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Period: 20th Century
Vintage German Porcelain Women Figural Tray Box
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Condition:
Shows two small chips as shown on pictures
Category
German Art Deco Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Porcelain
Rare Box Ceramic Ciriaco Piras Sardinia 1920 Cold Painted Colored Fancello
Located in Palermo, Sicily
Rare Museum box Ceramic Ciriaco Piras Sardinia 1920 Cold painted colored made in Italy, with Sardinian dancers.
Category
Italian Art Nouveau Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
$2,387 Sale Price
20% Off
Snuff Box perforated, with a fine round miniature Salimbeni.
Located in Firenze, FI
Shaped snuff box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with perforated, embossed and hand-engraved lid, with a fine round miniature, diameter 3.8 cm, hand-painted in tempera on veg...
Category
Italian Art Deco Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Midcentury Formica and Ceramic Box by Einar Johansen & Søholm for Torben Ørskov
Located in Esbjerg, DK
High-quality desk cigarette or decorative box composed of a glazed ceramic lid with a globe in shallow relief, box-sides in solid rosewood upon af plate in black formica. The lid was designed by ceramist Einar Johansen and made at Søholm in Denmark for Torben Ørskov who made the box for the company AIU in Denmark circa 1965-69. The style of this box is reminiscent to boxes by Alfred Klitgaard and...
Category
Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic, Formica
$262 Sale Price
20% Off
Faberge Style Guilloche Enamel Sterling Silver Decorative Box/Cigarettes Case
Located in Guaynabo, PR
This is Faberge style rectangular patinated 925 silver metal decorative box/cigarette case. It depicts a heavy hinged box very well ornamented. The top of the lid is covered by an octagonal shaped emerald green translucent guilloche enamel in the center. Over it, the Russian Double Headed Eagle...
Category
Unknown Belle Époque 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Maches Mexican Brutalist Bronze Dresser Box with Gemstones & Nude Dancing Figure
By Pal Kepenyes
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine Brutalist dresser box.
With stylized nude figures around its circumference, linked hand-in-hand as if in a Bacchanalian dance, the male figures with erect penises...
Category
Mexican Brutalist 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Limoges France Oval Scalloped Porcelain Box With High Relief Rocaille Trim
By Limoges
Located in Tustin, CA
Beautiful Limoges porcelain oval scalloped shaped trinket box is handmade and hand painted in a soft mauve color and features high relief white rocaille and shell motif porcelain tri...
Category
French French Provincial 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Porcelain
Bitossi Box, Ceramic, Orange and Matte Brown, Signed
By Bitossi
Located in New York, NY
Bitossi box, ceramic, orange and matte brown, signed. Small scale box having a raw clay lid hash mark incising and decorated with an orange glazed pill pat...
Category
Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
Maitland Smith Tessellated Stone Pagoda Box
Located in New York, NY
Large 1980s Tessellated stone with brass handle and rattan by Maitland Smith.
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Marble, Brass
Austrian Tortoise Shell Silver Box
Located in Delft, NL
Austrian Tortoise shell Silver box
Austrian Tortoise shell Silver box in the shape of an envelope with a flap.
The flap is with a spring.
The box is marked with the Austrian Silve...
Category
Austrian 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
Antique French Book Box
Located in Houston, TX
Designed to appear as a stack of books, this box is the perfect place to store your treasures. The hinged box is made of wood, and the books are trimmed in gold paint.
This piece we...
Category
French 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Murano Purple Pulled Feather Gold Flecks Italian Art Glass Vanity Powder Box
Located in Kissimmee, FL
Beautiful, and rare, vintage Murano hand blown, gold flecks with purple pulled feather design Italian art glass powder box. Attributed to the Barovier e Toso company, in a "Fenicio" ...
Category
Italian Hollywood Regency 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Leaf
Brass walnut shaped nut cracker , 1970’s
Located in Delft, NL
Brass walnut shaped nut cracker , 1970’s
Category
German Mid-Century Modern Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Ruby Red and Gilt Silver Faceted Murano Glass Jewelry Box, Italy 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Stunning jewelry box in faceted ruby red Murano glass and gilt silver. This incredibly rare piece was produced in Italy in the 1920s.
