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Place of Origin: Southeast Asian
Contemporary Kifu Paris Brass Box with Creme Shagreen Inlay
By Kifu Augousti
Located in Toronto, ON
In stock now - A gorgeous Kifu Paris decorative box in brass over a base of walnut, with creme shagreen inlay lid. Expertly crafted, this decorative box is a perfect accessory for an...
Category
2010s Southeast Asian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Maitland-Smith Bronze Hippopotamus on a Marble Jewelry Box
By Maitland Smith
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Slightly eccentric vintage jewelry box with a cast bronze hippopotamus standing on a three drawer chest clad in marble veneer and set on four bronze paw feet. Signed Maitland-Smith i...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Southeast Asian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Silver Trinket Box, Thai, circa 1925
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Silver trinket box, Thai, circa 1925. Decorated with monkey god & human consort; Khemer tradition. From the collection of the famous ichthyologist Dr. H...
Category
Early 20th Century Southeast Asian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
Leather and Silver Decorative Box
Located in Miami, FL
Designed exclusively by Urban Art, offered is a decorative box comprised of a black python exterior and embellished with sterling silver hardware and an Afghani silver and Lapis Lazu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Campaign Southeast Asian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Lapis Lazuli, Sterling Silver
Mid Century Mother of Pearl Egg Form Box with Elephants
By Maitland Smith
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Whimsical lidded box crafted in a mother of pearl mosaic in an egg form featuring tooled silver plated cuffs, black felt lining, a silver plated dancing elephant as a handle, and fou...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Southeast Asian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl
Antique Philippines Silver Inlay Betel Nut Box
Located in Montreal, QC
This is a fine example of an early 20th C rectangular bronze betal nut box with beautiful and elaborate silver inlay from Mindanao in the Philippines. The box has a handle on each si...
Category
Early 1900s Antique Southeast Asian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
Contemporary Kifu Paris Quilted Charcoal Shagreen Box
By Kifu Augousti
Located in Toronto, ON
A beautiful charcoal shagreen quilted box by Kifu Paris. This natural skin piece is entirely handmade by master artisans to the highest quality, constructed...
Category
2010s Southeast Asian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Vintage Maitland Smith Tessellated Stone, Brass, Malachite & Amethyst Box
By Maitland Smith
Located in Atlanta, GA
A vintage light brown tessellated stone box mounted with brass banding. The front hinge is adorned by a rectangular piece of carved malachite, and a finial with a deep amethyst color...
Category
20th Century Louis XIV Southeast Asian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Stone, Malachite
Urushi Lacquer Eggshell Orb Box, Small by Alexander Lamont
By Alexander Lamont
Located in Khet Bang Sue, Krung Thep Maha Nakhon
Like an ancient pebble or river-rock that has been tumbled for centuries to polish and reveal its alluvial layers. Hand-turned solid oak box enveloped in lacquered eggshell marquetry.
Category
2010s Art Deco Southeast Asian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Eggshell, Oak, Lacquer
R Y Augousti Organic Modern Lacquer Wood Inlaid Trinket Box
By Jonathan Adler, R & Y Augousti
Located in San Diego, CA
Beautiful and Minimalist trinket box by R Y Augousti. This rare beauty is a unique trinket box or decorative box that brings minimal shape with organic beauty. Constructed of wood pa...
Category
1990s Minimalist Southeast Asian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood, Lacquer
Straw Marquetry Mirror Tissue Box Square in Malachite Colour by Alexander Lamont
By Alexander Lamont
Located in Khet Bang Sue, Krung Thep Maha Nakhon
A web of delicately inlaid straw marquetry catches and shines back the light on this tissue box.
Category
2010s Art Deco Southeast Asian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Straw, Wood
Straw Marquetry Soleil Tissue Box in Burnished Metals Colour by Alexander Lamont
By Alexander Lamont
Located in Khet Bang Sue, Krung Thep Maha Nakhon
The shape of sails on the sea in the golden age of sailing. Classical sunburst lines fan out to cover the elegant tissue box.
Category
2010s Art Deco Southeast Asian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Straw, Wood
Straw Marquetry Frond Tissue Box in Burnished Metal Colour by Alexander Lamont
By Alexander Lamont
Located in Khet Bang Sue, Krung Thep Maha Nakhon
A tissue box of quiet beauty. Leaves falling in soft autumnal tones, every piece of straw marquetry applied by hand in our workshop with the most highly skilled artisans.
