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Boxes For Sale
Style: Art Deco
Style: Scandinavian Modern
Silvered Box att. to Maison Desny (1927-1933)
Located in London, GB
An Art Deco silver plated and beech wood double card box, attributed to Maison Desny (1927-1933)
France, Circa 1930
Category
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Boxes
Materials
Silver
Scandinavian Modern Box in Pewter, Guldsmedsaktiebolaget GAB -1934
Located in Örebro, SE
Art Deco pewter box, Guldsmedsaktiebolaget GAB -1934, with engraving AB.
Wear and patina consistent with age and use. Dents, dings and scratches. The inside of the lid with visible ...
Category
1930s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Boxes
Materials
Pewter
French Art Deco Geometric Marquetry Wood Box
Located in Atlanta, GA
This stunning ornamental lidded box with a marquetry design was made in France around the 1930s. It has a distinctive raised design with a rectangular body and is composed of lacquer...
Category
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Boxes
Materials
Wood
Antique Silver BOX Decorative Box, Sterling Silver Jewllery Box Home Decor
Located in Wembley, GB
Antique valuable handmade sterling silver box or Decorative jewllery box with Illustration pressed, cast and chased. Rectangular body on short, curved feet with hinged, vaulted lid. ...
Category
Late 19th Century Spanish Art Deco Antique Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Silver, Sterling Silver
Art Deco Opaline Glass Box by Curt Schlevogt
Located in Waddinxveen, ZH
Lovely Art Deco small box designed by Curt Schlevogt. Model Sunflower.
Category
1930s Czech Art Deco Vintage Boxes
Materials
Glass
Wonderful Brass on Wood Box by Austrian Designer Karl Hagenauer
Located in Minneapolis, MN
This is a wonderful and rare piece by the great Austrian Designer, Karl Hagenauer (1898-1956). The box, which is hammered brass over wood, depicts a scene typical of Hagenauer's work...
Category
1930s Austrian Art Deco Vintage Boxes
Materials
Brass
Vintage Art Deco sterling silver cigarette box, large, theatre
Located in NEWARK, GB
A stylish vintage Art Deco era sterling silver cigarette box.
This is a large sized box, substantial and heavy, it could also be used as a cigar box.
The box has an engine turned d...
Category
Early 20th Century British Art Deco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Bike Themed Smoking Set, 1920
Located in Saint-Amans-des-Cots, FR
French Art Deco Bicycle-Themed Smoking Set, France, 1920s. This whimsical French Art Deco smoking set from the 1930s features a charming bicycle theme...
Category
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Boxes
Materials
Pewter
Cartier, English-Made Art Deco Sterling Silver Box, 1944
Located in Bath, GB
A magnificent and highly collectable box by the famous house of Cartier, this piece made in England, fully hallmarked for London 1944 together with the initials for Jacques Cartier. ...
Category
1940s English Art Deco Vintage Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
French Black Opaline Quilted Pattern Box with Brass Closure
Located in Los Angeles, CA
An Exceptional Opaline Glass Box with Brass trim and closure. The box is solid opaline and heavy - well designed and made. the condition is very good with no chips or cracks. The...
Category
20th Century French Art Deco Boxes
Materials
Brass
Leather Covered Tobacco Box Wood Brown Jacques Adnet Style France 1940 by Lancel
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
Leather Covered Tobacco Box Wood Brown Jacques Adnet Style France 1940 by Lancel
Category
1940s Art Deco Vintage Boxes
Materials
Brass
Swedish Grace Bronze Box, Sweden 1930’s
Located in Valby, 84
Rare Swedish Grace box made in solid bronze with oak on the inside of the box, the box is made in Sweden in the 1930's in a classic swedish art deco inspired style called Swedish gra...
Category
1930s Swedish Art Deco Vintage Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Smart Antique Shagreen Gaming Counter / Poker Chip Box, c.1920
Located in Bath, GB
A wonderful antique English gaming counter box dating to the 1920's / 1930's.
