Late 17th C Italian Chestnut Trestle Table also Available in Custom Sizes
Located in Encinitas, CA
**Available on our next container shipment. Expedited shipping service available by quote.
Late 17th Century Italian Primitive Antique Container
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Late 17th C Italian Chestnut Trestle Table also Available in Custom Sizes
Located in Encinitas, CA
**Available on our next container shipment. Expedited shipping service available by quote.
Iron
Victorian Bohemian Harrach Enamel Glass Potpurri Holder with Metal Fitments
By Harrach Glassworks
Located in Worcester Park, GB
With an opaque cream base, it is enamelled with green gilded bands and floral decoration. The container inner lid allows the contents to be closed off, partly closed off or left full...
Art Glass
$288Sale Price|25% Off
Royal Crown Derby Hand-Painted Serpentine Box with Floral Bouquets
Located in North Salem, NY
The inclusion of gold-painted four splay feet further contributes to the box's elegance, elevating it from a mere container to a sophisticated piece of art. The serpentine shape of ...
Porcelain
$1,465Sale Price|20% Off
Pair of Italian Decorative Bronze Vases
By Italian school XX ct.
Located in Milano, IT
Born in a period of extraordinary cultural effervescence, where Italy, a crossroads of artistic currents and the cradle of master artisans, began to explore new horizons of design, t...
Bronze
Antique Ming Kosometsuke Chinese Porcelain Dish Literati Hongwu Marked
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
This large group of porcelain ware with its variety of forms and designs has been commonly utilized as food containers as well as tea ceremony utensils. In the early 19th century, fo...
Porcelain
$1,053Sale Price / set|20% Off
Set of Three Antique Solid Warm brown Oak Cheesemould or as planter or pot
Located in Casteren, NL
These molds are not only beautiful bowls but are also perfect for use as planters or decorative containers. They are sturdy, clean, and ready for immediate use.
Steel
Rare Korean Water Dropper in Doughnut Form Joseon Dynasty
Located in Atlanta, GA
Water droppers are small containers made from different materials such as ceramic and metal.
Ceramic
Art Nouveau Liqueur Carafes Set, 1900s, France, 37 cm
Located in Greven, DE
Carafes were not only used as containers for drinks such as wine, water or spirits, but also served as decorative elements on festive tables.
Glass
Art Nouveau Liqueur Carafes Set, 1900s, France
Located in Greven, DE
Carafes were not only used as containers for drinks such as wine, water or spirits, but also served as decorative elements on festive tables.
Glass
$10,699 / set
Pair of George III Style Wall Lights
Located in Steyning, West sussex
A fine pair of English George III style two-light cut-glass and ormolu-mounted wall lights the central spire surmounted by van dyke canopy and moon crescent finial . The main contain...
Ormolu
Japanese Bronze Ikebana Lotus Footed Bowl
Located in Delft, NL
From the 10th century onward, in Japan, containers were used to place the flowers. With the flower arrangements offered, both the flowers and the branches were made to point towards ...
Bronze
Good Quality Mid-Victorian Frosted Glass Six-Light Antique Chandelier
Located in Steyning, West sussex
A good quality mid-Victorian frosted glass six-light chandelier the main baluster shaped shaft surmounted by drop hung scalloped edged pans the main container with drop hung ring and...
Silver Plate
Fine Antique Korean Bandaji Chest Gyeonggi Do Joseon Dynasty
Located in Atlanta, GA
In Korean folklores, the gourd was often used as a container for ambrosia and longevity remedies by the fairies.
Brass
Set of Light-Bronze Cups by Just Andersen Bronze, 1920s, Denmark
By Just Andersen
Located in Værløse, DK
Set of Elegant Light-Bronze Containers designed by Just Andersen in the 1920s. A fine duo for a beautiful place
Bronze
large scale 19th century carved walnut Black Forest dog tobacco box, circa 1860
Located in Central England, GB
The head is hinged and lifts back to reveal its true purpose as a container for pipe tobacco and the bowls would be used for matches and resting a pipe.
