18th Century Porcelain Snuff Boxes

The top is shaped and decorated as a bull at rest on a small mound of grass. A pastoral scene featuring a tree, river, and country church is painted on the bottom of the snuff box. H...

At the beginning of the 18th century, French jewelers made snuff boxes out of gold set with diamonds, amethysts, and sapphires.

A rare 18th century porcelain snuff box naturalistically modeled as a friar wrapped in a hooded robe with only his face and hands exposed.

A rare mid-18th century porcelain snuff box naturalistically modeled as a lion.

The dromedary in overall good condition with scattered light black pitting overall, wear to floral relief decoration on lid where it sits, possible loss/repairs to ears. Provenance T...

18th century cast brass English tobacco box. 8-sided form with conforming cover. Finial reset & body slightly askew so lid fits with a tilt. 4 1/8" x 3.5" x 5.5" h. Whitehall Antiqu...

Diminutive works of intricate artistry, snuff boxes were once considered the height of fashionable luxury in the 18th and 19th centuries.

A white porcelain snuff box molded with pagodas and flowering trees. The base decorated with a dragonfly and flowers (see image #5). The silver mounts of the snuff box with the decha...

The Snuff Box dates to the turn of the 20th century circa 1900.

The soft paste porcelain figure with chinoiserie decoration.

Mid-19th century treen tobacco barrel box, English. Superbly turned of sycamore of gorgeous color. Turned from a single piece of wood! 7 1/8" h., 5 1/8" dia. Whitehall Antiques is a...

Circa 1830-60 treen tobacco or tea caddy box, English. Boxwood. The whole robustly turned with great fluidity. Lid with carved acorn finial. Zinc floating inner tamping lid intact an...

Amusing Majolica monkey pianist tobacco jar signed Sarreguemines, circa 1880.Rarely found complete with his lid the chimpanzee wear a costume of Oriental style, he play piano and two...

There is evidence of a small German wrought iron box, dated at the beginning of the 18th century, which is kept in a private French collection, and it is possible to compare the pres...

Known as tabatiére in France (from the French word for tobacco, for they resemble tobacco or snuff boxes) these boxes reflect mankind's long fascination with birds.

We specialize in period 18th and 19th century English and Country French furniture, fine art, silver, porcelain, lighting, and all appropriate decorative accessories.

A rare mid-18th century French porcelain snuff box naturalistically modeled as a dog, possibly a pit bull, with fine lines delineating the dog's fur along the sides.

A rare Meissen Marcolini Porcelain Chinoiserie incense burner vase and cover, made for the Chinese market, circa 1800, blue cross swords and star mark, Pressnummer 58 A Museum Qua...

We specialize in period 18th and 19th century English and Country French furniture, fine art, silver, porcelain, lighting, and all appropriate decorative accessories.

We specialize in period 18th and 19th century English and Country French furniture, fine art, silver, porcelain, lighting, and all appropriate decorative accessories.

Known as japanning, this quicker, less expensive technique was used widely from the 1740s in the decoration of papier mache items such as small tables, snuff boxes and hand mirrors. ...

We specialize in period 18th and 19th century English and Country French furniture, fine art, silver, porcelain, lighting, and all appropriate decorative accessories.

Early 19th century Georgian Battersea enamel box. A beautiful antique English Battersea Bilston table snuff box, created in the district of Battersea in London.

Presenting a lovely and exceptionally cute set of 3 Limoges Style ring or snuff boxes. Possibly made in China, in the style of porcelain boxes made in Limoges, France, circa 1980.

Model by Johann J. Kaendler, 1738 Profiled gold-mounting Rare snuff box model with form number 22 (after Beaucamp-Markowsky 1985, p. 595) The painting is of extraordinary qual...

The Chelsea factory became one of the most important porcelain manufacturers in England during the 18th century.

Meissen, circa 1740 Form number ‘66’ (after Beaucamp-Markowsky) Silver-gilt mount The interior of the box completely gilded The exterior sides of the box are decorated with bla...

This is such a rare find, and such a stunning glimpse into late 1700s life of a French officer, likely one of Napoleon's officers, the case is a field or traveler's necessaire from "...

A stunning 18th century 1780 mouse Bonbonniere, it has a painted picture of a mouse holding the train of the cats dress and another picture to the inside of four mice pulling a cat a...

Paris porcelain perfume in the form of a pug dog, after a mid- 18th century Meissen original. Possibly Samson, c.1880

This 18th century Italian Capodimonte white glazed porcelain centrepiece is an oustanding sculptural artwork expertly hand carved with finely detailed figurines, putto angels playing...

A fine, antique Capodimonte porcelain table snuff box in the Meissen style. With a polychrome enamel Bacchanalian scene on the lid, neoclassical devices on the side panels, and a ...