The box has a secret opening mechanism; the lid is slid to the left which ...
Category
1920s European Art Deco Vintage Boxes
Materials
Shagreen
Contemporary Black Ceramic Bonbonniére, Denmark
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Hand-thrown modern ceramic lidded bonbonniére jar by Danish artist Ulla Sonne on the Danish island of Funen in the 2010s. Shiny black glaze with unglazed edges and base. Peach colore...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Danish Scandinavian Modern Boxes
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware, Pottery
Elegant Gold and Diamond Compact by Van Cleef & Arpels, Circa 1935-40
Located in Miami, US
This exquisite compact, crafted by the renowned Maison Van Cleef & Arpels, exemplifies the artistry and sophistication of the late Art Deco period. Rectangular in shape, the compact ...
Category
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Boxes
Materials
Gold
Art Deco French Chrome & Enamel Ladies Powder Compact, C1930s
Located in Devon, England
This is a really cute and rare find, a 1930's Art Deco compact with the most delightful green and black enamel decoration on a chrome casing . The interior is an engineers delight with a sliding latch on the side of the compact to secure the power in place. Upon opening the lid reveals the mechanics that operates and reveals a powder dispenser...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Art Deco Boxes
Materials
Enamel, Chrome
Antique Jewelry Box Art Deco Period
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful antique Art Deco period jewelry box, styled by Jacques Kreisler, circa early-20th Century, New York, New York. Box is an aubergine ...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Deco Boxes
Materials
Metal
Elegant Tobacco Box in Bakelite. Period Art Deco, 1920s
Located in Knivsta, SE
Elegant Tobacco Box in Bakelite in very period Art Deco, from the 1920s.
Wear consistent with age and use.
Category
1920s European Art Deco Vintage Boxes
Materials
Bakelite
Large French Art Deco Wooden Jewelry Box with Marquetry Inlay
Located in Miami, FL
A large and very good quality French Art Deco style jewelry box made of walnut with fruitwood inlay. Hand-crafted with an eye to details. Grea...
Category
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Boxes
Materials
Fruitwood, Walnut
Powder Case Art Deco style designed for Cartier USA Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Powder case for handbag in 925/1000 sterling silver with black and red fired enamel. Opening with spring button. Ground mirror and retina inside. Measure cm. 7.3 x 7.3 x 1.5. Weight gr.250. Created in the Art Deco style for Cartier USA in the 1980s, inspired by designs by Louis Cartier from the early 1900s. Manufactured in Florence in the Salimbeni company headquarters with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for withstanding numerous high-fire enamelled firings at about 750°<800° C. About cooperation Salimbeni and Cartier.
Our first meetings with the Cartier USA Company took place through the Giorgini Company, the first "Buying Office" set up in Florence immediately after the Second World War, which had the purpose of bringing together Florentine, and also Italian, producers with American buyers, who especially appreciated the artistic objects still manufactured by artisans who still took inspiration from the Italian Renaissance, using techniques handed down from generation to generation.
Mrs. Gina Pestelli, wife of a Florentine retail jeweller, was in charge of contacts with Cartier USA, above all an employee, while her daughter, also for Giorgini, took care of the fashion that in those years was affirmed in Florence with the events of "Pitti ".
With their help, we began to supply frames and boxes in sterling silver gold plated with malachite and other semi-precious stones.
At the same time, the official buyer of Cartier, Mr. William Smith, began to appreciate and commission the first objects with fired enamels, a process of which we have always been specialists.
In 1975 we began exhibiting at the prestigious New York Jewellery Association Show, which we participated in both the February and July editions, for a good 26 years until 2001.
In New York in those years the "Art deco style" was still very much appreciated, still mindful of the beautiful early 20th century architecture of the great buildings such as the "Crysler" or the "Empire State".
