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Material: Bone
Midcentury Bone Inlaid Chest Box or Jewelry Casket
Located in Plainview, NY
Midcentury bone inlaid chest box or jewelry casket mesmerizing decorative patterns and extraordinary sculptural and design details provide this authe...
Category
Late 20th Century Moroccan Moorish Bone Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bone
Moroccan Chest or Jewelry Box in Cameal Bone and Brass Inlaid
Located in Plainview, NY
Bring a sense of majesty into your living space with this magnificent Moroccan white bone chest handcrafted from beach wood and inlaid with additional red stones. Boasting a sumptuou...
Category
1960s Moroccan Moorish Vintage Bone Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
19th Century Moorish Tortoiseshell and Bone Blue Velvet Lined Trinket Box
Located in Reading, Berkshire
Victorian Import 19th Century Moorish Tortoiseshell and Bone Trinket Box, Lined with Blue Velvet on Paw Feet.
Ideal for jewellery or keepsakes or jus...
Category
Mid-19th Century Moroccan Anglo-Indian Antique Bone Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bone, Tortoise Shell
Vintage Geometric Tessalated Bone Box
Located in Houston, TX
Vintage Geometrtic Tesselated Bone Box.
This beautiful decorative box is the perfect accessory for a coffee table, dressing area or bookcase.
Category
20th Century Unknown Art Deco Bone Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bone, Wood
Japanese Carved Bone Floral Birds Inro, signed early 20th Century
Located in Norton, MA
Nicely carved Inro with birds and flowers. Quality craftsmanship. Hand-carved pierced sides and top. Opens into two pieces, held together with a rust-red s...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Bone Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bone
19th Century Anglo-Indian Sadeli Inlaid Work Box Traveling Writing Desk
Located in Stamford, CT
A stunning camel bone, ebony and metal inlaid sadeli work box with portable writing desk, Bombay, circa 1850.
The sandalwood body of faceted rec...
Category
Mid-19th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Antique Bone Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal
Chinese Lacquered Happiness Box with Birds & Blossoms, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
This finely lacquered box was once presented as a gift, filled with popular snacks like roasted melon seeds, dried fruit, and cinnamon-toasted soy beans. Dated to the late 19th centu...
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Bone Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bone, Mother-of-Pearl, Wood, Lacquer
Vintage Monumental Karl Springer Style Horn and Wood Pyramid Box Rare
Located in North Miami, FL
This stunning and commanding vintage horn and wood monumental Karl Springer style pyramid box makes a statement. The size alone is most unusual. The interior wood color is black and ...
Category
1980s American Organic Modern Vintage Bone Decorative Boxes
Materials
Horn, Wood
Architectural Model Box of the Alhambra Palace, with Key
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Architectural Model Box of the Alhambra Palace, with Key
Handcrafted in Granada, Spain, Circa 1960s
A stunning architectural model box that showcases the ...
Category
20th Century Spanish Moorish Bone Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Anglo Indian Micro Mosaic Inlay Jewelry Box
Located in New York, NY
Exquisitely crafted early 20th century Anglo Indian micro mosaic Sadeli box with gorgeous antique Persian geometric pattern.
The finely detailed box featu...
Category
Early 20th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Bone Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bone, Fruitwood
Antique English Tortoiseshell Box
Located in Charlottesville, VA
An Exceptional Antique English Tortoiseshell Box. Late 19th-early 20th Century.
Category
Early 20th Century English Bone Decorative Boxes
Materials
Tortoise Shell
Large Middle Eastern Moorish Turkish Mother-of-pearl Inlaid Chest
Located in Bradenton, FL
A large Turkish mother-of-pearl inlaid chest inlaid throughout to show foliate scrolls and geometric forms, raised on four legs.
From the 16th century onwards the dominant influence...
Category
20th Century Syrian Moorish Bone Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bone, Mother-of-Pearl, Wood
Regency Anglo Indian Quill Work Vizagapatam Sandalwood Sewing Box
Located in Huntington, NY
This fine Regency period quill work, bone, ivory & sandalwood sewing box
with intact interior w sewing implements.
Category
Early 19th Century Indian Regency Antique Bone Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bone, Sandalwood, Ivory
Vintage Turtle Box by Antony Redmile
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Whimsical mid century trinket box crafted in composition in a turtle form having a polished stone lid handle and silver plate on brass head and...
Category
20th Century English Mid-Century Modern Bone Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver Plate, Copper
Moorish Islamic Mughal Raj Decorative Vizagapatam Carved Bone Jewelry Box India
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Decorative Mughal Raj Vizagapatam Carved Veneered Bone Jewelry Rectangular shape Box.
