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Liquor cellar with cut crystal bottles and glasses
Located in Paris, FR
Flamed mahogany liqueur cellar with brass inlaid frame simulating box hardware. The side handles are also inlaid around a motif of two swans facing each other. The keyhole and openin...
Category
Antique 1870s Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
19th Century Charles X Gilt Bronze and Mother-of-Pearl Box
Located in Paris, FR
Small, oval Charles X box in mother-of-pearl and gilded bronze with a flower-shaped key. The lid has a white nacre plate and is decorated with a central medallion that displays color...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century French Charles X Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Sewing Box in Rosewood Veneer, Gold and Silver, Restoration Period
Located in Paris, FR
Precious rectangular sewing box in rosewood veneer called. Uncovered, it presents a mirror with braids on the back of the lid. This charming sewing set is lined with moire and pink velvet and is composed of two small square porcelain bottles with openwork polychrome flowers, marked "L" on the bottom, a removable rectangular pad supporting two spools of gold thread and finely chiseled with a central chiseled cartridge-shaped, overhung by a button. A central tray on a raised base holds five sewing items...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Restauration Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Silver
Pair of Ring Holders in Mother of Pearl and Gilt Bronze, Palais Royal Work
By Palais Royal
Located in Paris, FR
Pair of Charles X ring holders (baguiers) with ormolu mounts embellished with small flowers. A high backing of mother-of-pearl joins a small, ormolu bowl featuring openwork interlaci...
Category
Antique 1820s French Charles X Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Ormolu, Bronze
Gold box of Louis XVI period
Located in Paris, FR
Three-tones gold oval snuff box. The hinged lid is decorated with a country trophy medallion. The medallion is framed by a garland of green gold foliage and roses. The medallion is d...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Gold
Charles X Cut Crystal Casket with Ormulu Mounts
Located in Paris, FR
A rectangular cut-crystal casket with a "bamboo" cut. The crystal is set in an ormolu mount with finely chased flower bands. The lock is decorated with a motif of cornucopia. This bo...
Category
Antique 1820s French Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal
Composition of red tortoiseshell gold piqué-work box, 18th century
Located in Paris, FR
Circular box in composition of red tortoiseshell powder called "Indian red". Inlays of nets in the form of waves of different shades of gold (rose gold and white) run across the lid...
Category
Antique 1750s French Louis XV Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold
Gold and Enamel Zarf, Swiss, Early 19th Century
Located in Paris, FR
A gold and enamel zarf, pierced and enamelled. The collar is decorated with geometric patterns enamelled green and blue. The zarf has two medallions of pin...
Category
Antique 1820s Swiss Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Enamel
Early 20th Century Bi-Colour Gold and Enamel Case
Located in Paris, FR
A rectangular vanity case or box, with bi-color gold and green translucent enamel. The decoration presents an alternation of gold bands and enamel bands of translucent green color revealing a guilloché. The box reveals three compartments probably to contain cigarettes and matches. Each part is framed by a frieze of white enamel and has thumpiece set with diamonds. The main compartment is adorned with a circular A.S monogram set with diamonds.
Work from the beginning of the 20th century probably for the Russian market.
L: 4.25in. (10.8cm) / W: 1.96in. (5cm) / H: 0.59in. (1.5cm).
Weight: 6.59in. (187 g).
18 k...
Category
Antique Early 1900s French Art Deco Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Enamel
Louis XVI Gold Snuff Box, Circa 1778
Located in Paris, FR
Oval snuff box in three tones of gold. The hinged lid is decorated with an intricate scale pattern surrounded by a frieze of roses, ribbons, and pink, green and white gold leaves. Th...
Category
Antique 1770s French Louis XVI Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Gold
Early 19th Century Gold Box
Located in Paris, FR
Rectangular snuffbox with angled corners in several colors of gold. The hinged cover, the sides and base are decorated with a guilloché of parallel strips. The composition is framed ...
Category
Antique Early 1800s French Restauration Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold
Swiss Enamelled Gold Snuff-Box for the Oriental Market, circa 1820-1830
Located in Paris, FR
Rectangular and scalloped snuff box in gold and fine stones. The hinged lid is decorated in the center with a naval scene; Steamboat; standing out against a translucent and opalescent background revealing a fine guilloche pattern. This scene is framed by flower motifs whose hearts are set with stones: rubies, emeralds and old cut diamonds. The scalloped box...
