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Decorative Boxes For Sale
Style: Empire
Style: George III
George III English Inlaid Mahogany Tea Caddy, circa 1820
Located in Bath, GB
A stunning and most unusual Georgian tea caddy made from mahogany and inlaid with four oval satinwood panels.
Another unusual feature is the fine Greek Key inlay to both the the lid and top.
The interior has two lidded compartments later covered in paper which can be seen in the photographs.
The front houses the tasselled key (unfortunately not working but the perfect finishing touch).
A really delightful antique caddy...
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1810s English George III Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
19th Century Swedish Folkart Empire Chest / Box with Originalpaint
Located in Boden, SE
19th Century Swedish Folkart Empire Chest /box from Skelleftea Vasterbotten ,Northern Sweden.
Decorative Wood imitaition painted small chest /box with...
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Mid-19th Century Swedish Empire Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Pine
Georgian Yellow Gold Toothpick Case / Holder with Mirror
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique Georgian English 22k yellow gold toothpick case / holder with mirror - boxed; an addition to our ornamental ...
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1770s British George III Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold
English Georgian Period Yew Wood Octagonal Tea Caddy with Fan and Column Inlays
Located in Wells, ME
English Georgian 18th century yew wood octagonal tea caddy inlaid with fan and column motifs in satinwood, sycamore and boxwood. Multiple lines of stringing in satinwood, boxood and ...
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Late 18th Century English George III Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Yew
20th Century Sterling Silver Box George III° Style
Located in VALENZA, IT
Handmade George III style oblong box in sterling silver.
On the body of the box typical lines with fluted. The lid has the same design but embossed. The han...
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1990s Italian George III Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Antique English Handcrafted Wedding or Apprentice Chest or Box with Drawer
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This early George the 3rd era and styled handcrafted wooden miniature blanket box is unsigned by presumed to have been made in England in circa 1790. T...
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Late 18th Century English George III Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass, Steel
English Calamander Hinged Tea Caddy with Flanking Brass Floral Handles, C. 1800
Located in Hollywood, SC
English Calamander hinged tea caddy with removable two lidded interior bins, centered mixing bowl, flanking brass floral side handles, locking key with tassel, and terminating on the...
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Early 1800s English George III Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
George III 18th Century Mahogany Letter Box. Circa 1790
Located in Incline Village, NV
Fine quality circa 1790 Georgian letter box, with three compartment fitted interior (see image). Exterior has original double brass hinged slope top with serpentine shaped front, and...
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Late 18th Century English George III Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Mahogany
Antique Figural Bird Battersea or Staffordshire Enamel Bonbonniere / Snuff Box
By Battersea
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A good antique figural bird form Battersea or South Staffordshire enamel bonbonniere.
The lid has bronze mount and a bird on a branch decoration....
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18th Century English George III Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Copper, Enamel
19th Century French Empire Miniature Commode
Located in Winter Park, FL
A 19th century French Empire miniature commode. A well executed miniature chest made of walnut and veneer of walnut with two large drawers below a smaller top drawer and with solid walnut columns. Inscription written in ink on the back of each of the large drawers: Don D...
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Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Walnut
Antique Figural Bird Battersea or Staffordshire Enamel Bonbonniere / Snuff Box
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A wonderful, antique figural bird form Battersea or South Staffordshire enamel bonbonniere.
The lid is decorated with a bird on a branch in a lan...
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18th Century English George III Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Copper, Enamel
French Crystal Casket Box
Located in Chicago, IL
This is a beautiful French crystal gold doré acanthus box with gilt mounts and locking key.
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1950s French Empire Vintage Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal
Large 19th Century Continental Neoclassical Between Dresser Vanity Box
Located in Lambertville, NJ
An extensively filled 19th century ormolu-mounted ebonized wood dresser vanity box fitted with silver gold washed lidded glass gars and sewing tools. The ...
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1880s European Empire Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ormolu
English Georgian Double Tea Caddy with Boxwood Shell and Column Inlays
Located in Wells, ME
English Georgian double tea caddy in satinwood with oval panels inlaid with shaded boxwood shells, the front panels are facing shells and the top has a more elaborate frilly edged sh...
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Late 18th Century English George III Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Satinwood
Antique South Staffordshire or Battersea Enamel Table Snuff Box, 18th Century
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine antique English South Staffordshire or Battersea enamel table snuff box.
With a pink ground and white enamel latticework decoration thro...
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18th Century English George III Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Enamel
Roger Briggs 1790s Georgian Sterling Silver Vinaigrette
By Roger Briggs
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
A fine and impressive antique George III English sterling silver vinaigrette; an addition to our collection of silver boxes and cases.
This fine antique Georgian...
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1790s English George III Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Antique Georgian English Sterling Silver Purse Vinaigrette
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
A fine and impressive antique Georgian English sterling silver vinaigrette in the form of a purse, an addition to our silver boxes collection
This antique Georgian silver vinaigrette...
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1810s English George III Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Onyx Marble Gold Gilt Bronze Inkwell
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful onyx and gold gilt bronze inkwell [ink well] box in the Empire style, circa 19th century, Europe. In addition to its intended use, piece makes a gorgeous standalone decor...
