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Jewelry Boxes For Sale
Natural, Grey Bone Dimensional Tiled Box
Located in New York, NY
Decorative optical illusion keepsake box with beveled details and contrasting bone tiles. Lined in Wood.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Spanish Modern Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Wood, Bone
Sterling Silver and Wood Mirrored Jewelry Box by Marcello Giorgio
Located in San Diego, CA
Italian sterling silver and wood (high gloss - possibly cherry or walnut) mirrored jewelry box by Marcello Giorgio, circa 1990s. The box is in very go...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Grand Malachite Jewelry Box 10 Lb
Located in Somis, CA
A truly exceptional extra large malachite jewelry box. On raised feet the box with malachite of various patterns and spectacular natural vein of blue...
Category
2010s African Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Malachite, Onyx
Jewelry Box, Napoleon III Period
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Jewelry box, Napoleon III period
Nice jewelry box in gilded and silvered brass (original gilding and silvering), crystal top, Napoleon III period, 19th century.
Dimensions: H: ...
Category
19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Brass
Late 20th Century Handmade Jewelry Box with Malachite
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Late 20th century handmade jewelry box with malachite, gold threads and mohair velvet fabric. Made in Italy, 20th Century.
Dimensions:
8"H x 13.5"W x...
Category
20th Century Italian Other Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Malachite
Tiffany Studios New York Bronze Doré and Abalone Desk Box or Jewelry Box
Located in South Bend, IN
A gorgeous Art Deco period bronze doré and inlaid abalone cigarette box, desk box, or jewelry box
By Tiffany Studios
New York, USA, early 20th century
Measures: 5.5"W x 3.5"...
Category
Early 20th Century American Art Deco Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Georgian Mother of Pearl Jewelry Box
Located in Northampton, GB
Georgian 19th Century Jewellery Box
From our Jewellery Box collection, we are delighted to offer this Georgian Mother of Pearl Jewellery Box...
Category
Early 19th Century British Georgian Antique Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Abalone, Mother-of-Pearl, Velvet
Vintage Jewelry Box in Blue Textile With Floral Motifs
Located in Grythyttan, SE
A vintage jewelry box in blue textile with floral motifs.
Probably made in Sweden in the mid to late 20th century. Made of wood, mirror glass, c...
Category
20th Century Swedish Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Textile, Wood
Antique Bohemian Glass Jewelry Box, 19th Century
Located in Rostock, MV
Fine Unusual Bohemian Casket Jewelry Box with Hinged Bronze Mounts
Dore Bronze Swinging Handles
Lid is Framed in Bronze
Clear Glass with Milky...
Category
19th Century Antique Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Whisper Box Mini w/ Satin Gold Glazed Interior by Nika Zupanc
By Nika Zupanc
Located in Milan, IT
Hide items of personal value in the gold interior of this box: jewelry, love tokens and secrets and recall Nika’s credo: “To challenge the rational sober and utilitarian by giving vo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Metal
Stunning Embossed Leather on Wooden Box w. Don Quixote & Sancho Panza Sculptures
Located in Lisse, NL
Top quality made and near-antique box depicting Don Quixote, Sancho Panza and also Miguel de Cervantes.
Over the years we have had the pleasure of owning and selling some truly beau...
Category
20th Century Spanish Renaissance Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Iron, Brass
Hand-Painted Dome Top Wood and Brass Decorative Chest
Located in Germantown, MD
A fancy highly decorative, hand painted wooden box in good vintage condition. Heavy solid brass hardware. Meadures 19.5" in width, 10.25" in depth and 14" in height.
Category
Late 20th Century Argentine Modern Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Brass
19C Anglo Indian Carved Padouk Wood and Sadeli Mosaic Box
Located in Dallas, TX
PRESENTING A LOVELY 19th century Anglo-Indian Carved Padouk Wood and Sadeli Mosaic Box, featuring a carving of a Hunt Scene.
