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Period: 20th Century
Asian Silver Metal Hand Carved Peacock Sitar Veena Form Box 1950
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Vintage Asian Silver Metal Hand-Carved Sitar Veena Box.
Elevate your decor with this stunning vintage box, featuring intricate hand-carved designs of a sitar and peacock. The ornate ...
Category
Indian Anglo Raj 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal, Silver
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
$622 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
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
French 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
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 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
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
$359 Sale Price
20% Off
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
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
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
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
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
Pair of Vintage British Colonial Style Faux Zebra Boxes on Stands
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Standout pair of mid century boxes on stands having hand decorated faux vellum interiors, set on brass stands with custom acid washed finishes. Signed Hart Associates on a brass label.
Category
American Mid-Century Modern 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Vintage Handmade Natural Malachite Stone Lidded Stash Trinket Box Italy
Located in San Diego, CA
Beautiful decorative handcrafted lidded natural green malachite stone stash/trinket box. The box has a wonderful form and design. Malachite stone has great color and natural patterns...
Category
20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Malachite
Pewter Rectangular Box, Italy, Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Pewter rectangular box realized in the eary 20th century
Very good condition.
Category
Italian 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Pewter
$150 Sale Price / item
30% Off
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
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
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
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
Michael Aram Tooled Silver Metal, Enamel Two Part Box With Brass Flower Top
By Michael Aram
Located in North Miami, FL
This lovely small round 2 part box is an early piece of the designs of MIchael Aram's work from the early 90's. It is a tooled design silver metal on the top of the box with a black...
Category
Indian Modern 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal, Brass, Enamel
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
Mid-Century German Space Age Newspaper Letter Box, 1960s
Located in Hamburg, DE
Mid-Century German Space Age Newspaper Letter Box, 1960s, in Very Good conditions. Designed 1960 to 1969
Additional information:
Materials: Metal, Plastic
Color: Black
Styles: Mid-C...
Category
German Mid-Century Modern 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal
Vintage White Marble Jewelry Trinket with Bird Intarsia
Located in Esbjerg, DK
A beautifully hand-crafted trinket or jewelry box in white marble. Featuring an organically crafted oval shape and the lid is decorated with intarsia of a bird. Unknown European make...
Category
European Mid-Century Modern 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Marble
$263 Sale Price
20% Off
Collection of Russian Papier Mache Lacquered Hand Painted Boxes
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Collection of Russian Papier Mache Lacquered Hand Painted Boxes
All of them are signed in Russian
Largest one is 8" x 4.88" x 2.25"
Category
Russian 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Softwood, Paper
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
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
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
$359 Sale Price / set
20% Off
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
Gucci Vintage Leather Box Tom Ford, 1990s
Located in Munich, DE
Gucci vintage black leather jewellery box with aluminium brushed frame and stitched leather rims designed by Tom Ford. Signed with Gucci. Ver...
Category
Italian Mid-Century Modern 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Aluminum
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
Porcelain Peint a la Main Vintage Grand Piano Trinket Box by Limoges
By Limoges
Located in San Diego, CA
Beautiful porcelain peint a la main (hand painted) vintage grand piano trinket box by Limoges, circa 1980s. This unusual piece is in very good vintage condition and measures 1.75"W x...
Category
French 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Porcelain
Midcentury Box in Wood, Brass and Steel Tommaso Barbi Style, Italy 1970s
Located in Rome, IT
Midcentury amazing large rectangular box in wood, brass and steel in the style of Tommaso Barbi.
Made in Italy in the 1970s.
Category
Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal, Brass, Steel
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
Pink Peach Mirrored Glass Decorative Box, France 1940s
Located in Atlanta, GA
This lovely mirrored glass decorative box was crafted in the 1940s. The square design boasts pink peach-colored glass with a mirror textured effect and deep geometric bevelling all a...
Category
French Hollywood Regency Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Glass, Mirror
Fornasetti "Trofeo Selvaggina" Enameled Box, ca. 1950's
Located in New York, NY
This small painted wooden box is an iconic piece by the renowned Italian artist and designer Piero Fornasetti. Created in the 1950s, it reflects Fornasetti's unique style, blending t...
Category
Italian 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal
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
French Neoclassical Lidded Pill, Trinket or Small Jewelry Box
Located in Miami, FL
Beautiful handcrafted lidded pill, trinket, or small jewelry box.
Intricately designed brass bottom, amber and quartz top.
Makes a lovely gif...
Category
French 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Quartz, Brass
$225 Sale Price
23% Off
1960s Beautiful Brown Alabaster Box, Handmade, Made in Italy
Located in Milano, IT
1960s Beautiful alabaster brown box handmade carved. Made in Italy. Not easy to find it in these color. This vintage box is amazing and in excellent condition.
