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Antique French Napoleonic Style Bronze Box with Sévres Attr. Inset plaque
Located in Swedesboro, NJ
Dimensions - H: 4 1/2 in W: 6 3/4 in D: 4 1/2 in
This exquisite Antique French Napoleonic Style bronze box captures the imperial grandeur and refined craftsmanship associated with ...
Category
20th Century French Napoleon III Bronze Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Attributed to Baccarat Black Amethyst Crystal & Dore Bronze Mounted Jewelry Box
By Baccarat
Located in New York, NY
An Unusual Ormolu Mounted Black Amethyst Crystal Jewelry Box, Attributed to Baccarat. Beautifully hinged in the center with a beaded gilt bronze mount as well as gilt bronze feet. ...
Category
Early 1900s French Louis XVI Antique Bronze Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Large Cut Crystal Box with Gilt Bronze Mounts
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Large Cut Crystal Box with Gilt Bronze Mounts. Exceptionally large size makes this piece ideal for a number of different uses.
Category
Early 20th Century French Bronze Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Rare Lidded Art Deco Bronze Box by Nils Fougstedt for FAK, Sweden, 1930s
Located in Malmö, SE
A rare lidded bronze box with a monkey's head as the knob on the lid.
Designed by Nils Fougstedt in 1930s for FAK (Fabriksaktiebolaget Kronsilver), Stockholm, Sweden. Art Deco / Swed...
Category
1930s Swedish Art Deco Vintage Bronze Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Faux Book / Tome Gilt Tooled Leather & Bronze Table Box 'Old English Homes'
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Faux Book / Tome Gilt Tooled Leather & Bronze Table Box 'Old English Homes'
This exquisite faux book or tome box is a remarkable piece of decorative art, blending meticulous crafts...
Category
Late 20th Century English Neoclassical Bronze Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
19th Century French Enameled Porcelain Box
Located in Clearwater, FL
A salmon colored enamel box with patina bronze surround and latch and topped with a gold laurel wreath.
Category
1890s French Antique Bronze Decorative Boxes
Materials
Enamel, Bronze
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 Bronze Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver, Brass, Bronze, Copper
Vintage Bronze and Tortoise Shell Turtle Box by Maitland Smith
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Impressive turtle box or object of art with a removable faux tortoise shell veneer lid with a frog handle over a cast bronze base with a lush patina and Asian motifs. Signed Maitland...
Category
Late 20th Century Philippine Victorian Bronze Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Gold and Hamber Crystal Tissue Box Holder
By L'Originale
Located in Milan, IT
A glamorous addition to a master bathroom, vanity desk, and powder room, this tissue box holder showcases a rectangular top of hand-blown crystal in ...
Category
2010s Italian Bronze Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Gold, Silver, Bronze
Antique Charles X French Cut Glass Casket
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 (for a...
Category
Early 19th Century French Charles X Antique Bronze Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Small Chinese Export Cloisonné Lidded Box decorated with peaches, Circa 1930
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a very decorative Chinese Export cloisonné lidded box which we date to the 20th century, Circa 1930.
The box has a cylindrical shape, with its original lid and is all beauti...
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Bronze Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Vintage Bronze Cloisonne Powder Box with Prunus - Unsigned - China - Mid-20th C
Located in Chatham, ON
Vintage bronze cloisonne lacquer powder box featuring Prunus blossoms - removeable lid - unsigned - China - mid 20th century.
Excellent vintage condition - no loss - no damage - n...
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Bronze Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze, Enamel
Vienna Woven Bronze Basket Box with Cold-Painted Rabbit, Attributed to Bergman
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Vienna Woven Bronze Basket Box with Cold-Painted Rabbit, Attributed to Franz Bergman School, Austria, Circa 1890
Presenting an exceptional Vienna woven bronze basket box with a cold...
Category
Late 19th Century Austrian High Victorian Antique Bronze Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Rare & Important 16th Century Italian Bronze Jacopo Lodovico del Duca Table Box
Located in Forney, TX
A magnificent antique fall-front box with scarce Medieval period bronze lockplate and hasp attributed to Jacopo and Lodovico del Duca.
Featuring an important Lockplate and Hasp designed circa 1570, exact date of manufacture unknown, attributed to the late 16th century Roman foundry of Jacopo 1520-1604) and Ludovico (1551-1601) del Duca, with no apparent signatures or hallmarks which is typical of the era, but we did not remove it and inspect the back.