The box feature an exquisite 12 sided faceted ...
Category
Italian Mid-Century Modern 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Glass, Art Glass, Murano Glass
Octagonal Jewelry Music Box, Made in Italy
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Elegant octagonal wooden music box in thuya wood.
Thuya tree is famous for rich gold and brown shades of its grain and unique exotic fragrance, simila...
Category
Italian Moorish Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Fruitwood
Vintage Wooden Box, Suitcase, 1960s
Located in Praha, CZ
In fair condition
new painted
only for decoration
have damages and scratches.
Category
Mid-Century Modern Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal
Mexican Box, c. 1960s
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
Circa 1960, We offer this beautiful mid century Mexican box. Made in wood and stone.
Category
Mexican Mid-Century Modern Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Stone
Loetz Biscuit Barrel Cookie Jar Art Nouveau Iridescent Glass Antique Lötz & WMF
Located in Bad Säckingen, DE
A lovely Art Nouveau biscuit barrel, made of iridescent art glass with a combed pattern made by Loetz Wwe. with a brass mount by WMF which w...
Category
Austrian Art Nouveau Antique 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver Plate, Brass
$945 Sale Price
20% Off
Egg Plum enamel with tripod Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Egg Plum enamel is in 925/1000 sterling silver.
Egg Plum enamel has fired enamels on guilloché has fired enamels on guilloché and design engraved by hand.
Egg Plum enamel is Russian...
Category
Italian Empire Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Chinese Round Black Lacquer Box with Mother of Pearl Inlay, likely 20th Century
Located in Cathedral City, CA
Chinese Round Black Lacquer Box with Mother of Pearl Inlay, likely 20th Century
Beautiful and useful 20th century. Chinese lacquer box of circular shape, the domed cover with flora...
Category
Chinese Chinese Export 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl, Wood, Lacquer
Arthur Espenet Carpenter Rosewood Tissue Box 1965c.
Located in Chicago, IL
Arthur Espenet Carpenter Rosewood Tissue Box (circa 1965)
This elegant rectangular tissue box exemplifies Arthur Espenet Carpenter’s mid-century modern vision. Carpenter was a self-t...
Category
American American Craftsman Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Rosewood
$3,040 Sale Price
20% Off
Gucci Brown Leather Handbag Top Handles Bag Vintage, Late 20th Century
By Gucci
Located in Labrit, Landes
Gucci brown leather handbag top handles bag vintage, late 20th century
Embossed inside 'Made in Italy by Gucci'
Smooth brown leather
Rose gold metal hardware
Original Gucci tag i...
Category
Italian 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Leather
Lady's or Gentlemans Asian Jewellery Trinket Casket Document Box by Eichholtz
Located in Dublin, Ireland
An outstanding Multi purpoise rectangular Ladys or Gentlemand Casket of rectangular outline and quite generous proportions, complete with its firm fitting lift off cover. Mid Twentieth Century, of Asian origin.
This decorative example is entirely veneered with short lengths of reeded carved bone in various pastel creamy colours which is superbly done.
Condition: Good condition with nice patination, possibly never used in its past.
Width: (an impressive) 16" (41cm). Depth: 12” (30.5cm). Height: 4.25" (10.5cm).
Location: Dublin City, Ireland.
Affordable fixed price Worldwide Store to door Shipping offered by Seller.
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Category
French Mid-Century Modern 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Beech
Moroccan Antique Berber Case Flask Hand-carved
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Hand made early 20th century Moroccan antique Berber case flask, carved wood covered with brass and silvered metal filigree, delicately hand-hammered metal with animals decor for pow...
Category
Moroccan Moorish Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass, Tin
Antique Capo DiMonte Hand Painted Ceramic Box circa 1920's
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3-646 Antique Capo DiMonte hand painted ceramic box.
