Antique Work Boxes

Regency period burr yew work-box; the top with chevron bandings and a coloured engraving in the style of Adam Buck; with brass ring-handles and paw feet; the interior with a lift-out...

French 19th C. Boulle Tortoise Work Box

177 Antique rosewood jewellery box / work box with fine decoration to the escutcheon and the top plaque.

Antique English Regency banded mahogany work box. Fitted interior on brass feet.

An English Regency black lacquered work box with charming chinoiserie decoration, circa 1820.

Extraordinary Japanese sterling silver and mixed metal work box. The box features fantastic gold and bronze Shikudo work.

This fine Indian sandalwood box is of elongated octagonal form with Sadeli work inlay of pewter, ivory and ebony.

Louis-Phillipe period ebonized box with hinged lid and ormolu mounts, the rectangular serpentine-shaped body raised on gilt-bronze scroll feet extending from four handsome floral cor...

Beautifully Carved floral Indian box made of solid Ebony from the Galle District, Ceylon. The interior edges have reinforced inlaid corner straps to stop joints opening or warping. ...

Chinese export with detailed and fitted interior, decorated throughout.

A burl elm work box, with original fitted tray interior, lock, ivory escheon and knobs, carring handles and bun feet.

Mid-19th century papier mâché work box with well fitted interior and original silk lining now a little tired in places, complete with original key.

A charming mid-18th century black japanned work box, in the form of a miniature bombé commode, the overhanging shaped top and bottom drawer opening to reveal red painted compartments...

Regency Period Embossed Red Leather Work Box with Fitted Interior and Lower Drawer, Raised on Decorative Gilt Metal Feet.

Mid Victorian rosewood sewing table, the rectangular top above a frieze drawer with a pull out bag, each side with a lunette moulding and applied lozenges on barley twist tapering le...

This large English Regency period box is decorated with pen work in a black and white palette, depicting a neoclassical scene on the top, all surrounded on top and sides with floral ...

The rectangular hinged lid panel inlaid with mahogany, rosewood and walnut and centering a blank brass plaque, opening to a lift out tray divided with open and covered wells above a ...

19th century Coromandel wood work box with inlaid elephant design Elaborate interior with two trays.

The hinged coffered lid opening to a divided lift out tray with open wells and crimson pin cushions at each corner above an Italian paper lined storage area, the interior of the lid ...

Rare sandalwood work-box veneered with satinwood in the manner of Shedashboodoo.  

Anglo Indian Vizagapatam buffalo horn work box of exquisite small proportions, its splendid bombe shaped of ribbed form with gadrooned finial, and made of solid sandalwood.

Quite rare as a pair these Harewood and satinwood boxes retain all there original fittings for the accomplished needle worker.
Similar example illustrated in the Shorter Dicti...

With birch and boxwood inlay and stringing, a swing handle and baize lined interior.

The lid lifts to reveal matching colour envelope and ladies work box. The interior is fitted with matching moire and green paper.

A walnut workbox. Beautifully figured with complex edging. Retaining its original cast, gilt bronze lion paw feet.

A very beautiful and rare 19th century painted and gilt English work box on pedestal. The green color is quite rare and painted decoration seems to be entirely original.

An incredible arts and crafts work box, very much in the liberty style and manor.

Small Edwardian mahogany antique work box or side table This small Edwardian antique work box or side table dates from circa 1900 and has a beautifully figured molded lid that lifts...

Of tapering sarcophagus form, with a bead-and-reel molded stepped hinged top, opening to a removable tray above a shallow well, both lined in faux marble paper, raised on bun feet, t...

A superb early Victorian rosewood sewing/work box with mother of pearl inlay and all original interior and fittings, circa 1860.

19TH CENT BOX WITH SLEEK CONTEMPORARY LINES-- ORIGINALLY WAS USED TO STORE NEEDLEWORK THAT WAS BEING WORKED ON & PROVIDE ADDITIONAL SEATING

The hinged rectangular lid with mother-of-pearl string inlay and central oval medallion, opening to a shallow well, above a single frieze drawer with a button pull; lined in crimson ...

19th century rosewood inlaid work box, complete with all of its original mother of pearl fittings/bobbins etc.

The work box is missing the interior.

Anglo Indian work box mountd with engraved and stained bone.

Horn work box made for the English market

A Chinese black and gold lacquered octagonal work box on gilt dragon feet with bone fittings.

Anglo-Indian Buffalo Horn Vizagapatam work box made for the English Regency market.

Rosewood Tunbridge Ware work box with a view of Bayham Abbey. The interior is lined in green silk and comes with working lock and tasselled key.

Penwork Bombe shape work box with pressed brass handles and ball feet.

A rare mid-19th century (circa 1840) Ceylonese inlaid box with hinged tortoise lid and marquetry worked box with draw.

AN ELOBORATE, ANTIQUE ANGLO-INDIAN INLAID COROMANDLE WOOD WORK BOX INTERIOR WITH RISING BANK OF DRAWERS AND A PULL OUT TRAY OF SMALL COMPARTMENTS WITH LIDS, THE TOP INTERIOR INLAID ...

Early 19th Century English, Burl Elm Jewelry-Work Box

Amboyna work box inlaid with stars and triangles of exotic timber including Coromandel, Satinwood and Maple.

Exceptional work box with ball feet and highly accomplished mixed wood inlay on top and all four sides, as well as the hinged panel on the inside to the compartment under the lid.

This Antique work Box comes with a fully working lock & tasselled key.

John Turrill of 52 New Bond Street, London was a famous maker of Dressing Cases, Writing Desks, Work Boxes and Leather travelling cases.

A beautiful mid-19th century (circa 1850) Elk Horn and sandalwood Vizagapatam box, made of sandalwood overlaid with strips of elk Horn with a radiating sunburst top, the interior has...

165 - Antique jewellery or work box with flush fitting side handles and brass edging all round, the top plaque with initials, the lock is made by Bramah, lock and key work fine.

Walnut Work Box with a view of a Tea Clipper / Sailing Ship which is flying two flags one of which is the british flag.

A rare 18th century painted Belgium Spa box. The box dates back to 1770-1780 it’s sycamore, it has gilt and pen work lines in red black and gold around the outside and inside which ...

# S130 - Ceylonese corromandel wood rectangular work box (now raised on a latter conforming Stand) with scalloped shaped sides.

Working lock and buckle with a key, and multiple paper lined compartments, probably made as a work box.

The label reads as follows: John Flinn Essex Quay, near Richmond Bridge Manufactures all kinds of Fashionable Cabinets, Portable Writing Desks, Dressing boxes, Work boxes...

A top quality mahogany sewing box, standing on paw feet, with pierced effect box with carved tassle decoration, wooden lids to the interior with all cotton winders, excellent color a...

Museum quality dough box in original untouched red paint, two-board removable top, early turnings on legs, reeded base, very good condition with normal wear consistent with its age a...

A Louis XV style French provincial dough box, known as a petrin, with a scalloped apron over cabriole legs. This piece has particularly pleasing simplicity and scale. Good modern da...