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Period: 19th Century
19th century Large Wooden Box No. 11 Olga Nikolajewna Romanow Brass Fittings
Located in Epfach, DE
Large wooden box No. 11 with brass fittings for the transport of silver objects from Olga Nikolajewna Romanova's dowry
1822–1892 for marriage to the ...
Category
Russian Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Rare Japanese Lacquer Writing Box Suzuribako Meiji Period
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Japanese Lacquer writing box Suzuribako Meiji Period (1868-1912), likely circa late 19th century. This suzuribako is one of the most unusual boxe...
Category
Japanese Japonisme Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Lacquer
Unusual Victorian All Sterling Silver Gilt Dresser or Trinkets Jar
Located in New York, NY
Unusual, Victorian, beautiful, all sterling silver gilt dresser jar, Dominick and Haff, New York, year dated for 1890. Lovely interlocking script m...
Category
American Victorian Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
English Victorian Period 1880s Leather Hide Hat Case with Removable Divider
Located in Atlanta, GA
An English Victorian period leather hide hat case from the late 19th century, with G.C monogram, lined in red with removable divider. Created in England durin...
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English Victorian Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
19th Century Danish Box Circa 1850
Located in Atlanta, GA
This 19th-century Danish box, circa 1850, is a remarkable piece crafted from walnut wood, showcasing fine craftsmanship typical of the era. The box features a smooth, polished surfac...
Category
Danish Neoclassical Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Walnut
Antique French Brass Napoleonic "Le Grand" Snuff Box
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Antique French Brass Napoleonic "Le Grand" Snuff Box
Step back into the glorious era of the French empire with this stunning Antique French brass Napoleonic "Le Grand" snuff box. A ...
Category
French Empire Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
19th Century French Louis XV Style Bronze Box.
Located in Houston, TX
19th Century French Louis XV Style Bronze Box.
This stunning antique French bronze box with a hinged lid, decorated with cupids surrounded with Sèvres-style porcelain floral and figurative plaques...
Category
French Louis XV Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
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
English Campaign Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
KPM Shell and Flower Motif Cabinet or Patch Box
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
KPM shell and flower motif cabinet or patch box, The top realistically modelled as a clam shell, the interior revealing painted florals, and the blue undergl...
Category
German Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Porcelain
Antique 19th Silver Tobacco Box, Circa 1820s
Located in Norton, MA
Antique 19th silver tobacco box, from 1820s.
Category
English Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
19th Century Antique Empire Barrel Box in Hardwood
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
19th Century Antique Empire Barrel Box in Hardwood. Charming piece as a decorative piece on a desk or library shelf and additionally could be used to hold jewelry on a dresser or nig...
Category
American Empire Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Original Antique Grape Vine Carved Black Forest Wood Music Box Needs Service
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer for sale this antique original circa 1880 Black Forest Wood music box with grape vine carving to the top
A very good lookin...
Category
Swiss Black Forest Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
French Mid-19th Century Lacquered Oak Reliquary Box
Located in Milano, MI
French 19th century lacquered rectangular shaped reliquary box, realized in oak, decorated with a dark brown/grey lacquering and a white scrolling and pa...
Category
French Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Oak
Magical Old Chinese Box in Faded Cinnabar
Located in Hopewell, NJ
If objects could talk, this box would have some interesting stories for all its wonderful aged patina, cracks and character. A faded cinnabar, the entire surface is meticulously hand...
Category
Chinese Chinese Export Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
19th Century Chinese Rosewood Octagonal Box With Brass Mounts
Located in Stamford, CT
19th century Chinese rosewood box with brass hinges, hasp and decorative mounts. Of unusual octagonal form, I've never seen one like it. The edges...
Category
Chinese Chinese Export Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Large Antique Campaign Calamander And Brass Writing Box. English C.1860
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Wonderful calamander writing box or slope
Fabulous colour and figure in the wood
Fine brass hardware
Working secret drawers
New leather
With Key
Category
English Campaign Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Antique English Victorian Leather and Sterling Silver Table Box
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine antique Victorian English table box.
In brown leather with a wood lined interior.
With applied triangular sterling silver mounts to the corners.
The mounts marked for the J...
Category
British Victorian Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
19th Century Dance Card in Mother of Pearl and Gilded Bronze, Palais-Royal Work
Located in Paris, FR
Charles X dance card in mother of pearl with gilt bronze mounts. It is engraved with plants, flowery interlacing, and bouquets of flowers. An enameled pansy adorns the cover, a typic...
Category
French Restauration Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
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
Danish Empire Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
19th Century Painted Satinwood Dresser Box
Located in Bradenton, FL
Unique satinwood painted English dresser box from the 19th century. Box has colorful floral and ribbon design with exotic birds on a beautiful satinwood background. Designs are in ea...
