Decorative Caskets

19th century copper and brass casket topped with tortoise shell.

19th century Norwegian casket for clothes called "øskje" from Vest-Agder, dated 1825.

Victorian Hungarian ash casket here we are delighted to offer you this Victorian ash dome top casket, that was made circa 1870. It is of a lovely diminutive size. The box is of Hun...

A rectangular casket with hinged lid and forged lock, carrying handles and iron forged reinforcing straps. Date: end of 16th century.

A rare antique French gilt bronze and silver Sevres porcelain casket finely painted with neoclassical figures on two round and two rectangular plaques.

An unusual late 19th century dome lid engraved casket, the lid is set with a malachite cabochon. Raised on chain link base Likely a stamp or vesta box Copperor brass alloys,...

A rosewood casket veneered with geometric panels of mother-of-pearl. The interior is lined in a red velvet.

Probably Augsburg, circa 1740. Nut wood and other native hardwoods and fruitwoods. Longitudinal rectangular box with hinged lid, on all sides geometric marquetry. Interior with num...

Very large and unusual 19th century French bronze and crystal casket box with original glass and cut-crystal columns.

19th century French Sevres style ormolu and porcelain casket having light blue ground, painted with panels of romantic scenes.

Wrought iron domed top casket. French, 15th Century. Literature: This casket is very similar to one that belonged to A.W.N. Pugin ( see image above) and which is now in the Victo...

An 18th century Battersea enamel casket of unusually large dimensions. The casket has wonderful landscape scenes painted to the four bow sides and the dome lid, each panel is ...

Fine and rare pair Jugendstil / Art Nouveau / Secession / Arts & Crafts Erhard & Sohne trinket boxes / jewelry caskets with amazing inlaid wood veneer and patinated brass showing fru...

An 18th century Battersea enamel casket of unusually large dimensions. The casket has wonderful landscape scenes painted to the four bow sides and the dome lid, each panel is held...

French boulle casket made of brass and tortoise shell on a wood frame with a domed lid on cast feet with lock and key.

Russian Khlomogory carved bone casket, late 18th or early 19th century, complete with key. Veneered fretwork is engraved and stained with green and red decoration overlaid. Hinged ...

This is a stunning antique lidded pressed glass casket. The box is composed of pressed glass with panels decorated with a strawberry cut pattern throughout the exterior and silver to...

Antique ormalu French jewelry casket with quartered veneer kingwood on lid, ormalu, lock and key and satin-lined. The lock is signed A Tahan.

A nice oval shape cut crystal casket, with nice undulating curves and a gilt bronze mount chiseled with floral stylized friezes. The development of the French crystal comes from the...

Highly Decorative Neoclassical Casket formed with shell and molding Design with Griffin feet.

A very nicely rose painted small casket. From Telemark, Norway, 19th century.

A rare late 16th/early 17th century walnut mother of pearl inlaid casket from Spain

Our rare, 18th century ceremonial casket in the form of a Venetian gondola is expertly carved from walnut with gilt cartouches depicting figures and swans, and gilt scrolling feet. T...

A hinged lacquer casket comprising panels of lacquer inlaid with mother-of-pearl and brass wire in a design of scrolling foliage. The lid with a brass handle of European design, and ...

Antique Crystal Casket Exquisite Antique French Empire Crystal Casket The thick heavy finest quality crystal encased in beautiful Dore Bronze (Ormolu ) mounts The lid decorated with...

A mid nineteenth century French ormolu casket with a central Sèvres porcelain cartouche painted in the eighteenth century style. The gilded ormolu is elaborately carved with feathe...

Restored collector's item: mini sideboard / box Perlmutt-Perloid, 1951 , beautifully crafted piece, completely covered with gold-mother of pearl Perloid, 2 drawers inlayed with black...

Rare Victorian silver-mounted purple heart casket, with locking mechanism, the mounts by Henry Stuart Brown, London, 1890.

An italian XVI century casket, with four lions feet, framed on the front, on the sides and on the top. On the front the family crest. The chest is in perfect condition of patina an...

Very fine ivory inlaid Anglo-Indian jewelry casket on stand.

18TH C French Louis XV tortoishell and bronze mounted jewell casket of MONUMENTAL SIZE!

Napoleon III gilt bronze-mounted and tortoiseshell casket France, circa 1870. In Louis XIV style, rectangular top centred by a loop handle opening to reveal a silk lined interior, t...

