Decorative Boxes

This rustic container was made over a hundred years ago to measure and hold a dou of rice, an ancient Chinese measurement. Hand-crafted of pine wood, the vessel has gracefully swelli...

A beautiful copper casted box. Richly decorated with dragons and oriental motifs. The inside is covered with cedar wood, ideal for storage cigars. Dimensions: 8(h) x 18 x 12 cm The...

Collectible lift-top wooden box with lithograph applied to lid reading "Puff, Puff, It is an age of Puffing, Puff, Puff" and an image of a well-frocked woman covering her face in distress as multiple men stride past from both directions with smoking pipes...

Beautiful antique pyrogene, depicted as a miniature oven. Rare cigarette equipment. France, early 20th century.

A beautifully decorated deep blue cloisonne hinged top box, Meiji period, circa 1910, Japan. The trinket or jewelry box featuring a slightly domed lid decorated with a bold design of blossoming peony and lily in muted shades of pink, blue and yellow against a deep blue enamel ground. A small area of goldstone at the bottom left in the rocky base the peonies emerge from. The sides of the box decorated with scrolling wire work and scattered white plum...

English Hand-Painted Regency Style Sarcophagus Egyptian Revival Kindling Box.

Early 20th century metal lock box now decoupaged with butterfly decoration, English. Bramah lock with original key. Swing handles. Decoupaged Greek key ...

Enameled box by Louis Kuppenheim for Alfred Dunhill. An extraordinary box, created in the city of Pforzheim Germany during the art deco period, back in the late 1920's. This superb elegant case box is closely to mint condition, is very rare and was carefully crafted at the Louis Kuppenheim workshop in solid .935/.999 silver, with gilt interiors. Exceptional workmanship as you expect of the workshop of Louis Kuppenheim, with remarkable enameled patterns of peacocks feathers on both faces. Embellished around with white enamel frames and the borders with incised and carved panels with flowers. The side parts with black enamel. As note, this box actually can be used for presentation cards Engraved: Gussie Gerstenzang Weight: 139.20 Grams, (89.23 Dwt). Measurements: 83 mm by 62 mm by 14 mm (3.25 x 2.44 x 0.55 Inches). Hallmarks: Each part is stamped with British crown import marks for the city of London, the importation gothic letter N for 1928, the German export silver assay mark .935, the five digits serial numbers, the sponsor mark GS, an asymmetric cartouche with ASC .935 and signed, "DUNHILL LONDON FOREIGN STERLING .925 06753". Louis Kuppenheim Company The company was grounded in 1854 by Louis Kuppenheim (1824-1889) and Heinrich Witzenmann, specialized in silver and gold and enameled artefacts. On the World Exhibition in 1900 the firm received a gold medal for a letter opener. In that same year the company opened a branch in the Rue Richelieu 67 in Paris. In these years some designs by Hans Christiansen were executed, amongst them very delicately enameled silver cigarette cases. The enamels on the several silver and gold pieces was of very high standard, and sometimes even gems like rubies were applied. Very famous were the ladies silver vanity cases with cute animals like cats and monkeys...

Antique Cast Iron Crane Foundry Co C.H. Crane Ship Strongbox Safe with Lions. Item features a very heavy cast iron construction, figural lion relief, b...

Alfred Louis Achille DAGUET (1875 - 1942) was a metalsmith active in Paris during the first part of the 20th century. His metalwork created prior to the outbreak of World War I, note...

A rare and unusual German Jugendstil wooden box applied with silver plated scroll overlay by renowned maker WMF (Württembergische Metallwarenfabrik) and dating from around 1905. The ...

Neo gothic style bronze box circa 1900.

A mother-of-pearl lustre box with orange lustre interior and decorated with polychrome butterflies outlined in gold, designed by Daisy Makeig-Jones circa 1920. Designer Daisy Make...

We are very pleased to offer an Old-World brass tin box from England, circa the early 1900s. This sturdy wooden box is richly covered with an embossed brass sh...

1920s Embossed copper that is wrapped around a wood box Glass jewels adorn the box.. Warriors battling.

Jugendstil sugar bowl brass and glass conbination around 1908. Brass polished and stove enameled. Original glass.

The Figurines and Voiles Boxe is an interesting design of the boxes by R.Lalique. This one has a full decor of Nymphs in seated positions holding veils in their hands. The deco...

1920's luterma reval birch bent wood hat box. Good quality shaped plywood box by the re-knowned makers luterma. Stamped on the inside of lid and on ...

A fine French Art Deco cigarette box, France, late 1930s. Very good quality, constructed of walnut wood and leather. Beautiful natural materia...

An unusual and very fine antique Burmese silver oval box the cover decorated with a Tree of Life probably dating from the early 20th Century. The box is of flat oval shape with finel...

Elegant bronze case from Oscar Antonsson, in heavy quality. Beautiful decor of a reclining woman, lovely attention to detail. Wood dressed inside.

Lovely and unique hinged jewelry box. Graceful bowed shape. On four legs with paw feet. On top is an applied clover or trefoil, inlaid with mother-of-pearl . Very solid gauge silver....

Large Chinese Export red lacquer character box, sculptural, well executed Chinese two part lacquer table box. Decorated with vines, symbols and bats. Unmarked.

A rare and stunning Arts & Crafts Omar Ramsden silver and enamel cigarette box and cover. Rectangular in shape with a hinged cover featuring wire-work man-of-war sailing ship in roug...

Set of four Japanese lidded porcelain jars. Second jar is 3.75 diameter, 3 high. Third jar is 2.25 diameter, 2.5 high. Fourth jar is 2 diamet...

These beautifully-aged wooden containers date to the late 19th century and were originally used to transport and store a nutritious butter made from y...

Huge Japanese red lacquerware gourd motif box, decorated in relief with Japanese gourds suspended from leafy branches and scrolling vines.

Early 20th century antique parchment and iron trunk. This trunk has a rounded top with fabric interior. Forged iron details and lock. Probably a tra...