A 19th Century Meissen Porcelain Ormolu Mounted Hinged Box with Watteau Scene
By Meissen Porcelain
Located in New York, NY
A 19th Century Meissen Porcelain Ormolu Mounted Hinged Box with Watteau Scene Cartouche and the Interior Decorated with Floral Designs.
Bronze
Antique French Victorian Porcelain Hand Painted Hinged Jewelry Trinket Box
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Antique French Victorian Porcelain Hand Painted Hinged Jewelry Trinket Box Signed R.
Porcelain
Large Old Paris Porcelain Bombé Shaped White Glazed Box-Hinged and Footed
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Large Old Paris Porcelain box with a white glaze in the form of a bombé commode.
Metal
A 19th Century Sevres Hand Painted Hinged Box
By Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres
Located in Lambertville, NJ
A small French Sevres porcelain hand painted box with hinged lid. The vibrant color with gilt accents depicting 18th Century Style Fencers with a cobalt blue border.
Porcelain
Cobalt Blue Hinged Trinket Box with Madonna Scene Limoges
By Limoges
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
A beautiful cobalt blue trinket box with a hinged lid. The top features a scene of the Madonna and Child, with a wreath of gold surrounding the edges. The body is decorated with gold...
Metal
$965Sale Price|28% Off
Antique Capodimonte-Type Hand Painted Bas Relief Hinged Box
By Capodimonte
Located in CHARLESTON, SC
Rare antique Capodimonte type hand decorated hinged box with gorgeous original gilt interior and bas relief decoration on all sides including the bottom (quite unusual). No maker's m...
Porcelain
Antique Porcelain Box Flowers Chintz Design
Located in New York, NY
Porcelain box has a hinged lid with an all-white interior.
Brass
19th Century Sevres Style Porcelain Trinket Box
Located in Guaynabo, PR
This is a 19 Century Sevres Style Porcelain Trinket Box. The hinged rectangular trinket box is hand painted in the lid.
Porcelain
Romantic French 19th Century Bellows Shaped Porcelain Box with Courtship Scene
Located in Tustin, CA
Exquisite antique French box, from the 1890s, is a handmade and hand painted miniature porcelain box with hinged lid and is shaped like a fire bellows.
Porcelain
Vintage Cobalt Blue Porcelain Egg Gold Gilt Hinged Lid Candle Trinket Box - 2 Pc
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vintage Cobalt Blue Porcelain Egg Gold Gilt Hinged Lid Candle Trinket Box - 2 Pcs.
Porcelain
Dresden Porcelain Hinged Dresser Box
By Dresden Porcelain
Located in Cleveland, OH
This antique Dresden porcelain box is covered in hand-built flowers and adorned with gold leafing, and hinged.
Porcelain
Unavailable
H 1.625 in W 4.5 in D 2.75 in
Continental Porcelain Trinket Box W/ Patinated Bronze Hinges, 18th-19th Century
Located in WILMINGTON, CA
Continental porcelain trinket box w/ patinated bronze hinges, 18th-19th century.
Porcelain
Unavailable
H 3 in W 6 in D 4 in
Late 19th Century French Sevres-Style Porcelain Trinket Box with Gilt Bronze
Located in Toronto, ONTARIO
This is a fine cobalt blue porcelain trinket box with hinged cover and ormolu mounts.
Ormolu
Unavailable
H 16.5 in W 11 in D 7.2 in
Wooden Box with Heart Cut Out, Hinged Lifting Top, Drawer and Porcelain Knobs
Located in Petaluma, CA
This is a lovely antique wooden box with a heart cut-out, a hinged lifting top and drawer and two original white porcelain knobs.
Wood
Sold
H 4 in W 6.25 in D 4 in
19th Century French Painted Faberge Porcelain Egg Trinket Boxes, Set of 5
By Limoges
Located in Dallas, TX
Decorate a shelf with this elegant set of antique porcelain egg boxes. Crafted in Limoges France circa 1880, each colorful porcelain piece is dressed with a decorative brass rim with...
Brass
Sevres Style Porcelaine De Paris Hinged Chest Box
By Porcelaine de Paris
Located in Guaynabo, PR
This is a rare, wide, tall & oval chest box hand painted turquoise. Adorned with a garland of gilded flowers alternated by Greek lines. In the center, there is a round portrait of a ...
Porcelain
Vintage Porcelain Limoges Box
Located in Tarry Town, NY
Vintage porcelain Limoges hinged box with gold painted floral detail in excellent condition.
Porcelain
Sevres Style Hand Painted Porcelain Small Box
Located in Guaynabo, PR
This is a Sevres style hand painted porcelain hinged small rectangular box. The background of the box is painted cobalt blue.