Made circa 1870 in Bombay, India during the Rule of th...
Category
Late 19th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Antique Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Silver, Pewter
White Opaline Murano Glass Box and Cover with Silvered Decorated Rim
Located in London, GB
A precious little milky white Murano glass box and cover with an intricate silvered decorated rim.
Category
20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Metal
Blue Indian Lapis Lazuli Lidded Box
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Stunning blue lapis lidded box with hinge. The interior is wood. A lovely decorative piece for any table or desk, ready to hold everything from keys to love letters! ... or the candy...
Category
20th Century Indian Grand Tour Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Lapis Lazuli
Box in Burled Wood and Brass Brown Color France 19th Century
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
This box is in burl wood. It has been made in France in the 1870s. The color is brown, and it is in an good condition.
Brown color.
Category
19th Century French American Classical Antique Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Silk, Wood
Danish Modern Solid Teak Dovetail Multiuse Box with Drawer
By Peter Hvidt, Dansk
Located in San Diego, CA
Beautiful handmade solid teak box with drawer, circa 1980s simple and elegant well-made dovetail great quality. with small compartments inside the drawer.
Category
20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Teak
Postmodern Marble Travertine Jewelry Box by Maitland Smith
Located in San Diego, CA
This beautiful box by Maitland Smith exudes style and glamour. This design from the late 1970s is glamorous and functional. The postmodern lines in almost a pedestal structure, are covered in a beautiful veined travertine marble in hues of dark pinks. The defined pink marble lines...
Category
1970s American Post-Modern Vintage Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Travertine, Brass
Red Resin Jewelry Box
Located in New York, NY
A small red resin laminate over wood jewelry box. A convenient box for holding jewelry (as demonstrated) or other small items on desk, vanity, bedside table, dresser, on top of books...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Resin, Wood
1960s Astonishing Box in Onyx. Made in Italy
Located in Milano, IT
1960s Astonishing box in onyx. Made in Italy. This box is amazing and in excellent condition.
Dimensions:
7,08 x 4,33 x 1,57 H inches
18 x 11 x 4 H cm
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Onyx
Louis XVI Period Antique 18th Century French vari-coloured 18kt gold oval shaped
Located in Braintree, GB
Louis XVI Period Antique 18th Century French vari - coloured 18kt gold oval shaped box.
Makers Mark: LD
Made in France, Paris 1773oval-shaped
Fully hallmarked.
Amidst the opulen...
Category
1770s Louis XVI Antique Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Gold
Regency Leather Box
Located in Greenwich, CT
Regency leather covered sarcophagus shaped sewing box with gilt repoussé brass mounts and ribbed bolster ends over heavily molded top, the bombe body s...
Category
1810s English Antique Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Leather
Mid 20th Century Anglo Indian Carved Wood Jewelry Box Kashmir India
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Vintage hand carved wood jewelry trinket storage box with brass inlaid.
Hand-carved large wooden Anglo-Raj jewelry box. Found in Kashmir, India.
Mi...
Category
Mid-20th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Brass
Vintage Brutalist Hand Worked Metal and Abalone Jewelry Box, 1994
Located in View Park, CA
An exquisite handmade vintage Jewelry box, signed, 1994. Pearly pink art glass, mirror, mauve gemstones, and hand worked metal comprise this...
Category
Late 20th Century American Brutalist Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Multi-gemstone, Metal
An Early Victorian Burr Walnut Velvet Cushion Lined Ladies Vanity Box
Located in High Wycombe, GB
An Early Victorian Burr Walnut Velvet Cushion Lined Ladies Dressing Box
Box features an elegant ebonised banding.
The domed cover with central brass carrying and fall front handle ...
Category
19th Century British Victorian Antique Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Brass
French Inlaid Diminutive Commode Jewelry Box
Located in Tampa, FL
1800s French inlaid diminutive commode. It is a salesman sample converted into a jewelry box with the two deep compartments and back lined in velvet. The interior could have been mad...
