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Style: Anglo-Indian
Amethyst and Mother of Pearl Lidded Box by Antony Redmile
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Anglo Indian style hinged box ambitiously covered in a mother of pearl geometric mosaic and featuring a fixed cluster of amethyst stones on top. Stamped "redmile London".
Category
20th Century English Anglo-Indian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Amethyst
Pair of Fine Painted Indian Dome Top Trunks
Located in Bridgeport, CT
Wood with domed tops. Painted in black with multi-colored figural court scenes with colorfully dressed seated men and women. Floral borders. Painted red inside, brass hardware.
Meas...
Category
Mid-20th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Antique 19th c. Decorative Anglo-Indian Overlay Footed Box with Engraved Bone
By Rajhastani
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Nice and unusual Jewelry decorative box with filigree bone overlaid decoration.
Large Anglo-Indian footed domed box with exceptional engraved bone de...
Category
Late 19th Century Indian Antique Anglo-Indian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
19C Anglo Ceylonese Lap Desk of Museum Quality
Located in Dallas, TX
Presenting an absolutely fantastic 19C Anglo Ceylonese lap desk of museum quality.
We can safely say that this is one of the finest lap desks we hav...
Category
Early 19th Century Sri Lankan Antique Anglo-Indian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bone, Ebony, Sandalwood
Anglo Raj Hand-Carved Decorative Jewelry Box
By Rajhastani
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Hand-carved Anglo Raj early 20th century carved wood box richly decorated overall with arabesques and floral carving.
Hinged lid shallow relief carving with interior lined with red r...
Category
Early 20th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sandalwood
Anglo-Indian Silver Plate Metal / Trinket, Box Elephant, Sculpture
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Beautiful silvered metal box of an elephant in a very traditional Anglo -Indian craft, art. Has an amazing age patina in contrast with the inside, as shown.
Category
Early 20th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver Plate
Pair of Ebony and Coconut Tea Caddies
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Antique Anglo Indian pair of tea caddies with silvered metal tops having elephant handles over coconut bowls above carved ebony elephants with bone tusk...
Category
Early 20th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Coconut
Fred Zimbalist Thorens Silver Plated Music Box
By Fred Zimbalist
Located in Guaynabo, PR
This is a Fred Zimbalist Thorens silver music box shaped as an old phonograph with trumpet horn. All the silver panels that make the box and the hor...
Category
20th Century American Anglo-Indian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver Plate
Large Brass Pandan Box, North India, 19th Century
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
A large brass pandan box
North India, 19th century
The body with rounded profile and hinged raised lid
with engraved and punched decoration
centering ...
Category
Late 19th Century Indian Antique Anglo-Indian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Anglo Raj Hand-Carved Wooden Decorative Jewelry Box
By Rajhastani
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Hand-carved large wooden Anglo-Raj jewelry box.
Early 20th century wood box richly decorated overall with arabesques and floral carving.
Hinged lid shallow relief carving with interi...
Category
Early 20th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sandalwood
Indian Carved Wood Humidor Box
Located in New York, NY
Indian antique carved wood humidor box with ornamental metal inlay.
Category
Early 20th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Anglo Raj Hand Carved Wooden Decorative Jewelry Box
By Rajhastani
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Hand carved large wooden Anglo-Raj jewelry box.
Early 20th century wood box richly decorated overall with arabesques and floral carving.
Hinged lid shallow relief carving with inte...
Category
Early 20th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sandalwood
Handcrafted Tinned Copper Metal Betel or Spices Caddy Box
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Beautiful handcrafted tinned copper decorative octagonal betel box with lid and brass latch.
The metal is delicately and intricately hand-hammered and repousse with floral and geometric designs.
This Vintage brass box...
Category
Early 20th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Antique Anglo Indian Box Handcrafted with Porcupine Quills
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Antique Anglo-Indian quill box handcrafted and decorated with porcupine quills and bone dots.
Made in Ceylon which was the colonial name for Sri Lanka.
Category
Early 20th Century Sri Lankan Anglo-Indian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Anglo-Indian Vizagapatam Bombay Mughal Style Footed Box With Bone Overlay
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Nice and unusual Indian Mughal style large decorative box, filigree and carved horn.
Anglo-Indian footed domed box with exceptional engraved details throughout with filigree and carved veneered bone plaques with arabesque carving.
Vizagapatam, late 19th century.
