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Period: Mid-19th Century
Antique Sterling Silver Gilt Engraved Vinaigrette Birmingham Edward Smith 1839
By Edward Smith
Located in Portland, OR
A fine antique engraved sterling silver vinaigrette, Edward Smith, Birmingham, 1839.
The vinaigrette is finely engine turned to the hinged top and the undersaide, the lid is monogram...
Category
English Early Victorian Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Musical snuff box by BA Bremond
Located in Zonhoven, BE
Beautiful snuffbox made of pressed horn. The lid depicts a song for cupid
The mechanism plays 2 melodies as written on the original melody sheet. It is signed on the melody sheet on...
Category
Swiss Victorian Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze, Steel, Cut Steel, Iron
Tunbridge Ware Glove Box c1860
Located in Tunbridge Wells, GB
Heading : Tunbridge ware glove box
Date : c1860
Period : Victoria
Origin : Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Decoration : Cover with a berlin woolwork floral mosaic within keylines bordered by v...
Category
British Victorian Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Pennsylvania Sponge Decorated Box On Later Stand
Located in Essex, MA
Square form with hinged lid with original brass bail handle. Faux bois decoration. The matt black painted wood base with square section legs and H form stretchers.
Category
American Folk Art Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Pine
Antique Sterling Silver Gilt Engraved Vinaigrette Birmingham Gervase Wheeler
Located in Portland, OR
A fine antique sterling silver-gilt early 19th century Vinaigrette, Birmingham, by Gervase Wheeler, 1839.
This beautiful vinaigrette having f...
Category
English Early Victorian Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Fad cylinder Music Box playing 2 per Turn
Located in Zonhoven, BE
eautiful, large and early music box.
This box has a thick (about 8m diameter) cylinder and plays 2 melodies per rotation of the cylinder.
The box is simple fruitwood, without mar...
Category
Swiss Early Victorian Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze, Steel, Cut Steel, Other, Iron
Tunbridge Ware Glove Box c1840
Located in Tunbridge Wells, GB
Heading : Tunbridge ware glove box
Date : c1840
Period : Victoria
Origin : Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Decoration : Three geometric stickware designs to cover with keyline border. Internal...
Category
British Early Victorian Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Tunbridge Ware Sewing Box c1840
Located in Tunbridge Wells, GB
Heading : Tunbridge ware sewing box
Date : c1840
Period : Victoria
Origin : Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Decoration : Central perspective cube patte...
Category
British Victorian Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Cylinder Musical Box by Nicole Freres (Geneva)
Located in Zonhoven, BE
Early Fad Cylinder music box made in Geneva by Nicole Freres.
This is a good example of those early music boxes.
The mechanisme has a fad cylinder and plays 8 tunes in a 2 per turn...
Category
Swiss Early Victorian Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass, Steel, Iron
Carved Ceylonese Ebony Box
Located in London, by appointment only
A charming mid 19th century carved ebony box with intertwined foliate ornament on all sides on a punched ground, opening to a void interior, the sides and lid with inlaid bone dots a...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ebony
Musical snuff box with minatur painting
Located in Zonhoven, BE
Music box made in Switzerland in the mid-19th century.
This rare snuffbox plays 2 melodies, on a comb made of several small parts. (Until the mid-19th century, it was not yet possib...
Category
Swiss Victorian Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze, Steel, Cut Steel, Iron
Mid 19th century Swedish folk art painted box
Located in Debenham, Suffolk
Mid 19th century Swedish folk art painted box circa 1865.
Good quality swedish pine metal bound box. Decorated with original ragwork paint and blue painted strap work. Hand painte...
Category
Swedish Folk Art Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal
'Grand Tour' souvenir box "Palais de L'Institut" Paris
Located in Zonhoven, BE
Beautiful snuff box made of pressed horn. The lid depicts "Palais de l'Institut" from Paris. So the box was a souvenir box.
The mechanism plays 3 melodies and is signed on the com...