Category
Antique 1820s Swiss Charles X Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Enamel
English 18th Century Gold-Mounted Agate Snuff-Box
Located in Paris, FR
Agate box or snuff-box in of circular form with gently bombé sides, the gold mounted lid is chased with scrollwork.
Probably Georges II period.
Unmarked gold...
Category
Antique 1750s English George II Decorative Boxes
Materials
Agate, Gold
19th Century Sewing Box by Maison Aucoc, Paris
By A. Aucoc
Located in Paris, FR
Late 19th century oval sewing box decorated with crowned monogram. The case contains five gold and steel sewing utensils embellished with small flowers. Labeled on the inside: AUCOC A PARIS. Weight: 27.6 g,
circa 1860
Dimension: W 4.5 in, D 2.4in, H .8in.
Dimension: L 11.5cm, P 6cm, H 2cm.
La Maison Aucoc...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Napoleon III Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Steel
Early 19th Century Gold and Enamel Box, Swiss Work
Located in Paris, FR
Rectangular box with three tones of gold and royal blue enamel. The hinged lid is embellished with a multicolored gold medallion in relief featuring a bouquet of roses and tulips, se...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century Swiss Empire Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Gold
Gold Snuff Box, Restauration Period, circa 1820-1830
Located in Paris, FR
Rectangular box with rounded corners. The hinged lid as well as the bottom are embellished with an intricate geometric pattern framed with rinceaux motifs on a matte gold background....
Category
Antique 1820s European Restauration Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Gold
Jewelry Box with the Portrait of Madame de Sévigné
Located in Paris, FR
Louis-Philippe jewelry box crafted of crystal and gilt bronze. The ormolu lid chiseled with garlands of roses, is decorated with a miniature featuring Madame de Sévigné. Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné (1626-1696) was a French aristocrat and writer, one of the great icons of French 17th century literature. The crystal body of the box is highlighted with ormolu garlands of flowers and ribbons. The bottom of the box is carved with a radiant pattern. The jewelry casket rests on three feet embellished with foliated scrolls and shells. The miniature is signed Marc (for Marc-Louis Arlaud?).
circa 1840
Dimensions: W 5.9 in, D 5.1in, H 3.1in.
Dimensions: L 15cm, P 13cm, H 8cm.
Literature
Marc-Louis Arlaud (1772-1845) was a Swiss portrait...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Napoleon III Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Charles X Dance Card in Mother-of-Pearl and Bronze, Palais-Royal Work
Located in Paris, FR
Charles X dance card in mother of pearl and ormolu, embellished with flowers and flowery interlacing. It is engraved with “Souvenir” and decorated with deli...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century French Charles X Books
Materials
Bronze
Mid-19th Century Wooden Coffer Inlaid with Mother-of-Pearl
Located in Paris, FR
Sizeable rectangular, wooden coffer with its key. The blackened wood is inlaid with mother-of-pearl and brass. The lid and the main face of the box are r...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Napoleon III Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Brass
19th Century Dance Card in Mother of Pearl and Gilded Bronze, Palais-Royal Work
Located in Paris, FR
Charles X dance card in mother of pearl with gilt bronze mounts. It is engraved with plants, flowery interlacing, and bouquets of flowers. An enameled pansy adorns the cover, a typic...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century French Restauration Books
Materials
Bronze
19th Century Restauration Snuff Box with Micromosaic
Located in Paris, FR
Small rectangular Restauration snuff box crafted in gold. The hinged lid is decorated with an oval micromosaic representing St. Peter's Square in Rome. Micromosaic is set in a gold s...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century French Charles X Tobacco Accessories
Materials
Gold
See larger image Early 19th Century French Cut Crystal Box in Rare Amber Color
Located in Paris, FR
Charles X yellow cut-crystal box with molded "bamboo" ribbing on the body and long squares and diamond patterns on the lid. Finely sculpted gilt bronze mounts are decorated with flow...