Category
Early 1800s French Antique Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Brass
3 Pc, Natalia Brilli Lampskin Leather Jewelry Suite
Located in Atlanta, GA
This suite includes rare items from her collection including:
1)Nolex Watch In Gold lambskin leather
2)Le Sautoir Necklace in Gold lambskin leather
3)Le Sautoir Bracelet in Gold in gold lampskin leather
"Natalia Brilli...
Category
20th Century French Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Leather
Brazilian Agate Onyx and Wood Round Jewelry Trinket Box, Brazil, 1980s
Located in New York, NY
A round Brazilian agate onyx and wood trinket or jewelry box, in the Modern style Post-Modern period, circa-late 20th century, 1980s early 1990s, Brazil. Box has a rich brown wood wi...
Category
Late 20th Century Brazilian Post-Modern Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Onyx, Agate
Dior Mid-Century Lucite Tortoiseshell Effect and Brass Jewelry Box, Italy 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Amazing mid-century lucite and brass decorative jewelry box. This fantastic piece was designed in Italy during the 1970s for Christian Dior.
This piece, is in its unique elegance,...
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Brass
Pair of Malachite Jewelry Boxes 3.5 lb
Located in Somis, CA
A pair of stunning grade AAA malachite boxes with a fantastic turkey tail pattern. Gemstone malachite ranges from light to dark green, with the highly sought after ones displaying co...
Category
2010s Unknown Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Malachite
Anglo Indian Micro Sadeli Mosaic Inlaid Hexagonal Box
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Anglo Indian Moorish style micro mosaic inlaid jewelry box with lid.
Intricate inlaid Anglo Indian box with floral and geometric Moorish Sadeli design in an octagonal shape form with micro mosaic marquetry, very fine artwork.
Museum collector piece like the one in Doris Duke Islamic Art Museum.
The repeating geometric patterns of Sadeli Mosaic...
Category
Early 20th Century Moorish Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Fruitwood
English Stitched Saddle Leather Three-Section Watch Box
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
English Stitched Saddle Leather Three-Section Watch Box
England, Later 20th Century
Elevate your watch collection with this English stitched saddle leather three-section watch box,...
Category
Late 20th Century English Modern Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Silver Plate, Magnets
Middle Eastern Persian Micro Mosaic Khatam Inlaid Jewelry Box
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Large Middle Eastern Indo-Persian Micro Mosaic Khatam Inlaid Wooden Jewelry Box.
Middle Eastern Persian Sadeli micro mosaic marquetry inlaid box with geometric Moorish design.
Handcrafted Khatam wooden box with very delicate micro mosaic marquetry from the ancient Middle Eastern technique of inlaying from arrangements of so many delicate pieces of precious hand painted wood, with bone around the edges.
This beautiful Middle Eastern Persian, Indian Wooden box is covered with fine Moorish micro mosaic marquetry and is used as a jewelry, trinket box.
Lined in deep red velvet.
Dimensions: 6.5in.D x 3in.H x 10 wide.
Nice Indian Mughal, Indo Persian Box...
Category
Mid-20th Century Indian Moorish Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Fruitwood
Antique Gilt Bronze Decorative Jewelry Box or Casket with Floral Decoration
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This antique gilt bronze decorative or jewelry box is unsigned, but presumed to have originated from France and dates to approximately 1900 and done in a Renaissance Revival style. T...
Category
Early 20th Century French Renaissance Revival Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Antique Victorian Table Top Jewellery Collectors Cabinet 19th C
Located in London, GB
This is a elegant Victorian mahogany table top jewellery collectors cabinet, circa 1840 in date.
The cabinet is freestanding, finished all...
Category
1840s English Victorian Antique Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Mahogany
20th Century Art Deco Wood Italian Jewelry Box
Located in Catania, Sicilia
20th Century Art Deco Jewelery Box. Delicate rhombus decoration typical of the Italian Art Deco period.
