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Antique Ceylonese Porcupine Quill Box
Located in London, GB
A small Sinhalese Porcupine Quill Box with a sliding lid.
The panels of porcupine quill panels
Category
Late 19th Century Sri Lankan Anglo-Indian Antique Quilling
Materials
Ebony
Native Sioux Quilled Council Pipe
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
19th Century Native American Sioux quilled and file-burnt stem with highly polished T bowl.
Period
Category
1870s Native American Antique Quilling
Materials
Other
Antique Anglo Indian Lidded Quill Box
Located in Palm Beach, FL
quills and bone dots. The interior has a removable tray with nine compartments all with bone dot
Category
Early 20th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Antique Quilling
Materials
Bone
19th Century Sioux Quilled Knife Sheath
By Sioux Indian Art
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Quilled knife sheath with quilled drops, tin cones with yellow horsehair. With original collection
Category
Mid-19th Century American Native American Antique Quilling
Materials
Hide
Northern Cheyenne Beaded and Quilled Bow Case
By Native American Art
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
19th Century beaded and quilled bowcase, quiver, bow and arrow set from the Northern Cheyenne ex
Category
19th Century American Native American Antique Quilling
Materials
Hide, Beads
Quilled Sioux Native Authentic Child's Dress
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Lakota Sioux child's dress quilled on buffalo hide; collected and entered into the Maryland Academy
Category
1860s American Native American Antique Quilling
Materials
Other
Antique Anglo Indian Box Handcrafted with Porcupine Quills
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Antique Anglo-Indian quill box handcrafted and decorated with porcupine quills and bone dots.
Made
Category
Early 20th Century Sri Lankan Anglo-Indian Antique Quilling
Materials
Wood
Rockingham Treacle Glazed Stoneware Shoe Quill Pen Holder
By Rockingham
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
dating from around 1840. Modelled on a gentleman’s shoe the quill pen holder is of long shape with a
Category
1840s English Early Victorian Antique Quilling
Materials
Stoneware
Cat, Vienna Bronze Sculptural Quill Cleaner, Austria 1900s
By Geschutzt
Located in PARIS, FR
Superb Vienna bronze representing a cat and doubling as a quill wipe with boar hair on its back
Category
Early 1900s Austrian Romantic Antique Quilling
Materials
Bronze
French Renaissance Cabinet with a Quill-Feather Decor
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Renaissance cabinet with a quill-feather decor.
ORIGIN: FRANCE
PERIOD: 16th CENTURY
Height
Category
16th Century Antique Quilling
Materials
Walnut
Small Two-Body Buffet Decorated with Bird Quills
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
carved with long quills. The leaves are divided into two rectangles molded and framed with feathers of
Category
16th Century Renaissance Antique Quilling
Materials
Walnut
Antique Anglo Indian Porcupine Quill Inlaid Vide-Poche 1900s
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Anglo-Indian Wood and Porcupine Quill Inlaid Vide-Poche.
Anglo Indian Ebony Wood and Porcupine
Category
Early 20th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Antique Quilling
Materials
Bone, Wood
Rare Renaissance Cabinet with Feather quill and Fenestration Decoration
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
RARE RENAISSANCE CABINET WITH FEATHER QUILL AND FENESTRATION DECORATION
ORIGIN: FRANCE
PERIOD
Category
16th Century Antique Quilling
Materials
Walnut
$23,858
H 70.08 in W 57.09 in D 22.84 in
18th Century Georgian Paper Scrolled Quilled Satinwood Tea Caddy
Located in Benington, Herts
A wonderful 18th century George III quill work (scrollwork) tea caddy of hexagon form.