Category
Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
$232 Sale Price
73% Off
Austrian silver with Agate box, 1921-1922
Located in Delft, NL
Austrian silver with Agate box, 1921-1922
A silver with Agate lidded box
Austrian silver hall marks 1921-1922,
Marked in both parts with the Austrian silver hall mark, the numbers o...
Category
Austrian 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Agate, Silver
Handmade Mexican Boxes Set of Three
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Set of three handmade Mexican Boxes. Original paint and great patina.
Measures: Larger box - 10.75 x 8 x 5
Medium box - 8 x 4.5 x 3.5
Small box - 3.7...
Category
Mexican 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood, Paint
$1,180 Sale Price
20% Off
French Leather jewelry box with inlaid etched plaque - France - Louis XVI style
Located in Beuzevillette, FR
Charming wooden jewelry or sewing box covered in brown leather, surrounded by a dark brown inlaid frieze and a decorative green frieze glued around the box.
The leather is decorated ...
Category
French Louis XVI 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Leather, Wood
Anglo Raj Hand-Carved Decorative Jewelry Box
By Rajhastani
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Hand-carved Anglo Raj early 20th century carved wood box richly decorated overall with arabesques and floral carving.
Hinged lid shallow relief carving with interior lined with red r...
Category
Indian Anglo Raj 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sandalwood
Large French Provincial Faience Hand Painted Flower, Butterfly, Dragonfly Box
Located in New York, NY
Beautiful, large French Provincial style faience covered box profusely decorated with vibrant bouquets of flowers against a marvelous craquelure background. The cover topped with fiv...
Category
French French Provincial 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic, Faience
Fred Zimbalist Thorens Silver Plated Music Box
By Fred Zimbalist
Located in Guaynabo, PR
This is a Fred Zimbalist Thorens silver music box shaped as an old phonograph with trumpet horn. All the silver panels that make the box and the hor...
Category
American Anglo-Indian 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver Plate
$2,800 Sale Price
20% Off
Italian Florentine Gold Gilt Wood Trinket Jewelry Box
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Charming Italian Mid-Century Florentine hand crafted box. This gilt-wood box can be used to store your favorite pieces of jewelry as well a stand alone piece on a coffee table as dec...
Category
Italian Mid-Century Modern 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood, Giltwood, Paint
Elegant Malachite Box from the 50s, 20th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Malachite Box
Elegant malachite box from the 50s. It is in perfect condition. Measurements: 21x11x8 cm.
Category
Italian Art Deco 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Malachite
Antique Chinoiserie Box
Located in New York, NY
Antique Chinoiserie decorated fruit box. Beautiful decorated Chinoiserie box used to serve fruits and specail treats. Hand gilt painting over red lacquer. Strong patina of wear so...
Category
Chinese Qing Antique 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Art Nouveau Majolica Barbotine Box Jar Pheasant on Basket by Sarreguemines
Located in Bad Säckingen, DE
A hand-painted majolica lidded jar / box or tureen in the shape of a pheasant hen sitting on a basket, made by Sarreguemines around 1900. This beau...
Category
French Art Nouveau Antique 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica
$620 Sale Price
20% Off
Bronze and Porcelain Jewelry Box, Porcelain Plaques Painted by Johner
By Johner
Located in Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
Bronze and porcelain jewelry box. Porcelain plaques painted by Johner. Neoclassical style. Vienna, circa 1900.
Category
Austrian Neoclassical 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Persian brass jewelry box - Moorish neo-Mamluk style - 1920's Syria
Located in Beuzevillette, FR
Very pretty 1920s Persian brass jewelry box in neo-Mamluk Moorish style.
This lovely box is an antique Mamluke Damascene style Islamic brass jewelry box from the Middle East, circa 1...
Category
Syrian Art Deco 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Chinese Phoenix Bird and Dragon Box
Located in New York, NY
A black and off-white Chinese phoenix bird and dragon decorative plastic box with lid, circa 20th century, China.
Box measures: 4.25" D x 8.25" ...
Category
Chinese 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Plastic
$260 Sale Price
20% Off
Bill Long Wood Box
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A beautifully crafted box, signature below.