Category
1930s Italian Art Deco Vintage Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Fruitwood
Silver-Plate Round Box, Velvet Lined, Midcentury
Located in New York, NY
Charming silver plated box, showing silver worn through to brass on the lid. The interior is lined with velvet, the bottom shows a mark "f" for Faro with a crown and made in Portugal...
Category
Mid-20th Century Unknown Art Deco Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Silver
Round favor Box with lid in 925/1000 Sterling Silver Light Blue Enamel Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Round favor Box with lid in 925/1000 Sterling Silver Light Blue Enamel Salimbeni. Favor or small container in cut crystal and lid in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translu...
Category
1960s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Sterling Silver, Gold Plate
Japanese Antique Kiri Wood Miniature Tansu Chest with Sliding Doors and Drawers
Located in Yonkers, NY
A Japanese Taisho period kiri wood miniature tansu chest from the early 20th century, with sliding doors and drawers. Created in Japan during the Taisho peri...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Taisho Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Metal
Watch Box in Scottish Elm with Maple and Walnut Basket-Weave Parquetry lid
Located in Edinburgh, GB
6 Watch box in Scottish elm, with a hand cut parquetry lid in ripple maple and walnut in a basket weave pattern inspired by guilloche watch dials....
Category
2010s Scottish Modern Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Brass
Dyrlund Danish Modern Teak Desk Accessory or Jewelry Box
By Dyrlund
Located in South Bend, IN
A nice Mid-Century Danish Modern solid teak dresser box, jewelry box, or desk accessory box
Denmark, circa 1970s
Measures: 12"W × 8.75"D × 3.2...
Category
1970s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Teak
Antique Jewelry Box "The Hunt", 1910s, Silvered, Art Nouveau, Iron Craftmanship
Located in Greven, DE
Exceptional antique jewelry box with fine depictions of hunting themes and forest animals.
Heavy iron work, silvered in a very good condition.
Lined with turquoise fabric in a good c...
Category
Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Iron
Large Square Bookmatched Malachite Box with Removable Lid Made in India
Located in New York, NY
The malachite for this box was sourced from the Congo, where the finest quality of this mineral is currently found. The malachite for this box was sent to India where the stone was c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Indian Grand Tour Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Malachite, Marble
1940s Art Deco Baccarat Powder Box
By Baccarat
Located in LA CIOTAT, FR
A charming 1940s Art Deco crystal lidded powder box, from the renowned glass manufacturer Baccarat, and originally used as a container for loose face powder...
Category
20th Century French Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Crystal
19C Anglo Indian Bombay MOP Sadeli Mosaic Trinket Box
Located in Dallas, TX
PRESENTING a LOVELY 19C Anglo Indian Bombay MOP (Mother of Pearl) Sadeli Mosaic Trinket Box from circa 1875-85.
Gorgeously detailed and hand-crafted ‘sadeli mosaic’ inlay, from the Bombay Area, with deep greens with silver, pewter, mother of pearl, bone and ebony in geometric patterns.
The box case, is made of sandalwood but completely covered in MOP, bone, faux ivory, ebony and mosaic inlay.
Edged with faux ivory and banded with a different pattern of sadeli mosaic.
Some minor damage to the top (repair is obvious in pics) and ivorine replacements to some edging, but it still a BEAUTIFUL BOX and of real QUALITY!
The mosaic work is FABULOUS!
Box opens to reveal its original blue velvet lining.
It sits on 4 (recently added) silvered button feet.
SADELI MOSAIC: “Anglo Indian boxes were made in India for the English residents from the early part of the 18th century. They were brought back or sent back to England usually by the people who had commissioned them. From the beginning of the nineteenth century they were imported more commercially, although not in any significant numbers until the middle decades. They were very highly valued, especially the early ones, to the extent that the designs were copied on late 19th and early 20th century tins.