Vintage Asian lidded box crafted with bone finely engraved and hand painted in black with geometric Moorish designs.
Delightful Anglo Indian footed box crafted with an intricate patterned polished bone inlay mosaic over a wood frame.
Handmade in Vizagapatam, India, mid 20th century.
Elegant intricate pattern. A true work of Islamic artwork...
Category
Late 20th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Bone Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bone, Wood
Veneered Footed Sandalwood Sewing Box w/Penwork Decoration, Vizagapatam, India
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Anglo-Indian penwork decorated veneered sandalwood box in the Regency taste, the two-tier sloped lid with a fluted carved upper tier above a smooth lower tier with penwork border and...
Category
Mid-19th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Antique Bone Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal
Art Deco Dark Green Shagreen Covered Wooden Box with Bar-Form Lid-Lift
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Art Deco shagreen covered wooden box of dark green color and with a bone lid lift.
Category
Early 20th Century English Art Deco Bone Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bone, Shagreen, Wood
Art Deco Shagreen Covered Box with Bone Edges, Marked "London Made"
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Art Deco shagreen covered cedar box with bone edges, the snug fitting lid attached at the back with a single long stop hinge to prevent the lid falling back when open. The leather co...
Category
Early 20th Century English Art Deco Bone Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bone, Shagreen, Wood
Antique Anglo Indian Bone and Tortoise Box
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Impressive antique Anglo Indian lidded box handcrafted in indigenous hardwoods clad in tortoise shell and decorated with elaborate lacy bone designs, featuring an etched and painted ...
Category
Early 20th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Bone Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bone, Tortoise Shell
French Tortoise Shell Circular Box With Inlaid Silver Top Depicting Fox & Stork
Located in San Francisco, CA
French Tortoise Shell Circular Box With Inlaid Silver Top Depicting Fox & Stork
Category
18th Century Antique Bone Decorative Boxes
Materials
Tortoise Shell
18th Century, Heavily Carved Bone Inset & Iron Mounted Spanish Vargueno
Located in Atlanta, GA
Spanish, 18th century or earlier.
An 18th century Spanish bargueno or vargueno traveling desk, used for storing documents, jewels, or sewing box. The six drawer chest is inset with ...
Category
18th Century Spanish Baroque Antique Bone Decorative Boxes
Materials
Iron
Vintage Bohemian Tessellated Horn Decorative Box by Nordstrom
Located in San Diego, CA
Incredible luxurious vintage bohemian box created for Nordstrom's signature line. This beautiful piece is sculptural and pleasing to the eye. A great pi...
Category
1970s East Asian Bohemian Vintage Bone Decorative Boxes
Materials
Horn, Wood
Exceptional Anglo-Indian Stag Horn Veneered Sewing / Work Box From Vizagapatam
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
An unusually large stag horn veneered sandal wood sewing box from Vizagapatam, India. This large, fitted box in the Regency taste has tapered sides and a two-tiered sloped lid, all c...
Category
Mid-19th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Antique Bone Decorative Boxes
Materials
Antler, Sandalwood
Moroccan Chest or Jewelry Box in Cameal Bone and Brass Inlaid
Located in Plainview, NY
Bring a sense of majesty into your living space with this magnificent Moroccan white bone chest handcrafted from beach wood and inlaid with additional red stones. Boasting a sumptuou...
Category
1960s Moroccan Moorish Vintage Bone Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Intricately inlaid vintage Damascus box with hinged lid
Located in Kenilworth, IL
Intricately inlaid vintage Damascus box with hinged lid in hardwood, sandalwood, ebony, and camel bone. The box features a geometric inlaid field over fiv...
Category
Early 20th Century Bone Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bone, Hardwood, Ebony, Sandalwood
19C Anglo Ceylonese Sewing Box of Museum Quality
Located in Dallas, TX
Presenting an absolutely stunning 19c Anglo Ceylonese sewing box of museum quality.
Made in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) circa 1860, this is one of the finest sewing boxes of it’s kind that we have ever seen!
The box is made from coromandel wood (an exotic hardwood found in Ceylon) and has a serpentine edging all over the front, back and sides.
Very often the lids/tops of these boxes suffer cracks due to shrinkage but this one is near perfect with no crack in the lid/top. There is some evidence of natural shrinkage but that is around the edges of the lid/top.
