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Period: 19th Century
Antique English Wedgwood Blue Porcelain Coromandel Wood Inkwell, Circa 1880.
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique English Wedgwood blue porcelain and coromandel wood inkwell desk compendium, circa 1880.
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English Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes

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Porcelain, Wood

Antique Chinese Wooden Jewelry Box or Vanity Dresser Chest with Intricate Inlay
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This very elaborate jewelry box or vanity dresser makeup chest is unsigned, but presumed to have been made in China in approximately 1850 in the period Chinese Export style. The box ...
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Chinese Chinese Export Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Metal

Vitage Silver Firenze Pill Box with Blue Lacquered Country Motif
Located in BILBAO, ES
Vitage Silver Firenze Pill Box with Blue Lacquered Country Motif Measures 10 x 10 cm / 3,93 x 3,93 inches Weight 138 gr Pradera is a second generation of a family run business je...
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Italian Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Silver

Biedermeier Jewelry Box, Cherry Wood, Ash, Brass, Southern Germany circa 1820
Located in Regensburg, DE
Restored Biedermeier Jewelry Box from South Germany around 1820 Cherry veneered on softwood with inlays in ash veneer. Brass fittings, hinges and working lock. Restored and hand-poli...
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German Biedermeier Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Brass

French Turn of the Century Louis XVI st. Crystal and Gilt Bronze box
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An elegant French Turn of the Century Louis XVI st. Crystal and Gilt Bronze box. This charming rectangular box is raised on ball feet below the bottom rectangular Gilt Bronze band. T...
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French Louis XVI Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Crystal, Gold Leaf

Black Lacquer Chinese Export Work Box
Located in Tampa, FL
An early 19th century black lacquer, Chinese export work box, beautifully decorated in gold. The decoration is a court seen in gold gilt with two brass handles on the sides and paw f...
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Chinese Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Wood, Lacquer

19th Century Indian Box
Located in Tampa, FL
This exquisite antique box from 19th century India is a true treasure with its rich patina and traces of green paint. The brass studs add a real touch making it a genuine statement p...
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Indian Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Brass

Antique Anglo-Indian Silver Box with Hand Chased and Repousse Decoration
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This silver trinket or jewelry box dates to the late 19th century and is presumed have been made in India. The silver tests to between .850 and 900 and as such, is slightly below .92...
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Indian Anglo-Indian Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Silver

Large Old Paris Porcelain Bombé Shaped White Glazed Box-Hinged and Footed
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Large Old Paris Porcelain box with a white glaze in the form of a bombé commode. The top panel is of a nude woman with two dogs. The front panel ...
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French Louis XV Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Metal

Late 19th to Early 20th Century Sedan Chair Miniature Table Top Display Cabinet
Located in San Francisco, CA
Late 19th to early 20th century sedan chair miniature table top display cabinet Charming custom made and hand painted miniature table top ...
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English Rococo Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Wood

Chinese Gilt Lacquer Hat Box, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
No self-respecting man in Qing-dynasty China would leave the house without some kind of hat. In fact, headgear was so central to social status that even the containers used to store ...
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Chinese Qing Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Hide, Fabric, Wood

19th Century French Iron Safe
Located in High Point, NC
Originally used as a safe or strong-box, this antique iron trunk remains a trustworthy vault for treasured possessions. Made in 19th century France,...
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French Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Iron

19th Century French Iron Safe
19th Century French Iron Safe
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Irish Work Box
Located in Tampa, FL
Early 19th century Irish work box decorated with shamrocks and beautifully inlaid.
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Northern Irish Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Wood

Antique Swedish Folk Art Bentwood Box -1848
Located in Örebro, SE
19th Century swedish folk art bentwood box, with nice patina. Owner marks at the top and bottom, KB 1848. Good antique condition with historic knocks, marks, scratches and wear as is...
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Swedish Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Bentwood

English Victorian Rosewood Pen Box
Located in Queens, NY
English Victorian (19th Century) rosewood pen box of rectangular shape with domed hinged lid and mother of pearl inset
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British Victorian Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Rosewood

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...
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Sri Lankan British Colonial Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Ebony, Wood