The ancient art of Sadeli Mosaic is said to have been introduced from Shiraz in Persia via Sind to Bombay, a long time before the Anglo Indian boxes were made. It was a technique, which required a high degree of skill and patience. It was executed very lavishly, in that the frequent cuts wasted a great amount of the precious materials used. The workmanship was however more than commensurable to the value of the materials.
Ivory, silver, pewter (or other metals), wood and horn were cut into faceted rods which were bound together to form geometric patterns. When the glue has set, the rods were sliced in transverse sections. This gave the maker a number of angled circular pieces in the original pattern. Several variations of patterns could be achieved by combining the materials in different ways. The ivory was sometimes dyed green to give an extra color.
The mosaic pieces in a combination of patterns, often separated by ivory, ebony, horn or silver stringing were used to veneer sandalwood boxes. In the early boxes, which date from the turn of the 18th to the 19th century, there are large panels of mosaic covering tops and sides of boxes. It took incredible skill to cover such large areas without any shakes or wavering of the pattern. The corners and joins on these boxes are impeccably matched.
The makers (reputed to be Persian) of Sadeli mosaic made in the first two decades of the 19th century displayed a total understanding of the qualities of the different materials they used. They combined substances, which can expand and contract according to atmospheric conditions with others, which are hard and unyielding. The result was a sharp definition of the lines and patterns, which made up the whole design.
On the early boxes the designs look deceptively simple. The fact is, they emerged from a culture, which had mastered geometry and understood how to generate a pattern from a set number of points. The patterns are so harmoniously combined that their incredible complexity is not immediately apparent.
The earliest Sadeli boxes...
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Late 19th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Antique Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Silver
Scandinavian Modern Jewelry Box in Teak and Leather ca 1950-1960's
Located in Örebro, SE
Beautiful jewelry box in teak and leather. Inscription HM on top, ca 1950-1960's. Unknown designer and maker.
Good vintage condition, wear and patina consistent with age and use. S...
Category
1950s European Scandinavian Modern Vintage Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Leather, Teak
English 19th Century Jewelry Box
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
An English 19th century jewelry box with lift up lid topped with an inlaid pearlescent urn flanked by floral and foliate motifs opening on origi...
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19th Century English Victorian Antique Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Wood
WMF Art Deco Jewelry Box, Vienna, Around 1920s
Located in Wien, AT
WMF Art Deco jewelry box Vienna around 1920s.
Polished and stove enameled.
Category
1920s Austrian Art Deco Vintage Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Brass
Mid-century pink Piano-shaped Jewelry Boxes / music boxes, Reuge Switzerland 1950s
Located in Firenze, IT
Mid-century pink mirrored Piano-shaped Jewelry Boxes / carillon "mademoiselle de Paris"
Reuge Switzerland 1950s
Pink colored mirrored wood
When you o...
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1950s Swiss Mid-Century Modern Vintage Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Brass
Victorian Coromandel Vanity Box Glyn Cywarch Estate
By James Vickery, Henry Lewis
Located in Northampton, GB
Dating to 1857 hallmarks for James Vickery and makers plaque Henry Lewis
From our Vanity Box collection, we are delighted to offer this exceptional Victorian Coromandel Vanity Box...
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Mid-19th Century British Victorian Antique Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Multi-gemstone, Silver, Brass
Brass jewelry box in style of Dagobert Peche and Wiener Werkstätte
Located in Banská Štiavnica, SK
Brass jewelry box in style of Dagobert Peche and Wiener Werkstätte.
Category
Early 1900s Austrian Jugendstil Antique Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Brass
Vintage Limoges 22k Gold Trinket Jewelry Boxes Louis XVI Courtesan Scene
By Limoges
Located in BILBAO, ES
Elegant vintage Limoges 22-karat gold trinket jewelry boxes.
French vintage Limoges porcelain in cobalt royal blue with fine gold decor.
Marked on base as “Limoges France" Porcelain D' Art ”.
Beautiful cobalt blue porcelain with 22-karat gold hand painted with with the classic courtesan scene of a man and woman in the Louis XVI period attire.