Boxes such as this hand various uses but were frequently used by merchants as a writing box - slope during travel and trade, as a small coffer - strong box for storing important documents, money and valuables, as well as a jewelry casket.
This hand-crafted European drop-front box dates to the late 19th century, signed L'PUPLET, adorned with a significantly older Italian fine quality cast bronze lockplate with intricate Renaissance era reliefs, including figures, coat-of-arms, and elongated hasp, mounted on a chest of drawers form solid wooden case, wrapped in exotic Japanesque embossed and gilded metallic paper, having a locking fall-front panel with original key included, opening to reveal three interior drawers, all lined in red velvet. circa 1875
The visually striking textured wallpaper covering the box's exterior displays bamboo, birds, and flowers in the oriental Japanesque taste popular in Europe in the 1860s and 1870s following the forced reopening of foreign trade with Japan in 1858 and the ensuing Japonisme craze.
To the interior of the fall front panel is a gilt circular stamp with the somewhat obscured name of the workshop or store (likely) "L'PUPLET" and the city "Burxelles" which is in Brussels, indicating the box was likely made or retailed there.
Marks to box:
L'PUPLET, BRUXELLES
Inscription:
13, 14, 15 (Interior drawers inscribed on the verso of their backboards in script from top to bottom, respectively)
Provenance / Acquisition:
The origin of the elaborate lockplate with hasp on the front of the piece is more intriguing. At least 76 lockplates of this design have been recorded in major museums, private collections, and in the antiques trade across the Western World. For example, lockplates of this pattern are in the collections of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the State Museum of Prussian Cultural Heritage in Berlin, the Museum Cicico in Bologna, The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Dallas Museum of Art in Texas, the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the Museo di Palazzo Venezia in Rome, the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.[1]
Specialists in Renaissance bronzes, especially Charles Avery...
Category
16th Century Italian Japonisme Antique Bronze Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal, Bronze
Vintage Maitland Smith tessellated stone box with bronze figural lizard handle
Located in Winnetka, IL
A vintage 1970s fffstessellated stone box having a verdigris figural bronze lizard handle by Maitland Smith. All in the Hollywood Regency taste.
Category
1970s Philippine Mid-Century Modern Vintage Bronze Decorative Boxes
Materials
Stone, Bronze
Fantastic 19th Century French Dore Bronze Mounted Blue Opaline Crystal Box
By Baccarat
Located in New York, NY
A Fantastic 19th century French Louis XVI Style Dore Bronze Mounted Blue Opaline Crystal Box. The box is composed of two sections of French opaline crystal which are mounted to a fab...
Category
1890s French Louis XVI Antique Bronze Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
An Unusual 19th Century French Dore Bronze Mounted Orange/Red Crystal Box
By Baccarat
Located in New York, NY
An Unusual 19th Century French Dore Bronze Mounted Orange/Red crystal box. The box is composed of two sections of French orange/red crystal which are m...
Category
1890s French Louis XVI Antique Bronze Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
19th C. Italian Grand Tour Micro-Mosaic "Doves of Pliny" Box After Antiquity
By Vatican Mosaic Studio
Located in Atlanta, GA
Italian, likely Circa 1880.
This beautiful box has an exceptional Grand Tour Micro-mosaic plaque depicting the Capitoline Doves or Doves of Pliny after the Roman antiquity. Also by ...
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Grand Tour Antique Bronze Decorative Boxes
Materials
Slate, Bronze
Wonderful French Ormolu Mounted Cut Crystal Bronze Baccarat Casket Jewelry Box
By Baccarat
Located in Roslyn, NY
A Wonderful French Ormolu Mounted Cut / Faceted Crystal & Bronze Jewelry Casket In The Style And Manner Of Baccarat
Unfortunately The Back Lid Does Have A Chip In The Middle
Category
20th Century Belle Époque Bronze Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Bronze, Ormolu
Stunning Handcrafted Late 1800s Gothic Casket with Peacock & Gargoyle Sculptures
Located in Lisse, NL
Beautiful and rare Gothic Revival treasure box with bronze handle.