It is when you open this box that it reveals it’s true beauty, quality and treasure !
The inside of the lid/top is heavily and beautifully decorated with inlaid bone in scrolling floral patterns which have then been hand painted with red and black ‘lac’ ink. The central medallion is a circle of inlaid specimen exotic hardwoods radiating towards a central bone and hand painted flower. The circle is edged in bone, wood and silver chevrons.
What makes this box Exceptionally rare is that it contains 3 lift out base sections. Normally, there would be a maximum of 2.
The first tray/section is clearly for the purposes ancillary to sewing with a pair of sections with bone spools for thread etc. There are 17 other lidded compartments with each one highly decorated using hand painted bone and specimen woods to replicate tortoiseshell.
The first tray lifts out to reveal a second removeable tray which is made up of a pair of open sections and 8 specimen wood lidded sections each with chevron banding.
The third tray is a smaller tray underneath with 14 lidded compartments each with hand painted bone and specimen wood inlaid lids again, replicating the look of tortoiseshell. Again they are banded with a chevron border.
This is a museum quality piece !
It is in fantastic condition for it’s age with the minor shrinkage to the edges of the lid/top, some finger pulls missing and some very minor cracks to the tray lids and bases but nothing that in any way detracts from the piece. No key.
Dimensions: Closed the box is 16.75 inches wide, 11.25 inches deep and 7.5 inches high
Fully open the box is 16.5 inches high, 16.75 inches wide and 11.4 inches deep
Anglo-Indian and ceylonese boxes: Anglo Indian boxes were made in India for the English residents from the early part of the 18th century. They were brought back or sent back to England usually by the people who had commissioned them. From the beginning of the nineteenth century they were imported more commercially, although not in any significant numbers until the middle decades. They were very highly valued, especially the early ones, to the extent that the designs were copied on late 19th and early 20th century tins.
Anglo-Indian boxes normally consist of 3 main types:-
(1) Most of the best and highest quality Anglo-Indian boxes in the 18th and 19th centuries were made in Vizagapatam, India, renowned for its exquisite craftsmanship in using ivory and tortoiseshell and lac decoration. These are referred to as ‘Vizagapatam Boxes...
Category
Mid-19th Century Sri Lankan Anglo-Indian Antique Bone Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
Woven Bone Document, Keepsake Box
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary document, keepsake box featuring bone tiles in a cheveron pattern over a wood structure. A great solution for remote control storage, or as a desk accessory.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Spanish Modern Bone Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bone, Wood, Bentwood
20th Century Tessellated Bone Trinket Box
Located in Bradenton, FL
An elegant modern style tessellated bone trinket box with black felt-lined interior. Mostly cream in color, but does have hints of light pink througho...
Category
20th Century Philippine Modern Bone Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bone, Felt
Tessalated Horn Box
Located in New York, NY
Decorative keepsake document box decorated with hand applied rectangular horn pieces. A great addition to any desk, night stand, bookcase or coffee table.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Spanish Modern Bone Decorative Boxes
Materials
Horn, Wood
Petite Antique Anglo Indian Bone and Tortoise Box
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Charming petite antique Anglo Indian lidded box handcrafted in indigenous hardwoods clad in tortoise shell and decorated with elaborate lacy bone designs, featuring an etched and pai...
Category
Early 20th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Bone Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bone, Tortoise Shell
Anglo Indian Tortoise and Bone Box
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Impressive Anglo Indian box crafted in mahogany and clad in tortoise shell decorated with bone straps, carved and painted floral panels, and paw feet. The inside has a mirror and bon...
Category
Early 20th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Bone Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bone, Tortoise Shell
Tortoiseshell Minaudiere Box
Located in New York, NY
Tortoiseshell Minaudiere Box. Chic antique tortoiseshell clutch with mirrored flap, blotting paper holder and two lidded interior compartments. I...
Category
1920s Italian Art Deco Vintage Bone Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Russian Prisoner Of War Carved Bone Miniature Desk
Located in Essex, MA
Made as a slant lid desk with fold down writing lid opening to a fitted interior. Two drawers below and bracket feet. Bone is white and tinted green. Carved details.
Category
1790s European Antique Bone Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bone, Wood
Boho Chic Moroccan Inlaid Bone Jewelry Chest or Box with Brass Inlay
Located in Plainview, NY
A decorative handmade orange bone and black tribal design chest or jewelry box. The chest interior is leather and features gorgeous brass inlay design with natural decorative stones.
