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Item Ships From: USA
Material: Brass
A George III Red Japaned Ink Stand Writing Box
Located in Lambertville, NJ
A hand painted red japaned ink stand with two French molded glass inkwells. The top with lifting compartments for pens, and stamps, the bottom with a pul...
Category
Early 19th Century European Georgian Antique Brass Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Maitland Smith Tessellated Rosso Levanto Marble Box, ca 1990s
Located in Cathedral City, CA
Exquisite Maitland Smith Tessellated Rosso Levanto Marble Box, ca 1990s.
This octagonal slope sided box is clad in a beautiful tessellated rosso levanto marble and accented with a ...
Category
Late 20th Century Philippine Modern Brass Decorative Boxes
Materials
Marble, Brass
Vintage Small Decorative Box 1970s
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Beautiful and unique small decorative Italian box.
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brass Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Black, Beige, Brass Striped Box
Located in New York, NY
Modernist keepsake, document box clad in Black, White resin stripes accented with brass inlay stripes.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Philippine Modern Brass Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Hand-Painted Dome Top Wood and Brass Decorative Chest
Located in Germantown, MD
A fancy highly decorative, hand painted wooden box in good vintage condition. Heavy solid brass hardware. Meadures 19.5" in width, 10.25" in depth and 14" in height.
Category
Late 20th Century Argentine Modern Brass Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Vintage MCM Brass "Nugget" Cigarette / Trinket Box
By Taxco
Located in San Diego, CA
Vintage MCM brass "Nugget" cigarette / trinket lidded box in the style of Taxco of Mexico, circa 1960s. The box is in very good vintage condition with a roug...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mexican Mid-Century Modern Brass Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
English Campaign Style Rosewood Brass Inlaid Lap Desk, circa 1850
Located in San Francisco, CA
A fine quality brass inlaid Campaign style traveling desk with a recessed brass handle engraved with the name of its owner, Anne Orten. The piece opens to reveal a velvet lined writi...
Category
Mid-19th Century English Campaign Antique Brass Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
MCM Abalone Shell and Brass Humidor / Box in the Style of Los Castillo
Located in San Diego, CA
Beautiful midcentury abalone shell and brass decorative trinket box /humidor with cedar wood lining made in Mexico in the style of Los Castillios, circa 1960s. The piece is stamped o...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mexican Mid-Century Modern Brass Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Karl Springer Unique Hinged Box in Polished Sodalite Stone 1980s 'Signed'
Located in New York, NY
Stunning one-of-a-kind hinged box in polished blue sodalite stone by Karl Springer, American 1980's (shown with original showroom tag from the 1980’s). Blue sodalite is a rare minera...
Category
1980s American Modern Vintage Brass Decorative Boxes
Materials
Stone, Brass
Gabriella Crespi Brass Pill Cigarette Card Box Italian, 1970s
Located in New York, NY
Gabriella Crespi brass pill cigarette card box Italian, 1970s
Measures: 4.4 inches wide on each side
0.3 inches deep
Born in 1922, Gabriella Crespi studies architecture at the...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Brass Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Art Nouveau Celtic Immortality Repoussé Casket by Alfred Daguet
Located in Chicago, US
A modern letter box in the hands of Alfred Daguet was not simply a functionally designed repository of mail but a conveyor of messages as well, messages of life-and- death importance...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Antique Brass Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass, Enamel, Steel
Circa 1910 Arts & Crafts Brass Desk Organizer
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Circa 1910 Arts & Crafts brass desk organizer. Hand raised, scrolled & punched brass; joined & decorated with copper rivets on corner decorative p...
Category
1910s Arts and Crafts Vintage Brass Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass, Copper
Lidded Glass & Leather Box by Jacques Adnet, France 1950's
Located in New York, NY
Leather-lidded cast glass box with a bronze star accent.
Category
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Brass Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Postmodern Contemporary Lacquer Dresser Box Made in Italy
Located in W Allenhurst, NJ
Stunning Lacquer Lidded Box made in Italy. Lavender lacquer offset with Brass Piping and Bone corner detail.
Wood lined with a tight fit.
Matching picture frame...
Category
20th Century Italian Post-Modern Brass Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Tunbridgeware Rectangular Box of Inlaid Wood from England
Located in Austin, TX
An English rectangular box from the 19th century, featuring an inlaid design of miscellaneous woods known to collectors as Tunbridgeware.