Category
English Regency Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Satinwood
Japanese Hand-Painted Porcelain Lidded Serving Dish, Trinket or Jewelry Box
Located in Miami, FL
Beautiful Japanese hand painted porcelain decorative trinket, pill or jewelry box or serving dish of Meiji period.
The decoration cons...
Category
Japanese Meiji Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Porcelain
Anglo-Indian Horn Veneered Sewing Box from Vizagapatam w/Fitted Interior/Drawer
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Large Anglo-Indian sewing box with hinged lid opening to a fitted interior and interior compartment in the lid, a lower drawer on the front provides additional storage. The box made ...
Category
Indian Anglo-Indian Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Horn, Sandalwood
Silver Box with Indian Elephants, Late 19th Century
Located in Marseille, FR
Silver box from India, late 19th century with elephants, 6 cm high, 16 cm long and 9 cm deep.
Additional information:
Material: Silver.
Category
Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
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
French Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Antique Vietnamese Silver Treasure Box with Guardian Dragons
Located in New York, NY
Vietnamese silver box, late 19th century. Rectangular with straight sides. Cover flat and hinged. Box sides have embossed blossoming branches, bamboo...
Category
Vietnamese Chinese Export Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
Fine Regency Egyptian Revival Leather & Snake Handled Ormolu Box C. 1815
Located in Atlanta, GA
This remarkable Regency-period jewelry or document box is a rare example of Egyptian Revival design, a style that gained popularity during the early 19th century following the Napole...
Category
French Regency Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
Classical Design English Brass and Copper Coal Hod
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
A fine quality brass and copper coal hod. Classical design, English, late 19th century. Original lift-out handled liner. Associated shovel. The repouss...
Category
English Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass, Copper
Swiss 19th Century Dry Measure Pantry Box
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
This dry grain measure is a large, handsome culinary antique. Beautifully aged wood with patinated hand forged iron banding provides this piece with deep character.
Category
Swiss Other Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Italian 19th Century Braided Straw Box from a Monastery in Umbria Region
Located in Milano, MI
An Italian straw work box decorated everywhere with extraordinary straw-work geometrical marquetry on a wooden structure, coated even inside and at the bottom.
This Italian box, has a rectangular shape, hand-realized in an antique abbey...
Category
Italian Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass, Iron
Art Nouveau German Porcelain Galluba & Hofmann Small Multicolor Box
Located in Prato, Tuscany
We kindly suggest you read the whole description, because with it we try to give you detailed technical and historical information to guarantee the authenticity of our objects.
Iconic and distinctive small square box...
Category
German Art Nouveau Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Chinese Export Silver Jewellery Box
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique Chinese Export silver jewellery box; an addition to our collection of boxes and cases
This exceptional antique Chinese Export Silver box has a subtly undulating rectangular form.
The surface of the box has a planished finish and is embellished with an embossed and chased decorated stemmed floral and foliate design to the anterior surface.
The decoration to the body continues to the cover, incorporating plum blossom arrangements and an impressive perched bird motif.
This antique jewellery box is fitted with the original hinged cover.
This exceptional Chinese silver jewellery box is supported by four impressive cast silver feet.
The hallmarks struck to the underside of this fine box include:
Maker's mark: HC (Hung Chong)
Artisan workshop mark: QI CHANG (Shanghai)
NOTE: We are grateful to Adrien von Ferscht for his help in identifying this exceptional antique piece.
Condition
This antique Chinese silver jewellery...
Category
Chinese Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
Antique Edward Souter Barnsley & Co. Sterling Silver & Tortoiseshell Powder Box
Located in Atlanta, GA
An 1894 antique Edward Souter Barnsley & Co. sterling silver and tortoiseshell powder box decorated with a silver laurel leaf and bow inset to...
Category
Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Japanese Lacquer Box with Fine Maki-e Decoration Meiji Period
Located in Atlanta, GA
A lacquered wood box with lid from Japan circa 19th century Meiji Period. The finely decorated box was used to store paper slips and small documents on the desk. It is overall finished with black lacquer (kuro) with sparse Mura-Nashiji effect outside and on the top surface of the lid, there are three Komainu, (sometimes known as Shishi or Japanese lions) frolicking and forming a circle in lively motion. Komainu are auspicious animals in Japanese cultures in both Shinto and Buddhism tradition. Originally from China, these animals symbolizes guardians to ward off evil spirits. Hiramaki-e was used in combination with carving and combing to render the lions with various surface textures. A gilt border with an slight angle was given to the lid and even the thin band is decorated with miniature floral scrolls. The interior of the box was finished in a dense nashiji. Underneath the lid, a cluster of peonies open lavishly by two gentle mounts. Takamaki-e (high relief) in both gold and silver were...