Antique Japanese Meiji Silver Box with Birds & Blossoming Branches
Located in New York, NY
Japanese Meiji silver box, ca 1890. Rectangular with curved corners. Box sides have chased and engraved birds amidst blossoming branches and bamboo in rectangular frames. Cover top h...
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Japanese Meiji Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Silver

Petite Etched Chinese Opium Box, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
A petite 19th-century canister once used to store a smoker's personal supply of opium paste. A keepsake from a bygone era, the small box is formed of brass with a copper interior and...
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Chinese Qing Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Brass, Copper

Cylinder Musical Box by Nicole Freres (Geneva)
Located in Zonhoven, BE
Early Fad Cylinder music box made in Geneva by Nicole Freres. This is a good example of those early music boxes. The mechanisme has a fad cylinder and plays 8 tunes in a 2 per turn...
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Swiss Early Victorian Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Brass, Iron, Steel

19th Century Asian Wooden Decorative Storage Box
Located in Germantown, MD
Mid 19th Century Asian Wooden decorative storage box with lid. Measures 13.5"W x 11"D x 11.5"H.
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Chinese Chinese Export Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Metal

19th Century French Marble and Onyx Box or Jewelry Casket
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Large 19th Century French Marble and Onyx Box or Jewelry Casket. The box is constructed from different colored marble and onyx stone on the top that is mounted on a mahogany chamfere...
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French Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Marble

Antique German Silver Dog Sugar Box Circa 1890
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
A magnificent, fine and impressive antique silver sugar box modelled in the form of a dog; part of our collection of silver animal sugar boxes. This magnificent, fine and impressive antique cast silver sugar box has been realistically modelled in form of a dog*. The silver box is embellished with fine details reproducing the dog's coat and anatomical features. This exceptional and large antique silver dog...
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German Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Silver

Japanese Inro by Koma Koryu Edo Period
Located in Atlanta, GA
A four-case lacquered inro by Koma Koryu circa 19th century late Edo period. The inro features a pair of Chinese mandarin duck resting under a bundle of blooming irises on the pond. ...
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Japanese Japonisme Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Wood, Lacquer

19th Century Buddha Box Stand Table
Located in New York, NY
This stunning rustic Buddha box stand table is a late 19th century offering box. Significant Triangular shape box stand table set on legs carved as Naga's a...
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Thai Rustic Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Wood

Swedish 19th Century Wooden Folk Art Box With Shaving Knives
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
A Swedish original painted Folk Art box. From the beginning of the 19th century, used to keep shaving knives and similar supplies. Included 3 knives with the razor blades in English ...
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Swedish Folk Art Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Wood

French Bronze Hand Painted Portrait Guilloche Round Trinket Jewelry/Powder Box
Located in Guaynabo, PR
This is a French patinated bronze metal round trinket lidded box. It depicts a pierced round metal box decorated with a relief of foliages. The lid is ad...
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French Belle Époque Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Bronze

Antique Victorian Sterling Silver Vinaigrette
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique Victorian English sterling silver vinaigrette; an addition to our silver boxes collection This excepti...
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English Victorian Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Silver, Sterling Silver

19th Century Swiss 18K Gold Pearl Set & Enamel Musical Box, Remond c.1800
Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Music box’s sound recording available on request Antique early-19th Century Exceptional Swiss 18k gold & enamel music box, of elegant rectangular form, in the shape of an envelope, ...
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Swiss Other Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Gold, Enamel

Antique Canadian General Store R.B. Hay Hoe & Co. Tea Advertising Display Tin
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This antique general store advertising store display tin for the R.B. Hay Hoe & Co. tea is presumed to have been made in Canada in approximately ...
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Canadian Victorian Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Metal

19th Century French Empire Miniature Commode
Located in Winter Park, FL
A 19th century French Empire miniature commode. A well executed miniature chest made of walnut and veneer of walnut with two large drawers below a smaller top drawer and with solid walnut columns. Inscription written in ink on the back of each of the large drawers: Don D...
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French Empire Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Walnut

Chinoiserie Gilt Bronze Champlevé Enamel Casket Box
Located in New York, NY
Unusual and Ornate Gilt Bronze Champlevé Enamel Lidded Casket. After a bamboo box, this champlevé box contains five enameled faces with gilt bronze bamb...
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Chinoiserie Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Bronze, Enamel