Exterior with a geometric pattern design ...
Category
19th Century English Antique Brass Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal, Brass
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 Brass Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver, Brass, Bronze, Copper
Regency Style Brushed Steel and Brass Tinder Box
Located in Stamford, CT
Unusual and very handsome brushed steel and polished brass tinder box. This box has a removable tin liner that would have been used to fill with hot c...
Category
Early 20th Century English Regency Brass Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass, Steel
Lidded Alabaster Stash or 420 Box on Brass Paw Feet with Red Lined Interior
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A wonderful Alabaster box, with a closure trimmed in brass and lined in red velvet. The brass paw feet give the hinged box a nice place to rest.
A compliment to any valet or dres...
Category
20th Century European Mid-Century Modern Brass Decorative Boxes
Materials
Alabaster, Brass
Small Danish Empire Veneered and Brass Trinket Box, Circa 1825
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Small Rectangular Period Empire Trinket Box in Veneered Mahogany and Brass Panels on the Edges, Denmark Circa 1825.
Category
Early 19th Century Danish Empire Antique Brass Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Turn of the Century French Wooden Instrument Case
Located in High Point, NC
Made in France at the turn of the century, this vintage wooden case would have originally been used to hold a musical instrument—the distinctive sh...
Category
Early 1900s French Antique Brass Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Sculpted Brass Ostrich Box with Resin Top and Marble Base
Located in Hopewell, NJ
Unusual beautiful decorative box in the shape of a brass ostrich having rounded resin top and black marble base.
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Brass Decorative Boxes
Materials
Marble, Brass
19th Century French Repousse Brass Clad Coal Bin on Casters with Hunt Motifs
Located in Dallas, TX
Crafted in France, circa 1870, the antique brass coffer is mounted on a wooden frame, and stands on caster wheels. The slant top opens up with stopping chain revealing inside storage...
Category
Mid-19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Brass Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
19th Century Mosaic Marquetry Jewelry Box Sorrento Napoli, C1880
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Amazing Marquetry and inlay on this Sorrento Napoli Box C1880. There is craftsmanship of the highest caliber all over this box. Box front drops down to reveal inside completely cover...
Category
1880s Italian Baroque Antique Brass Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
English Winsor and Newton Paint Box with Drawer, Paint and Pallettes circa 1865
Located in Wells, ME
English Winsor and Newton mahogany with ebony stringing paint box with drawer. This paint box retains its original Winsor and Newton Label in the lid as well as in the bottom of the ...
Category
1860s English Victorian Antique Brass Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
1900s Antique Victorian Leather Hat Box Baggage S Moss Toronto
Located in Chula Vista, CA
1900s Antique Victorian Leather Hat Box Baggage S Moss Toronto
13.5 w x 13 d x 9.5 h
Stamps present.
Fabulous distress
Unrestored original vintage condition.
Refer to all images prov...
Category
Early 20th Century English Late Victorian Brass Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Midcentury Brass Box
Located in Tampa, FL
A wonderfully design in this decorative 1970s Italian brass storage box. Hinged top and clasp front closure. The interior depth is two and one half inches.
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Brass Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Large French Limoge Egg Box
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Large porcelain hand painted Limoge box in the shape of an egg. Trimmed in a gilded bronze. Egg is painted a rich burgundy color with gold accents.
Category
20th Century French Brass Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Postmodern Marble Travertine Jewelry Box by Maitland Smith
Located in San Diego, CA
This beautiful box by Maitland Smith exudes style and glamour. This design from the late 1970s is glamorous and functional. The postmodern lines in almost a pedestal structure, are covered in a beautiful veined travertine marble in hues of dark pinks. The defined pink marble lines...
Category
1970s American Post-Modern Vintage Brass Decorative Boxes
Materials
Travertine, Brass
Art Nouveau Basilisk Repoussé Box by Alfred Daguet
Located in Chicago, US
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...
Category
Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Brass Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass, Enamel, Steel
French Antique Leather Traveling Trunk
Located in Austin, TX
Traveling trunk, French, made with a patinated leather. This piece features three brass locks and beautiful detailing.
Category
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Brass Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
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...
Category
1820s English George IV Antique Brass Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Brass, Silver
Montagnani Italy Brass and Burl Wood Box, 1970s
By Montagnani
Located in Atlanta, GA
Montagnani Firenze, Italy, designed this exquisite decorative box. Its Mid-Century modernist design boasts an elongated rectangular flat shape, with burl-wood geometric marquetry ven...
