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Decorative Boxes For Sale
Early 19th Century Russian Stained and Carved Bone Table Box with delicate gold
Located in Larkspur, CA
Early 19th century Russian stained and hand-carved Bone Table Casket Kholmogory Box, veneered with panels of foliate engraved stained bone alternating with geometric and foliate fret...
Category
Early 19th Century Russian Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bone
Antique English Paper Mache Ladies Writing Box or Lap Desk with Japanned Finish
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This antique writing box or lap desk is unsigned, but presumed to have originated from England and date to approximately 1880 and done in the perio...
Category
Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Paper
Early Original R & Y Augousti Paris Seashell Marquetry Box
Located in Atlanta, GA
This is an early original lidded box designed by the famed decorative arts design firm Ria & Youri Augousti, Paris. The rare piece boasts geometric seashell marquetry with trim accen...
Category
1990s French Art Deco Decorative Boxes
Materials
Shell, Wood
Filigree Early 20th Century Silver Box with Floral Motifs
Located in New York, NY
Silver box, in filigree motif, probably Russian or Chinese, showcasing intricate floral and geometric designs, from the early 20th century, measuring 3 1/4'' in length by 2 1/4'' in ...
Category
Early 20th Century Asian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
1880s Asian Carved Wood Box with Drawers
Located in Tarrytown, NY
1880s Asian carved wood box with drawers.
Category
1880s Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
19th Century Dore Bronze Mounted Blue Opaline Cut Crystal Box
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
This classic blue opaline cut crystal box catches the light in such a way as to make it seem as if it’s glowing from within. Note the lean cut and smooth edges of its crystal facets....
Category
Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
French Limoges Basket Shape Trinket Box with Flowers
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Charming Limoges trinket box featuring basket with plwers painted on the top. This piece would certainly make a wonderful gift for yourself to add to an existing collection or for th...
Category
Mid-20th Century French French Provincial Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Brass
Bohemian Cut Crystal Box, 19th Century, Napoleon III Period.
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Bohemian cut crystal box, 19th century, Napoleon III period.
Bohemian cut crystal box, brass mounting, late 19th century, Napoleon III period.
H: 15cm, W: 19cm, D: 11cm
Category
19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Brass
Holger FridericiasCasket Box in Patinated Bronze, 1930s
Located in Esbjerg, DK
Thin stocked small scaled treasure chest - casket box in bronze applied green verdigris patina (cold paint). Suitable for storing small personal 'treasures' like jewelry, tea, tobacc...
Category
1930s Danish Art Deco Vintage Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Tiger Eye Lidded Semi Precious Stone Box
Located in New York, NY
Tiger eye lidded semi precious stone box. Gold, brown and yellow richly changing colour hardstone box with gold-wash silver hinge attributed ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Stone, Silver
A collection of seven Val Sat Lambert 1920s gold perfume bottles
Located in London, GB
A collection of seven Val Sat Lambert 1920s gold perfume bottles. All differing sizes with original crystal stoppers. Dimension is the largest bottle.
Category
1920s Belgian Vintage Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal
Antique a Chinese Famille Rose Porcelain Box wiht Monogram, 1820
Located in Norton, MA
A truly fine hand-painted porcelain box with a monogram of family characters. 1820's.
Category
Early 19th Century Chinese Other Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Porcelain
Anglo-Indian Mother of Pearl Inlaid Jewelry Box
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Anglo-Indian Mother of Pearl Inlaid jewelry Box.
1940s Victorian Anglo Indian box in silver, bone and mother of pearl Inlaid.
An elegant Anglo Indian bon...
Category
Mid-20th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Antique French liquer cellar, cabinet “Cave a liqueur”
Located in Delft, NL
Antique French liquer cellar, cabinet “Cave a liqueur”
An antique French book-shaped lidded liquer cellar cabinet, also called “Cave a liqueur”. A liqueur cellar hidden in 18th cent...
Category
19th Century French Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Leather, Wood
Whippet Jewelry Box
Located in New York, NY
Whippet jewelry box. Vintage Italian leather bound velvet lined box with bronze patinated whippet. Italy, 1940’s.