We then began to produce frames, boxes, evening bags, "objets de vertu" and other objects in "art deco style" which were very popular with Mr. Smith who gave us some photocopies of Louis Francois Cartier drawings to reproduce them. Thus, numerous cigarette cases, powder compacts, evening bags, frames and table boxes were created exclusively for Cartier USA which, at the time, had the prestigious "Silver Department" on the first floor of the Cartier store on Fifth Avenue.
An evening bag, with matching cigarette case and powder compact, were redone on the design created for a gift given to Mary Pickford at the time. In a 1986 Cartier...
Category
1980s Italian Art Deco Vintage Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Nils Fougstedt Pewter Box for Firma Svenskt Tenn, 1986
Located in Stockholm, SE
Nils Fougstedt (1881-1954), Pewter Box for Firma Svenskt Tenn, 1986
This is an exquisite tin box adorned with intricate meadow flowers in relief. The delicate floral patterns bring ...
Category
1980s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Boxes
Materials
Brass, Pewter
LOUIS KUPPENHEIM 1925 Trompe L'œil Malachite Enameled Box In .935 Sterling
Located in Miami, FL
Art deco Trompe L'œil enameled box by Louis Kuppenheim.
This is a beautiful decorative box, created in Germany during the art deco period, back in the 1925. This superb elegant box ...
Category
1920s German Art Deco Vintage Boxes
Materials
Silver, Enamel
Art Deco Box Pietro Chiesa & Gio Ponti for Fontana Arte, Italy 1930s
Located in Palermo, IT
Amazing rectangular corrugated box made of wood and mirrored crystal with engraving of a spatial concept always on the crystal for an amazing effect to light reflections. Pietro Chie...
Category
20th Century Italian Art Deco Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Metal, Brass
1921 René Lalique - Box Deux Sirènes Mermaids Orange Opalescent Glass
By René Lalique
Located in Boulogne Billancourt, FR
Box "Deux Sirenes" (mermaids) made in orange opalescent glass by René Lalique in 1921.
Wooden base.
Molded signature on lid.
Perfect condition. Sublime color.
diameter: 26 cm
Féli...
Category
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Boxes
Materials
Blown Glass, Wood
ALEXANDRE MARTY 1940 Limoges Decorative Round Box With Enamel On Copper
Located in Miami, FL
An enameled decorative round box designed by Alexandre Marty, (1876-1943).
This is an amazing beautiful round box created in Limoges France by Alexandre Marty, back in the 1945-1950...
Category
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Boxes
Materials
Gold, Copper, Enamel
Lidded Bronze Art Deco Box by H.F. Ægte Bronce, Denmark, 1930s
Located in Malmö, SE
A lidded bronze Art Deco box with amazing patina.
Made by H.F. Ægte Bronce, Denmark, 1930s.
Good condition, only some light scratches.
Stamped ...
Category
1930s Danish Art Deco Vintage Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Art Deco Crystal Glass Trinket Decorative Vanity Box, vintage Austria 1930s
Located in Nuernberg, DE
A really beautiful clear crystal glass Art Deco Trinket Jewelry box or catchall. In very good condition with signs of use. A real collectors item for your Art Deco setting. Nice addi...
Category
1930s Austrian Art Deco Vintage Boxes
Materials
Art Glass
Art Deco Cedar Lined Amboyna & Thuya Burl, Shagreen Box with Bone Trim
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Art Deco table top cedar lined cigarette box in burled Thuya and amboyna wood trimmed with bone and with four panels of pink dyed shagreen in the top conforming to the darker burls o...
Category
Early 20th Century English Art Deco Boxes
Materials
Bone, Shagreen, Amboyna
French Art Deco Cigarette Box or Makeup Pencil Holder by Marius Agogue Loiret
Located in Miami, FL
French Art Deco cigarette box, France, late 1930s. Constructed with fine mahogany and birch woods. Designed by French ebeniste Marius Agogue Loiret.
This very decorative box would ...