Category
Swiss Victorian Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze, Steel, Cut Steel, Iron
Antique Ladies Utility Box, English, Burr Walnut, Writing Slope, Sewing, Regency
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique lady of the house utility box. An English, burr walnut and mother of pearl inlaid writing slope and sewing box, dating to the late Regency period, circa 1830.
Exc...
Category
British Regency Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Walnut
19th Century French Louis XV Style Bronze Box.
Located in Houston, TX
19th Century French Louis XV Style Bronze Box.
This stunning antique French bronze box with a hinged lid, decorated with cupids surrounded with Sèvres-style porcelain floral and figurative plaques...
Category
French Louis XV Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
'Grand Tour' souvenir box "Brounnen, contre Grütli et la chapelle de Guil. Tell"
Located in Zonhoven, BE
Musical souvenir box made in Switzerland in the 19th century for the German marked
This rare snuffbox plays 2 melodies. Indicated on the original tunesheet on the inside of the li...
Category
Swiss Victorian Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze, Iron, Cut Steel, Steel
Antique Decorative Censer, Chinese, Bronze, Incense Burner, Victorian, C.1850
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique decorative censer. A Chinese, bronze incense burner, dating to the early Victorian period, circa 1850.
Delightfully ornate and substantial burner, with appealing ...
Category
Chinese Victorian Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
19th Century American Nautical Inlaid Box
Located in Stamford, CT
19th Century American sailor made nautical themed inlaid ships wheel on the top, also called the helm. The front, sides and back are inlaid with geometric cir...
Category
American Folk Art Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ebony, Fruitwood, Mahogany
Mid Victorian Amboyana Ladies Jewellery Box and Writing Slope c1860
Located in Tunbridge Wells, GB
Heading : Amboyana jewellery box and writing slope
Date : c1860
Period : Victoria
Origin : England
Decoration : Bird eye maple box with amboyana ...
Category
British Victorian Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Dog's Townhouse
Located in Greenwich, CT
A 19th c. English doghouse for a small dog in the form of a Georgian townhouse in lovely original faded ochre paint with a pitched gable roof with two chimneys with double chimney pots. Great painted detail including 12 over 12 double hung sash windows with stone headers, elliptical fanlight overdoor window and grand arched door frame.
Category
English Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Musical 'Grand Tour' souvenir box
Located in Zonhoven, BE
Musical souvenir box made in Switzerland in the 19th century for the German marker
This rare snuffbox plays 2 melodies. Indicated on the inside of the lid.
The case is made of met...
Category
Swiss Victorian Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze, Iron, Cut Steel, Steel
Antique Victorian Coromandel Gentleman's Travelling Vanity Case 19th C
Located in London, GB
This is a stunning antique Victorian Coromandel gentleman's travelling vanity case with fitted interior, circa 1865 in date.
This rectagular shaped traveling case is made of rare coromandel wood and features a blank brass plaque. The interior is well fitted with Sheffield silver plate mounted jars, bottles and shaving tools, displayed on fitted blue velvet.
The secret button at the front of the case opens a sprung secret drawer below, for your jewellery. The underside of the lid has a velvet backed mirror and a compartment for hiding your letters.
Complete with working Bramah lock and original key.
It is a beautiful piece which will look stunning on your dressing table.
Condition:
In really excellent condition. Please see photos for confirmation.
Dimensions in cm:
Height 9 x Width 26 x Depth 19
Dimensions in inches:
Height 3 inches x Width 10 inches x Depth 7 inches
Calamander wood or Coromandel wood is a valuable wood from India, Sri Lanka and South East Asia. It is of a hazel-brown color, with black stripes (or the other way about), very heavy and hard. It is also known as Macassar Ebony or variegated ebony and is closely related to genuine ebony, but is obtained from different species in the same genus; one of these is Diospyros quaesita Thwaites, from Sri Lanka. The name Calamander comes from the local sinhalese name, 'kalu-medhiriya', which means dark chamber; referring to the characteristic ebony black wood.