Dimensions: 8.5” H X 8.75" W x 5.75...
Category
1940s Italian Vintage Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal
Mid-20th Century Italian Leather Playing Card Case
Located in Stamford, CT
Wonderful Italian handcrafted tooled leather playing card case with painted enamel-like decoration of cards on the sides and symbols for all the suites, clubs, diamonds, spades and hearts on the cushion top. Beautifully made and clearly loved, a charming gift for the poker player or gambler. Holds two decks.
Stamped on the bottom in gold letters, 'Genuine Leather, Made in Italy'. With a fleur di lis mark stamped...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Leather
Antique Southeast Asian Filipino Maranao Silver Inlaid Brass Betel Nut Box
Located in Forney, TX
A scarce fine quality antique silver-inlaid solid brass betel nut box (Lutuan), dating to the second half of the 19th / early 20th century, hand-crafted in Mindanao, Philippines.
Boxes such as this were used to store the areca nut (also known as the betel nut) which would be wrapped in a betel leaf with lime paste and other ingredients, often tobacco, for chewing. Similar to the European tea caddy, these boxes often served as a way to impress while showing off ones wealth.
Betel chewing was prevalent in the southern Philippines as in much of the rest of Southeast Asia. Wealthier Maranao families on Mindanao were able to afford elaborate silver-inlaid brass betel boxes such as this example. Such boxes were used to show off to guests and from which they were offered betel and the other component such as leaves and lime to make up the betel quid.
Rare large size, most extant examples of such boxes tend to measure around 5 inches in length. At slightly more than 7.75 inches the example here is larger than most.
The distinctive decorative box features a very heavy strong-box like rectangular shaped chest form with canted corners, copper handles, and a conforming hinged lid, lifting open to reveal an interior divided into three compartments covered by four hinged lids. Each of these doors is inlaid with silver in stylized orchid flower patterns.
Exceptionally executed throughout, the arabesque silver inlaid exterior is decorated to the top with a large orchid motif within scrolling obid-obid (stylized rope) borders. The front, back and sides are inlaid with sets of stylized tail feathers of the sari-manok bird beneath which are unusual, highly stylized whimsical zoomorphic faces that appear like cat or tiger faces. (Such stylisation is accounted for by Southeast Asian Islamic preferences to avoid the overt and this potentially idolatrous representation of animal and human forms. Designs such as these are drawn from a local design repertoire that has its origins in wood carving.
Although the spread of Islam in the Philippines began in the 14th century, mostly through the influence of Muslim merchants from the western Malay Archipelago, decorative arts in this design remain exceptionally rare. This lutuan represents a fine example of Islamic metalwork from the most eastern outreach of Islamic art and civilisation: Mindanao island being significantly further east than even China – artwork from Islamic Southeast Asia remains chronically under-represented in the world’s major collections of Islamic art.
PROVENANCE / ACQUISITION
Acquired from highly reputable auction house, Austin Auction Gallery, established 1983, Austin, Texas.
References
Brownrigg, H., Betel Cutters...
Category
19th Century Philippine Islamic Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver, Brass, Bronze, Copper
Lapis Lazuli And Semi Precious Stone Intarsia Box
Located in Queens, NY
A beautiful present box of an octagonal form, hand crafted of lapis lazuli with semi precious stone inlays on the lid and sides including rhodochrosite, malachite, picture jasper, an...
Category
Late 20th Century Unknown Decorative Boxes
Materials
Lapis Lazuli
$1,750 Sale Price
30% Off
19th Century Swedish antique genuine rustic Bent wood box with original paint
Located in Boden, SE
19th Century Swedish Folk Art Bentwood Box from Hälsingland, Northern Sweden.
Oval box with lid.
Originalpainted with nice patina after several hundred years of use.
Beautifully pain...
Category
Mid-19th Century Swedish Folk Art Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Pine
Postmodern Tessellated Stone Box
Located in Houston, TX
Late 20th Century Postmodern tessellated travertine and black marble box with brass inlay and brown cloth interior lining.