Category
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Boxes
Materials
Birch, Mahogany
Cohen & Solomon English Sterling Silver 1918 Cigar Box/ Humidor Art Deco Style
Located in New York, NY
Albert Cohen & Charles Solomon sterling silver and wood cigar box or humidor, made in Birmingham, England in 1918, and in Art Deco style, with an elegant, geometric design and finely...
Category
1910s English Art Deco Vintage Boxes
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
SiGNED VISCOUNT DAVID LINLEY ARCHITECTURAL PERSPECTIVE KEY SAFE WALL CABINET
By David Linley
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
Royal House Antiques
Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this very rare and highly collectable Viscount David Linley Architectural Perspective signed and stamped key...
Category
20th Century English Art Deco Boxes
Materials
Wood
AUSTRIAN 1915 Art Deco Enameled Guilloche Vinaigrette Box In .935 Sterling Silve
Located in Miami, FL
A Viennese Austrian art deco enameled Vinaigrette box.
This is a beautiful box created in Vienna Austria during the early art deco period, back the 1915 and 1918. This Viennese box ...
Category
1910s Austrian Art Deco Vintage Boxes
Materials
Gold, Silver, Enamel, Sterling Silver
French Art Deco Geometric Metal and Wood Box, 1930s
Located in Atlanta, GA
This is a beautifully decorative lidded box with a modernist design crafted in France circa the 1930s. It follows the typical Art Deco style with a minimalist rectangular shape and i...
Category
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Boxes
Materials
Metal, Chrome
Art Déco Édouard Marcel Sandoz's Porcelain Fox-Shapped Box for Theodore Haviland
Located in North Miami, FL
Art Déco painted enameled porcelain cat-shapped box by Édouard Marcel Sandoz for Theodore Haviland
By: Édouard Marcel Sandoz, Theodore Haviland
Material: ceramic, porcelain, paint, ...
Category
20th Century French Art Deco Boxes
Materials
Enamel
A 1930s Art Deco Hand-Carved Oak French Box
Located in Aci Castello, IT
This is a 1930s French Art Deco hand-carved oak box, showcasing a unique blend of craftsmanship and geometric flair characteristic of the Art Deco period.
Solid oak wood, noted for i...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Art Deco Boxes
Materials
Oak
Stunning French Silver & Guilloche Enamel Pill Box
Located in Bath, GB
An absolutely stunning enamel box, French in origin with the boars head mark for solid silver (minimum 800/1000). The goldsmith's makers mark is also present, I think GB but a little...
Category
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Boxes
Materials
Silver, Enamel
Swedish Empire style Butter Box ca 1815
Located in Farsta, SE
Swedish Empire style Butter Box ca 1815
Beautiful patina with its old repairs and nicks.
Made out of Swedish Kolmårds marble.
Heigth: 8 cm/3.1 inch
Depth: 10.5 cm/4.1 inch
Width: ...
Category
1810s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Antique Boxes
Materials
Marble
1924 René Lalique, Box Jar Rambouillet Glass with Grey Green Patina
By René Lalique
Located in Boulogne Billancourt, FR
Box "Rambouillet" made in frosted glass with grey green patina by Rene Lalique in 1924.
Molded signature on lid.
Perfect condition.
height : 4,5 cm
diameter : 7,5 cm
Félix Marc...
Category
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Boxes
Materials
Blown Glass
Art Deco Revival Transparent Box by WMF Germany, 1970s
Located in Esbjerg, DK
A stylish plexiglass and silver-plate box by WMF in Germany. Made during the 1970s and art deco revival in style. Suitable for jewelry, vanity purposes or as a small tobacco humidor....
Category
1970s German Art Deco Vintage Boxes
Materials
Silver Plate
Rectangular French Silver Light Blue Guilloché Enamel and Crystal Table Box
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Rectangular French Silver Light Blue Guilloché Enamel and Crystal Table Box
Hallmarked with French Minerva on the silver rim
This exquisite rectan...