History of the Anglo-Indian Boxes
Beginning in the early part of the 18th century, Indian artisans made what came to be known as Anglo-Indian boxes for the English residents living in India, who eventually brought or sent them back to England. At the beginning of the 19th century, India began exporting these boxes commercially, although not in any significant numbers until the 1850s. People valued them so highly that manufacturers of tins copied the designs on them in the late 19th and early 20th century.
Anglo-Indian boxes fall into four groups: Rosewood or ebony boxes inlaid;
sandalwood boxes veneered; sandalwood boxes covered with Sadeli mosaic; and carved boxes often combined with Sadeli mosaic/
The first two categories came from Vizagapatam in East India while the last two came from Bombay in West India.
English traders discovered the rich woods and intricate workmanship of Indian artisans, so colonial government officials began to recognize the work of the Indian artists and craftsmen as a source for satisfying the need for furniture and boxes, which would both serve to enhance English households in India. This gave rise to the cabinetmaking workshops in Vizagapatam between Calcutta and Madras.
Craftsmen made the first boxes to be decorated with Sadeli mosaic of rosewood or ebony, incised to give further definition to the decoration, directly inlaid into the wood. The shape of the early boxes was either sloping at the front with a flatter section at the back, reminiscent of English writing slopes, or rectangular. Artisans inlaid the borders with stylized floral scrolls and the centers with a single floral motif following a circular or oval symmetrical or asymmetrical pattern. The edging was ornamental and protective, both helped protect the end grain against the weather.
Made in Vizagapatam, situated on the south east coast of India, near Madras
These exotic boxes...
Category
Late 19th Century Indian Antique Anglo-Indian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Anglo-Indian Footed Box with Lidded Compartments, 19th Century
Located in North Hollywood, CA
19th century Anglo-Indian wooden box fitted with various compartments finely hand carved.
The top is finely hand carved with the Taj Mahal.
The interior with removable hand carved nine-lidded compartments, the front cover has a mirror, the whole exhibiting very fine workmanship.
This fine late Victorian Anglo-Indian box from India is in great condition for it age.
A beautiful example of an Anglo-Indian fine art...
Category
Late 19th Century Indian Antique Anglo-Indian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sandalwood
Hand-Carved Stone Jewelry Box Rajasthan, India
By Agra
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Anglo Raj carved soap stone footed jewelry box..
Handcrafted decorative box with foliage design with soap stone natural jade like colors.
Lined with red velvet.
Very nice fine art...
Category
Mid-20th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Soapstone
Coco De Mer Tea Caddy
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Unusual coco de mer tea caddy crafted with a double lobe nut found on the Seychelles Islands, it is said to have mystical properties. Featuring malachite f...
Category
Early 20th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Coconut
Superior Anglo Indian Tea Caddy
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Finely fashioned in rosewood and appointed with elaborate mother of pearl inlays .
It is raised upon exquisitely carved feet with complementary handles .
It is generously scaled - ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Indian Antique Anglo-Indian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl, Glass, Rosewood
19th Century Anglo Indian Vizagapatam Carved Sandalwood Box Micro Mosaic Inlays
Located in GB
We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely 19th century Anglo-Indian Vizagapatam carved sandalwood and inlaid box
Mid-19th century Anglo-Indian Vizagapatam carved sandalwood box...
Category
19th Century Indian Antique Anglo-Indian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
19th Century Anglo-Indian Mughal Box
Located in North Hollywood, CA
19th century Anglo-Indian Mughal wood box, inlaid and hand carved with the Taj Mahal and some flowers all around.
Jewelry box, Anglo-Raj box from India in great condition.
Nice Mughal Bombay Box...
Category
Late 19th Century Indian Antique Anglo-Indian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sandalwood
19th Century Anglo-Indian Sadeli Inlaid Work Box Traveling Writing Desk
Located in Stamford, CT
A stunning camel bone, ebony and metal inlaid sadeli work box with portable writing desk, Bombay, circa 1850.
The sandalwood body of faceted rec...
Category
Mid-19th Century Indian Antique Anglo-Indian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal
Anglo Indian Brass Box with Bone Inlay
Located in Stamford, CT
A handsome and unusual brass strongbox with intricate patterned polished bone inlay on the top. The inside with a till, the lid of the till decorated with incised designs. This box c...
Category
Early 20th Century Sri Lankan Anglo-Indian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Ceylonese 'Sri Lankan' Ebony Writing Slope
Located in Greenwich, CT
Very fine early 19th century carved ebony writing slope, the exterior richly carved with foliate decoration, the interior profusely inlaid with bone dots forming floral geometric pat...