Porcelain
Sevres Style French Porcelain Trinket Box
Located in Guaynabo, PR
This a porcelain trinket box hinged lid depicting a hand painted 18th century pastoral scene of a young boy learning to play a guitar while his teacher is teaching him the musical no...
Porcelain
Oversized Royal Vienna Hand-Painted Artist Signed Dresser Box, circa 1870
By Royal Vienna Porcelain
Located in Big Flats, NY
Royal Vienna porcelain oversized dresser box features hinged lid with bronze mounts, hand-painted parlour scene with marriage gilt highlights on Classic cobalt blue field, blue beehi...
Bronze
Paul Milet Sèvres Porcelain Hinged Dresser Box with Ormolu Mounts
By Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres
Located in Cincinnati, OH
This French porcelain box was designed by Paul Jean Milet, son of Felix Optatus Milet. Felix Optataus Milet began his career as a modeler for Sèvres in 1862 and opened his own cerami...
Porcelain
Carved Red Lacquer Hinged Basket Box
Located in Norton, MA
A large Chinese Red lacquer hinged basket with pierced handle. The pierced and carved handle with bats in the corners. Measures: 13" x 11" x 12".
Porcelain, Wood, Lacquer
Limoges Porcelain Heart Shaped Trinket box
By Limoges
Located in Guaynabo, PR
This is a Limoges France porcelain hand painted hinged trinket box. It is adorned with different bouquets of flowers with gilt branches around it and inside the lid.
Porcelain
Antique French Chinoiserie Gold Porcelain Trinket Box
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Antique French Chinoiserie Gold Porcelain Trinket Box. A hinged lid on a convex rectangular covered box, constructed of two pieces of porcelain, The base flat bottom of white biscuit...
Porcelain
Tiffany & Co. Le Tallec Limoges Rocking Horse Motif Gilt Bronze Hinged Box
By Limoges, Tiffany & Co.
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Tiffany & Co. Le Tallec Limoges Rocking Horse Motif Gilt Bronze Hinged Box France, Later 20th Century A charming Tiffany & Co. Le Tallec Limoges gilt bronze hinged box, featuring ...
Bronze
Limoges France Faberge Porcelain Rose Bud Trinket Box
By Limoges
Located in Guaynabo, PR
This is a Limoges France Faberge Porcelain rose bud trinket hinged box. It is depicting a large yellow rose bud at the top of an oval cranberry color box.
Porcelain
Sold
H 1.57 in W 6.1 in D 3.15 in
19th Century Mosaic Inlay Spoon or Jewelry Box with Silver Hinges and 'Lock'
Located in Lisse, NL
Another fine and handcrafted antique from days gone by. This stylish and fine quality 'spoonbox' from circa 1860 is in beautiful condition. This handcrafted gem has a particularly b...
Silver
Sweet Limoges France Handmade Miniature Porcelain Box Dessert Plate with Spoon
By Limoges
Located in Tustin, CA
Whimsical round Limoges porcelain box with hinged lid depicts a miniature white china dessert plate with a 24-karat gold painted rim, a slice of dessert with berries and berry sauce ...
Porcelain
Sold
H 2 in W 1.5 in D 1 in
Delightful Limoges France Peint Main Porcelain Box and Two Perfume Bottle Trio
By Limoges
Located in Tustin, CA
Exquisitely handmade and hand painted vintage miniature Limoges porcelain box with a hinged lid is decorated with flowers and features accents of 24-karat gold.
Glass, Porcelain
Sold
H 2 in W 1.7 in D 1.35 in
Delightful Limoges France Peint Main Porcelain Box and Two Perfume Bottle Trio
By Limoges
Located in Tustin, CA
Exquisitely handmade and hand painted vintage miniature Limoges porcelain box with a hinged lid is decorated with flowers and features lavish stripes of 24-karat gold outlining wide ...
Glass, Porcelain
Sold
H 2 in W 1.7 in D 1.35 in
Delightful Limoges France Peint Main Porcelain Box and Two Perfume Bottle Trio
By Limoges
Located in Tustin, CA
Exquisitely handmade and hand painted vintage miniature Limoges porcelain box with a hinged lid is decorated with flowers and features lavish flourishes of 24-karat gold.
Glass, Porcelain
Sold
H 1.5 in W 2.25 in D 1.5 in
Exquisite Limoges France Peint Main Porcelain Box with 4 Perfume Bottles Inside
By Limoges
Located in Tustin, CA
Exquisitely handmade and hand painted vintage miniature Limoges porcelain box with a hinged lid is decorated with multicolored flowers and features accents of 24-karat gold.