If you are a collector of antique boxes and/or if you are looking for an extraordinary jewelry box to grace your credenza or side table then this unique and top quality made specimen in the Gothic style could be perfect. Gothic Revival boxes are very hard to find and we have never seen one with such prodigious carvings on all sides. The unique and cat-like dragon gargoyles (with fangs) that look like they are carrying this casket, are just some of the stunningly carved and detailed sculptures that make this antique rarity even more artistic and impressive.
Another great feature are the peacock sculptures. In Christianity the peacock is the symbol of purity. Christians believe that once someone has passed their soul rises and goes to heaven. This is why in earlier times Christians would spread the feathers of a peacock over the deceased since it symbolized a pure soul that was immune to corruption. The peacock also represents immortality, resurrection, and the spiritual teachings of Jesus Christ and the Christian church.
Have you also noticed the top quality details on both ends of the bronze handle on top? The quality of that ornamental work is of the absolute highest standard also. There are many more incredibly beautiful, hand carved details and together they show that no expense was spared to create one of the most amazing Gothic caskets...
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Gothic Antique Bronze Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze, Iron
Birdy Box in Porcelain
Located in Paris, FR
Box birdy all in hand painted porcelain,
with lid. Base and details in solid bronze.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Bronze Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
21st Century, Hand-Carved Clear Crystal and Bronze Box in Style of Luigi XVI
Located in Calenzano, FI
Clear crystal box with cut engravings embellished with brass detail made with the artisan lost wax technique with patinated gold finish and the semiprecious stones (Malachite). The c...
Category
2010s Italian Louis XVI Bronze Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Malachite, Bronze
American Mission Bronze Spider Web Box
Located in Queens, NY
American Mission Tiffany rectangular bronze spider web filigree box with glass panel interior
Category
20th Century American Shaker Bronze Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Edward F. Caldwell Neoclassical Style Silvered Bronze Box, Angels, Music Motifs
Located in New York, NY
Fine and unusual signed Edward F. Caldwell & Co. Neoclassical style silvered bronze box depicting a pair of winged angels playing music at an altar. One angel plays a lyre and the other an aulos or double flute, flanked by impressive torcheres bearing pine cones and surrounded by a wide border of olive leaves and olive fruit. The interior of cover decorated with a highly artistic pair of Bacchus masks flanking a grapevine garland, signed on upper right corner E. F. Caldwell & Co. Inc New York. The sides of the box further decorated with Bacchus masks and grapevine garlands of very fine quality Caldwell is known for.
Substantial size- excellent as a jewelry box or tabletop decorative box.
Very good condition commensurate with age. Base is lined with black velvet, very slight bend to upper left corner, silvered finish in good condition.
Edward F. Caldwell & Co was established in 1895 in New York City at 31 East 17th Street and quickly became one of the premier designers and manufacturers of fine lighting and decorative objects. Their commissions included J.P. Morgan's residence, Saint Patrick's Cathedral, Vanderbilt Mansion, Henry Clay Frick residence, Harvard Club...
Category
Early 20th Century American Neoclassical Bronze Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
21st Century, Hand-Carved Amethyst Crystal and Bronze Box in Style of Luigi xvi
Located in Calenzano, FI
Amethyst crystal box with cut engravings embellished with brass detail made with the artisan lost wax technique with patinated gold finish. Each object is handcrafted and the care fo...
Category
2010s Italian Louis XVI Bronze Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Small Chinese Cloisonné Lidded Box Two Dragons Chasing Flaming Pearl Circa 1930s
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a very decorative Chinese Export cloisonné lidded box which we date to the mid 20th century.
The box has a cylindrical shape, with its original lid and is all beautifully made with colored enamels set into a black ground.
The main decoration to the body shows two 4-toed dragons chasing a flaming pearl. The lid shows another dragon set amongst clouds. The dragons have a gold colouring and other colours are used to give the detailed scene including red, green, blues, yellow and white. The lid also has lappet border patterns in blue to its edges. The insides of the lid, the box and the base of the box are finished in a turquoise blue, typical of Chinese cloisonné.
Overall a very beautiful small Chinese cloisonne box...
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Bronze Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
21st Century, Animal Box Collection, Porcelain Box with Golden Bronze Lizard
Located in Calenzano, FI
Porcelain box with cut engravings embellished with brass detail made with the artisan lost wax technique with patinated golden finish. Each object is handcrafted and the care for eve...