English
Category
1790s British Georgian Antique Quilling
Materials
Satinwood
Small Antique Calligrapher's Quill Pot, Chinese, Soapstone, Carved, Victorian
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is a small antique calligrapher's quill pot. A Chinese, rouge soapstone carved pen holder
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Quilling
Materials
Soapstone
$343
H 3.94 in W 1.78 in D 1.78 in
Regency Anglo Indian Quill Work Vizagapatam Sandalwood Sewing Box
Located in Huntington, NY
This fine Regency period quill work, bone, ivory & sandalwood sewing box
with intact interior w
Category
Early 19th Century Indian Regency Antique Quilling
Materials
Bone, Ivory, Sandalwood
$13,200 Sale Price
20% Off
H 8 in W 15 in D 10 in
Period George III Quilled Gilded Paper Pole Fire Screen
Located in Hudson, NY
Quilled paper. Paper coiled and worked into designs taking advantage of the positive and negative space
Category
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Quilling
Materials
Mahogany
Rosewood Tea Caddy with Ebony, Ivory and Porcupine Quill Detailing
Located in Hudson, NY
Made of rosewood, this antique tea caddy is distinguished by its porcupine quill detailing
Category
19th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Antique Quilling
Materials
Ivory, Ebony
Anglo-Indian Ebony, Porcupine Quill & Inlaid Bone Hexagonal Elephant Motif Box
Located in Atlanta, GA
Anglo-Indian Ebony, Porcupine Quill, and Inlaid Bone Hexagonal Casket with Elephant Crest, Ceylon
Category
19th Century Sri Lankan Anglo-Indian Antique Quilling
Materials
Ebony
$1,250
H 4 in W 8.75 in D 7.5 in
English 1790 George III Quill Work Scrollwork Decorated Tea Caddy
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A wonderful 18th century George III quill work (scrollwork) tea caddy of elongated hexagon form
Category
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Quilling
Materials
Brass
Pair Antique Staffordshire Porcelain Poodles Dogs Quill Pen Holders 19th Century
By Staffordshire
Located in Dublin, Ireland
Porcelain Staffordshire Poodle Dogs modelled as Pen or Quill Holders, third quarter of the Nineteenth
Category
Early 20th Century German Victorian Antique Quilling
Materials
Porcelain, Pottery
$806 / set
H 5.5 in W 3.75 in D 1.75 in
Derby Imari Pattern Partners Porcelain Inkwell and Quill Pen Stand
By Derby
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A very fine, rare and unusual antique English Derby partners porcelain inkwell and quill pen holder
Category
Early 19th Century English George III Antique Quilling
Materials
Porcelain
Elegant Pink Quill in Full Bloom: An 18th Century Botanical Ilustration
Located in Langweer, NL
This is a delicate botanical illustration of a Pink Quill, also known as Tillandsia cyanea. The
Category
1790s English Antique Quilling
Materials
Paper
$167
H 9.45 in W 6.3 in D 0.01 in
Antique Anglo Indian Box Form Quill Lap Top or Travel Desk
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Impressive antique Anglo Indian lap top desk crafted in quills and ebony decorated with bone dots
Category
Early 20th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Antique Quilling
Materials
Bone, Felt, Wood, Ebony
French Art Deco Bronze Claw & Quill Letter Opener, Rare Bronze Letter Opener
Located in Miami, FL
Art Deco Bronze Claw & Quill Letter Opener – France, circa 1920s–30s
An exceptional and
Category
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Antique Quilling
Materials
Bronze
$980 Sale Price
30% Off
H 0.5 in W 2.5 in D 9.25 in
Vintage French Skittle Game 'Jeu de Quilles de Neuf', circa 1920
Located in Chappaqua, NY
Vintage French Skittle Game ‘Jeu de Quilles de Neuf’,circa 1920. Hand painted, turned pins with
Category
1920s French Antique Quilling
Materials
Wood
$425 / set
H 13.25 in W 1.75 in D 1.75 in
Jonas Welch Holman "Portrait of a Young Man Writing with a Quill"
By Ammi Phillips
Located in Sharon, CT
straight diagonal line of the sitters left shoulder, parallel with the quill emphasizes the sitters nose
Category
Early 19th Century American Folk Art Antique Quilling
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Antique Victorian Thomas Hudson Barometric Ink Well Stand Pen Quill Holder 6"
By Thomas Hudson
Located in Dayton, OH
-1880s. Made of brass featuring pewter inkwell with glass dome reservoir and slots for three quill pens
Category
19th Century Victorian Antique Quilling
Materials
Brass, Pewter
$176 Sale Price
25% Off
H 4 in W 5 in D 6 in
Townshend Art Metal Workers. Birmingham. An Anglo-Japanese brass pen/quill tray.
By Townshend & Co.
Located in London, GB
Townshend Art Metal Workers. Birmingham. An Anglo-Japanese brass pen/quill tray with a pair of
Category
1890s English Anglo-Japanese Antique Quilling
Materials
Brass
$2,483 / set
H 5.52 in W 9.85 in D 4.53 in
Colt Distributors Quill Letter to Governor Beginning of Civil War, 1861
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
This handwritten (it appears with quill) letter was addressed to the Governor of the state of Ohio
Category
1860s American Antique Quilling
Materials
Other
Mid 19th Century French Signed Portrait of Gentleman with Letter & Quill Pen
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Gentleman
French School, mid 19th century
signed to the letter and dated
oil on canvas, framed
framed: 36 x 28 inches
canvas: 29 x 20 inches
Provenance: private collect...
