The cabinet-makers who would have constructed and veneered the carcase apparently sold them, often using tropical hardwood veneers, and mounted it with sets of mounts, handles and locks bought in from brass founders. The elaborate veneering and conspicuous gilded brass mounts show that the appearance of these objects was important.
Thomas Pistor, of Ludgate Hill, London worked with the renowned cabinetmaker Gerrit Jensen...
Category
British William and Mary Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Boxes
Materials
Kingwood
17th Century William and Mary Rosewood Coffre Fort on Stand, Secret Compartments
Located in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
The unique 17th-century William and Mary rosewood coffre forte, circa 1690, raised on George I walnut stand, circa 1720.
The rosewood veneered exterior...
Category
English William and Mary Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Early 18th Century Italian Carved and Dovetailed Walnut Alms Box
Located in San Francisco, CA
Early 18th century Italian carved and dovetailed walnut alms box, circa 1725
Large dovetails and old handwrought nails give this small scale box a hea...
Category
Italian Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Boxes
Materials
Iron
Circa 1650 Sheet Iron Money Chest from Southern Germany with Wooden Stand
Located in Dallas, TX
In 15th and 16th century Europe, the works of blacksmiths from southern Germany were known far and wide. Demand for products by these skilled metal workers spread as far as the Scandinavian countries. Perhaps one of the most intriguing items that was produced by these workshops was the iron money...
Category
German Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Boxes
Materials
Iron
17th Century Italian Leather Box
Located in Chicago, IL
A stunning 17th century Italian leather covered wood trunk covered in brass nail heads, some spelling out a word on top, and with iron strap hinges a...
Category
Italian Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Boxes
Materials
Leather, Wood
18th Century English Bible Box
Located in High Point, NC
Mid-18th-century bible box from England, made from oak. The top is made from two boards, and rests on the box, which is hand carved decorated on three side...
Category
English Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Boxes
Materials
Oak
18th Century Carved Boxwood Box
Located in Marseille, FR
Wooden box carved on both sides. On one side men fighting. And on the other a landscape. Dimensions of the box 80 mm x 48 mm x 17 mm
Additional information:
Material: Fruit woods...
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Boxes
Materials
Fruitwood
17th-18th Century Spanish Colonial Box With Domed Top
Located in Dallas, TX
Spanish Colonial inlaid bone and faux tortoiseshell domed top box. Original hammered iron hinges. Circa 1680-1740. Excellent condition and very rare.
Category
Spanish Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Boxes
Materials
Iron
Spanish Colonial Gilt Wood Reliquary or Table Box
Located in Pasadena, CA
This is an outstanding example of a late 18th/early 19th century Spanish Colonial Reliquary or table box. The emerald green combined with th...
Category
Mexican Spanish Colonial Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Leaf
Japanese Woven Box
Located in Dallas, TX
Japanese decorative woven box. Late Edo/Early Meiji Japanese box, with
mother-of-pearl and ceramic inlay in autumnal leaf motif. Complete with working lock and key. Circa 1790-1820.
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic, Mother-of-Pearl
17th Century, Alabaster and Ebonised Wood Casket Malines Coffer
Located in Dallas, TX
A 17th century Malines alabaster and ebonised wood coffer or casket with engraved inset panels, arches and columns. The interior has a marbled paper lini...
Category
Belgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Boxes
Materials
Alabaster
18th Century Mahogany & Brass Bucket
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
A very attractive 18th century Georgian mahogany oval bucket having original brass loop swing handle and elegant brass bound decoration.
Circa 1770.
...
Category
English Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Boxes
Materials
Mahogany
French 17th Century Leather Box, Coffre
Located in Atlanta, GA
A very charming late 17th century French Coffre - Box crafted from beautifully patina'd leather. A wonderful piece to serve as a jewelry box or to adorn any table top.
Category
French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Boxes
Materials
Leather
Miniature George III Oak Coffer
Located in Essex, MA
Simple piece with hinged lid opening to a storage compartment over a drawer, bracket feet.
Category
English George III Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Boxes
Materials
Oak
Antique Verger's Desk Box, English, Oak, Ecclesiastic, Bible Case, William III
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique verger's desk box. An English, oak ecclesiastical bible case, dating to the William III period, circa 1700.
Beautifully presented desk case with fine detail and...
Category
British Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Boxes
Materials
Oak
Large William and Mary 17th Century Inlaid Olive Oyster Lace Box, Circa 1690
Located in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
A fine and rare large parquetry inlaid 17th-century William and Mary period olive oyster lace box. 1680-1700, England
The cross-grain moulded top is ent...