Walnut
English Victorian Brass Coopered Oak Barrel, Late 19th Century
Located in CH
Its coopered form and well-preserved hardware reflect the Victorian appreciation for quality craftsmanship in domestic utility objects, making it both a practical container and a dec...
Brass
Antique Ming Period Chinese Porcelain Dish Kosometsuke Fisherman
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
This large group of porcelain ware with its variety of forms and designs has been commonly utilized as food containers as well as tea ceremony utensils. In the early 19th century, fo...
Porcelain
Italian Maiolica Pitcher by Antonio Ferretti, Lodi, Circa 1770-1780
By Antonio Ferretti
Located in Milano, IT
There are few similar works known in public or private collections which may lend the container stylistic, although not morphological, confirmation: it is distinguished by the comple...
Maiolica
The Adoration of the Magi, an early painting by Frans Francken II (1581 - 1682)
By Frans Francken II
Located in PARIS, FR
Two of them wear turbans and carry containers of gold and myrrh as gifts. Only the light-skinned king, probably the European, has placed his scepter and turban at the feet of the mot...
Copper
Large Antique Willow Grain Basket with Wooden Handle, Sold Each
Located in Yonkers, NY
Basket A measures 14.25"W x 15.75"D x 23.5"H, Basket B stands at 14"W x 16.25"D x 24.5"H, and Basket C sizes up at 14.5"W x 16"D x 24.5"H. These antique containers offer not just a s...
Wood, Willow
Maison Thuillier Paris, Pair of Planters/Vitrines Period Napoleon III, XIXth
Located in Beaune, FR
They are surmounted by a carved and openwork bronze gallery. A large zinc container comes to dress the top. These planters can be used as such or so, as showcases because a cover is ...
Bronze
$13,374
William IV Mahogany Teapoy
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
By about 1785, tea prices had begun to fall and those who enjoyed drinking tea purchased their tea leaves in larger and larger quantities, thus driving the need for larger containers...
Velvet, Mahogany
1920s Antique Silver Repousse Talisman Holder from Berber Tribes
By Berber Tribes of Morocco
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Great Islamic Folk Art, metal work, bold, beautiful and musical. The containers would have also held a miniature paper scroll containing a combination of prayers and Koranic verses.
Silver
Fine Set of Four George III Ormolu Mounted and Cut Glass Wall Lights
By William Parker
Located in Steyning, West sussex
A fine set of ormolu-mounted and cut glass three light wall lights the oval back plates surmounted with a notched cut container supporting the main receiver plate, this supporting tw...
Ormolu
Antique Vases in Southern China / Small Vases / 16th to 17th Centuries
Located in Sammu-shi, Chiba
If you want to decorate the flowers, put water in another container and put it in the jar.
Pottery
Set of Three Framed Prints Depicting Greek Apulian Red-Figure Pottery
Located in Palm Desert, CA
. - "Vas fictile huius magn-in Museo Pafserio" Apulian Red-Figure pelike container. Right print is signed: I.B. Pafserius del.
Wood, Paper
19th Century Rustic Teak Wood Mortar Urn, Antique Planter for Vintage Home Decor
Located in Yonkers, NY
The 19th-century teak wood mortar urn is not just a container; it's a piece of history, a work of art, and a versatile home accessory all in one.
Teak
$4,895Sale Price|48% Off
Manner of Christofle 19th-20th Century Silver-Plated & Crystal Fruit Centerpiece
By Christofle
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The boat-shaped ornately body with finely chased detailed laurels and wreaths centered a candelabra-shaped stem fitted with a diamond-cut and molded fruit-bowl, flanked on each end w...
Metal
English Victorian Period 1880s Black Coal Box with Hand-Painted Dog Motif
Located in Atlanta, GA
Whether you choose to use it as an elegant accent piece in your living room or as a distinctive storage container in your home office or library, this coal box is sure to draw admira...