Category
Mid-19th Century French School Antique Quilling
Materials
Oil
$1,540 Sale Price
30% Off
H 36 in W 28 in
Fine 1820's English Georgian Large Portrait of a Country Lady seated with Quill
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Country Lady, depicted Seated wearing a silk glove and with a Quill Pen
English
Category
Early 19th Century English School Antique Quilling
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$2,751 Sale Price
30% Off
H 35 in W 29 in
Original Vintage Ink and Pen Poster, Inchiostri G. Diletti, Italy, Quill, 1900
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Original Vintage Poster-Inchiostri G. Diletti-Brisighella-Ink-Italia, c.1900
We see a woman writing a letter with a pen-holder and ink.
At the bottom of the poster, we find the eag...
Category
19th Century Italian Art Nouveau Antique Quilling
Materials
Paper
$3,936
H 25.2 in W 14.97 in D 0.04 in
Antique Oil On Canvas Painting, Portrait Of A Scholar, C1830
Located in Big Flats, NY
subject is depicted with a quill in hand, suggesting a connection to academia or literature and is framed
Category
Early 20th Century Antique Quilling
Materials
Canvas
$1,440 Sale Price
20% Off
H 35.5 in W 30.5 in D 2.75 in
American School Portrait of a Gentleman
Located in Milford, NH
shirt, seated at his desk with a nicely detailed gilt desk set with Cupid figure, inkwell, quill, and
Category
Mid-19th Century Antique Quilling
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique lacquered wooden inkwell with matching glass inkwells
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, AR
A late Victorian wood and bronze double inkstand with a molded ogival base and two carved quill
Category
1890s Argentine Victorian Antique Quilling
Materials
Crystal
Antique 1862 Ames US Navy Civil War Cutlass Sword Leather Scabbard M1860 33"
Located in Dayton, OH
/ Chicopee / Mass on reverse. No extant serial number found on quillion.
Dimensions:
32.5" x 4.75" x 4.25
Category
19th Century American American Classical Antique Quilling
Materials
Metal, Brass
$825 Sale Price
25% Off
H 4.25 in W 4.75 in D 32.5 in
19th century patinated Bronze statue titled “Ad Lumen”, signed by Émile Picault
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
while seeming pointing to the heavens. He is seated with a book and a quill pen in his right hand. His
Category
19th Century French Antique Quilling
Materials
Bronze
$15,180
H 41.25 in W 14.25 in D 19 in
Antique 19th C. French Provincial Louis X11 Crowned Porcupine Pewter Wall Plate
Located in Elkhart, IN
century, that the porcupine could project its quills at its opponents. Dangerous, both near and far, then
Category
Late 19th Century French Rustic Antique Quilling
Materials
Pewter
$995
H 7 in W 9.38 in D 0.75 in
Painted Faience Inkwell With Brass Lids
Located in Charlottesville, VA
liners, and a central well—likely for quills or sand shaker. A charming example of decorative yet
Category
Early 19th Century French Antique Quilling
Materials
Faience
19th Century Laptop
Located in Los Angeles, CA
neatly into a relatively compact box, as well as storage for ink wells, sand wells, pens, and quills
Category
19th Century British Victorian Antique Quilling
Materials
Metal
Victorian Silver Plate Writing Slope In The Shape of a Book With Compartments
Located in Reading, Berkshire
square
Sold With Modern Notepad and Quill Set
Total internal measurements
Height: 5.cm
Width 21.7cm
Category
19th Century British Victorian Antique Quilling
Materials
Silver Plate
$2,069 / set
H 10.44 in W 2.76 in D 9.45 in
Mühlen & Leendertz Issum Majolica Glazed Lion Mask Inkwell and Desk Stand
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
quill pens. A central raised square tower contains the inkwell reserve. The sides are molded in deep
Category
1880s German Victorian Antique Quilling
Materials
Brass
$393
H 3.94 in W 5.52 in D 5.52 in
An Early 19th Century Paris Porcelain Inkstand
By Jacob Petite
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Rococo base with the original porcelain inkwells with lids, with two small openings for Quill pens
Category
Mid-19th Century French Rococo Antique Quilling
Materials
Porcelain
Rare English Regency Writing Slope With Decorative Brass Trim by Wells & Lambe
By John Lambe
Located in Reading, Berkshire
Inlay. Manufactured By Esteemed Maker Wells & Lambe.