Category
Japanese Japonisme Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood, Lacquer
19Thc Paint Decorated Pa. Dutch Pantry Box
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 19Thc early pantry box was used in the kitchen for feeds and grains. This was paint decorated later in the early 20thc.Looks like a Peter Hunt painted or decorated style. The co...
Category
American Adirondack Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood, Paint
Antique French Gilt Brass and Cut Glass Souvenir Jewellery Casket, 19th Century
Located in Bristol, GB
Antique gilt brass and cut glass souvenir depicting the ‘Basilique de la Delivrande’.
This is a charmingly detailed jewellery casket. The top depicts the Basilica of Our Lady of Deliverance near Caen in Northern France.
The top panel of bevelled glass displays the image and the four sides of bevelled glass panels are clear.
There is a pronounced cushion inside for displaying jewellery.
Dating from the late 19th century, it would have been sold as a French souvenir...
Category
French Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Antique 19th c. Decorative Anglo-Indian Overlay Footed Box with Engraved Bone
By Rajhastani
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Nice and unusual Jewelry decorative box with filigree bone overlaid decoration.
Large Anglo-Indian footed domed box with exceptional engraved bone de...
Category
Indian Anglo Raj Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
19th Century Wabi-Sabi Caddy
Located in Chicago, IL
A wonderfully charming 19th century American caddy or tool box with the best whimsical wabi-sabi inspired natural bentwood hickory handle. Perfect for holding napkins, flatware, or o...
Category
American Rustic Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Fine Antique English Coromandel Decanter / Drinks Box, circa 1880
Located in Bath, GB
A truly magnificent drinks / decanter box made from exotic Coromandel mounted with polished brass mounts inset with a plethora of different kinds of cabochon cut and polished onyx st...
Category
English Late Victorian Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Small Dutch 19th Century Silver Lodderein or Snuff Box by Reitsma Sr., Sneek
Located in Delft, NL
Small Dutch 19th century silver Lodderein or scent box by Reitsma Sr. S.T., Sneek
A Lodderein box or a snuff box in the shape of a bucket with floral motif ...
Category
Dutch Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
Swedish Inlaid Fruitwood and Veneered Box with Curved Top Early 19th Century
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Early 19th Century Karl Johan Box with Inlay Ribbon Decorations in Fruitwood, Sweden.
Key not included
Category
Swedish Karl Johan Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood, Fruitwood
Very Large 19th Century Ormolu Mounted Sèvres Celeste Blue Ground Porcelain Box
Located in New York, NY
A Very Large 19th Century Ormolu Mounted Sèvres Celeste Blue Ground Porcelain Box with Watteau Scene Cartouches. This box consists of signature celeste blue ground of Sèvres porcela...
Category
French Louis XVI Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ormolu
19th Century Sevres Casket
Located in London, GB
A rare antique French gilt bronze and silver Sevres porcelain casket finely painted with neoclassical figures on two round and two rectangular ...
Category
French Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
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
French Louis XVI Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
19th Century Swiss Black Forest Carved Thatched Roof Cottage Box
Located in Stamford, CT
Fantastic and rare example of Black Forest folk art, a tour de force of carving by a master woodworker. This lift top box in the form of a thatched cottage has many wonderful details...
Category
Swiss Black Forest Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Walnut
19th Century Large Store Tea Tin Hand Painted Parnall & Sons Bristol, England
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Fabulous and large store tea tin by Parnall & Sons who were the people to see for outfitting your store and much more as the company grew from 1830. Hand painted showing a girl servi...
Category
British Folk Art Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal
Late 19th Century Collar Box, Leather and Silver Plated Metal, Silk Lined
Located in Knivsta, SE
Burgundy Leather Collar Box with smaller Silver Plated Cufflink Box on top, used for detachable collars, 1890. Additional storage on top, for cufflinks, shirt buttons and miscellaneo...
Category
European Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Late 19th Century French Ruby to Clear Cut Crystal Bronze-Mounted Box
Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE
Beautiful ruby to clear cut crystal with bronze mounts, France, late 19th century.
Measures:
Height 6.50 in (16.5 cm)
Width 4.50 in (11.5 cm)
Depth 4.50...
Category
French Victorian Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal
19th Century English Victorian Hand Painted Letter Box, Dated 1890
Located in Stamford, CT
Unusual 19th century letter box with whimsical ink decoration inside and out, signed and dated 1890. With wonderfully naive ink decoration, inc...