Category
2010s Italian Louis XVI Bronze Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Renaissance Style Gilt Rectangular Casket , Jewelry, Desk and /or Decorative Box
Located in Guaynabo, PR
This is a Renaissance style gilt bronze rectangular casket lidded box. It depicts embossed decoration of scrolls of acanthus leaves, birds flowers and hearts around the whole box. In the center of the lid, there is a “cameo” or relief of the profile of a gentleman with a beard. Inside, the box is covered with purple velvet fabric in the lid. It is divided in different sizes and shapes of compartments with glass tray and two inkwell bottles...
Category
Early 20th Century Unknown Renaissance Revival Bronze Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Late 19th Century Bronze Box - Putti - Renaissance Style
Located in Casteren, Noord-Brabant
A beautiful bronze box, decorated in renaissance style with putti and decorative ornaments.
The box is in good condition, key is missing. Beautiful colour and patina.
Dimensions: ...
Category
1890s French Renaissance Antique Bronze Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass, Bronze
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 Bronze Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Very Rare 19th C. Cobalt Blue Ground Sevres Porcelain Jewelry Box
Located in New York, NY
A very large and unusual 19th century French Louis XVI style dore bronze mounted Sevres cobalt blue ground box signed Sarat. This box is truly a masterpiece. Sevres boxes...
Category
1860s French Louis XVI Antique Bronze Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Fantastic 19th Century French Dore Bronze Mounted Blue Opaline Crystal Box
By Baccarat
Located in New York, NY
A Fantastic 19th Century French Louis XVI Style Dore Bronze Mounted Blue Opaline Crystal Box. The box is composed of two sections of French opaline crystal which are mounted to a fa...
Category
1890s French Louis XVI Antique Bronze Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Maitland-Smith Bronze Hippopotamus on a Marble Jewelry Box
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Slightly eccentric vintage jewelry box with a cast bronze hippopotamus standing on a three drawer chest clad in marble veneer and set on four bro...
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Mid-20th Century Philippine Mid-Century Modern Bronze Decorative Boxes
Materials
Marble, Bronze
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 Bronze Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Allegories of Art, French 19th Century Large Jewelry Casket After Clodion
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Large Napoleon III Jewelry Casket
In chiseled and silvered bronze, decorated with putti scenes in the style of Claude Michel dit Clodion (...
Category
1870s French Napoleon III Antique Bronze Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
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 Bronze Decorative Boxes
Materials
Malachite, Bronze
Art Deco Style Box with Ebony Veneer, with Inlays in Bronze and Springwood
By Loyzaga
Located in Mexico, Ciudad de México
Large box built in spring wood with ebony veneer and geometric inlays in bronze and spring wood.
The influence for this piece came from Marion Dorn's design of the black and cream g...
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2010s Mexican Art Deco Bronze Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Bronze Jewelry Box Ancient Sarcophagus Reliefs Greek Roman Caesar Gladiator
By Line Vautrin
Located in Hyattsville, MD
A wonderful heavy cast bronze, hinged/lidded box, lightly polished, and glowing. Depicting ancient relief scenes / characters of Ancient Roman or Greek...
Category
1920s Italian Greek Revival Vintage Bronze Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Swedish Grace Bronze Box, Sweden 1930’s
Located in Valby, 84
Rare Swedish Grace box made in solid bronze with oak on the inside of the box, the box is made in Sweden in the 1930's in a classic swedish art deco inspired style called Swedish gra...
Category
1930s Swedish Art Deco Vintage Bronze Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Gilded Bronze Box with Poem by French Art Jeweler Line Vautrin
By Line Vautrin
Located in Atlanta, GA
A gilt bronze poudrier box with cast poem on surface by Parisian art jeweler Line Vautrin (1913-1997) circa 1940s. The poem "Les 4 ages de la Femme" was an old French lyrical poem th...
Category
1940s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Bronze Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Renaissance Revival Damacened and Bronze Casket
Located in Essex, MA
With a domed hinged lid and bail handle over a conforming case decorated overall with figures in Renaissance dress. Bun feet. Provenance; David and P...
Category
1650s European Renaissance Revival Antique Bronze Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Lidded Bronze Art Deco Box by H.F. Ægte Bronce, Denmark, 1930s
Located in Malmö, SE
A lidded bronze Art Deco box with amazing patina.
Made by H.F. Ægte Bronce, Denmark, 1930s.
Good condition, only some light scratches.