Category
20th Century French Art Deco Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Sterling Silver
Ebony Macassar Box, circa 1930, Brown Color, France
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
Art Deco, Ebony Macassar box, for decoration or jelwery.
It has been made in France arond 1930, it is in a brown color.
Category
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Boxes
Materials
Ebony
Basalt Footed Bowl Designed by Keith Murray For Wedgwood
By Keith Murray
Located in Doraville, GA
A black basalt footed bowl designed by Keith Murray for Wedgwood . The bowl dates to around 1935 and is shape number 3813. The bowl measures approximately 6 1/8 inches in diameter an...
Category
1930s English Art Deco Vintage Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
Owl Box in Cream Shagreen and Bronze-Patina Brass by R&Y Augousti
Located in New York, NY
The Paris based label has distinguished themselves since their launch, with their iconic use of shagreen mixed with brass and other exotic materials. All furniture is handcrafted by ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Philippine Art Deco Boxes
Materials
Brass
Rectangular Art Deco Green Shagreen Box w/Oval Malachite Stone Centered on Lid
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Art Deco green stained shagreen, over cedar, the slightly domed top with a centered oval malachite disk. The box is covered with shagreen on all sides including the bottom.
Category
Early 20th Century English Art Deco Boxes
Materials
Shagreen, Wood
Jewelry box inward corners miniature hand painted Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Large rectangular tabletop jewelery box with inward corners in gilded 925/1000 silver with translucent fired enamel on guillochè also on the sides and finished with fine hand engraving. In the center, a beautiful rectangular miniature cm. 4 x 5.5 hand painted in tempera on vegetable ivory plate by Roberto Masi depicting the portrait of Madame Boucard by Tamara De Lempicka (1931). Size cm. 14 x 19 x 3.2. Weight gr. 1,248. Designed by Giorgio Salimbeni in 1998 and manufactured in Florence in various specimens with different subjects and colours, in the headquarters of the Salimbeni company with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for withstanding numerous glazing firings at high heat about 800°C.
Miniature is a very ancient technique which consists of painting works in small proportions.
It was born for the decoration of the first letter of the paragraph of the books.
Over the years, however, this technique is refined and enriched, then moving on to precious personal items.
hand painted miniatures can be done with multiple different techniques.
The most important that we use on our articles are of three kinds:
1) Fire enamel.
2) Water tempera on an ivory plate.
3) Painted on mother-of-pearl.
Fire enameled miniatures:
On a first layer of enamel generally white or very clear or even transparent suitably liquefied at a temperature of about 750 ° C, the chosen subject is painted using miniature...
Category
1990s Italian Art Deco Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Evening Bag Sterling Silver Shape of an Envelope Black Fired Enamel Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Evening bag in the shape of an envelope in 925/1000 sterling silver with black fired enamel. Measure cm. 8.2 x 4.7 x 13.5 - interior with beveled mirror and velvet lining. With trian...
Category
1970s Italian Art Deco Vintage Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold
Big Art Deco Jewelry Box Vienna Around 1920s
Located in Wien, AT
Big art deco jewelry box vienna around 1920s
Brass polished and stove enameled.
Category
1920s Austrian Art Deco Vintage Boxes
Materials
Brass
Urushi Eggshell Lacquer with Abalone Shell Large Pebble Box by Alexander Lamont
Located in Khet Bang Sue, Krung Thep Maha Nakhon
Refined and sensual small accessories for the desk or vanity have been loved and enjoyed by collectors or aesthetes for many centuries. Examples of beautiful, delicate workmanship ca...
Category
2010s Thai Art Deco Boxes
Materials
Lacquer, Abalone, Eggshell, Wood
Georg Jensen Sterling Silver Box 962
Located in Hellerup, DK
A Vintage Georg Jensen Sterling Silver Box, Design #962B by Jorgen Jensen (1946)
This elegant sterling silver box, designed by Jorgen Jensen in 1946, showcases exquisite craftsmanship. The hinged lid features an Art Deco-inspired handle, and the piece rests on a sturdy, attached bar base. Both heavy and functional, this box makes an excellent gift idea and is perfect for use as a keepsake or jewelry storage box...