Category
American Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Rosewood
$1,400
Fontana Arte Wooden Box with Mirror Glass Top Designed by Pietro Chiesa, 1930s
Located in London, GB
A very beautiful box from the 1930, designed by Pietro Chiesa for Fontana Arte with a rectangular base in light brown walnut wood worked in an undulated manner and with a refined fai...
Category
Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Mirror, Walnut
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
Danish Art Deco Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
$358 Sale Price
20% Off
Pair of Italian Brass Sphere Trinket Boxes
Located in San Diego, CA
A nice pair of Italian brass sphere trinket boxes circa 1960s. The set is in very good condition with a rich patina and measures 4"D and 2.25"D, respectively. Nice, well crafted box...
Category
German Mid-Century Modern 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass, Enamel
Vintage Keepsake Box, Portuguese, Satinwood, Case, Cricket Interest, Mid Century
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is a vintage keepsake box. A Portuguese, rosewood and satinwood case with cricket interest, dating to the mid 20th century, circa 1945.
Fas...
Category
Portuguese Mid-Century Modern 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Table Box miniature fire-enameled Aleksej Nikolaevic Romanov Salimbeni.
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table box with inward corners in gold-plated 925/1000 sterling silver with translucent enamel fired on guilloche and a fine round miniature in the centre, diameter cm. 4....
Category
Italian Empire Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Moroccan Chest or Jewelry Box in Cameal Bone and Brass Inlaid
Located in Plainview, NY
Bring a sense of majesty into your living space with this magnificent Moroccan white bone chest handcrafted from beach wood and inlaid with additional red stones. Boasting a sumptuou...
Category
Moroccan Moorish Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
$2,080 Sale Price
20% Off
Lidded Pewter Box by Edvin Ollers, Sweden, 1930s. Svenskt Tenn. Art Deco.
Located in Malmö, SE
A beautiful tea caddy in pewter, with amazing patina.
Designed by Edvin Ollers and made by Schreuder & Olsson in Stockholm, Sweden, 1937.
Great condition, with only a few light scr...
Category
Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal, Pewter
La Sirène au Bateau (The mermaid with the boat) by Line Vautrin
By Line Vautrin
Located in Uccle, BE
La Sirène au Bateau (The mermaid with the boat) by Line Vautrin, silvered bronze box.
Silvered bronze box whose lid is decorated with a Mermaid carrying a boat at arm’s length.
This ...
Category
French Mid-Century Modern 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
English Modern Sterling Silver Box with Saudi Arabia Association
Located in New York, NY
Elizabeth II sterling silver box. Made by Peter Nicholas & Co Ltd in London in 1989. Rectangular with corner bracket supports and hinged open scroll end handles. Cover hinged and fla...
Category
British Modern Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Burmese Yun Lacquer Container, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
In many southeast Asian cultures, offering guests a betel quid to chew was the fundamental symbol of hospitality. A blend of leaves, nuts, seasonings, and sometimes tobacco, betel was kept in finely worked and decorated boxes. This round container was originally the lid to a Burmese betel box...
Category
Burmese Folk Art 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bamboo
Vintage Bentwood Hat Box
Located in London, London
Vintage bentwood hat box
This is a vintage, minimalist hat box made from bent plywood, characterized by its smooth, cylindrical shape and unadorned surface. The warm brown tone of the wood showcases its natural grain, giving it a rustic, earthy charm. The flat, detachable lid sits neatly on top, designed with the same understated simplicity. Unlike some other antique hat boxes...
Category
20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bentwood
Set of Four Scandinavian Ceramic Goose Money Banks, Höganäs Keramik Sweden 1990s
Located in Bochum, NRW
Set of Four Scandinavian ceramic goose money banks, Höganäs Keramik Sweden 1990s. Each marked under the bottom with maker's marks, and some dated. One ke...
Category
Swedish Scandinavian Modern 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
$358 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Art Deco Amber Glass Trinket Decorative Vanity Box, vintage Austria 1930s
Located in Nuernberg, DE
A really beautiful colored Art Deco Trinket Jewelry box or catchall. In very good condition with signs of use. A real collectors item for your Art Deco setting. Nice addition also to...