Stamped ...
Category
1930s Danish Art Deco Vintage Bronze Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Contemporary Bronze Incense Box or ashtray, LINES by Reda Amalou, 2020
Located in Paris, FR
The bronze incense box or ashtray is designed with a patterned removable top. The motif used here, a repetition of lines and voids, has been developed by Reda Amalou and is used in s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Vietnamese Modern Bronze Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass, Bronze
French Line Vautrin Bronze Poem Box with Sonnet by Felix Arvers
By Line Vautrin
Located in Atlanta, GA
A wonderful jewelry box in gilt cast bronze by Parisian art jeweler Line Vautrin (1913-1997). From a small special series, the designer created circa 1945-55. on which some French poems were cast in relief on the cover. This box features a well-known love poem "Sonnet" by Félix Arvers (1806 – 1850), widely considered as one of the most romantic French poems written about unrequited love and longing. Three out of four passages are shown on the lid except the third one. The box is lined with cork. There is a line on the back from casting, commonly seen in the boxes of the series.
Mon âme a son secret, ma vie a son mystère,
Un amour éternel en un moment conçu
Le mal est sans espoir, aussi j'ai dû le taire,
Et celle qui l'a fait n'en a jamais rien su.
Hélas ! j'aurai passé près d'elle inaperçu,
Toujours à ses côtés, et pourtant solitaire.
Et j'aurai jusqu'au bout fait mon temps sur la terre,
N'osant rien demander et n'ayant rien reçu.
Pour elle, quoique Dieu l'ait faite douce et tendre,
Elle suit son chemin, distraite et sans entendre
Ce murmure d'amour élevé sur ses pas.
À l'austère devoir, pieusement fidèle,
Elle dira, lisant ces vers tout remplis d'elle
" Quelle est donc cette femme ? " et ne comprendra pas.
A secret fills my soul, and a mystery fills my life,
An eternal love conceived in an instant.
As the scourge was hopeless, it remained wordless,
And the one responsible was unaware of it.
Alas! I lived close to her but without notice,
Always by her side yet so lonely.
And I shall have lived my days on this Earth,
Not daring to ask for anything, obtaining nothing.
Even though God made her gentle and tender,
She goes her way, careless and oblivious
To the sough of love rising...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Bronze Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Tiffany Studios New York Bronze Doré and Abalone Stamp Box
Located in South Bend, IN
A gorgeous Art Nouveau or Art Deco period gilt bronze and inlaid abalone stamp box
By Tiffany Studios
New York, USA, early 20th century
Measures: 4"W x 2.13"D x 1.25"H.
Good orig...
Category
Early 20th Century American Arts and Crafts Bronze Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Contemporary Bronze Ashtray, LINES by Reda Amalou, 2015
Located in Paris, FR
The solid bronze ashtray is designed with a patterned removable top. The motif used here, a repetition of lines and voids, has been developed by Reda Amalou and is used in several pieces of the Reda Amalou Collection.
The Bronze ashtray is 135 x 135 x 65mm H
This design exists also in a tiny incense...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Vietnamese Modern Bronze Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass, Bronze
Covered Vase with Atlantes, attr. to A. Giroux, France, circa 1880
Located in PARIS, FR
Beautiful ovoid-shaped covered vase in patinated bronze with golden highlights, with rich rotating decoration in relief. The lid, symbolizing Night, is decorated with a turtle, a moon, a dragon flying among the clouds ; and the belly, symbolizing the Day, is decorated with a rising sun, mountainous landscapes, and cherry tree branches.
The whole, topped with a flamed seed, is supported by three African-type atlantes dressed in a loincloth.
Historical and artistic context
This work of art combines elements of Japonism and Orientalism, two important movements representative of the taste of the time for exoticism. Indeed, this taste for Chinoiserie was revived at the end of the 19th century following the Franco-English military campaign against the imperial army in China in 1860. Napoleon III’s French troops bring back part of the treasure from the Summer Palace, constituting in 1863 the famous Chinese Museum of Empress Eugénie at the Palace of Fontainebleau. First in painting, the movement quickly spread to decorative arts and furniture.
This craze for the Far East is encouraged in France by the diffusion of Chinese ornamental works renewing the interior decoration of the luxurious Parisian residences of a clientele eager for something new.