Category
1980s Moroccan Tribal Vintage Bone Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Antique Anglo Indian Box Form Quill Lap Top or Travel Desk
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Impressive antique Anglo Indian lap top desk crafted in quills and ebony decorated with bone dots. The surprising interior has multiple components featuring a felt writing surface, n...
Category
Early 20th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Bone Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bone, Felt, Wood, Ebony
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 Bone Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bone, Ebony, Rosewood
French Art Deco Bone Marquetry and Macassar Wood Box
Located in Atlanta, GA
This elegant Art-Deco, lidded box was hand-crafted in France in the 1930s. The top of the lid is ornate with bone marquetry. The design is very modernist using slices of bovine bones...
Category
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Bone Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bone, Wood, Macassar
Art Deco Thuya Burl Cigarette Box w/ Walnut Burl and Bone Detail
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Art Deco Burled Thuya wood 2 chamber cigarette box having an inlay of burled walnut edged with bone running up both sides of each corner and configured to appear as though each piece...
Category
Early 20th Century English Art Deco Bone Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bone, Walnut, Cedar
Austrian Tortoise Shell Silver Box
Located in Delft, NL
Austrian Tortoise shell Silver box
Austrian Tortoise shell Silver box in the shape of an envelope with a flap.
The flap is with a spring.
The box is marked with the Austrian Silve...
Category
Early 20th Century Austrian Bone Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
Vintage Geometric Tessellated Bone Box
Located in Houston, TX
Vintage Geometrtic Tesselated Bone Box.
This beautiful decorative box is the perfect accessory for a coffee table, dressing area or bookcase.
Category
20th Century Unknown Art Deco Bone Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bone, Wood
Antique Vizagapatam India Table Box Ebonized Wood & Bone Carvings
Located in Forney, TX
Vizagapatam box, India, 19th century.
This highly decorative and unusual Anglo-Indian table box features rustic workmanship that adds to the character and charm of this unique Sout...
Category
19th Century Indian Anglo Raj Antique Bone Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bone, Wood
Ceylonese 'Sri Lankan' Ebony Writing Slope
Located in Greenwich, CT
Very fine early 19th century carved ebony writing slope, the exterior richly carved with foliate decoration, the interior profusely inlaid with bon...
Category
Early 19th Century Sri Lankan Anglo-Indian Antique Bone Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bone, Ebony, Sandalwood
18 C, Indo-Portuguese Vargueno Mini Cabinet
Located in Dallas, TX
Presenting a fabulously rare 18c Indo-Portuguese Vargueno mini cabinet.
Extremely rare, highly important and desirable colonial piece !
It is an In...
Category
Late 18th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Antique Bone Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Natural, Turquoise Bone Moorish Box
Located in New York, NY
Decorative keepsake/jewelry box clad in natural and dyed bone tiles. Top is in a Moorish motif of inlaid Turquoise bone elements. Handcrafted.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Philippine Moorish Bone Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bone, Wood
Anglo Indian Hexagonal Porcupine Quill & Bone Inlaid Box For Restoration
Located in Bridgeport, CT
Anglo Indian hexagonal porcupine quill and bone inlaid box comprised of dark hardwood and inlaid with bone dots framing the panels of regimented porcupine quills. The lid opens to re...
Category
20th Century Asian Anglo-Indian Bone Decorative Boxes
Materials
Other
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 Bone Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bone, Shagreen, Amboyna
White Bone Box, India, Contemporary
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary India white camel bone box.
Rectangular shaped tiles with slightly raised pyramid shaped top.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Indian Bone Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bone
Tessellated Horn Jewelry Box with Adventurine Green Stone Border
Located in New York, NY
Tessellated horn box with green stone border on top. Mahogany lined interior and felt bottom. Maitland Smith, 1980s.
Category
Late 20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Bone Decorative Boxes
Materials
Stone
Midcentury Bone Inlaid Chest Box or Jewelry Casket
Located in Plainview, NY
Midcentury bone inlaid chest box or jewelry casket mesmerizing decorative patterns and extraordinary sculptural and design details provide this authe...
Category
Late 20th Century Moroccan Moorish Bone Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bone
English Tortoiseshell Box
Located in Tampa, FL
An English tortoiseshell box on ivory ball feet. Complete with all original interior, no key. England, circa 1800s to 1820s.
Category
1820s English Antique Bone Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ivory, Tortoise Shell
English Georgian Chinroserie Tortoise Shell Tea Caddy with Ball Feet, C. 1800
Located in Charleston, SC
English Georgian Chinroserie bow front tortoise shell tea caddy with a hinged tiered lid, Chinese landscape mother of pearl inlays with flanking pagodas, fences, & foliage trees, central paktong plaque and escutcheon, bone fitted interior border with two lidded tortoiseshell foil lined compartments, and resting on the original four bone ball...