Category
Late 20th Century Post-Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Stone, Travertine, Marble
Curly Walnut Hinged Artisan Box
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Nice Hinged Curly Walnut Box. Very nice shape with interesting top grain lid. One dent to corner as shown in photo.
Category
1980s American American Craftsman Vintage Decorative Boxes
Materials
Walnut
French Faience Tea Canister Flowers Emile Tessier Malicorne Circa 1930
Located in Austin, TX
French Faience Tea Canister Flowers signed Emile Tessier Malicorne Circa 1930.
Painting of tulips and roses
Height / 6.8 inches.
Category
1930s French French Provincial Vintage Decorative Boxes
Materials
Faience
Vienna Secession Metal Box by Josef Hoffmann and Wiener Werkstätte, Austria
Located in North Miami, FL
1920s Vienna Secession silvered metal box with wooden interior by Josef Hoffmann and Wiener Werkstätte, Austria
By: Wiener Werkstätte, Josef Hoffmann
Material: metal, silver plate, ...
Category
1920s Austrian Vienna Secession Vintage Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal, Silver Plate
Geo III Wedgwood and Steel Mounted Amboyna and Ebony Writing Box, c1800
Located in valatie, NY
The hinged rectangular top with three oval Signed Wedgwood plaques depicting putti at various pursuits within oval paterae mounted swagged and beaded borders, opening to a morocco leather lined hinged slope enclosing a well, the upper section fitted with candlesticks and compartmentalized for inkwells, above a hinged lid the front with a spring loaded secret drawer opening to a needle or pincushion and spools of thread.
This unusual work box, mounted with blue and white jasperware signed Wedgwood plaques, is English in conception. The writing box was a popular form first used in the 18th c and well into the 19th c for traveling. This type of portable desk was described by the English poet William Cowper in 1785 as 'the most elegant, the compactest, the most commodious desk in the world.'
Additionally, the jasperware plaques, came from Josiah Wedgwood's factory in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England. Its proximity to the steel manufacturing city of Birmingham, the birthplace of Matthew Boulton, producer of decorative metalwork (including cut steel mounts) and described by his friend and fellow-industrialist, Josiah Wedgwood, as 'the first Manufacturer in England', certainly suggests an English origin and possibly his handwork.
However, the polished steel mounts are also typical of furniture and objects made in Tula, Russia, where the Imperial Arms Factory was founded by Peter the Great in the early 18th c and which later became known for its decorative objects, including furniture and domestic pieces. Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia, ordered the 'Frog Service...
Category
Early 1800s English George III Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Cut Steel
Antique China Wood Pencil Box Chicken Cock Figth Imerial Court Scene Top, 18th C
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Antique China Wood Pencil Box Chicken Cock Figth Imerial Court Scene Top, 18th C
Beautifully painted.
Additional information:
Material: Wood
Type: Box
Region of Origin: China
Date...
Category
18th Century Chinese Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
$398 Sale Price
20% Off
Vintage carved Chinese cinnabar box
Located in Kenilworth, IL
Vintage Chinese carved cinnabar lidded box with black enameled interior. The carved lid centers on a basket of flowers on a patterned field within a framed reserve.
Category
20th Century Chinese Decorative Boxes
Materials
Enamel
Chinese Lao Tian Li Cloisonne Cylindrical Box, Late Qing Dynasty, China
Located in Austin, TX
A delightful antique Chinese cloisonné cylindrical box and cover by Lao Tian Li, late Qing Dynasty, circa 1900, China.
The box of cylindrical form and w...
Category
Early 1900s Chinese Qing Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass, Copper, Enamel
Antique Austrian Silver & Enamel Cigarette Case with Floral & Ribbon Decoration
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This silver and enamel cigarette case is hallmarked by an unknown maker and is presumed to have been made in Austria in approximately 1920. The case is composed of .800 silver and ha...
Category
Early 20th Century Austrian Art Deco Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
19th Century Anglo Indian Inlaid Mosaic Box With Drop Front and Drawers
Located in Stamford, CT
19th Century Anglo Indian fall front box with six drawers with metal pulls. The exterior and interior inlaid throughout with bone and various woods. Intricate geometric designs cover...