Category
Austrian Art Deco Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Art Glass
Midcentury Decorative Box in Lucite and Rattan Christian Dior Style, Italy 1970s
Located in Rome, IT
Midcentury amazing little rectangular decorative box in lucite, rattan and brass in the style of Christian Dior Home.
Made in Italy in the 1970s.
Perfect desk object or gift idea.
Category
Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal, Brass
Limoges Porcelain Oval Trinket box
By Limoges
Located in Guaynabo, PR
This is a Limoges Porcelain Oval Trinket Box. Its background is hand painted light yellow. The top of the hinged lid is adorned with a large sunflower and the sides of its base with ...
Category
French Victorian 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Porcelain
Italian Painted and Lacquered Playing Card Box, circa 1900
Located in Stamford, CT
Rare and very charming Italian hand crafted playing card case painted in Venetian red with miniature cards lacquered on in the 'lacca povera' style, similar to decoupage. The cards d...
Category
Italian Belle Époque 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Hallmarked Silver Plated Keepsake Box, Sheffield, Uk, Circa 1900
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Offered is a stunning Sheffield silver keepsake box dating to 1900, with associated hallmark. This small box includes a clean interior and rounded corners. The box is free of names or initials, but would have been used to house keepsakes such as jewelry or cufflinks. A well maintained, elegant piece, this antique silver box is an excellent addition to any silver collection.
Trinket or keepsake boxes have taken on many forms since their first conception in ancient times. However their purpose remains the same; to store jewelry and other items precious to the owner. Originally, these boxes were used specifically for jewelry. These were in common use as early as 5000 BC in Ancient Egypt, when the majority of Egyptians, both male and female, wore jewelry. Boxes were used to keep these gemstone encrusted items safe. In Ancient Rome, jewelry was a status symbol. Rings and brooches were utilized to represent ones status in society. Again, boxes were needed for security and storage purposes. Finding early examples of these are quite rare.
Victorian and Edwardian examples of trinket boxes are far more common. This is because owning jewellery was a luxury until the Victorian era- let alone possessing so much a box was needed to store it all. Fine jewelry and other items became available to the masses after the industrial revolution due to the reduction in production costs. This led to a demand for trinket boxes, which were much smaller than jewelry boxes and therefore better suited to the needs of the middle class who did not yet possess an abundance of jewelry.
In Victorian households, collectables and other items of interested were also stashed inside these boxes. This is why they are known as trinket or keepsake boxes, rather than just jewelry boxes, although of course jewelry was also stored in them. Trinket boxes were produced in large numbers around this time. Many were lined with colored plush or velvet or rich wood. More elaborate designs had interior divisions and trays for rings and other pieces of jewellery. It was also common to see trinket boxes so small that they could only contain one item, such as a single ring. Ornate exteriors were created to reflect the value of the trinket boxes contents.
The Edwardian era saw the introduction of new styles of trinket box. These included small circular or oblong boxes...
Category
British Art Deco Antique 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
Black Box with Mallard Duck Mosaic
Located in New York, NY
A black resin rectangular box with mosaic inlaid mallard duck bird on pond with cattail plant flower; all inlaying was done by hand with natural materials...
Category
American Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
$506 Sale Price
25% Off
Rectangular Mid-Century Chrome Thick Lucite Box by Albrizzi
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Thick Lucite and Chromed Jewelry Box by Alessandro Albrizzi, MCM
A vintage lucite lidded box, the top being clear, the bottom being chromed. The box was designed by Alessandro Albriz...
Category
Italian Mid-Century Modern 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Chrome
Art Deco Brass Box around 1920s
Located in Wien, AT
Art Deco brass box around 1920s
Polished and stove enamelled
Wood inside.
Category
Austrian Art Deco Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Jack Ink Art Glass Box, 1980s
Located in Delft, NL
Jack Ink Art glass box, 1980s
A rectangular Art Glass box, with the main color of blue and consisting of 2 parts with brass. Light makes the art iridescent...
Category
European 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Art Glass
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