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Early 1800s English Georgian Antique Bone Decorative Boxes
Materials
Foil
19th Century Moorish Tortoiseshell and Bone Blue Velvet Lined Trinket Box
Located in Reading, Berkshire
Victorian Import 19th Century Moorish Tortoiseshell and Bone Trinket Box, Lined with Blue Velvet on Paw Feet.
Ideal for jewellery or keepsakes or jus...
Category
Mid-19th Century Moroccan Anglo-Indian Antique Bone Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bone, Tortoise Shell
Silver and Tortoiseshell Singing Bird Box by Bontems, circa 1900
By Bontems
Located in London, GB
A beautiful Singing bird box by bontems of Paris, Circa 1900. Tortoisesheel embellished with sterling silver, with silver and enamel lid.
Category
Early 1900s French Late Victorian Antique Bone Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
Chest, Box Forming a Cabinet, Orientalist Art, 19th Century, Napoleon III Period
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Chest, box forming a cabinet, Orientalist art, 19th century, Napoleon III period.
A 19th century Napoleon III period wood and bone marquetry cabinet box, Orientalist.
H: 24cm, W: 31...
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19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Bone Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bone, Wood
Swedish 19th Century Birchwood Veneer Jewelry Box
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Swedish 19th century birchwood veneer jewelry box.
The box has a heart of brass for keyhole and knob hardware of antler.
Category
19th Century Swedish Rustic Antique Bone Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bone, Birch
Veneered Footed Sandalwood Sewing Box w/Penwork Decoration, Vizagapatam, India
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Anglo-Indian penwork decorated veneered sandalwood box in the Regency taste, the two-tier sloped lid with a fluted carved upper tier above a smooth lower tier with penwork border and...
Category
Mid-19th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Antique Bone Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal
A vintage Maitland Smith tessellated horn and stone box with brass trim.
Located in Winnetka, IL
A flat top brown polished horn box by Maitland Smith having two wide bands of polished green stone tiles surrounded by a gold brass band. The interior is a warm mahogany wood.
Category
Mid-20th Century Philippine Mid-Century Modern Bone Decorative Boxes
Materials
Stone, Brass
Maitland Smith Tessellated Horn and Penshell Jewelry Box
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Maitland Smith tessellated polished horn and penshell jewelry box with brass trim.
Category
1980s Philippine Hollywood Regency Vintage Bone Decorative Boxes
Materials
Horn
Anglo Indian Rectangular Porcupine Quill & Bone Box
Located in Bridgeport, CT
Anglo Indian rectangular porcupine quill, bone and parquetry box. The box with a hinged lid that opens to reveal embossed red velvet lining and a decorated wood panel...
Category
20th Century Sri Lankan Anglo-Indian Bone Decorative Boxes
Materials
Other
Marquetry Wood Box with Mosaic Bone Inlays, Middle East. c. 1970's
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Exquisite handcrafted Khatam wood box with micro mosaic marquetry design, an Ancient Persian technique of inlaying. Moorish style box features geometric inlays of wood and bone. Art...
Category
1970s West Asian Moorish Vintage Bone Decorative Boxes
Materials
Enamel
English Tortoise Shell Business Card Case with Floral Design, c. 1825-50
Located in Kenilworth, IL
Carte du visite (business card) case of tortoise shell, impressed in relief with a rose within a border of stars.
England, second quarter 19th century.
Category
Mid-19th Century British Antique Bone Decorative Boxes
Materials
Tortoise Shell
19C Anglo Indian Highly Carved Teak Sadeli Mosaic Inlaid Sewing Box
Located in Dallas, TX
PRESENTING A LOVELY 19C Anglo Indian Highly Carved Sadeli Mosaic Inlaid Sewing Box.
Made in Bombay, India, circa 1880.
The box is made of sandalwood with highly carved raised teak wood panels on all sides, depicting temple scenes, animals and foliage.
The box is in a sarcophagus form.
It is edged in bone (and we can tell it is bone and not ivory, from the color and evidence of capillaries, which are not found in ivory), and banded with Bombay Sadeli mosaic and ebony veneer.
The lid opens to reveal a removable tray with various open compartments and lidded compartments. 5 lidded compartments, 1 unlidded compartment and 8 holders for thimbles, etc
The tray lifts to reveal a blue velvet (original) lined section, for storing jewelry etc, with sections for collars etc.