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brass Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal, Brass
English Victorian Brass Box
Located in New York, NY
English Victorian-style (20th century) small brass rectangular shaped box with handles.
Category
20th Century Victorian Brass Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Antique Patinated & Engraved Bronze Mughal Domed Box
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Antique Patinated & Engraved Bronze Mughal Domed Box
India, 20th century
A fabulous Indo-Islamic architectural circular domed box, with elaborate front...
Category
20th Century Indian Brass Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
French 19th Century Cherry and Brass Glove Box with Low-Relief Carved Motifs
Located in Atlanta, GA
A French cherry glove box from the 19th century with two gloves carved in low relief on the lid as well as carved straps. Immerse yourself in the elegance of yesteryears with this 19...
Category
19th Century French Antique Brass Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Chinese Foliage Painted & Brass Mounted Tacked Chest on Stand with Key, C. 1880
Located in Hollywood, SC
Chinese foliage painted and brass mounted tacked hinged chest on stand with flanking side handles and interior lock with key, Late 19th Century
Category
1880s Chinese Chinese Export Antique Brass Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Art Nouveau Firebirds Repoussé Box by Alfred Daguet
Located in Chicago, US
Alfred Daguet explored the subject of stylized birds multiple times in his studio. He was more than capable of rendering his zoomorphic subject matter naturalisticly; however he chos...
Category
Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Brass Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass, Steel
Antique Tall Copper Storage Chest
Located in Bridgeport, CT
An authentic and all original condition copper Repoussé food storage chest. Tin lined with repousse palmettes on the hinged lid. Brass top handle and lock plate. Originally acquired from a large collection of Nautical items...
Category
19th Century Folk Art Antique Brass Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass, Copper
Antique Unusual Size Biscuit Box, circa 1900
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique unusual size biscuit box, circa 1900.
Category
Early 20th Century American Brass Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Karl Springer Style Tessellated Stone and Brass Box
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Karl Springer style tessellated stone and brass box. Mahogany lined interior with compartment for storage. Beautiful patina to the brass accents.
Would work well in a variety of ...
Category
1970s Unknown Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brass Decorative Boxes
Materials
Stone, Brass
Italian 19th Century Antique Pietra Dura Mosaic Chest Box in Gilt Bronze
Located in Miami, FL
A Pietra Dura brass box.
Beautiful antique little box, created probably in Napoles, Italy as a treasure chest, circa 1880s. It was crafted in solid gilded brass with nice Baroque ...
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Renaissance Revival Antique Brass Decorative Boxes
Materials
Multi-gemstone, Brass
Antique 1780 Mottahedeh G Mills Tunbridge Oval Brass Tobacco Snuff Box
By Mottahedeh
Located in Dayton, OH
"Antique 1780 G. Mills Tunbridge oval brass snuff / tinder box.
Province
Estate of J. Frederic Gagel, owner of multiple Thoroughbred race horses...
Category
20th Century Federal Brass Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Pair of Maitland Smith Marble Lidded Boxes
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Maitland Smith pair of captivating duo of animal print design marble and tessellated lidded nesting boxes. This exquisite set comprises one larger ...
Category
1980s American Hollywood Regency Vintage Brass Decorative Boxes
Materials
Marble, Brass
Indian 19th Century Treasure Box with Brass Details and Partitioned Interior
Located in Yonkers, NY
An antique Indian handmade jewelry box from the 19th century with brass hardware, bracket feet and partitioned interior. Created in India during t...
Category
19th Century Indian Rustic Antique Brass Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Brass Box with Embossed Fish Silhouttes from Saks Fifth Avenue India
Located in New York, NY
Decorative brass box made by Saks Fifth Avenua, India. Embossed with fish silhouttes on each face with two small brass circular handles on each side. Natural patina.
Property fro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Indian Modern Brass Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Antique Paul Sormani Signed Parisian Napoleon III Period Glove Box
By Paul Sormani
Located in Forney, TX
A scarce very fine quality Napoleon III Period (1852-1870) gilt bronze ormolu mounted inlaid glove box by important Parisian ébéniste Paul Sormani (1817-1877)
Exquisitely hand-cra...