Category
2010s Art Deco Southeast Asian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Straw, Wood
Straw Marquetry Forest Tissue Box Long in Ebony Colour by Alexander Lamont
By Alexander Lamont
Located in Khet Bang Sue, Krung Thep Maha Nakhon
Like our Forêt wall covering, this pattern was inspired by the branches of trees in a forest. Bands of richly dyed straw marquetry cross and wrap the tissue box, creating reflecting ...
Category
2010s Art Deco Southeast Asian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Straw, Wood
Straw Marquetry Forest Tissue Box Square in Ebony Colour by Alexander Lamont
By Alexander Lamont
Located in Khet Bang Sue, Krung Thep Maha Nakhon
Like our Forêt wall covering, this pattern was inspired by the branches of trees in a forest. Bands of richly dyed straw marquetry cross and wrap the tissue box, creating reflecting ...
Category
2010s Art Deco Southeast Asian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood, Straw
Galuchat Shagreen Long Tissue Box in Parallel Line by Alexander Lamont
By Alexander Lamont
Located in Khet Bang Sue, Krung Thep Maha Nakhon
Lines of shagreen cover elegant tissue box, allowing subtle differences in the natural tone and texture of each panel.
Category
2010s Art Deco Southeast Asian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Shagreen, Wood
A 19th Century Brass Bound Mandalay Teak Campaign Dressing Box, Burma Circa 1860
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
These boxes were made for British military officers who were posted in Burma (now Myanmar) & India during the days of British rule.
The brass & copper bound teak case is profusely ...
Category
Mid-19th Century British Colonial Antique Southeast Asian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass, Copper, Iron
Urushi Eggshell Lacquer with Abalone Shell Large Pebble Box by Alexander Lamont
By Alexander Lamont
Located in Khet Bang Sue, Krung Thep Maha Nakhon
Refined and sensual small accessories for the desk or vanity have been loved and enjoyed by collectors or aesthetes for many centuries. Examples of beautiful, delicate workmanship ca...
Category
2010s Art Deco Southeast Asian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Lacquer, Abalone, Eggshell, Wood
Lacquered Eggshell Round Brule Box, Small by Alexander Lamont
By Alexander Lamont
Located in Khet Bang Sue, Krung Thep Maha Nakhon
Brulé means 'burnt' in French. Raw and delicate, the Brulé boxes evoke the idea of baked earth or ashes. There is a powerful energy in the details of decisio...
Category
2010s Art Deco Southeast Asian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Eggshell, Lacquer
Urushi Lacquer Eggshell Round Brule Box, Medium by Alexander Lamont
By Alexander Lamont
Located in Khet Bang Sue, Krung Thep Maha Nakhon
Brulé means 'burnt' in French. Raw and delicate, the Brulé boxes evoke the idea of baked earth or ashes. There is a powerful energy in the details of decisio...
Category
2010s Art Deco Southeast Asian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Eggshell, Lacquer
Colonial box in ebony wood
Located in 'S-HERTOGENBOSCH, NL
A Dutch colonial box from Batavia in the former Dutch East Indies.
Hand-carved with floral motives in ebony, used for jewelry or letters,
ca. 1800. Origi...
Category
1790s Dutch Colonial Antique Southeast Asian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ebony
Urushi Lacquer Eggshell Orb Box, Large by Alexander Lamont
By Alexander Lamont
Located in Khet Bang Sue, Krung Thep Maha Nakhon
Like an ancient pebble or river-rock that has been tumbled for centuries to polish and reveal its alluvial layers. Hand-turned solid oak box enveloped in lacquered eggshell marquetry.
Category
2010s Art Deco Southeast Asian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Eggshell, Oak, Lacquer
Renoir Designs Marble Soapstone Bamboo Hollywood Regency Box Keepsake Trinket
By Renoir Designs, Maitland Smith
Located in Miami, FL
Renoir Designs handcrafted Marble, Soapstone, Bamboo over Wood decorative Box, Keepsake or Trinket Hollywood Regency Period made in the Philippines.
Interior is lined with black velv...