Dimension:
3,14" x 3...
Category
Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Alabaster
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
A Russian hand painted papier mâché box decorated with intricate scenes C1920
Located in Central England, GB
This top quality Russian black lacquered papier mâché box has an extremely fine hand painted central panel to its lid with a medieval scene set amongst a landscape with a castle and ...
Category
Other 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Lacquer, Paper
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
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
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
French Empire 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Bronze, Ormolu
20th Century Handmade Silver Vase by Asian Artisans, Vintage
Located in Nuernberg, DE
Gorgeous vintage handmade silver Vase. Sorry we don't know anything about it, but its beautiful. It is marked with a sign of the silversmith. I am unsure of the age of this object an...
Category
Central Asian Mid-Century Modern 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
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
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
Jean-Michel Frank 'Straw Marquetry Box'
Located in Sharon, CT
Geometric angular design. Cork interior. Three bronze four sided pyramids attached. Unsigned and 'attributed to'. Provenance: Liz O'Brien NYC c.2000.
Category
French Art Deco Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Straw
Navajo Sterling Silver & Turquoise Hand Made Pill Boxes, Set of Three, 1930s
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A set of three hand made sterling silver pill cases or trinket boxes, Navajo, Native American – circa 1930s.
The boxes are decorated with ...
Category
American Navajo Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Pretty Antique European Classical Silver Keepsake Box
Located in New York, NY
Pretty European Classical 800 silver keepsake box, ca 1940. Rectangular. Cover flat and hinged with tapering tab. Sides fluted and engraved with fl...
Category
European Edwardian 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
Large French Cut Crystal Rectangular Table Box, Attributed to Baccarat
By Baccarat
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Large French Cut Crystal Rectangular Table Box, Attributed to Baccarat
France, 1900s
A magnificent large French-cut crystal rectangular table box, attributed to Baccarat, France, c...
Category
French Neoclassical 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Brass
$1,516 Sale Price
20% Off
Petite Antique Anglo Indian Bone and Tortoise Box
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Charming petite antique Anglo Indian lidded box handcrafted in indigenous hardwoods clad in tortoise shell and decorated with elaborate lacy bone designs, featuring an etched and pai...
Category
Indian Anglo-Indian 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bone, Tortoise Shell
Large Oak Sewing Box, 1950s, Holland
Located in Den Haag, NL
Large Solid Oak wood sewing box ,on wheels . opened with two hinged doors on the top, while the accordion style (with layered shelves that used external hinges to store more stuff in...
Category
Dutch Mid-Century Modern Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Oak
Vintage Rosewood and Brass Trinket Jewelry Box, 1960s
Located in Esbjerg, DK
A beautifully crafted rosewood box with brass sides and pin-inlays to its star-perforated lid. Despite its Arabic inspired lid it was in fact made in Scandinavia during the 1960s. A ...
Category
Scandinavian Scandinavian Modern Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
$263 Sale Price
20% Off
French Cut Crystal Box with Diamond Cut Pattern
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
French Cut Crystal Box with Diamond Cut Pattern and brass mounts. Faceted etched design accentuates the beautiful design of this box. In very good vintage condition.
Category
French 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Brass
Emanuel josef Margold, a secessionist box for the Bahlsen cookie factory c. 1915
Located in London, Fitzrovia
A rare rectangular shaped box with a hinge cover; tinplate, gilt and with beautiful colourful abstract floral motifs.
The bottom is embossed with ‘H. Bahlsens Keks-Fabrik Hannover Königl-Preuss-Staatsmedaille Weltausstellungen - 1904 1910 Grosser Preis 1911 1913 Baltische Ausstellung Malmö 1914 Die Königl. Medaille’
Bahlsen's new designs for ornamental giftware packaging were shown at the exhibition held by the Deutsche Werkbund...
Category
German Vienna Secession 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Tin
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
Alessandro Albrizzi Cube Box in Purple Lucite and Gold Metal, Italy, 1970s
Located in Rome, IT
This auction is for a purple cube Lucite box with gold color metal in the centre by Italian Designer Alessandro Albrizzi. Overall the piece is beautiful wi...
Category
Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal, Steel
French Majolica Money or Coin Bank Dog Circa 1900
Located in Austin, TX
French Majolica Money or Coin Bank Dog Circa 1900.
Category
French Country Antique 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
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
Rounded Wooden and Rope Box in Wood France 1960, Brown Color Audoux Minnet Style
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
Rounded Wooden and Rope Box in Wood France 1960, Brown Color Audoux Minnet Style
Category
French Mid-Century Modern Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood, Rope
$258 Sale Price
20% Off
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