Category
1940s Art Deco Vintage Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Pocket Cigarette Case Geometric Design Sterling Silver Enamel Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Shaped rectangular pocket cigarette case in 925/1000 sterling silver with translucent fired enamels on guillochè with Art Deco style geometric de...
Category
1970s Italian Art Deco Vintage Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Box Black and Red geometric Art Deco style designed for Cartier USA Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Box Black and Red enamel is Inspired by drawings by Louis Cartier from the early 1900s in Art Deco style and recreated for Cartier USA in the 1980s.
It is in 925/1000 sterling.
Box B...
Category
1980s Italian Art Deco Vintage Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Danish Modern Solid Teak Tambour Door Box
Located in San Diego, CA
A very nice Danish modern solid teak tambour door box, circa 1970s. The box is in very good vintage condition and measures 9.75"W x 10.5"D x 5.5"H. #2783
Category
20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Boxes
Materials
Teak
Pewter Jar Depicting Pan by Nils Fougstedt for Svenskt Tenn, Sweden, 1944
Located in Stockholm, SE
Amazing pewter jar by Nils Fougstedt, adorned with a flute playing, crosslegged Pan figurine. The tiny flute is made from brass. Beautifully sculpted figu...
Category
1940s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Boxes
Materials
Pewter
Genuine Italian Purple Carved Alabaster Decorative Trinket Box, Italy
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
A lovely hand-carved round Italian alabaster trinket box in purple. This piece will be fabulous to display on a coffee table or dressing ...
Category
20th Century Italian Art Deco Boxes
Materials
Alabaster
Silvered Art Deco Jewelry Box, Vienna, Around 1920s
Located in Wien, AT
Silvered Art deco Jewelry Box, Vienna, around 1920s.
Polished and stove enameled.
Category
1920s Austrian Art Deco Vintage Boxes
Materials
Brass
Art Deco Bronze Box with Flowers in Relief, Denmark, 1930s
Located in Esbjerg, DK
- Small yet heavy Art Deco bronze box with flowers in relief.
- Clean and strict design. With a touch of femininity.
- Rich and original patina.
- It was manufactured in Denmark d...
Category
1930s Danish Art Deco Vintage Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Art Deco 1928 Ladies Compact by Richard Hudnut
Located in Devon, England
For your consideration is this excellent condition Art Deco ladies combination compact dating to 1928. This is a classic Art Deco Richard Hudnut Le Debut Cloisonné Powder, Rouge and Mirror Compact and is an absolute delight in every aspect and genuinely has appears never to have been used.
This compact features a black enamel lid with cream dotted accents; the back of the compact has a spider web machine-tooled finish to accent the octagonal shape of the compact. The case opens to a rouge compartment with a mirror in the lid that is behind a gold toned Art Deco decorated cover. The loose powder compartment is in the lower section of the compact; and it has a hinged and latched recessed door to hold a puff. This feature was a later addition to the initial solid powder product release of 1924 and has the patent date stamped on the underside of the hinged door reflecting an issue date of 1928. The original rouge is in untouched condition and still shows the embossed name Le Debut while the loose powder well is empty. Inside it is hallmarked "Le Debut", "Richard Hudnut" on the Art Deco mirror frame...
Category
Mid-20th Century North American Art Deco Boxes
Materials
Enamel, Chrome
Italian Deco Crystal Box or Vase with Silver Lid, Italy, 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Gorgeous Art Deco Italian vase in a beautiful combination Murano crystal cut glass, black glass and 800 silver. Produced in Italy during the late 1930s, in amazing condition with no ...
Category
1930s Italian Art Deco Vintage Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Silver
Vintage, Mid-Century and Antique Boxes
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.