It was also under the Second Empire that the Orientalists were propelled to the forefront. Emperor Napoleon III, aristocrats as well as wealthy bourgeois in search of exoticism fill the order books of the most renowned artists. It is then not the predominantly academic style of the Orientalists that counts but above all the exoticism that they show to a fascinated public.
Biography
Alphonse Giroux and Company, famous curiosity and luxury goods shop was situated in Paris, at No. 7 rue du Coq-Saint-Honoré and in business from the time of the Consulate until the end of the Second Empire. The company was founded by Francois-Simon-Alphonse and continued in 1838 by his two sons, Alphonse-Gustave (1810-1886) and André (1801-1879). The father became a close associate of the royal family and specialized in the manufacture of refined items for gifts. Kings Louis XVIII and then Charles X were both supplied with gifts for « The Children of France » by Giroux. Making progressively small furniture, they were mentionned for the first time in 1837 in the class « cabinet...
Category
1860s French Napoleon III Antique Bronze Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
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 ...
Category
1810s French Empire Antique Bronze Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
French Round Bronze Mounted Cut Crystal Box
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
French Round Bronze Mounted Cut Crystal Box. Top lifts off with the aid of a bronze finial. The box sits in a bronze frame raised on round ball feet. In very good vintage condition w...
Category
Early 20th Century French Bronze Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Box Sevres Porcelain
Located in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Box sevres porcelain
octagonal format
Decorated with flowers inside (hand-painted)
Bronze frame
Perfect condition
Circa 1900 origin France.
Category
Early 1900s French Neoclassical Antique Bronze Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
19th Century Dore Bronze Mounted Cut Crystal Box
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
This antique crystal box is a true gem. The cut crystal is mesmerizing, due to its hand-chiseled facets that catch the light reflecting it in a t...
Category
Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Bronze Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
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 Bronze Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
19th C. Boulle Inlaid Table Box Miniature Pastoral Landscape, Signed 'Resck'
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
19th C. Boulle Inlaid Table Box Miniature Pastoral Landscape, Signed 'Resck'
19th Century or Older
This exquisite 19th-century Boulle inlaid table box features a beautifully detail...
Category
19th Century French Baroque Antique Bronze Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass, Bronze, Pewter
Gilt Bronze, Pearl and Enamel Singing Bird Box by Bontems, circa 1890
By Bontems
Located in London, GB
A stunning gilt bronze and seed pearl singing bird box by Bontems of Paris - CIRCA 1890.
The bird rises from beneath the enamal oval lid and is sure to delight!
Category
Late 19th Century French Victorian Antique Bronze Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze, Enamel
Chased Crystal and Gilt Bronze Box, 19th Century, Napoleon III Period.
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Chased crystal and gilt bronze box, 19th century, Napoleon III period.
A 19th century Napoleon III period chased crystal and ormolu box with a painted medallion.
H: 11.5cm, W: 21.5c...
Category
19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Bronze Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Antique Burr Walnut Decanter Box Betjemann
Located in Northampton, GB
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Outstanding Feathered Walnut Veneer
From our Decanter collection, we are thrilled to offer this rare example Antique Burr Walnut Decanter Box attrib...
Category
Late 19th Century British High Victorian Antique Bronze Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Stunning Late 1800s Gothic Revival Walnut & Brass Tea Caddy Box W. Great Patina
Located in Lisse, NL
A very pleasing, late 19th century, double compartment tea caddy.
This marvellous and rare tea caddy is in very good condition and the burl walnut has a truly warm, deep and rich pa...
Category
Late 19th Century English Gothic Revival Antique Bronze Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze, Brass
Paul Evans Box for America House, Copper, Bronze, and Pewter, Hinged, Signed
By Paul Evans
Located in New York, NY
Paul Evans Box, Copper, Bronze, Pewter, Hinged, Signed. Large scale hinged mixed metal textured box with painted red wood interior and lined with orange...
Category
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Bronze Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze, Copper, Pewter
Sevres Style Pink Bombe Watteau Motif Ormolu Mounted Table Box
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Sevres Style Pink Bombe Watteau Motif Ormolu Mounted Table Box Artist Signed J. Perrot
France, circa 1890
An exquisite Sevres-style pink bombe Watteau motif ormolu-mounted table box...
Category
Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Bronze Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Art Deco Bronze Box with Flowers in Relief, Denmark, 1930s
Located in Esbjerg, DK
- Small yet heavy Art Deco bronze box with flowers in relief.