Category
Mid-19th Century Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bone, Fruitwood, Holly
1970's Ceramic box by Mithé Espelt
By Mithé Espelt
Located in Bois-Colombes, FR
1970's Ceramic box by Mithé Espelt
Category
1970s French Vintage Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic, Wood
Sterling Silver, Lidded Porcelain Trinket or Snuff Box
Located in LA CIOTAT, FR
A charming little sterling silver-lidded porcelain box, possibly used for snoring snuff, or for general trinkets. The silver top is decorated in Louis XVI style, and bears the Minerv...
Category
18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
Mid-Century Squared Lucite and Chrome Pocket Emptier in Dior Style, France 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Stunning midcentury Lucite and chrome squared valet tray or ashtray. This wonderful item was produced in France in the style of Christian Dior in 1970.
The pocket emptier is lovely because of the beautiful straight lines and the chromed metal central part, making it look like a cube of ice with a floating rounded chromed plate in the middle.
A wonderful example of design from the 1970s, both for the fusion of materials and colours. The chromed plate can be moved, changing the shape of the item.
A gorgeous item that will enhance a midcentury-style living room, studio or entrance hall.
Christian Dior was founded in 1946 by designer Christian Dior. It currently designs and retails leather goods, fashion accessories, footwear, jewelry, timepieces, fragrance, makeup, and skincare products, while also maintaining its tradition as a creator of haute-couture under the Christian Dior Couture division. The Christian Dior label remains largely for women's offerings, although the company also operates the Dior Homme division for men and the baby Dior...
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1970s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Decorative Boxes
Materials
Chrome
Large Edwardian Bentwood Hatbox
Located in Riverdale, NY
Large Edwardian Bent Wood Hat Box with metal riveted banding for support on all edges. Has a lot of period labels including Cunard Ships, with 4 feet as well to sit upright. Great fo...
Category
1910s European Edwardian Vintage Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bentwood
A Vintage Maitland Smith Tessellated Horn and Stone Box With Brass Trim
Located in Charleston, SC
A flat-lidded brown polished horn box by Maitland Smith, with two beautifully inlaid and brass trimmed polished greenstone ( I believe to be amazonite tiles surrounded by a gilt bras...
Category
1970s Unknown Art Deco Vintage Decorative Boxes
Materials
Stone, Brass
American Modern Sterling Silver Box by Ubaldo Vitali for Cartier
Located in New York, NY
Modern sterling silver box. Long and rectangular with straight sides and sharp corners; cover hinged with overhanging rim and gently curved top. Box interior cedar lined and partitioned. Cover interior gilt. Nice proportions. Plenty of room for engraving. Fully marked including maker’s (Ubaldo...
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Late 20th Century American Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Antique English Large Tunbridge Box With Marquetry Inlay
Located in Bridgeport, CT
An antique English Tunbridge box with geometric inlay, hinged lid, red velvet interior, felted bottom and comes with working key. The box with a diamond form inlaid medallion flanked...
Category
19th Century English Victorian Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Velvet, Wood
Vintage Cobalt Blue Royal Limoges France 22-Karat Gold Trinket Box
By Limoges
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Elegant vintage round Limoges 22-karat gold trinket jewelry box.
French vintage Limoges trinket box in cobalt royal blue with fine gold decor.
Marked...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Louis XVI Decorative Boxes
Materials
Porcelain
Antique English Sterling Silver Playing Card Box, 1899
Located in Bath, GB
A superb late Victorian playing card box made from English sterling silver fully hallmarked for Birmingham 1899; the makers mark is also present for the well renowned English silversmith, Levi, and Salaman.
The box retains the two heavy beveled glass panels to the top with one card below depicting Elizabeth...
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1890s English Late Victorian Antique Decorative Boxes
Antique Bronze Box from Belgium Gothic Style
Located in Miami, FL
Gothic Style, very detailed crafted antique bronze box.
Marked underneath, made in Belgium.