The inside of the lid has a removable mirror (the mirror is missing on this one but can easily be replaced). Behind the mirror is the original green velvet lining.
It has its original brass carry handles on the sides and sits on 4 silvered button feet (of recent origin).
Some repairs to the exterior and condition issues (priced accordingly), but still a LOVELY COLLECTIBLE box!
These boxes were made by superb Indian craftsmen, specifically for sale to the ruling British elite. These types of boxes, carved padouk and sandalwood, (whilst beautiful and superbly crafted) were of a lesser quality, than the more profusely and intricately mosaic inlay, tortoiseshell and ivory boxes, made for the British ‘Upper Classes’ in the areas of Bombay and Vizagapatam. These type of boxes were much more affordable back in 1880 (and indeed today) and would probably have been bought by mid-level diplomats, civil servants or visitors.
Sewing boxes (in general), were in EVERY Victorian home in Britain in the 19th century and like other boxes etc were ‘status symbols’ of your place in society! The more ornate the box, the more ‘Upper Class’ you were!
SADELI MOSAIC: “Anglo Indian boxes were made in India for the English residents from the early part of the 18th century. They were brought back or sent back to England usually by the people who had commissioned them. From the beginning of the nineteenth century they were imported more commercially, although not in any significant numbers until the middle decades. They were very highly valued, especially the early ones, to the extent that the designs were copied on late 19th and early 20th century tins.
The ancient art of Sadeli Mosaic is said to have been introduced from Shiraz in Persia via Sind to Bombay, a long time before the Anglo Indian boxes were made. It was a technique, which required a high degree of skill and patience. It was executed very lavishly, in that the frequent cuts wasted a great amount of the precious materials used. The workmanship was however more than commensurable to the value of the materials.
Ivory, silver, pewter (or other metals), wood and Horn were cut into faceted rods which were bound together to form geometric patterns. When the glue has set, the rods were sliced in transverse sections. This gave the maker a number of angled circular pieces in the original pattern. Several variations of patterns could be achieved by combining the materials in different ways. The ivory was sometimes dyed green to give an extra color.
The mosaic pieces in a combination of patterns, often separated by ivory, ebony, Horn or silver stringing were used to veneer sandalwood boxes. In the early boxes, which date from the turn of the 18th to the 19th century, there are large panels of mosaic covering tops and sides of boxes. It took incredible skill to cover such large areas without any shakes or wavering of the pattern. The corners and joins on these boxes are impeccably matched.
The makers (reputed to be Persian) of Sadeli mosaic made in the first two decades of the 19th century displayed a total understanding of the qualities of the different materials they used. They combined substances, which can expand and contract according to atmospheric conditions with others, which are hard and unyielding. The result was a sharp definition of the lines and patterns, which made up the whole design.
On the early boxes the designs 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 is not immediately apparent.
The earliest Sadeli boxes...
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Late 19th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Antique Bone Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bone, Sandalwood, Teak
Antique Regency Inlaid Rosewood Silver Perfume Bottle Box Dressing Set 1824
Located in Portland, OR
A fine quality and handsome George IV/Regency inlaid rosewood dressing box, with the original sterling silver and glass fitted contents, London, 1824.
The box having a lift-up hinged lid, finely inlaid with brass and bone marquetry of floral garlands & swags, the front having twin locking doors with corresponding inlay. Both the top, base and door panels have 'Dutch Ripple' molding and at each corner a hand-turned 'Barley Twist' column, both to the front and rear.
The interior of the box also having inlaid satinwood stringing and three fitted compartments each with an etched crystal container...
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1820s English George IV Antique Bone Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Brass, Silver
Good Ottoman Scribes Box
Located in Lincolnshire, GB
An 18th century mother of pearl and tortoiseshell inlaid ottoman scribes box. The box covered in geometric tiles and floral design.
Category
18th Century Asian Antique Bone Decorative Boxes
Materials
Tortoise Shell, Mother-of-Pearl
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Antique Chinese Porcelain Ink Box
Antique Dazey Churn
Antique Ditty Box
Antique Sewing Thread Holder
Antique Toolbox
Antler Box Sewing
Beaver Silk Top Hat
Besamim Fish
Boulle Box Glove
Antique 19th Century Victorian Malachite Brass Box
Antique Benedictine Bottle
Antique String Dispenser
Antique Tortoise Jewelry Box