Perfect gift for your special someone.
One small box. 6 x6 cm / 2.32 x 2.32 inches
One piano box...
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Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Enamel, Gold Leaf
Blue Alabaster Box with Sliding Attached Round Lid
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Beautiful shimmery round alabaster box with sliding lid. Unique custom blue colored box is perfect for your mementos, coins, jewelry or 420. Slide the lid shut for an elegant complim...
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20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Alabaster
Aimara Medium Alpaca Silver Box
By AIREDELSUR
Located in Buenos Aires, AR
The waves on a choppy lake, rough by the wind, inspire the design of alpaca boxes and picture frames of this family, whose name comes from the tribe that dwelled in the North Argenti...
Category
2010s Argentine Modern Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Metal, Sheet Metal
Art Deco Curved Glas Jewelry Display Counter by T. Louis, Paris, 1930's
Located in Saarbrücken, SL
Black sales showcase with curved glass from the Art Deco period made in Paris.
The manufacturer's emblem is still present. The glass is in good condition with slight signs of use ...
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1920s French Art Deco Vintage Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Glass, Wood
Lucite and Silver Metal Squared Italian Decorative Box, Gabriella Crespi, 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Beautiful midcentury decorative box in clear lucite and steel. This item was designed in the 1970s in Italy in the style of Gabrielle Crespi.
This ...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Metal, Steel
Round favor Box lid in Sterling Silver Light yellow floral miniature Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Round favor Box lid in Sterling Silver Light yellow floral miniature Salimbeni.
Wedding favor or small container in cut crystal and lid in 925/1000 sterl...
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1960s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver
Pill Box Yellow floral miniature in Art Nouveau style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Pill Box Yellow floral miniature in Art Nouveau style Sterling Silver Salimbeni.Round pillbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent...
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1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Antique, New and Vintage Jewelry Boxes
If you have jewelry, chances are you have an antique, new or vintage jewelry box. This simple item was born from a simple need. It offers jewelry lovers a place to store their most cherished treasures. The idea behind a good jewelry box is that precious items deserve a place of honor.
It’s no surprise, then, that jewelry boxes (also called jewelry caskets or trinket boxes) have existed for as long as we’ve worn jewelry. It’s among the most popular decorative boxes we have in our homes, and we can find early versions that date at least as far back as Ancient Egypt. All Egyptians adorned themselves with necklaces, rings, earrings and other accessories, and the era’s jewelry boxes resembled small treasure chests. Later, fine jewelry became cost prohibitive and the only people with jewelry boxes were those who could afford jewelry.
Following the Industrial Revolution, jewelry was no longer made by hand. Mass production and the demand of the growing middle class rendered jewelry more accessible. Jewelry of the Romantic period, which refers to early Victorian jewelry, is reflective of these economic shifts. Jewelry from this time tends to be feminine and ornate, and embellished with seed pearls, coral and turquoise. Naturally, it was stored in elaborate, decorative Victorian-era jewelry boxes that were sometimes crafted from hand-painted porcelain or sterling silver.
Nowadays, jewelry boxes do more than keep jewelry safe and organized. They’re popular collector’s items that have become as treasured as the contents themselves. An eye-catching vintage jewelry box, which is at least 20 but less than 100 years old, is a valuable decorative object, a sign of luxury and elegance that adds character and texture to any bedroom. Some jewelry boxes are even embellished with a few jewels of their own.
If you’re not tucking your jewelry into a drawer or shallow tray atop your vanity, perhaps an Art Deco trinket box with charming brass hardware or a sculptural, hand-carved rosewood mid-century modern jewelry box lined with linen and velvet will do?
Today’s jewelry boxes come in a variety of styles and sizes and are made of metal, wood, plastic and other materials. Give your cherished jewelry the good home it deserves — find an extensive collection of antique, new and vintage jewelry boxes today on 1stDibs.
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