Metal
Antique Demijohn, Carboy or Jimmyjohn
Located in New York, NY
Whether you like to call them, carboy or demijohn or jimmy john, they all refer to the same glass containers. Carboy originates from the Persian word; qarabah.
Glass
Double Patina Bronze Inkwell, Playing Dog, Period, Charles X, 19th Century
Located in CRÉTEIL, FR
The sand box, a small container with holes filled with powder or sand, was used to sprinkle the paper to dry the ink.
Bronze
Japanese Gilt Tabako-Bon with Mountain Landscape, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
The upper portion of the tabako-bon holds two removable metal containers, the larger a small hibachi (hi-ire) used to light one's pipe and the smaller a receptacle for ash and waste.
Copper
Antique Ming Period Ko Akae Chinese Porcelain Dish Kosometsuke Flowers Poem
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
This large group of porcelain ware with its variety of forms and designs has been commonly utilized as food containers as well as tea ceremony utensils. In the early 19th century, fo...
Porcelain
Antique Japanese Bronze Hatate 19th C Meiji Inkpot Japan Unsigned
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
It was burdensome to have to pull out the grinding stone, ink stick, and water container every time one needed to write, but in those days before spill-proof containers, carrying liq...
Bronze
Pair of Large Antique Japanese Hokai Lacquer Boxes
Located in Atlanta, GA
Always in pair for the nature of the game, that is to find the matching halves of the shells, these storage containers with lids are fashioned in dark brown-black lacquer, supported ...
Wood, Lacquer
English Oil on Board Horse Painting by John Alfred Wheeler, circa 1880
By Alfred Wheeler
Located in Atlanta, GA
Their heads standing out impeccably on a clear blue sky, the horses are leaning their heads inside a circular rustic looking wooden container. The water dripping from the horse's mou...
Wood, Paint
Les Gros Prunes, plums still life
By Adam Lehr
Located in New York, NY
This particular painting can be compared to the works of Levi Wells Prentice, who commonly painted various fruits spilling forth from a container. It was a way to paint a large group...
Canvas, Oil
Pair of German Porcelain Pastille Incense Burners by KPM Berlin, 1820
By KPM Porcelain
Located in Milano, MI
An exquisite pair of early 19th century Berlin KPM porcelain pastille, incense burners, two antique oval perfume containers with pierced lids, pine cone finials above oval burner.
Porcelain
Japanese Carved Cinnabar Lacquer Inro, Meiji Period, late 19th c, Japan
Located in Austin, TX
The three case inro of standard form, comprised of three container sections and a cover, strung on a red silk cord, and secured with a mixed metal ojime bead.
Silver, Copper
Antique African Milk Jug
Located in New York, NY
Early 20th century. This container was sourced in the spirit of wabi-sabi, a Japanese philosophy that beauty can be found in imperfection and impermanence.
Metal
Silver "Bernegal" 'Drinking Cup' Portugal, 19th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
In the flower that decorates the base on which this container rests are the contrast marks, which date and place the work in Portugal in the 19th century, a time when it was very usu...
Silver
Extremely Rare Set of Four Victorian Wall Lights of Exceptional Size, F&C Osler
By F. & C. Osler
Located in Steyning, West sussex
An extremely rare early Victorian set of four five-light cut-glass silvered mounted wall-lights of exceptional quality the central slice cut shaft surmounted by unusual cross over di...
Silver Plate
Silver Writing Set, with Hallmarks, Antonio J. Santa Cruz, Cordoba, Spain, 1773
By Antonio Jose de Santa Cruz
Located in Madrid, ES
It shows some fault in some container and adds bell. Silver writing set composed by tray, four containers and bell.
Silver
Bronze Writing Set, 19th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
On a tray of curved profiles decorated with moldings and scallops on its edges are the four containers that make up the desk. The sandbox or salvador, the duster and the inkwell pres...