Porcelain, Glass
Sold
H 1.02 in W 4.04 in D 1.04 in
Sweet Pea Limoges France Two Peas in a Pod Miniature Porcelain Trinket Box
By Limoges
Located in Tustin, CA
Whimsical hand made and hand painted in France, "Two Peas in a Pod" Limoges porcelain box with hinged lid depicts a sweet pea with two peas in a pod.
Porcelain
Limoges Porcelain Asparagus Shaped Snuff Box for Asprey
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine, hinged Limoges porcelain traditional snuff box in the form of a bundle of asparagus.
Vienna Secessionist Pottery Hinged Picnic Box
By Royal Vienna Porcelain
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
An unusual Austrian Secessionist lidded pottery box with carry handle made by Royal Vienna and dating from around 1910. Probably a picnic box it is of rectangular slightly rounded sh...
Pottery
Limoges Trinket Box with Perfume Bottles
Located in Atlanta, GA
The brass hinge frame of the box has a flower motif clasp.
Brass
Sold
H 1.07 in W 2.63 in D 1.82 in
Small Chinese Export Porcelain Box Hinged Lid Hand Painted Butterflies
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a small Chinese Export porcelain decorative box with a hinged lid and hand painted decoration of butterflies on a yellow ground, which we date to the mid-20th century, circa ...
Bronze
$1,242
H 2.92 in W 4.3 in D 2.76 in
Erhard & Sohne Art Nouveau Jugendstil Arts and Crafts Jewelry Box Casket c. 1905
By Erhard & Söhne
Located in London, GB
A beautiful art nouveau casket made by Erhard and Sohne in Germany in c. 1905. The casket is exquisitely executed with foliate detailing, made in the Gothic revival style in both p...
Brass
$380
H 3.25 in W 4.5 in D 4.13 in
Large Ormolu & Glass Souvenir Trinket Jewelry Box, Deauville France, circa 1900s
Located in Nuernberg, DE
Antique French Églomisé Casket - Souvenir from France, circa 1900 A charming French antique casket from circa 1900 with gilt brass fittings and clear glass panels. The hinged lid fe...
Crystal, Ormolu
Set of 12 English Raised Gilt Porcelain Dinner Service Plates
By Royal Worcester
Located in Lambertville, NJ
A regal set of 12 elaborately gild service plates, by Royal Worcester. The set with delicate broad gilt borders with a white porcelain background. The mark on the back from 1950.
Porcelain
$2,300
H 4.7 in W 7.4 in D 4.3 in
Jugendstil Brass Jewelry Casket with Velvet Lining by Erhard & Söhne, Germany
By Erhard & Söhne
Located in North Miami, FL
1900s Jugendstil golden and silver brass jewelry casket with blue velvet-lined interior by Erhard & Söhne, Germany By: Erhard & Söhne Material: brass, copper, metal, velvet, zinc Te...
Metal, Brass, Copper, Zinc
Exceptional Mahogany and Ormolu-Mounted Bibliotheque
Located in London, GB
The overhanging foliate cornice above a frieze with reliefs of female and male figures surmounted by ribbon ties and flanked by foliage and laurel leaves, above two pairs of glazed d...
Ormolu
$68,500 / set
H 0.75 in Dm 10.75 in
Minton Mazarine Extensive Pristine Dinner Service Cobalt Blue & Gold 232 Pcs
By Minton
Located in Great Barrington, MA
It's always time to entertain! This is one of the most elegant and versatile patterns imaginable in a Classic and rare Minton cobalt blue pattern with raised paste gold on a white gr...
Porcelain
$199,000Sale Price|31% Off
H 136 in Dm 108 in
Exquisite Rotunda Structure Kiosk Copper & Carved Stone Bench Seating Columns
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Exquisite Rotunda Structure Kiosk Copper & Carved Stone Bench Seating Columns . Monumental Exquisite refined work King Charles X Period Rotunda rotundus building structure with a...
Stone, Copper
19th Century French onyx + ormolu jewellery casket.
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very good quality French 19th Century onyx, ormolu mounted jewellery casket, having Pietra dura floral plaques to each corner, set into classically shaped gilded ormolu mounts. Ba...
Onyx, Ormolu
$82,000Sale Price / set|31% Off
H 89 in W 79 in D 24 in
19C French Empire Style Complete Bedroom Set - Outstanding
Located in Dallas, TX
PRESENTING AN ABSOLUTELY OUTSTANDING 19C French Empire Style Style Complete Bedroom Suite/Set. HIGHLY, IMPORTANT AND UNIQUE Empire Style Bedroom Suite or Set from circa 1880. The Su...