Swedish Butter Box Octagonal Empire Style, ca 1830
Located in Farsta, SE
Swedish Butter Box Octagonal Empire Style, ca 1830 Beautiful green-toned Kolmården Marble. In excellent condition. Heigth: 8 cm/3.1 inch Diameter: 13 cm/5.1 inch
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Swedish Scandinavian Modern Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Limestone

Antique Dresser or Jewelry Box with Enamel Portrait and Gilt Bronze Mounts
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This antique dresser or jewelry box is unsigned, but presumed to have been made in France in approximately 1890 in the period Art Nouveau style. The oval shaped box has a very well e...
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French Art Nouveau Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Bronze, Enamel

Antique English Regency Rosewood Travelling Lap Desk Box, Circa 1830
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique English Regency rosewood travelling lap desk box, circa 1830.
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English Regency Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Rosewood

Round cut Crystal Box antique 19th century attributed to Pairpoint Mfg Co.
Located in Stamford, CT
Beautiful cut-crystal box. American circa 1890. A fine example heavy weight and great details. Has a silver plated band. Very deep quality cuts all around. Attributed to Pairpoint Mf...
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American Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Crystal

Antique Japanese Pencil Box Lacquer Ware Writing Meiji Period, 19th C
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
A Japanese lacquer writing box 19th Century Of rectangular shape, overall painted in famille rose colors with flowers, all on a yellow ground, the interior in red. Additional inform...
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Japanese Meiji Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Lacquer

19th Century Brass Inlaid Walnut Box
Located in Houston, TX
19th century Brass inlaid walnut box. This stunning decorative box or jewelry box has beautiful brass inlay and trim with the original tufted satin interior.
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European Aesthetic Movement Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Walnut

French 19th century Louis XVI st. Baccarat Crystal and Ormolu box
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An attractive and high quality French 19th century Louis XVI st. Baccarat Crystal and Ormolu box. This beautiful rectangular Crystal box showcases lattice cut patterns and a reeded O...
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French Louis XVI Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Crystal, Ormolu

19th Century French 18K Gold Royal Presentation Snuff Box, c.1850
By Louis-François Tronquoy 1
Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Antique mid 19th century French 18k gold snuff box, of lobed design with chased scroll and foliate decoration, the hinged cover inset with a circula...
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French Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Gold

Chinese Eternal Love Offering Box, c. 1800
Located in Chicago, IL
This ornately carved 19th-century offering box would have been presented as a gift filled with popular Chinese snacks, including roasted melon seeds, dried fruit, and soybeans toaste...
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Chinese Qing Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Lacquer, Paint, Wood

19th Century Indian Wooden Box with Brass Details and Distressed Patina
Located in Yonkers, NY
An antique Indian wooden box from the 19th century, with brass details and weathered appearance. Topped with a rectangular lid fitted with a c-scroll handle and half opening to revea...
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Indian Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Brass

NAPOLEON III Paris 1860 Travel Foldable Writing Desk Box In Precious Woods & Aba
Located in Miami, FL
An antique Napoleon III traveler portable writing-desk box. This is a gorgeous portable writing desk-box, created in France during the period of emperor Napoleon III, circa 1860. Th...
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French Napoleon III Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Leather, Shell, Wood

Mid-19th Century Japanese Meiji Period Bronze Stamp Box
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Mid-19th century Japanese Meiji period bronze stamp box. Applied castings of a hanging flower basket with bird, recumbent stag and flowers. Measures: 1 1/...
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Japanese Meiji Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Bronze

Mother of Pearl or Nacre Box with Bronze Frame, 19th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Mother of pearl box with bronze frame, 19th century. Box made of mother of pearl plates joined thanks to a bronze structure decorated with simple plant elements and which still has ...
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European Neoclassical Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Bronze

Frederick Manson Victorian 1894 Birmingham Visiting Cards Case In .925 Sterling
Located in Miami, FL
Visiting card case box in sterling silver designed by Frederick Manson. Beautiful antique presentation visiting card holder, created in the city of Birmingham England at the ateli...
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English Late Victorian Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Silver, Sterling Silver