Bronze
Early Bronze Fang Hu Ritual Wine Vessel Han Dynasty
Located in Hopewell, NJ
Very early, 206 BC to 220 AD, square shaped bronze fang hu bronze vessel would have functioned as a ritual container for the storage and transportation of sumptuous wines.
Bronze
Oversized Black Forest 19th Century Carved Oak Stag Rack with Antlers
Located in Atlanta, GA
The lower part showcases an umbrella stand with brass ring, the ensemble being completed by oval container. Resting on bun feet, this Black Forest oversized carved oak coat rack from...
Oak, Antler
Large Burmese Gilt and Lacquered Wood Temple Offering Vessel
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
A very large Asian Burmese gilt and lacquered wood bamboo offering vessel, container adorned with mirror and jewels colored gems with a conical removable top.
Bamboo
$825Sale Price / set|44% Off
Gilded Age Silver Plated and Crystal Writing Desk Set
Located in Sheffield, MA
The antique silver-on-copper and crystal pen and ink desk set is composed a footed tray with two indentations for feathered pens or writing instruments, two lidded ink bottles with b...
Crystal, Silver Plate
Antique Chinese Food Presentation Covered Box
Located in Forney, TX
Extremely rare, the lightweight, fragile nature of these containers has led to very few surving the test of time.
Wood, Paint
Mahogany Brazier Box, Spain, 18th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
In the central hole is the container for coal, which has two ornate handles with scallops.
Mahogany
$1,000Sale Price|20% Off
Antique Primitive American Paint Decorated Tool or Document Storage Box
Located in Atlanta, GA
They make wonderful additions to collections of folk art, Americana, or vintage storage containers, and they can also be used as decorative accents in rustic or farmhouse-style inter...
Wood, Paint
Antique Nootka Lidded Basket c.1900 Sea Wolf Motif Northwest Coast
By Native American Art
Located in Denver, CO
Its compact, lidded form reflects a tradition of finely made containers used for storage, trade, and personal belongings, particularly during a period when smaller, portable baskets ...
Natural Fiber
Pair of Louis XVI Neoclassical Jardinière Stands, Painted Wood, France
Located in Kittery Point, ME
The circular container carved with pearls and rinceaux and supported by an inswept strung-piaster quadripartite stand with a central finial and hung with swags raised on a conforming...
Wood
George III Combination Argyle/Teapot Made in London in 1805 by John Emes
By John Emes
Located in London, GB
Argyles were generally accepted to have been containers for gravy or sauce, the design incorporating some form of heat preserving element.
Unique Georgian Sterling Tureen, c1802
By John Roberts & Co
Located in Litchfield, CT
Consisting of four pieces, the two containers, the lid, and the removable handle, this set is very heavy and superbly made.
Sterling Silver
$18,779Sale Price|25% Off
XVI Century, Italian Renaissance Wood Chest
Located in IT
This chest can be placed in different environments, such as an entrance hall, a corridor, a room or a study, but also in a room at the foot of the bed, resulting in a large and funct...
Nutwood
The Duke of Parma's Pontoon Bridge in The Siege of Antwerp, 1632
Located in Langweer, NL
Frames for assembling fleets filled with empty containers, secured by double anchors. B. Beams extended over the rafts to connect the lands to each raft and to support the spears.
Paper
Early 19th Century Anglo-Indian Brass Fish Box with Etched Decoration
Located in Middleburg, VA
As both a sculptural object and a functional container, this rare form exemplifies cross-cultural artistic exchange during the British Raj era.
Brass, Metal
Gardener’s Delight, Antique French Empire Gilt Bronze Beehive Model Encrier
Located in New York, NY
France, 19th century This fabulous antique French gilt bronze inkstand has a beehive central well with a hay stack cover, several bees on the surface, flanked by two bronze baskets ...
Bronze
18th C. English Porcelain Trompe L'oeil Covered Cauliflower Form Box
Located in New York, NY
The lid fits snugly onto the base, creating a functional and secure container that can be used to store small treasures or other items.
Porcelain