- Clean and strict design. With a touch of femininity.
- Rich and original patina.
- It was manufactured in Denmark d...
Category
1930s Danish Art Deco Vintage Bronze Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Rare Bronze Sculptural Casket / Box Panels with Historical Roman Empire Scenes
Located in Lisse, NL
Good quality antique box with Roman scenes on all four sides and on top.
If you are a collector or enthousiast of anything to do with emperial Rome then this rare, meaningful and hi...
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Empire Revival Bronze Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
American Bronze and Enameled Box/Humidor by E.F. Caldwell, New York, 1900s
Located in New York, NY
An American Gothic Revival bronze and enamelled box/humidor.
By Edward F. Caldwell & Co. Inc., New York, first quarter of 1900s.
The rectangul...
Category
1910s American Gothic Vintage Bronze Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze, Enamel
French Dore Bronze Mounted Blue Opalescent and Dore Bronze Finial Covered Box
Located in New York, NY
A French dore bronze mounted blue opalescent and dore bronze finial covered box. This round form box is very unusual with a blue opalescent color and dore bronze mount. The top is fi...
Category
1920s French Louis XVI Vintage Bronze Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Early 20th Century Large Antique Tibetan Ghau Prayer Box With Three Buddha
Located in Pomona, CA
Ghau is a prayer box worn as pendant by Buddhists as portable shrines which can be pray by prayer during their travel. This large Ghau prayer box (travel Buddha...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Bronze Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver, Bronze
French Antique Etched and Faceted Crystal Lidded Boxes with Bronze Ormolu, Pair
Located in Doylestown, PA
Pair of French antique etched and faceted cut crystal lidded boxes with ormolu mounts, c. early 20th century.
Gorgeous gilt bronze mounted boxes with intricately etched crystal of f...
Category
Early 20th Century French Empire Bronze Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Bronze, Ormolu
19th Century Gothic Style Bronze Reliquary Box With Repousse Figures
Located in San Francisco, CA
19th Century Gothic Style Bronze Reliquary Box With Repousse Figures
8.5" x 4.75 x 3.5"H
Category
19th Century Antique Bronze Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Danish Cast Iron and Bronze Jewelry Box or Dresser Box, Circa 1940s
Located in South Bend, IN
A beautiful casket form cast iron and bronze dresser box, jewelry box, cigar box, or decorative box with interior cedar lining. The front depicts a scene from the 1219 Battle of Lynd...
Category
1940s Danish Medieval Vintage Bronze Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze, Iron
Antique Strong Box, English, Brass, Bronze, Secret Letter, Ladies Safe, Regency
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique strong box. An English, brass and bronze secret letter or valuables case, dating to the Regency period, circa 1820.
Appealing, ...
Category
Early 19th Century British Regency Antique Bronze Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass, Bronze
Tiffany Studios New York Chinese Pattern Bronze Doré Box, Circa 1910
Located in South Bend, IN
A gorgeous antique Arts & Crafts or Art Deco period gilt bronze Chinese pattern desk box, jewelry box, or decorative box
By Tiffany Studios (signed to the underside)
New York, USA,...
Category
Early 20th Century American Arts and Crafts Bronze Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Large Cut Crystal Box with Gilt Bronze Mounts
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Large Cut Crystal Box with Gilt Bronze Mounts. Exceptionally large size makes this piece ideal for a number of different uses.
Category
Early 20th Century French Bronze Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Bronze and Porcelain Box, Napoleon III Period, 19th Century.
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Bronze and porcelain box, Napoleon III period, 19th century.
A 19th century Napoleon III period gilt bronze and Sèvres porcelain box, decorated with garlands and flowers.
H: 16cm, W...
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19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Bronze Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Jewelry Box Silver Plated in the Shape of a Hippopotamus
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
Circa 1960 we offer this rare jewelry box made in bronze and Silver Plated in the shape of a hippopotamus with fantastic patina.
Category
1960s Mexican Mid-Century Modern Vintage Bronze Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Gold and Crystal Tissue Box Holder
By L'Originale
Located in Milan, IT
Functional and glamorous at once, this tissue box holder is handcrafted of the finest materials to enrich luxury bathroom suites and vanity desks. Av...
Category
2010s Italian Bronze Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Gold, Silver, Bronze
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