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English Victorian Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Carved ebony Box, Anglo-indian Box From Vizagapatam
Located in Bilzen, BE
An extraordinary Anglo-Indian box from Vizagapatam in fully carved solid ebony, late 19th century.
Filigree ornate and sculpted floral decoration...
Category
Indian Anglo-Indian Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ebony
Box, Brass and Silver Box, 19th Century Syrian Work, Orientalist Art.
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Box, brass and silver box, 19th century Syrian work, orientalist art.
Nineteenth century box, orientalist brass and silver, Syria.
H: 6,5cm, W: 1...
Category
Syrian Napoleon III Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver, Brass
Sailor's Inlaid Ditty Box
Located in Greenwich, CT
A sailor's ditty box for holding a sailor's valuables (mending needles, thread, pipe tobacco, razor, mementos, etc.) having a mirrored and gilt framed interior lid, with pull-out com...
Category
English Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Mahogany
Swedish folk art painted wooden box "Timplåda" with sliding lid
Located in Kvidinge, SE
Painted box with a typical Swedish art work decor, dated 1836.
A 'timplåda' is a traditional Swedish wooden box, handcrafted with care. Popular during the 18th and 19th centuries,
...
Category
Swedish Folk Art Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Pine
Rajasthani Mughal Decorative Copper Lidded Betel Spice Pandan Caddy Box
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Rajasthani Mughal Decorative Copper Lidded Betel Spice Pandan Caddy Box.
Handcrafted decorative North India round metal Asian copper Mughal Raj, Indian lidded , spice, pandan betel box with latch and a top handle.
Of dome form with lotus-shaped finial, with spiralling bosse designs,
Delicately and intricately hand-chased and hammered with geometric Anglo-Indian designs.
Consuming betel leaves with several ingredients such as wet lime paste, katechu, areca nut, cloves and even tobacco leaves has been popular in India from the fourth century AD.
The box was probably used to store the betel leaf used in the preparation of paan. Lime paste is mixed with grated areca nut and flavourings and the resulting mixture is rolled in the betel leaf to form a small parcel which can then be chewed. As well as being an integral part of Indian hospitality paan is believed to possess medicinal properties and was also taken as an aphrodisiac. The present box, which was elaborately designed for this purpose, would have been taken out ceremoniously on special occasions.
Exquisite conversation museum quality piece with a very nice antique patina.
Fine intricate artwork with conical form lid with Moorish pierced designs.
Islamic Mughal Indo Persian...
Category
Indian Agra Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass, Copper
19th Century Anglo Ceylonese Specimen Wood Desk Companion Tray
Located in Dallas, TX
Another stunning 19th century Anglo-Ceylonese piece.
Made circa 1880 in Ceylon (Now Sri Lanka) of Coromandel wood and specimen woods.
This is a simply gorgeous and quality item!! Tray made of various compartments with various high quality specimen wood lids, all edged and banded in chevrons of bone, silver or pewter and ebony.
The tray itself is made of expensive coromandel wood. There are two open sections on either side of the tray which have bone and hand-painted lac ends. The main tray sits onto a base made of coromandel wood with green baize lining.
This tray could have a number of practical uses, for keeping stationary, watches, jewelry, or thinking outside of the box, holding you remote controls and candy!!
We have a matching box also in our Inventory and for auction.
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
Sri Lankan British Colonial Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ebony, Wood
Early 19th Century Russian Stained and Carved Bone Table Box with delicate gold
Located in Larkspur, CA
Early 19th century Russian stained and hand-carved Bone Table Casket Kholmogory Box, veneered with panels of foliate engraved stained bone alternating with geometric and foliate fret...
Category
Russian Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bone
Rare Antique English Biscuit Box - 28 lb Weight c.1870
By Jonas & George Bowen
Located in Bath, GB
Always highly sought-after, these novelty "weight" biscuit boxes came in two sizes; this one is the smaller box which is the harder to find; it would look perfect next to it's larger...
Category
English Victorian Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver Plate
19th Century Sterling Silver ‘Necessaire De Voyage’ by Leuchars and Son
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
An exceptional and rare leather covered wooden case the top with the embossed silver family initials BAB in monogram under a nine pointed crown cartouche; the case is lined with crim...
Category
English Early Victorian Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Sterling Silver
Early 19th Century painted pine blanket box
Located in Debenham, Suffolk
Early 19th century painted pine blanket box circa 1828.
Fine example of the traditional method of storage in sweden, utilising the plentiful pine and hand decorating.
Rectangular b...
Category
Swedish Folk Art Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Pine, Paint