A pretty French brass jewelry casket with embossed decoration and central round painting of lady in early 19th century costume under glass. The picture is signed 'Devval' and the box...

The rectangular casket with lid opening to two compartments, the front with central heart enclosed in ring and fluer-de-lys to cantered corners with moulded fluted columns, the whole...

The rectangular hinged lid line inlaid and bordered in brass, centering an etched brass plaque, opening to a blue velvet lined interior fitted with a lift out tray; the lock marked: ...

Medieval patinated iron-mounted oak casket, 15th century A Continental Medieval patinated iron mounted oak wood box. 15th Century or earlier. Additional information: Style: Me...

This charming Baroque casket has been made out of old veneer and was handcrafted in 2000 by a restorer of the Goethe Institute in Frankfurt am Main in Germany. The box is inlaid in w...

A mahogany sewing casket simulating a piano, with a hidden music box. Inside the casket a set of beautiful mother-of-pearl instruments on a red velvet fitting. The toilets necessaire...

A rectangular casket in gilt wood with its laurel crown-shaped key, richly decorated with flowery rinceaux, foliage and interlace. The drop-leaf lid is decorated with a medallion and...

A small square casket in green overlay glass and gilt brass mounts decorated with picturesque views of the German city Baden-Baden and its monuments: on the lid, a view of the Ancien...

A late 19th century French ebonised and brass inlaid scent bottle casket Of shaped rectangular outline, the hinged lid concealing four gilt decorated clear glass bottles and stoppers...

Perfectly executed in heavy crystal glass and Bronze. A superb example of a French Casket. This fine box is decorated with high quality ormolu mounts. All the glass is heavily bevell...

Particular shell-shaped casket, made of Sicilian jasper marble.

A walnut casket made in Spa, Belgium or France, circa 1670-1680. Intricately decorated with mother of pearl and copper pique work, the casket stands on four little bun feet and bears...

Attributed to Placido Zuloaga, Toledo, (Spanish 1834-1910).

Alabaster was also used in ebenistics as one of the raw materials for encrustation. In this way, decorative caskets and expensive sepettes were created.

This handcrafted casket by the Newlyn school has a hammered finish and is decorated with fish and shells in repousse work. Marked 'Newlyn' to the underside. circa 1900-1910.

A Spanish Colonial mother of pearl casket with silver mounts, 17th century Mexico.  

Hallmarks as London 1896, maker being Aitken Brothers.

Beautiful cobalt blue glass box with metal mounted rim and footed base and white enamel decoration.

The pagoda-shaped top is finely decorated with three figures standing in a garden with a house in the background and is surrounded by birds and flowers. The lid opens to reveal a now...

Alabaster was also used in ebenistics as one of the raw materials for encrustation. In this way, decorative caskets and expensive sepettes were created.

Our gold damascened Renaissance Revival jewelry chest by Antonio Cortelazzo (1819-1903) was commissioned by the English lawyer and antiquarian, Sir William Drake (1817-1890) and exhi...

This is a beautiful Antique silvered and gilt on copper French jewellery casket, signed AB Paris and Circa 1880 in date. Of rectangular form this wonderful casket is of very high...

15th century period Gothic Tabernacle, extremely rare (Medieval) architectural religious art, museum quality ecclesiastical altar piece. This is an absolutely stunning circa 1450 or...

Inlaid with floral sprays of engraved mother of pearl and brass From our Sewing Box collection, we are delighted to offer this William IV Rosewood Inlaid Sewing Box. The Sewing Box ...

A stunning pair of very fine quality French Neo-Gothic gilt metal church reliquaries. circa 1860s Most impressive objets d’art, born in France in the second half of the 19th century...

An Incredible 19th Century Royal Casket Box/Safe with Coat of Arms, Made of Gold, Damascene, and Etched Steel. Charles Le Hon, a Belgian politician, lawyer and industrialist, served...

An Exceptionally Fine Quality English Well Figured Solid grained Mahogany Officers Campaign Style Traveling Writing Slope of outstanding quality and unusually large size. First quart...

An Important French Renaissance Revival Covered Box, Crafted in Silver and Mounted with Lapis Lazuli Panels, Gilt Bronze Figures, and Jeweled Cabochons. The piece is signed in two lo...