Category
Antique 1820s French Charles X Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ormolu
19th Century Charles X Gilt Bronze and Mother of Pearl Box with Flowers
Located in Paris, FR
Delicate rectangular mother of pearl box engraved with garlands of leaves. The box is mounted in gilt bronze and intricately sculpted with interlacing, garlands and baskets of flower...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century French Charles X Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Mid-19th Century Limoges Enamel Flask
By Limoges
Located in Paris, FR
Small flask in Limoges enamel and silver mounts with its original stopper. All of its surfaces are decorated with figures set in a gallant landscape. On the body, a couple of young l...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Silver, Enamel
Gold Box, Early 19th Century, Restauration
Located in Paris, FR
Exceptional rectangular box or snuff box in four-tone gold. The hinged lid in fine relief has an astonishing composition: the central panel in Amati gold is decorated with symmetrica...
Category
Antique 1820s French Restauration Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Gold
Rock Crystal Box with Enameled Gold Mounts, Algernon Asprey Ltd, Sheffield
Located in Paris, FR
An oval, the lid applied with a pink enamel flower and green leaves on which rests a gold butterfly with pierced wings, twisted rope cagework mounts, the base rim engraved 'Designed & enameled by Philip Barnes, made by Ron Edwards for Algernon Asprey...
Category
Vintage 1970s English Modern Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Rock Crystal, Gold
Large Gold Candy Box 18th Century
Located in Paris, FR
Large and circular box featuring two shades of gold. The removable lid is embellished with detailed, concentric lines and with a central medallion representing a dove flying over a f...
Category
Antique 1750s French Louis XV Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Gold
18th Century Gold Sewing Box with Wax Case, Scissors, Seal
Located in Paris, FR
A 18th century set presented in trapezoidal case made of light wood and inlaid with marquetry. The vanity case includes a gold wax case decorated with fl...
Category
Antique 1780s French Louis XVI Collectible Jewelry
Materials
Gold
Round Bonbonniere in Gold and Enamel, Louis XVI Period, 1779
By René-Antoine Bailleul 1
Located in Paris, FR
Bonbonnie`re, or candy box, in intricately patterned gold and translucent, ruby-red enamel. Thin bands of gold are inlaid in the enamel. A painted enamel medallion decorates the lid ...
Category
Antique 1770s French Louis XVI Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Gold, Enamel
Portait Box Signed Cartier à Paris, 20th Century
By Cartier
Located in Paris, FR
Rectangular gold case or box signed Cartier in Paris. The case is finely guilloché with rhombic motifs and framed by a stylized foliated frieze. The c...
Category
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Tourmaline, Gold
Charles X Cut-Crystal and Ormolu Jewelry Box
Located in Paris, FR
Exquisite oval-shaped cut-crystal antique jewelry box. The crystal is chiseled into twisted patterns, and the mounts are of gilt bronze, which is decorated with small flowers, pearls...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century French Charles X Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Enamel Coffer with Mythological Scenes Signed Klein in Paris, 19th Century
By A. Klein
Located in Paris, FR
Small, rectangular, enamel coffer decorated with mythological scenes that are framed with spiraling lines of ormolu and attached with flowers at the corners. The Rape of Proserpina by the god Pluto adorns the lid. The front and back of the box are decorated with images of Diana being woken by her nymphs and the Rape of Europa. The sides have images of Mercury educating Cupid and a bath scene...
Category
Antique 1860s French Louis XVI Decorative Boxes
Materials
Enamel, Ormolu, Bronze
Late 19th Century Limoges Enamel Keepsake Box
By Limoges
Located in Paris, FR
Small, rectangular, enamel keepsake box from Limoges. The lid is decorated with a central medallion featuring the profile of an upper-class woman, who was certainly the owner of this...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Renaissance Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Enamel
19th Century Napoleon III Liquor Cellar in Ebony with Brass Inlay
Located in Paris, FR
Liquor cellar in brass inlaid ebony with crystal glassware. The top of the box is engraved with the initials of the owner. Front and top sides are decorated with golden rinceau, foli...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Napoleon III Barware
Materials
Crystal, Brass, Bronze
19th Century Napoleon III Burl Wood Sewing Box
Located in Paris, FR
Varnished, burl wood sewing box, decorated with Greek frieze and brass inlays. The box contains a mirror and sewing utensils made of bone and brass, as...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Napoleon III Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