Category
Late 20th Century Mid-Century Modern Southeast Asian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Marble, Soapstone
Straw Marquetry Sunburst Pattern Quotidien Box by Alexander Lamont
By Alexander Lamont
Located in Khet Bang Sue, Krung Thep Maha Nakhon
Alexander Lamont grew up with objects, folkart and antiques from around the world; small things that expressed the skills of the craftsman and the materials they were made from. Obje...
Category
2010s Art Deco Southeast Asian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Straw
Rare Vintage Maitland Smith Faux Malachite Treasure Box in the Form of an Apple
By Maitland Smith
Located in Philadelphia, PA
For your delight we are offering this exquisite faux painted malachite vessel in the style of Piero Fornasetti, Hand painted and crafted by Maitland Smith in the opulent shape of the...
Category
1980s Vintage Southeast Asian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Tessellated Pen Shell Jewelry Storage Box
By Maitland Smith
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Large tessellated two tone pen shell jewelry / storage box attributed to Maitland Smith .
Category
Late 20th Century Hollywood Regency Southeast Asian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Shell
Tessellated malachite box
By Maitland Smith
Located in Chicago, IL
Tessellated malachite box by Maitland Smith
Category
Mid-20th Century Southeast Asian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Malachite, Brass
Pen shell Pyramid Box attributed to Maitland Smith
By Maitland Smith
Located in Chicago, IL
A pyramid shaped box having 4 graduating drawers with brass ball knobs . Made of polished pen shell which is a material that the manufacturer Maitland Smith often used. All sitting u...
Category
Late 20th Century Post-Modern Southeast Asian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Antique Kotak Taji cockfighting spur container
Located in Chonburi, TH
The wood antique Kotak Taji cockfighting spur container is a captivating relic that immerses us in the rich heritage of this ancient sport. Crafted ...
Category
Early 20th Century Southeast Asian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Steel
Curiosity box
By Taras Yoom
Located in วัฒนา, TH
On a metal base there is a figure of one of the Curious with a plastic sphere of knowledge on his head. He hovers in the air, lifting off the ground due to the amount of knowledge th...
Category
2010s Southeast Asian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal
Antique Indonesian Wood Lacquered Box
Located in Austin, TX
Antique hand-painted and lacquered wooden box with removable tray, from Indonesia. The interior compartments are amply sized. There are some small...
Category
Late 19th Century British Colonial Antique Southeast Asian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Vintage Maitland-Smith Lg Tessellated Faux Tortoise Shell Hexagonal Box
By Maitland Smith
Located in Portage, MI
Vintage Hexagonal mosaic faux tortoise shell wooden box by Maitland-Smith with brass inlay. Made in the 1990's in an art deco style. Maitland-Smith Label still on the bottom with bra...
Category
1990s Art Deco Southeast Asian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Vintage Coastal Capiz Shell Box
Located in west palm beach, FL
A fabulous vintage Coastal decorative box. A chic collection of Capiz shells embedded into a sand like composition. A great was to add a flash of glamour to your coffee table or etag...
Category
Late 20th Century Mid-Century Modern Southeast Asian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Shell
Vietnamese Silvered Metal Table Box
Located in New York, NY
Vietnamese hinged covered silvered metal table box decorated with repousse foliate vignettes in a grid pattern, marked "SAIGON" to underside. Provenance: From the collection of Le L...
Category
20th Century Other Southeast Asian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal
An antique early 20th century silver and niello box, Siam circa 1920
Located in Central England, GB
This very interesting and decorative silver box was made in Siam now Thailand circa 1920. It is made from solid high grade silver (tested) and is beautifully decorated with niello w...
Category
Early 20th Century Other Southeast Asian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
Jewelry Box in Red Dyed Tessellated Bone
By Maitland Smith
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Small jewelry box in red dyed tessellated bone in the style of Karl Springer
Category
1950s Hollywood Regency Vintage Southeast Asian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bone
Magnum opus
By Taras Yoom
Located in วัฒนา, TH
Pillbox, created by Taras Zheltyshev, is not just a box for medicines. According to the author, it is a modern lifestyle.
Object consists of two sections connected by a magnetic att...
Category
2010s Southeast Asian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver, Enamel
19th Century Rectangular Antique Wooden Storage Chest
Located in Yonkers, NY
An old Indonesian wooden box from the 19th century with inlaid brass details, partitioned interior and rustic character. Caressing the annals of time with rustic elegance, this old I...