Category
Early 19th Century Sri Lankan Antique Anglo-Indian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bone, Ebony, Sandalwood
Enormous Anglo - Indian Tea Caddy
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
The quintessential rosewood caddy fashioned with a dome top and inlaid with mother of pearl.
Wood "ring" handles are original. Large in scale, made for the English market.
Category
1840s Indian Antique Anglo-Indian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl, Rosewood
Anglo Indian Metal Cat Box
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Whimsical silvered metal feline handcrafted with a folky charm that is hammered and etched in a decorated floral design that unexpectedly opens as a trinket box.
Category
Early 20th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal
Vizagapatam Anglo-Indian Rectangular Box with Bone Inlaid
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Fabulous Anglo-Indian decorative box inlaid.
Made in Vizagapatam, situated on the south east coast of India, near Madras.
Great decorative inlaid pen box or jewelry box.
Inside dimen...
Category
20th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sandalwood
19th Century Anglo-Indian Sadeli Mosaic Jewelry Box with Lidded Compartments
Located in North Hollywood, CA
19th century Anglo-Indian sandal wood box, Sadeli mosaic box fitted with various compartments finely hand-carved with the Taj Mahal.
Of sarcophagus form ...
Category
Late 19th Century Indian Antique Anglo-Indian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sandalwood
Large Decorative Round Copper Box with Lid Northern India
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Very large beautiful vintage handcrafted decorative round copper box with lid, latch and handle
Delicately and intricately hand-hammered with geometric designs.
Hand crafted by skill...
Category
Early 20th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass, Copper, Tin
Large Anglo Indian Elephant Box
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Folky silvered metal elephant handcrafted with a charming whimsical
form hammered and etched designs that unexpectedly opens as a trinket
box.
Category
Early 20th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal
Antique Iron Bound Merchants Chest with Hidden Compartments
Located in Chillerton, Isle of Wight
Antique iron bound merchants chest with hidden compartments.
The chest is very heavy, it has a great deal of thick iron banding and brass and iron st...
Category
Early 19th Century Antique Anglo-Indian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Teak
Rajasthani Carved Box Made from 19th Century Blue Parts
Located in Dallas, TX
This sturdy box is slightly waxy to the touch. Giving light to the olden way of preserving carved wood. There are blue pieces to this box that give off a cultural and exotic feel. Th...
Category
19th Century Indian Antique Anglo-Indian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Vintage Round Trinket Lidded Brass Box with Mother of Pearl
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Vintage ornate Brass inlaid with mother of Pearl Powder Jar, Jewelry Box, Dresser Box, Pill Box, Vanity Box decorated with seashell.
Vintage round decorative trinket box with lid or ...
Category
20th Century Anglo-Indian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
19th Century Anglo Indian Brass Bound Bone Inlaid Stationery Writing Box
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Presenting an absolutely stunning Outstanding Victorian extremely rare 19th century Anglo-Indian Stationery Campaign chest writing box.
Gorgeous and extremely rare and unique 19th century Anglo Indian hardwood box, made in 1897.
19th Century large Anglo-Indian box brass bound, bone and ebony inlaid Hoshiarpur Inlaid Writing Box. This is a stunning example of a Hand crafted Hoshiarpur inlaid writing box. The craftsmanship is quite amazing.
Circa 1870s Anglo Indian writing box...
Category
Late 19th Century Indian Antique Anglo-Indian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
19th Century Anglo Indian Silver and Brass Filigree Dresser Box
Located in Bradenton, FL
19th Century anglo Indian silver and brass filigree inlaid dresser box. This is a gorgeous dresser box, profusely silver inlaid into wood in a stunning geometric pattern. A great pie...
Category
19th Century Indian Antique Anglo-Indian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Anglo-indian decorative boxes for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Anglo-Indian decorative boxes for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the Late 20th Century, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage decorative boxes created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include decorative objects, asian art and furniture, serveware, ceramics, silver and glass and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with wood, metal and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Anglo-Indian decorative boxes made in a specific country, there are Asia, South Asia, and India pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original decorative boxes, popular names associated with this style include Rajhastani, Agra, Anthony Redmile London, and Apollo Woodwoking and Metal Corp. It’s true that these talented designers have at times inspired knockoffs, but our experienced specialists have partnered with only top vetted sellers to offer authentic pieces that come with a buyer protection guarantee. Prices for decorative boxes differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $95 and tops out at $11,900 while the average work can sell for $1,200.
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