18C Indo-Persian Campaign Vanity Box

Presenting a fabulously rare 18c Indo-Portuguese Vargueno mini cabinet. Extremely rare, highly important and desirable colonial piece ! It is an In...

PRESENTING A STUNNING 19C Irish Coromandel Wood Campaign Decanter Box. STUNNING mid-Victorian Decanter box from circa 1860-1880. Made in Dublin...

PRESENTING A LOVELY Wedgwood Jasperware Pale Blue Circular Lidded Vanity Box. Made by Wedgwood in England in 1957 and fully and properly marked/stamped on base. Marked: “Wedgwood, Made in England …. “P” … “B” ….. “1957”. An early Wedgwood post 1950 piece. 3.5 inches tall lidded vanity box with a diameter of 5 inches. Rolling vine and grape cameo reliefs, all over the lid and base sides. Fabulous large pointed finial on the lid with floral cameo reliefs on the sides. Exterior in an unglazed matte biscuit finish, but the interior of the box base, has a high gloss finish. In very good original condition, save one minor repair to the inside of the base rim. Not very noticeable but reflected in the reduced pricing. A ‘PERFECT’ match for the smaller and almost identical, lidded jasperware box...

PRESENTING A LOVELY Wedgwood Jasperware Pale Blue Small Circular Lidded Vanity Box. Made by Wedgwood in England in 1982 and fully and properly marked/stamped on base. Marked: “Wedgwood, Made in England …. “PH” … “T” ….. “82”. 2.25 inches tall lidded vanity box with a diameter of 3.25 inches. Rolling vine and grape cameo reliefs, all over the lid and base sides. Fabulous large pointed finial on the lid with floral cameo reliefs on the sides. In very good original condition with no chips or cracks. A ‘PERFECT’ match for the larger and almost identical, lidded jasperware box...

Presenting an absolutely gorgeous and very rare 19C Anglo Indian Vizigapatam stamp box. Made in Colonial India (the Time of the Raj) circa 1860. Prob...

PRESENTING A BEAUTIFUL and RARE 19C Anglo Ceylonese Specimen Wood Trinket Box. Made in ‘Galle’, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) circa 1860-80. Made for the ex...

Indo-Persian brass box with lid decorated with three prongs, bottom of box lined with velvet, incised with figural and floral patterns. .25" H x 8.5" W.

Handcrafted Khatam wooden box with very delicate micro mosaic marquetry from the ancient Persian technique of inlaying from arrangements of so many delicate pieces of wood, precious wood, and delicate miniatures paintings. This beautiful Middle Eastern Persian style box is covered inside and out with fine Moorish micro mosaic marquetry. Indo Persian Moorish style micro mosaic inlaid jewelry box with lid. Intricate inlaid Asian Indian box with floral and geometric Islamic Moorish Sadeli design in a square shape form with inlay marquetry, very fine artwork, lined in red velvet. Museum collector piece like the one in Doris Duke Islamic Art Museum. The repeating geometric patterns of Sadeli Mosaic are what give it beauty and richness. This decorative technique is a type of micro mosaic featuring repeating geometric patterns. A highly skilled craft, it has had a long history in India and the Middle East with early examples dating back to the 16th century. In the 1800s, it became popular as a decoration on a variety of boxes, card cases, and chess boards imported from India. Since Bombay became a center of making them, they became known as Bombay boxes...

This handsome rosewood English vanity box retains the original glass bottles and jars with silver plated tops, 19th century. The inside reveals multiple compartments and a spring loaded lever opens the secret drawer...

This is an antique travelling vanity box. An English, leather bound campaign correspondence case, dating to the late Victorian period, circa 1880....

Fine antique large handcrafted vintage marquetry Indo Persian wood inlay micro mosaic with miniature hand painted scene. Fine Antique handcrafted precious box micro mosaic inlaid in geometric design and with a miniature Islamic painting scene of men on horses. This beautiful collectible Moorish box in covered with fine Moorish micro mosaic marquetry and the top is decorated with a miniature painting of a 19th century scene of Royal princes wearing traditional Royal Maharajas clothes and playing polo on horse. The box is very finely inlaid inside and out. These Middle Eastern Persian inlay boxes were used to store pens. Museum quality piece like the ones in Doris Duke Islamic Art Museum. Finely handcrafted khatam wooden box with very delicate micro mosaic marquetry from the ancient Persian technique of inlaying from arrangements of so many delicate pieces of wood, mosaic marquetry. Dimensions. Height: 2.25 in. Width: 8.25 in. Depth: 4 in. Circa 1940s, handcrafted in Asia. Moorish mosaic Marquetry wear consistent with age and use, one tiny piece missing on the inside corner, not visible when the box is closed. Great Islamic Art collector museum quality piece on this miniature painting on boxes. Anglo Indian Moorish style micro mosaic inlaid jewelry box with lid. Intricate inlaid Anglo Indian box with geometric Moorish Sadeli design in an rectangular 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 are what give it beauty and richness. This decorative technique is a type of micro mosaic featuring repeating geometric patterns. A highly skilled craft, it has had a long history in India and the Middle East with early examples dating back to the 16th century. In the 1800s, it became popular as a decoration on a variety of boxes, card cases, and chess boards imported from India. Since Bombay became a center of making them, they became known as Bombay boxes. The ancient art of Sadeli Mosaic is said to have been introduced from Shiraz in Persia via Sind to Bombay, a long time before Indian boxes appeared. The designs on early boxes 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 isn’t immediately apparent to the viewer. About Khatam Artwork: Khatam is a Persian version of marquetry, art forms made by decorating the surface of wooden articles with delicate pieces of wood, metal and other natural substances precisely-cut geometrical shapes. Moorish Jewelry, Islamic Mosaic, Middle Eastern Mosaic, Micro Mosaic Inlay, Egyptian Jewelry Box...

A superb antique 19th century English Victorian burled walnut travel campaign vanity box featuring inlaid brass fruit basket motif with mother of pe...