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Late 19th Century European Empire Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Onyx, Bronze
Late 18th Century Fruitwood Spice Box from England
Located in Los Angeles, CA
English late 18th-century fruitwood spice box, featuring a small drawer at its base with a carved ivory knob. The figurative carving of a plant on the box's...
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18th Century English George III Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Fruitwood
English Black Lacquered and Gilt Stenciled Figural Pagoda Tea Box, Circa 1810
Located in Hollywood, SC
English black lacquered and gilt stenciled figural pagoda hinged tea box with exterior gilt stenciled dragon motif, original interior pewter hand chased figural container with bone k...
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1810s English George III Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Pewter
English Black Lacquered and Gilt Stenciled Figural Pagoda Sewing Box, C. 1810
Located in Hollywood, SC
English octagonal black lacquered and gilt stenciled figural pagoda hinged one drawer sewing box with exterior gilt stenciled dragon motif, interior gilt stenciled floral motif, orig...
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1810s English George III Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
19th Century French Empire Style Salesman Sample
Located in Dallas, TX
Charming French late 19th century Empire style salesman sample. Makes a fine accessory.
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19th Century French Empire Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Pair of George III Mahogany Knife Boxes
Located in Montreal, QC
This pair have the typical shape of boxes from this period, with shaped serpentine front, sloped hinged lid, and boxwood and ebony lines. Each cover is inlaid with an oval patera and...
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Early 19th Century British George III Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Mahogany
Pair of George 111 Inlaid Mahogany Knife Boxes
Located in Montreal, QC
This fine pair of Classic proportions have many marks of quality. The timber used on the sloped fronts has been carefully selected with figured grain conforming to the shape of the h...
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Early 19th Century British George III Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Mahogany
18th Century English Diminutive Mahogany Chest with Satin Wood Banding
Located in Buchanan, MI
18th century English diminutive mahogany chest with satin wood banding. Top opens to an compartment over two drawers. Great color and patina. Can be used as a tabletop decoration...
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Late 18th Century English George III Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Mahogany
18th Century, Lowestoft English Porcelain Trinket Box
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
18th century, English porcelain trinket box hand decorated in polychrome glazes and inscribed: "A Trifle from Lowestoft 1795".
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18th Century English George III Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Porcelain
Late 19th Century Octagonal Enamel Box
Located in London, GB
The enamel and mother-of-pearl inlaid gilded box centered with a depiction of a couple in a wooded landscape, the interior lined in red velvet.
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Late 19th Century Empire Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ormolu
1733 George II Sterling Silver Toilet Boxes
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
A magnificent, fine and impressive pair of antique George II English sterling silver toilet boxes; an addition to our Georgian silverware collection.
These...
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1730s English George III Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Russian Cloisonné Card Case in Silver Gilt
Located in Chillerton, Isle of Wight
Early 20th century Russian silver gilt cloisonné case
This beautiful piece is lavishly decorated, but with a different design on each side.
One side...
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Early 1900s Russian Empire Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Enamel
Important Empire Period Paris Porcelain & Ormolu-Mounted Casket/Box/Jewelry Box
Located in New York, NY
An Important and very rare Empire period Paris porcelain ormolu-mounted Empire rectangular shaped two-handled casket decorated and assembled by ...
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1810s French Empire Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Pair of English Mahogany Serpentine Inlaid Cutlery Boxes. Circa 1790
Located in Hollywood, SC
Pair of English mahogany serpentine inlaid slant top cutlery boxes with exterior Satinwood inlaid conch shells, satinwood and ebony inlaid interior stars, with original slotted fitt...
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18th Century and Earlier British George III Antique Decorative Boxes
19th Century Georgian Sewing Box
Located in Pymble, NSW
A good shaped sewing box of tooled leather with finely cast brass fittings. Stands on lion's paw feet. The leather is a deep burgundy colour with some minor chipping to corners. The ...
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1810s British George III Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Leather, Wood
English Mahogany Satinwood Conch Shell Inlaid Wine Cellarette. Circa 1780
Located in Hollywood, SC
English mahogany wine cellarette with inlaid Satinwood conch shell, hinged top revealing a compartmentalized fitted interior, and terminating on the original turned legs with brass c...
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1780s English George III Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
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...
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Early 1800s English George III Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Cut Steel
Large George III Brass and Fruitwood-Inlaid and Mahogany Storage Box
Located in Kittery Point, ME
The rectangular hinged top with canted corners inlaid with a Turkish landscape design with an inside lift top and a lower drawer the interior fitted with a removable tray and mahogan...
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Late 18th Century English George III Antique Decorative Boxes
George III Scarlet Tole Tea Caddy
Located in Essex, MA
Oval with hinged lid and axe head brass finial and trim.
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1790s English George III Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Tin
Rare 18th Century Antique Danish Silver Tea Caddy, Made in Copenhagen in 1777
Located in London, London
Marked with the Copenhagen hallmark for 1777 and the assay masters mark of Christopher Fabritius (assay master from 1749 - 1787) with an unrecorded makers mark, this handsome, Antique silver tea caddy...
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1770s Danish George III Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
Early 19th Century Medicine Safe Cabinet
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Painted metal cabinet with Goddess of medicine in relief. Secret secondary key-mechanism hiding extra keyhole.
NB:
Complimentary delivery wit...
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19th Century Danish Empire Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal
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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