Coromandel wood has been logged to extinction over the last 2 to 3 hundred years and is no longer available for new work in any quantity. Furniture in coromandel is so expensive and so well looked after that even recycling it is an unlikely source. A substitute, Macassar Ebony, has similar characteristics and to the untrained eye is nearly the same but it lacks the depth of colour seen in genuine Coromandel.
Travelling cases
became very popular towards the end of the 18th century. They were manufactured specifically to accompany upper class gentleman during travel. Dressing cases were originally rather utilitarian but they spoke volumes about their owners’s wealth and place in society, as at that time, traveling was only done by the elite.
Gentleman’s dressing cases would contain bottles and jars for colognes, aftershaves and creams as well as essential shaving and manicure tools. As these boxes became more popular, many further traveling item options were offered for inclusion.
By the early Victorian era, ladies also began to travel and suddenly their requirements were anything but utilitarian! Ladies dressing cases could feature a wide range of decorative bottles and jars as well as a vast array of beautifcation tools, all designed with pure luxury in mind. The exterior of the box became almost as important as the interior and these boxes started being veneered with beautiful exotic woods from all over the world.
As demand for gentleman’s boxes lessened, the dressing case started to also become known by the more feminine term ‘vanity box’. These boxes, with their excessive price tags, were now considered as true works of art and beauty in themselves, and were often bought as status symbols rather than actual traveling companions.
Some of the finest examples of travelling cases made from exotic wood with gold and silver fittings come from: Walter Thornhill, Betjamann & Sons and Jenner...
Category
English Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Large Antique French Boulle Napoleon III Marquetry Box
By Audige
Located in Vilnius, LT
Antique 19th century French Boulle/Napoleon III marquetry box.
The wooden box is decorated with inlaid brass and tortoiseshell and red silk textile inside.
Including key.
Signed: Aud...
Category
French Napoleon III Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
1850's Tortoiseshell Box
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Small Silver and Tortoiseshell jewellery box, with the top of the lid and the bottom of the box being tortoiseshell. The edges of the box is ...
Category
British Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate
White Brass Five Blessings Chinese Brazier, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
Filled with burning coals, this finely crafted 19th-century brazier once warmed the hands of a wealthy lady on a cold winter's night in northern China. The portable brazier is hand-w...
Category
Chinese Qing Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Covered Vase with Atlantes, attr. to A. Giroux, France, circa 1880
Located in PARIS, FR
Beautiful ovoid-shaped covered vase in patinated bronze with golden highlights, with rich rotating decoration in relief. The lid, symbolizing Night, is decorated with a turtle, a moo...
Category
French Napoleon III Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Musical Snuff Box Playing 2 Tunes with historical decor to the lid
Located in Zonhoven, BE
Snuffbox with music made in Switzerland in the first half of the 19th century.
This rare snuffbox plays 2 melodies, on a sectional comb. The comb is thus composed of several section...
Category
Swiss Early Victorian Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver, Iron, Cut Steel, Steel, Bronze
Musical Snuffbox by Alibert playing 2 Tunes
Located in Zonhoven, BE
Snuffbox with music made in Switzerland in the first half of the 19th century.
This rare snuffbox plays 2 melodies, on a sectional comb. The comb is thus composed of several section...
Category
Swiss Early Victorian Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver, Iron, Cut Steel, Steel, Bronze
Tunbridge Ware Writing Slope c1850
Located in Tunbridge Wells, GB
Heading : Tunbridge ware writing slope
Date : c1875
Period : Victoria
Origin : Tunbridge Wells, kent
Decoration : Central mosaic of a child with small dog and bird. Above is a foliat...
Category
British Victorian Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Antique Decorative Finery Box, English, Jewellery, Keepsake, Regency, Circa 1830
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique decorative finery box. An English, rosewood and silk cotton jewellery box, dating to the late Regency period, circa 1830.
Bold keeps...
Category
British Regency Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Anglo-Indian Hardwood Casket with Bone Inlay
Located in Stamford, CT
19th century Anglo-Indian hardwood casket with bone inlay. India.