Item will include new notepad pad, Quill pen
Category
19th Century British Regency Antique Quilling
Materials
Brass
$6,772 / set
H 4.93 in W 14.18 in D 9.85 in
"Register June 5th. A Great Day of Patriotic Devotion and Obligation” WWI Poster
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
brandishing a quill pen before a cheering crowd. He stands in front of the American flag. The text urges
Category
1910s American Modern Antique Quilling
Materials
Paper
$2,500
H 42.5 in W 29 in D 1.38 in
Antique Portrait of Jan Wagenaar – Dutch Historian of Amsterdam, Dated 1766
Located in Langweer, NL
pose at a writing desk, surrounded by books and a quill, reinforcing his scholarly identity. His
Category
Mid-18th Century Dutch Antique Quilling
Materials
Paper
$214
H 12.41 in W 8.27 in D 0.01 in
Antique Portrait of Mennonite Minister Jan Nieuwenhuyzen – Etching c.1800
Located in Langweer, NL
enlightenment: a laurel wreath (for honor and wisdom), a quill and inkwell (for writing and intellectual pursuit
Category
Early 19th Century Dutch Antique Quilling
Materials
Paper
$214
H 8.98 in W 5.36 in D 0.01 in
Writing Casket with Steel-Cut Decoration, Biedermeier, early 19th Century
Located in Greding, DE
lockable and features an interior compartment for an inkwell, blotting sand, and a quill holder. The fold
Category
Early 19th Century German Biedermeier Antique Quilling
Materials
Steel
$3,463
H 3.94 in W 12.8 in D 7.88 in
Needlepoint Artwork Portrait of R' Akiva Eger 1900/1903, Judaica
Located in New York, NY
appears to be writing in with a quill pen, capturing the essence of his scholarly dedication. The rich
Category
Early 1900s European Antique Quilling
Materials
String
$2,970
H 26.38 in W 18.9 in D 1.58 in
Portrait Young Girl Mengs Paint 18th Century Oil on canvas Old master Woman Art
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
other simple but precious jewels.
She is holding a quill and a notebook, suggesting an artistic or
Category
18th Century Old Masters Antique Quilling
Materials
Oil
$7,598
H 30.32 in W 24.81 in
Russian Neoclassical Mahogany And Bronze Mounted Table
Located in Essex, MA
clustered arrow quills. Lower star form shelf with compass inlay. Casters.
Category
1810s European Neoclassical Antique Quilling
Materials
Bronze
Set of 3 Biblical Engravings – Adoration, St. Matthew & Healing the Blind (1735)
Located in Langweer, NL
, shows "St. Matthew the Evangelist" standing upon a pedestal, barefoot, holding a book and quill. A
Category
1730s English Antique Quilling
Materials
Paper
$274 / set
H 15.16 in W 8.94 in D 0.01 in
Antique Lap Desk on Stand, 19th Century, England
Located in Chappaqua, NY
on later custom stand. Engraved brass plaque reads, L.P. Parson 1849. Original glass inkwells, quills
Category
Mid-19th Century English Victorian Antique Quilling
Materials
Brass
Victorian Ebonised Desk Set With Two Cut Glass Inkwells Decorated With Brass
Located in Reading, Berkshire
& Decorative Idents & Drawer
Supplied With A Modern Day Quill Pen, Notepad & A Vintage Boxed Ronson Fountain
Category
Early 20th Century British Victorian Antique Quilling
Materials
Chrome, Brass
$2,000 / set
H 4.93 in W 10.24 in D 5.91 in
Regency Amboyna Writing Slope with Ebony, Silver, and Abalone Inlay
Located in Worcester, GB
displaying a fine swirling grain. The lid is decorated with a central inlaid motif of a quill and letter
Category
Early 19th Century British Antique Quilling
Materials
Amboyna
18th Century Sterling Silver Ladies Inkstand
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
.
Each internal compartment is fitted with a cut glass bottle.
The ink, pen/quill and pounce bottles
Category
1780s English George III Antique Quilling
Materials
Sterling Silver
Paul to Timothy Engraving – St. Paul Foretells Death & Martyrdom c.1735
Located in Langweer, NL
halo, holding a quill and scroll, symbolising his final teachings and writings before his impending
Category
1730s English Antique Quilling
Materials
Paper
$226
H 15.16 in W 8.94 in D 0.01 in
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Antique Quilling For Sale on 1stDibs
At 1stDibs, there are many versions of the ideal antique quilling for your home. An antique quilling — often made from wood, bone and ebony — can elevate any home. Your living room may not be complete without an antique quilling — find older editions for sale from the 18th Century and newer versions made as recently as the 20th Century. When you’re browsing for the right antique quilling, those designed in Folk Art, Georgian and Victorian styles are of considerable interest. Many designers have produced at least one well-made antique quilling over the years, but those crafted by Sioux Indian Art, Native American Art and Henry Chawner are often thought to be among the most beautiful.
How Much is a Antique Quilling?
The average selling price for an antique quilling at 1stDibs is $1,592, while they’re typically $65 on the low end and $55,000 for the highest priced.
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