Category
English William and Mary Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Boxes
Materials
Oak, Olive, Ebony
17th/18th Century Italian Venetian Marquetry Table Box
Located in Forney, TX
An important early antique Italian Renaissance table box, handcrafted in Northern Italy in the 17th/18th century, cassone chest form, richly inlaid, the top and front panel with fruitwood banding framing...
Category
Italian Renaissance Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood, Fruitwood
Antique Chinese Food Presentation Covered Box
Located in Forney, TX
A remarkable antique food box from the Shanxi province, North China, late Ming (1368-1644) to early Qing (1644-1912) Dynasty.
An extraordinary e...
Category
Chinese Ming Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood, Paint
Lacquer Potpourri
Located in Stamford, CT
Lacquer Potpourri box and cover with ormolu mountings from 18th century Directoire Japan/ France.
Category
Japanese Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Boxes
Materials
Lacquer
18th Century Italian Blue Decorative Box with Cupid and Flower Decoration
Located in Milan, IT
Late 18th century Italian lacquered wooden box with Faux Paper and Flowers. Made in shades of blue and decorated on all sides, this romantic Italian antique box is decorated with flo...
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Boxes
Materials
Fir
17th Century Silver Mounted Traveling Box with Key
Located in Dallas, TX
A 17th century silver mounted Coromandel wood with mother of pearl inlay traveling box with a Interior fitted with drawers and a reliquary cabinet. W...
Category
French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
18th Century Louis XIII Red Velvet Box
Located in Houston, TX
French Louis XIII chest with red velvet exterior, hand tooled ormolu, lined with woven liseré floral fabric, leather edging and nailhead detail.
Category
French Renaissance Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ormolu
Early 18th Century Louis XVI Kingwood Small Chest
Located in Dallas, TX
A Louis XVI kingwood small chest with brass mounts. Opens to a metal lined interior and two velvet working lower drawers. Circa 1700, France.
Category
French Louis XVI Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal, Brass
Swedish 1790s Rustic Oval Top Wooden Box with Iron Accents and Distressed Patina
Located in Atlanta, GA
A rustic Swedish wooden box from the late 18th century, with iron accents and natural patina. Created in Sweden during the last decade of the 18th c...
Category
Swedish Rustic Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal
George III Mahogany Cheese Coaster
Located in Whaley Bridge, GB
K0464 A fine quality George III, boat shaped mahogany cheese coaster with carved pateraes to sides and 2 compartments, all retains original finish and ...
Category
English George III Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Boxes
Materials
Mahogany
Anglo-Indian Padouk Box
Located in London, GB
An Anglo-Indian brass-mounted padouk and ebony box, Ceylon, second half of the 18th century.
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
French 18th Century Painted Box
Located in Stockbridge, GA
French 18th century painted box. This work comes from Normandy France.
Category
French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Georgian Mahogany Collector's Cabinet, 18th Century
Located in Southall, GB
Georgian Mahogany collector's cabinet
An 18th century Georgian mahogany three drawer collector's cabinet.
The cabinet has a single box wood inlaid door with a working lock and ...
Category
English Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Boxes
Materials
Mahogany
Swedish 18th Century Original Blue Folk Art Painted Box
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Swedish 18th century original painted decorative Folk Art box, with original lock and key.
Category
Swedish Folk Art Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Boxes
Materials
Pine
Antique Japanese Lacquered Incense Box Kobako Ex-Christie's
Located in Atlanta, GA
An old Japanese lacquered small box likely used to contain incense powder called Kobako, circa Momoyama to early Edo period (16-17th century). The rectangular form box with a fitted ...
Category
Japanese Japonisme Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Boxes
Materials
Lead
Late 18th Century Oak Box with Faux Drawers, Handles and Carved Scrolls
Located in Atlanta, GA
An English oak blanket chest from the late 18th century, with faux drawers and carved scrolls. Created in England during the later years of the 18th century, this oak blanket chest f...
Category
English Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Japanese Tokugawa Lacquered Wedding Chest, 17th Century
Located in New York, NY
Japanese rare early fine beautiful Tokugawa gold and black Lacquered wedding chest. Featuring Tokugawa crest and wild ginger motif, with gold gilt bronze. fittings. Gilded mulberry p...
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Rare Pair of 18th Century Georgian Mahogany Wall Hanging Boxes
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
An extremely rare and delightful pair of late 18th century mahogany wall
Hanging boxes, the larger for storage of candles and the smaller for salt,
Havin...
Category
English Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Boxes
Materials
Mahogany
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