Category
Indian Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Hardwood
Music Box with Exposed Controls playing 6 tunes
Located in Zonhoven, BE
Beautiful, early and rare music box made in the early 19th century. This early music box plays 6 melodies on a 25,7cm cylinder. At the beginning of the 19th century, boxes of excelle...
Category
Swiss Early Victorian Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze, Iron, Other, Cut Steel, Steel
Handbag Style: Art Deco in Bronze, 1930
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
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French Art Deco Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Vintage Boho Zig Zag Inlay Burl Wood Writing Desk Box
Located in west palm beach, FL
An extraordinary vintage Boho writing desk in a box. Chic Burl wood construction with gorgeous inlay detail. An interior writing desk to hold your papers and writing utensils. Acquir...
Category
British Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bone, Wood
Musical Snuffbox Playing 2 Tunes and Cupido on the Lid
Located in Zonhoven, BE
Snuffbox with music made in Switzerland in the first half of the 19th century.
This rare snuffbox plays 2 melodies, on a sectional comb. The comb is thus composed of several section...
Category
Swiss Early Victorian Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver, Iron, Cut Steel, Steel, Bronze
Antique French Boulle Napoleon III Marquetry Box
Located in Vilnius, LT
Antique 19th century French boulle marquetry box.
The wooden box is decorated with inlaid brass and tortoiseshell.
Including key.
After high quality renovation.
Very good/excellent a...
Category
French Napoleon III Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Musical Laurencekirk Snuff Box Playing 2 Tunes
Located in Zonhoven, BE
Snuffbox with music made in Switzerland in the first half of the 19th century.
This rare snuffbox plays 2 melodies, on a sectional comb. The comb is thus composed of several section...
Category
Swiss Early Victorian Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver, Iron, Cut Steel, Steel, Bronze
Musical Snuff Box Playing 2 Tunes depicting a Bouquet of Flowers to the lid
Located in Zonhoven, BE
Snuffbox with music made in Switzerland in the first half of the 19th century.
This rare snuffbox plays 2 melodies, on a sectional comb. The comb is thus composed of several section...
Category
Swiss Early Victorian Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver, Iron, Cut Steel, Steel, Bronze
Musical Snuff Box Playing 2 Tunes with Flowerpot to the lid
Located in Zonhoven, BE
Snuffbox with music made in Switzerland in the first half of the 19th century.
This rare snuffbox plays 2 melodies, on a sectional comb. The comb is thus composed of several section...
Category
Swiss Early Victorian Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver, Iron, Cut Steel, Steel, Bronze
19th Century French Napoleon III / Boulle Box
Located in Vilnius, LT
Antique French Napoleon III box with inlaid bronze decor, polished black color surface and red velour textile inside. Includes key.
After the r...
Category
French Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Mid 19th Century Swedish Folk Art small Travel box /chest with original paint
Located in Boden, SE
Mid 19th Century Swedish Folk Art Travel box from Skellefteå Västerbotten, Northern Sweden.
Beautiful untouched original paint.
Dated 1858
Decorated with handwrought iron around the ...
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Swedish Folk Art Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Iron
Antique Swiss Samuel Troll Fils Key Wind Cylinder Music Box
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
Made in Switzerland in approximately 1850, this key wind brass cylinder music box is set in a burled walnut case with an inlaid shield in the top and has a gl...
Category
Swiss Black Forest Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal
19th century painted Swedish desktop box
Located in Debenham, Suffolk
19th century painted Swedish desktop box circa 1840.
Good quality Scandinavian box in original paint. Hand painted in a blue/green colour scheme. Further painted with a red cartou...
Category
Swedish Gustavian Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Pine, Paint
Antique Huge French Amboyna Porcelain Cameo Writing Casket 19th C
Located in London, GB
A French ormolu and porcelain cameo mounted amboyna writing box, circa 1860 in date.
The rectangular casket features a lid with a central floral hand painted porcelain panel, cross...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ormolu
1864 Needle Pad made of Öland Limestone, Sweden
Located in Farsta, SE
Needle pads were part of the interior design style that was popular in the 1800s and reflected the taste and style of that era. The design of these needle p...