19th Century Rosewood Games Box
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
A very attractive Mid-19th Century rosewood card, or games, box having charming polychrome cards and chequered strung decoration to hinged top, enclosing paper lined interior with di...
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English Regency Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Rosewood

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...
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English Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Brass, Copper

Antique Canadian General Store Snow Drift Mocha Coffee Advertising Display Tin
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This antique general store advertising store display tin for Java Mocha coffee is presumed to have been made in Canada in approximately 1880 in t...
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Canadian Victorian Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Metal

Musical box with 6 Bells and 3 Automatons By G. Bendon
Located in Zonhoven, BE
Beautiful music box by Bendon. Made in about 1880 in Switserland by this well known manufacturer. The mechanism plays 8 tunes on a 28cm cylinder as indicated on the original 'Bendon'...
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Swiss Late Victorian Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Bronze, Steel, Cut Steel, Other, Iron

Antique Chess Storage Wooden Boxes
Located in Alessandria, Piemonte
Antique walnut wooden boxes suitable for containing chess. You can choose among these four: (3 photos for each box) . -the first : SOLD. -the second has a silver S.Christopher - O/7...
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English Other Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Fruitwood

Fine Japanese Lacquered Inro by Yutokusai
Located in Atlanta, GA
A four-case lacquered Japanese inro by Yutokusai (Gyokkei), a lacquer artist active from 1845-1900 (end of Edo to Meiji period). The slightly round inro features a very intricate design with three unfolded fans on the front and two on the back: each reveals a vignette landscape scenery, likely real places in Japan. Using a combination of hiramaki-e and slight takamaki-e, the artist deftly created the pictures with fine details, rendering the inro as a miniature artwork...
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Japanese Japonisme Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Wood, Lacquer

19th Century French Napoleon III / Boulle Box
Located in Vilnius, LT
Antique French Napoleon III box with inlaid bronze decor, polished black color surface and red velour textile inside. Includes key. After the r...
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French Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes

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Bronze

Late 1800s Antique Firewood Coal Wood Repousse Box Brass Panels
Located in Chula Vista, CA
Late 1800s antique firewood box with artistic Brass Panels Tavern imagery Rectangular shape six sided with a slope. Preowned vintage original c...
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American American Classical Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Brass

French 19th century Louis XVI st. Baccarat Crystal and Ormolu box
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An attractive and most elegant French 19th century Louis XVI st. Baccarat Crystal and Ormolu box. This beautiful Crystal square box showcases lattic...
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French Louis XVI Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Crystal, Ormolu

Louis-Philippe period ointment box in native wood and marquetry, 19th century
Located in Beuzevillette, FR
Charming little box of the Louis-Philippe period in native wood with marquetry net and the word "odeur" inlaid on the lid. The interior covered with a blue fabric and a purple velvet...
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French Louis Philippe Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Porcelain, Wood

Biedermeier Beadwork, Pens Casket, Case, Box
Located in Hamburg, DE
Beautifully crafted Biedermeier pencil box from Germany mid - late 19th century. The casket is leather wrapped, embossed and has a push button closure. From the inside the box is lac...
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German Biedermeier Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Leather, Beads

English 19th Century Small on Box on Stand With Inlaid Mother-Of-Pearl
Located in Southampton, NY
English 19th Century Small on Box on Stand With Inlaid Mother-Of-Pearl. This is an antique English walnut dressing or vanity box, dating to the 19th century. The box features a beaut...
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English Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Mother-of-Pearl, Wood

Mahogany Tea Caddy Wooden Casket Box w Antique Glass Empire early 19th century
Located in Sweden, SE
Rectangular shape mahogany veneered casket made in first half of 19th century presumably in Europe. Cast glass vessels are intact at their original place. Candy sugar bowl along with...
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Empire Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Glass, Cut Glass, Mahogany

Rare Restored Burr Walnut & Tunbridge Inlaid Sewing Work Box Table Carved Feet
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning fully restored heavily carved Victorian walnut sewing table with ornately inlaid Tunbrid...
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English Victorian Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Walnut

Large Napoleon III Ormolu Mounted Glass Casket / Box French
Located in London, GB
Perfectly executed in heavy crystal glass and Bronze. A superb example of a French Casket. This fine box is decorated with high quality ormolu mounts. Al...
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French Antique 19th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Glass

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