Ormolu
Antique Rococo Style Porcelain Mirror by Meissen
By Meissen Porcelain
Located in London, GB
Antique Rococo style porcelain mirror by Meissen German, 19th century Measures: Height 94cm, width 66cm, depth 14cm Manufactured by the renowned Meissen Porcelain factory, whic...
Porcelain, Mirror
Very Rare 19th Century Extending Jupe Table by Maple & Co
By Robert Jupe, Maple & Co.
Located in London, GB
A very rare ‘Jupe’s’ extensible mechanical action circular dining table By Maple & Co Constructed in mahogany, rising from four ‘lions paw’ feet, which support four reeded and st...
Mahogany
Meissen Porcelain Mirror
By Meissen Porcelain
Located in New Orleans, LA
Lavish Meissen porcelain serves as the extraordinary frame for this mirror. Exquisitely hand-painted in polychrome with gilt accents, the bountiful frame is adorned with all manner o...
Porcelain, Mirror
$9,800
H 50.75 in W 45.38 in D 4.38 in
Exceptional 18th Century Oak Boiserie Panel from Chateau Saint-Maclou, Normandy
Located in Dallas, TX
This fabulous hand-carved boiseries or wooden panel was recently purchased from the Chateau St. Maclou in Normandy, France. Rooms of boiseries had design motifs that were kept the sa...
Oak
$531,611 / set
H 114.5 in W 35.5 in D 5 in
19th Century, Monumental Carved Boiserie Panels from Lartington Hall
Located in London, GB
The Lartington hall carved Boiserie panels by Signor Anton Leone Bulletti. A highly important suite of eight carved and patinated wood panels commissioned by Monsignor Thomas Edw...
Wood, Pine
$260,000
H 6.75 in W 17.5 in D 12.25 in
19th C. Gold, Damascene, Etched Steel Casket Box/Safe with Noble Coat of Arms
Located in New York, NY
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...
Gold, Steel
French Napoleon III Boulle Tea Caddy
Located in Northampton, GB
Single Tea Caddy Compartment From our Tea Caddy collection, we are delighted to bring to market this Antique French Boulle Tea Caddy. The Tea Caddy of square shape with slight bombe...
Bronze, Ormolu
From mere trinkets to useful receptacles that serve a distinct purpose, antique boxes as decorative objects have come in many forms over the years. No matter what they’re made of or where they end up in your home, decorative boxes add both style and storage to your space.
The decorative box that is likely most common is the jewelry box. These boxes were originally known as jewel caskets and were in common use in Ancient Egypt, as most Egyptians wore some sort of jewelry. A portable jewelry box, in its original intended use, was integral to keeping your jewelry safe and secure. This accessory has transformed in size, shape and appearance over the years. Initially it was common for a jewelry box to bear intricate ornamentation. Whether they’re mid-century modern works of marble and brass or feature playful Art Deco–style geometric decor, jewelry boxes boast real staying power.
Snuff boxes began to soar in popularity during the 17th century (and were commonplace in European homes by the mid-19th century). The boxes, some hand-painted with landscape scenes, some made from gold, porcelain or stone, contained a small amount of tobacco, which users would sniff, or “snuff,” throughout the day. Some particularly ornamental snuff boxes featured enameled designs or were set with precious gems and were given as gifts or party favors, particularly at the coronation of royalty or other lavish events.
Whether you’re organizing important mail in the foyer or tucking away medications in your bathroom, antique boxes — be they metal tea caddies, sterling-silver decorative boxes or Victorian cigar boxes made of oak (even if you don’t smoke) — are a sophisticated solution to help keep the surfaces in your home clutter-free. And no matter if you’re seeking a decorative box to beautify a desktop or bestow upon a loved one, you are sure to find something you love in the collection of antique and vintage boxes on 1stDibs.
The French sculptor shaped dense blocks into tactile forms meant to be used and held.
After synthetic dyes changed fashion, home goods and printed matter, it was only a matter of time till glass caught up.
The brilliantly simple design turns a modest bouquet into a major statement.
The Greek tragedian is said to have been handsome in his day.
Even for those who don’t indulge, elegant smoking accessories and audacious art portraying cigar enthusiasts hold a nostalgic allure.
It’s an excellent example of the sought-after ceramics coming out of South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province.
Thanks to its new leadership, the Spanish maker of figurines, busts and lighting is on a mission to update the art of porcelain for the 21st century.
The free-form stoneware piece is inspired by the magnolia tree and its associations with home.