Category
Swedish Scandinavian Modern Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Limestone
Historically Important Circa 1850 American Document Box Boston
Located in Hudson, NY
This historically important, American leather clad document box, was made in Boston in the mid nineteenth century. The box belonged to, Samuel Francis Smith (October 21, 1808 – Novem...
Category
American American Classical Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Leather, Pine, Linen
Keywind 6 tune musical box by Nicole Freres
Located in Zonhoven, BE
Restored to the origal condition a Nicole Freres music box.
Made in 1859 this music box plays 6 tunes as indicated on the original tunesheet.
The casa has nice inlay to the top of t...
Category
Swiss Early Victorian Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze, Steel, Cut Steel, Other, Iron
Antique Rosewood and Mother-of-Pearl Box
Located in Miami, FL
Antique rosewood box with pewter and mother of pearl inlay. The Regency Empire to early Victorian rectangular box is inlaid with MOP at the center...
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English Regency Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass, Pewter
Chinese Lacquered Snack Box, c. 1820
Located in Chicago, IL
This simple lacquered container was once used as a 19th-century snack box, presented as a gift during holidays and special occasions. To the delight of the r...
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Chinese Qing Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood, Lacquer
Singing bird box by Bruguier in silver case with enamel to top and lid
Located in Zonhoven, BE
Rectangular silver guilded case with rounded corners.
The oval lid has an enamel painting on the exterior of a mountain view and on the interior brightly enamelled with flower bouqu...
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Swiss Late Victorian Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal, Other, Enamel, Silver
Swedish Original Painted Box Dated 1866
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
A 19th Century original painted decorative box from the region of Jämtland in Sweden, close to the mountain that separates the two Scandinavian countries Norway and Sweden. These ty...
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Swedish Folk Art Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Pine
Large Swedish Antique Folk Art Hand Made Pine Flour Box
Located in Kramfors, SE
Antique Swedish flour box made by hand in solid pine. The box is from northern Sweden and made around the mid 19th century, 1840 to 1850. The box is in untouched original condition w...
Category
Swedish Folk Art Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Pine
Antique Victorian Gonçalo Alves Vanity Box 1860s
Located in London, GB
This is a magnificent antique Victorian Gonçalo Alves table top Vanity Box, circa 1860 in date.
The fitted interior reveals a lift-out compartment tray, dressed with a green velve...
Category
Victorian Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Hardwood
Forte-Piano Music Box by Mouliné Ainé playing 4 Tunes
Located in Zonhoven, BE
Rare music box by Mouliné Ainé.
This box is made about 1840-1850 and is in great condition. The mechanism plays 4 tunes on a 21,8cm cylinder and 2 combs in a Forte-Piano setting. The...
Category
Swiss Early Victorian Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze, Iron, Other, Cut Steel, Steel
Christopher Dresser Mintons Chinoiserie Aesthetic Movement heart box inkwell
Located in Bridgehampton, NY
Rare heart shaped inkwell designed by Christopher Dresser made by Mintons. Impressed markings OO / MINTON / 15
Pink version on line...
Old Christies East labels
Category
English Aesthetic Movement Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Porcelain
19th Century French Napoleon III Floral Inlaid Rosewood Decorative Jewelry Box
Located in Dallas, TX
Decorate a coffee table or a shelf with this elegant antique box. Created in France circa 1880, the rectangular cabinet is decorated with elegant floral inlaid work in each corner an...
Category
French Napoleon III Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Rosewood
A mid 19th century Italian grand tour Sorrento marquetry box circa 1860
Located in Central England, GB
A very fine Italian marquetry box dating to circa 1860 and made in the Sorrento region of Italy where local craftsmen were renowned for making ...
Category
Italian Grand Tour Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Music Box by Duccommun Girod playing 2 per Turn of the Cylinder
Located in Zonhoven, BE
Extremely large music box made in 1854 by Duccommun Girod in Switzerland.
Duccommun Girod was around early in the 19th century when music boxes first ...
Category
Swiss Early Victorian Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze, Iron, Other, Cut Steel, Steel
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