In original good condition.
A-444-335
Category
20th Century Belgian Gothic Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Midcentury Box in Lucite, Wicker and Chrome Christian Dior Style, Italy 1970s
Located in Rome, IT
Midcentury amazing rectangular box in lucite, rattan and chrome in the style Christian Dior Home.
Made in Italy in the 1970s.
Great accessory for any modern interior.
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal, Steel, Chrome
Antique Wooden Cash Register
Located in Praha, CZ
- made in Oak
- Minor signs of use due to age and use
- all seems in functional order
- Missing one key from down part drawer but the drawer is not locked and can be opened
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Early 1900s Central American Mid-Century Modern Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood, Oak
Art Deco Streamline Walnut Jewellery Box, c1930
Located in Devon, England
Totally original Art Deco Walnut jewellery box with streamline shape. Made in the UK in the 1930's , still with it's original material lining. The lid of the box depicts a playful sk...
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Mid-20th Century English Art Deco Decorative Boxes
Materials
Cotton, Walnut
Rare Scottish George III Corporation Treasury Box
Located in Greenwich, CT
Rare Scottish George III corporation treasury box, dated 1772, of caddy form, the lid with cove molded edge, the front with polychrome decoration commemorating the Edinburgh Corporat...
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Mid-18th Century Scottish George III Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Antique Porcelain Box English Ware Made by L & Sons ltd Hanley Staffordshire
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Collectible Porcelain Box English Ware Made in England by L & Sons ltd Hanley.
Antique ceramic box marked English Ware Made in England by Lancaster...
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Mid-20th Century English Victorian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
Thorens Swiss AD 30 Upright Music Box with Ten Discs, circa 1970
Located in Evergreen, CO
Manufactured by the renowned Thorens Company of Switzerland in the mid-20th century, this delightful music box is comprised of a quality fruitwood case with a glass door that allows ...
Category
1970s Swiss Vintage Decorative Boxes
Materials
Fruitwood
19th Century Baccarat Cut Crystal Box or Casket with Gilt Bronze Mounts
By Baccarat
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
19th Century Baccarat Cut Crystal Box or Casket with Gilt Bronze Mounts. Beautiful cut crystal box in a faceted design. Box is mounted in a gi...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
19th Century French Provençal Walnut Fariniere Box
Located in Winter Park, FL
A 19th century French Provençal fariniere, or decorative box made of walnut with fine hand-carved decoration of a large flower urn. Waxed patina. This...
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19th Century French Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Walnut
1930s Carl Aubock I Storage Box / Cigarette Dispenser with Roll Top, Austria
Located in Vienna, AT
A rare storage box or cigarette dispenser with a roll down lid from the 1930s, this is an early design by Carl Aubock I. Handmade of wood and nickel-plated brass. In good condition.
Category
1930s Austrian Art Deco Vintage Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass, Nickel
Vintage Hindu Indian Punjab Inlaid Marquetry Rosewood & Bone Jewelry Box
Located in Portland, OR
A very attractive vintage inlaid rosewood Indian jewelry box.
The hinged box made is from solid figured rosewood and finely and is sumptuously inla...
Category
Mid-20th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bone, Ebony, Rosewood
Korean Lacquer and Mother of Pearl Inlay "Longevity" Box, 1930s, Korea
Located in Austin, TX
A fine and elegant Korean black lacquer and abalone mother of pearl inlay "longevity" box, circa 1930s, Korea.
The box, most likely used to sto...
Category
1930s Korean Showa Vintage Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood, Lacquer, Abalone
Antique Charles X French Cut Glass Casket with a Bronze Mount
By Baccarat
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine antique French cut glass casket.
With a pressed and cut glass body and cover with a gilt bronze mount.
Together with an associated key fo...
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Early 19th Century French Charles X Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Cut Glass
Small Japanese Lacquer Duck Incense Box, Kogo, Meiji Period, Late 19th Century
Located in Austin, TX
An exquisite Japanese Meiji Period small lacquer incense box, kogo, in the form of a duck or goose, late 19th century, Japan.