Category
19th Century Antique Southeast Asian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Lacquered Exotic Fish Skin Jewelry Box in the Style of Karl Springer
By Karl Springer
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Lacquered exotic fish skin jewelry box in the style of Karl Springer
Category
1980s Hollywood Regency Vintage Southeast Asian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Animal Skin
Contemporary Kifu Paris Round Box with Brass, Creme Shagreen & White Shell Inlay
By Kifu Augousti
Located in Toronto, ON
In stock now - A gorgeous Kifu Paris decorative box in creme shagreen over a base of walnut, with brass, creme shagreen and white shell inlay lid. Expertly crafted in a celestial mot...
Category
2010s Southeast Asian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Contemporary R & Y Augousti Creme Shagreen Box with Kabibi Shell Inlay
By R & Y Augousti
Located in Toronto, ON
In stock now - A gorgeous decorative box in creme shagreen made R & Y Augousti, with brass inlay lid and white kabibi shell. Expertly crafted, this decorative box is a perfect access...
Category
2010s Southeast Asian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Contemporary Kifu Paris Double Panther Box with Brass, Shagreen, & Shell Inlay
By Kifu Augousti
Located in Toronto, ON
In stock now - A gorgeous Kifu Paris decorative box in black penshell over a base of walnut, with brass, creme & grey shagreen, and black mother of pearl inlay lid. Expertly crafted ...
Category
2010s Southeast Asian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Contemporary Kifu Paris Zebra Box with Brass, Shagreen, & Shell Inlay
By Kifu Augousti
Located in Toronto, ON
In stock now - A gorgeous Kifu Paris decorative box in creme shagreen over a base of walnut, with brass, creme shagreen, black penshell, and white mother of pearl inlay lid. Expertly...
Category
2010s Southeast Asian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Antique Bronze and Silver Inlaid Betel Nut Box
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Southern Philippine (Mindanao) brass with silver inlay betel box. The top lifts to reveal 4 hinged compartments that held the betel leaf, areca nut, slacked lime and chewing condimen...
Category
1880s Tribal Antique Southeast Asian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver, Bronze
Blue/White Incised Horn Box
Located in New York, NY
Modernist graphic patterned blue and white bone box with hand incised horn tiles. Wood interior.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Southeast Asian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bone, Horn, Wood
Set of Mosaic Green Penshell Boxes with Brass Accents by Maitland Smith
By Maitland Smith
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Pair of decorative boxes all handcrafted in exotic materials featuring lacquered and hand dyed pen-shell over a wood frame. The boxes feature ...
Category
2010s Organic Modern Southeast Asian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Antique Brass and Copper Betel Nut Box
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Antique Philippine Brass and Copper Betel Nut Box. The top lifts to reveal 2 hinged compartments that held the betel leaf and areca nut. Inlaid in c...
Category
Late 19th Century Tribal Antique Southeast Asian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass, Copper
Decorative Box in Green Mosaic Penshell with Brass Star Accent by Maitland Smith
By Maitland Smith
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Decorative box all handcrafted in exotic materials featuring lacquered and hand dyed pen-shell over a wood frame. The box features mosaic shell inlays in beautiful hues of turquoise,...
Category
2010s Organic Modern Southeast Asian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Green Mosaic Penshell Box with Brass Accent by Maitland Smith
By Maitland Smith
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Decorative box all handcrafted in exotic materials featuring lacquered and hand dyed pen-shell over a wood frame. The box features mosaic shell inlays in beautiful hues of turquoise,...
Category
2010s Organic Modern Southeast Asian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Antique Vietnamese Silver Treasure Box with Guardian Dragons
Located in New York, NY
Vietnamese silver box, late 19th century. Rectangular with straight sides. Cover flat and hinged. Box sides have embossed blossoming branches, bamboo...
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Export Antique Southeast Asian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
Maitland Smith Tessellated Pink Marble Apple Box with Brass and Malachite Stem
By Maitland Smith
Located in Cathedral City, CA
Exquisite Maitland Smith Tessellated Lidded Pink Marble Apple Box with Brass and Malachite Stem and beautiful wood interior.
Measures 7" diameter and 8" height. Label on bottom of b...