Category
Mid-19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Brass Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass, Ormolu
French Baccarat Style Cut Crystal Lidded Box with Brass Hardware
By Baccarat
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Antique French cut crystal and brass jewelry box, vanity box or candy dish
A beautiful cut crystal and brass jewelry or vanity box. This small cut crystal box is perfect as a desk a...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Hollywood Regency Brass Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Brass
Karl Springer Stunning "Kyoto Box" in Tessellated Penshell 1980s 'Signed'
Located in New York, NY
Exceptionally crafted "Kyoto Box" in tessellated penshell with brass inlays on top and trim around base by Karl Springer, American 1980's (signed “Karl Sprin...
Category
1980s American Modern Vintage Brass Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Handwrought Mid-Century Modern Mexican Mosaic and Brass Box by Salvador Teran
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Turquoise/ blue colored mosaic glass tesserae and brass lidded box handmade in Mexico by noted Mexican artist Salvador Teran, circa 1950s. Featuring Aztec-inspired brass symbols on the lid and sides. This colorful box...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mexican Mid-Century Modern Brass Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Chinese Brass and Carved Jade Box
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Brass and carved jade box - etched leaves on a brass box with a hinged lid of carved Jade flowers - a lovely trinket or change box for the vanity or dr...
Category
20th Century Chinese Brass Decorative Boxes
Materials
Jade, Brass
Midcentury Domed Top Stone and Brass Tessellated Decorative Box
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
8-245 stone and brass over wood domed top geometric cut stone with brass interior and bottom.
Category
1970s Vintage Brass Decorative Boxes
Materials
Stone, Brass
Lacquered Chinoiserie Wig Box
Located in Newport Beach, CA
Beautifully decorated hand carved, painted and lacquered, hinged wig box with chinoiserie theme gilding and paint design. Chinese red painted interior.
Bras...
Category
19th Century French Louis XV Antique Brass Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Large Asian Decorative Wooden Jewelry Box with Hammered Brass Metal Overlay
By Rajhastani
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Large Asian decorative wooden jewelry box with brass overlay.
Large ethnic Indian hand painted decorative jewelry wood box with brass metal hammered design overlay.
Original beauti...
Category
Mid-20th Century Indian Agra Brass Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Maitland Smith Tooled Leather Hand Painted Poker Themed Box with Brass Accents
Located in Jensen Beach, FL
Whimsical, handmade, hand-painted fooled leather box. Brass accents including brass ball feet and solid brass dice pull on top.
Category
Late 20th Century Philippine Brass Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Lalique Crystal Jewelry Box with Female Figure Art Nouveau Style French
By Lalique
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful and substantial French crystal and brass box with female figure by luxury design Maison, Lalique, in the Art Nouveau style, circa mid to late-20th-century, France. Crysta...
Category
20th Century French Art Nouveau Brass Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Brass
Noel BC Chrome and Brass Metal Desk Set and Box, Italy 1970s
By Noel BC
Located in Atlanta, GA
Italian designer Noel BC Italy designed this modernist desk accessory set in the 1970s. The set is built with a rectangular box and a contact book. The pieces boast a geometric shape with chrome and gilt brass design in silver and gold colors. The interior of the box is in black Lucite or acrylic. The contact book is in immaculate condition and has never been used. The best way to keep your contacts in a safe place is the old-fashioned way.
The desktop set...
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brass Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal, Brass, Chrome
Anglo Indian Colonial Brass Inlaid Teak Jewelry Box
Located in North Hollywood, CA
A Beautiful Anglo Indian, Colonial, brass inlaid teak jewelry lidded box made for the English market.
handcrafted with floral and hearts brass inlays on top are surrounded by brass inlaid border, intricate brass inlays design of florals and scrolls carries through to all four sides so will display nicely on a shelf, desk or coffee table.
Displays a desirable aged patina and the teak wood shows fine grain interest and deep caramel hues.
A large Anglo-Indian teak colonial Campaign casket with brass inlay, the hinged cover opens to reveal an original fitted interior with two compartments interior lined with red velvet.
This is a distinctive and highly appealing vintage semi antique Anglo Indian jewelry...
Category
Mid-20th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Brass Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Maitland Smith Vintage Tessellated Stone Travertine Box 1970s
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Vintage Tessellated square shape decorative lidded marble box by Maitland Smith.
Measures: Square 4" x 4" x 2" H.
Maitland Smith 1970s tessellated travertine table...
Category
Late 20th Century Philippine Post-Modern Brass Decorative Boxes
Materials
Stone, Travertine, Marble, Brass
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