The delicate lacquer box, known as a kogo in Japanese, ...
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Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Lacquer
An Exceptional 19th Century Renaissance Revival Vienna Silver Sugar Casket
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
An exceptionally fine 19th century ‘Renaissance Revival’ silver sugar casket, showing a hinged lid richly decorated with repousse & hand chased foliate mo...
Category
Mid-19th Century Austrian Renaissance Revival Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
Superb Quality Antique Victorian Burr Walnut Brass Bound Writing Box
Located in Suffolk, GB
Superb quality antique Victorian burr walnut brass bound writing box having brass bounded corners and edges around a superior quality burr walnut writing box opening to reveal a writ...
Category
19th Century English Victorian Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Antique Black Forest Brienz Hand Carved Trinket Box, Folk Art 1890s
Located in Nuernberg, DE
Found in Germany at an estate sale, this hand carved trinket box or catchall is perfect for the collector. Nice antique collectible to display in yo...
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1890s German Folk Art Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
19th Century Wooden Carved Painted Display Cabinet Chest Tabernacle
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
European 19th Century Wooden Carved Painted Display Cabinet featuring a mirror glass locking door. This versatile piece could be used to store jewelry or collectables. We also see th...
Category
Mid-19th Century European Empire Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Mirror, Wood
Art Deco Alabaster French Powder Vanity Jar, c1930
Located in Devon, England
For you consideration is this stunning Art Deco ladies powder bowl made in alabaster. Originating from France and dating to the 1930's is this beautifully coloured and beautifully hand painted ladies...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Art Deco Decorative Boxes
Materials
Alabaster
Fine Antique French Malachite and Bronze Jewelry Box, c.1890
Located in Bath, GB
A truly fabulous late nineteenth century jewelry box made from a fine example of malachite, the first image is the most true colour in person.
The Malachite during this era was ag...
Category
1890s French Late Victorian Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Malachite, Bronze
$7,985 Sale Price
20% Off
Hug Black and Gold Box
Located in Paris, FR
Box Hug Black and Gold all in hand-crafted porcelain,
in black finish and gold-plated with 24K.
Box with lid. Delivered in luxury gift box.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate
$1,418 / item
Maitland Smith Extra Large Tessellated Travertine and Brass Box
Located in New York, NY
Wonderful Extra large Tessellated Travertine and Marble box by Maitland Smith.
The hinged Travertine box is complemented by a burgundy border with brass inlays,
The box sits on br...
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1980s Philippine Mid-Century Modern Vintage Decorative Boxes
Materials
Travertine, Marble, Brass
Antique, New and Vintage Decorative Boxes
Antique, vintage and new decorative boxes will safely store items while adding a splash of color or texture to a corner in any room. They have had a range of purposes over the years — from trinkets to serving as useful receptacles, such as snuff boxes, jewelry boxes and more. Boxes have also been designed in a range of forms and styles.
Box making is a craft dating back thousands of years. Early boxes as decorative objects were regularly designed and decorated both inside and out, ranging from minimal looks to more flashy styles. Decorative boxes have been constructed from different materials, with wood and metal being the most common. Wood is widely available and versatile, with woodworkers able to carve complex designs or showcase its natural grain.
Some antique jewelry boxes were made with tortoiseshell, mother-of-pearl, ivory and even porcupine quills, such as those created by the Anishinabe in Canada and the United States. In Sri Lanka, well-crafted boxes were inlaid with porcupine quills and ivory discs between ebony bands. Chinese sewing boxes and tea boxes made of black lacquer were popular in Europe during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. These often featured gold-painted designs or landscape scenes. Silk, paper and velvet frequently enhanced these boxes’ interiors.
Any style of decorative box can be a nice tabletop or desktop decor, whether to hold candy or tea in the living room or paper, pencils and other business supplies in the office. They can also act as jewelry boxes. Sewing boxes can be a lovely touch to any space while storing magazines or other trinkets.
You can find metal, wood and silver antique boxes on 1stDibs. The collection includes mid-century modern, Victorian and Art Deco styles that can add elegance to any home.
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