Category
Late 20th Century Hollywood Regency Southeast Asian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Malachite, Marble, Brass
Antique Southeast Asian Filipino Maranao Silver Inlaid Brass Betel Nut Box
Located in Forney, TX
A scarce fine quality antique silver-inlaid solid brass betel nut box (Lutuan), dating to the second half of the 19th / early 20th century, hand-crafted in Mindanao, Philippines.
Boxes such as this were used to store the areca nut (also known as the betel nut) which would be wrapped in a betel leaf with lime paste and other ingredients, often tobacco, for chewing. Similar to the European tea caddy, these boxes often served as a way to impress while showing off ones wealth.
Betel chewing was prevalent in the southern Philippines as in much of the rest of Southeast Asia. Wealthier Maranao families on Mindanao were able to afford elaborate silver-inlaid brass betel boxes such as this example. Such boxes were used to show off to guests and from which they were offered betel and the other component such as leaves and lime to make up the betel quid.
Rare large size, most extant examples of such boxes tend to measure around 5 inches in length. At slightly more than 7.75 inches the example here is larger than most.
The distinctive decorative box features a very heavy strong-box like rectangular shaped chest form with canted corners, copper handles, and a conforming hinged lid, lifting open to reveal an interior divided into three compartments covered by four hinged lids. Each of these doors is inlaid with silver in stylized orchid flower patterns.
Exceptionally executed throughout, the arabesque silver inlaid exterior is decorated to the top with a large orchid motif within scrolling obid-obid (stylized rope) borders. The front, back and sides are inlaid with sets of stylized tail feathers of the sari-manok bird beneath which are unusual, highly stylized whimsical zoomorphic faces that appear like cat or tiger faces. (Such stylisation is accounted for by Southeast Asian Islamic preferences to avoid the overt and this potentially idolatrous representation of animal and human forms. Designs such as these are drawn from a local design repertoire that has its origins in wood carving.
Although the spread of Islam in the Philippines began in the 14th century, mostly through the influence of Muslim merchants from the western Malay Archipelago, decorative arts in this design remain exceptionally rare. This lutuan represents a fine example of Islamic metalwork from the most eastern outreach of Islamic art and civilisation: Mindanao island being significantly further east than even China – artwork from Islamic Southeast Asia remains chronically under-represented in the world’s major collections of Islamic art.
PROVENANCE / ACQUISITION
Acquired from highly reputable auction house, Austin Auction Gallery, established 1983, Austin, Texas.
References
Brownrigg, H., Betel Cutters...
Category
19th Century Islamic Antique Southeast Asian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver, Brass, Bronze, Copper
20th Century Tessellated Bone Trinket Box
Located in Bradenton, FL
An elegant modern style tessellated bone trinket box with black felt-lined interior. Mostly cream in color, but does have hints of light pink througho...
Category
20th Century Modern Southeast Asian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bone, Felt
ANTIQUE CiRCA 1880 BURMESE HAND CARVED SEWING BOX WITH THE ORIGINAL CONTENTS
Located in GB
Royal House Antiques
Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this absolutely stunning original circa 1880 Burmese hand carved sewing box with the original contents
Ple...
Category
1880s High Victorian Antique Southeast Asian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Maitland Smith Tooled Leather Hand Painted Poker Themed Box with Brass Accents
By Maitland Smith
Located in Jensen Beach, FL
Whimsical, handmade, hand-painted fooled leather box. Brass accents including brass ball feet and solid brass dice pull on top.
Category
Late 20th Century Southeast Asian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Maitland Smith Tessellated Rosso Levanto Marble Box, ca 1990s
By Maitland Smith
Located in Cathedral City, CA
Exquisite Maitland Smith Tessellated Rosso Levanto Marble Box, ca 1990s.
This octagonal slope sided box is clad in a beautiful tessellated rosso levanto marble and accented with a ...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Southeast Asian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Marble, Brass
Tessellated Penshell Jewelry Box
By Maitland Smith
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Tessellated horn and pen shell jewelry box attributed to Maitland Smith
Category
1980s Hollywood Regency Vintage Southeast Asian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Shell
19th Century Burmese Solid Silver Betel Box On Stand, Rangoon, c.1890
Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
19th Century Burmese (Myanmar) solid silver betel box on stand, of traditional shape, highly-decorative, each part is chased in very high-relief with various scenes from Burmese folk...
Category
19th Century Antique Southeast Asian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
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