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Period: 20th Century
Antique Small Turn of the Century Florentine Box
Located in Tampa, FL
A small turn of the century Italian Florentine box with an X design on top.
Category
Italian Antique 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Silver and Enamel Box, E.F. Caldwell, New York, circa 1920
Located in New York, NY
Silver and enamel box, E.F. Caldwell, New York, circa 1920.
Depicting the golfer Bobby Jones.
Category
American 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Enamel, Silver
Bronze and Slag Glass Tiffany Jewelry Box, Art Deco Period, United States
Located in Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
Bronze and slag glass Tiffany jewelry box. Art Deco period. United States, circa 1900. Signed in the back "Tiffany Studios New York 830".
Category
American Art Deco 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Jewelry Box or Decorative Box in Shelll and Wood White Color France 20th Century
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
This box is in wood and recovered with shells. It can be used as a Jewelry box or decorative box. It has been made in France during the XX Century. The color is White and red inside,...
Category
French Hollywood Regency 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood, Shell
Antique 19th century English Document Storage Box, Monogrammed L.B. Elliott
Located in Centennial, CO
A charming antique 19th century British pine document box with iron handles, monogrammed L.B. Elliott on a brass plaque on the top. Handcrafted with solid dovetail construction and a...
Category
British British Colonial 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass, Iron
Antique Chinese Chinoiserie Box with Mother of Pearl
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Antique Chinese Chinoiserie Wooden box with Handpainted inserts. Mother of Pearl decorative buttons. Double sides doors with compartments for small sculptures. Great piece.
Category
Chinese Chinoiserie Antique 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Double Height Carved Indian Box
Located in Chillerton, Isle of Wight
Double height carved Indian box
An unusual piece with 2 levels, the top of the box in the octagonal shape has an opening lid. The lower is recta...
Category
Anglo Raj 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Teak
925 Sterling Silver & Enamel Box with Strap Detail Italy circa 1960
Located in London, GB
An Italian 925 sterling silver & enamel box circa 1960
This box features both stunning quality and design. Both the silver & enamel are in immaculate condition and the buckle deco...
Category
Italian 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver, Enamel
John Kapel, Furniture Maquettes
By John Kapel
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Maquettes refer to small-scale models or prototypes often used by designers to plan or visualize larger projects before they are created on a full scale. These models serve as a way ...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Leather-Covered Indian Basket with Lid
Located in Alessandria, Piemonte
Vintage leather-covered Indian basket with lid: for everything you never know where to put ! It's perfectly clean, otherwise I wouldn't have bought.
D...
Category
Indian Arts and Crafts 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Straw, Leather
A good quality Glasgow Style Arts and Crafts oak needlework box
Located in London, GB
A good quality Glasgow Style Arts and Crafts oak needlework box with upper drawer and sliding storage below on four tapering legs united by twin cross s...
Category
Scottish Arts and Crafts Antique 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Oak
American Modern Sterling Silver Box by Ubaldo Vitali for Cartier
Located in New York, NY
Modern sterling silver box. Long and rectangular with straight sides and sharp corners; cover hinged with overhanging rim and gently curved top. Box interior cedar lined and partitioned. Cover interior gilt. Nice proportions. Plenty of room for engraving. Fully marked including maker’s (Ubaldo...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Large Italian Silver Plated Metal Pear Ice Cube Bucket Container
Located in Chicago, IL
Large Metal Pear Ice Cube Bucket Container. No makers mark. Most likely made in Italy 1960s. Hammered brass stem mounted to the top. Nicely crafted artistic & functional object. Plenty of patina to the metal which give the pear a nice character. Being sold unpolished with patina. Possibly Silver Plated. I believe there was probably a lining glass bucket inside at one time.
unmarked. Uncertain to the designer...
Category
Italian Mid-Century Modern 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal
Large Green Majolica Money Bank Squirrel Circa 1950
Located in Austin, TX
Large green Majolica Money Bank Squirrel Circa 1950.
Category
French Mid-Century Modern Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
WMF Art Nouveau Germany Silver Plate Jewelery Box, 1900s
Located in Puglia, Puglia
Jewelery box, WMF - Germany, early 20th century
Rectangular shape with scroll decorations, surmounted by a crown, internal fabric compartments, four curled feet, brand under the bas...
Category
German Art Nouveau Antique 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver Plate
Vintage Carved Keepsake Case, Chinese, Satinwood, Decorative Box, Circa 1950
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is a vintage carved keepsake case. A Chinese, satinwood decorative box, dating to the mid 20th century, circa 1950.
Profusely carved throughout with an abundance of Oriental cr...
Category
Chinese Chinoiserie Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Satinwood
Elmwood Early 20th Century Makeup Chest with Doors and Drawers
Located in Yonkers, NY
A Chinese elmwood makeup or jewelry chest from the early 20th century with five drawers and brass hardware. Created in China during the early years of the 20th century, this small el...
Category
Chinese 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
20th Century Sterling Silver Gilted Enameled Table Box
By Salimbeni
Located in VALENZA, IT
Round shaped box Made in Italy Silver Gilted 925/1000 with translucent enamels on guilloche with hand painted floral miniatures and gold paillons
The Miniatures are hand-painted on a usually white homogeneous enamel base. The same colored glazes are used, but ground much finer, which are mixed with special oils to form an infinite palette of colors. The paint must be gradually dried on electric stoves...
Category
Italian Other Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Box for Decoration, or Desk Box in Makassar, Art Deco, France 1940
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
This box is from France. It has been made in 1940, it is an art Deco Item. The wood is makassar ebony .
It can be used as a docorative box, at home or in an desk.
Category
French Art Deco Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Cigarette Case Fired Enamel with Still Life Miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table cigarette case with rounded corners in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated with beautiful miniature fire enamelled and hand painted by the painter Beatrice Mellana reproducing a "still life" by the Flemish painter Willem Claes Heda. Dimensions cm. 5.7 x 9 x 1.7. Weight gr. 174. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1969 and manufactured in Florence in numerous specimens with various subjects and different colors, in the headquarters of the Salimbeni Company with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for withstanding numerous enamelled firings at about 800° C.
Miniature is a very ancient technique which consists of painting works in small proportions.
It was born for the decoration of the first letter of the paragraph of the books.
Over the years, however, this technique is refined and enriched, then moving on to precious personal items.
Hand-painted miniatures can be done with multiple different techniques.
The most important that we use on our articles are of three kinds:
1) Fire enamel.
2) Water tempera on an ivory plate.
3) Painted on mother-of-pearl.
Fire enameled miniatures:
On a first layer of enamel generally white or very clear or even transparent suitably liquefied at a temperature of about 750 ° C, the chosen subject is painted using miniature colors which are as many colored crystals, ground and reduced to a very fine, almost impalpable powder washed and purified in distilled water with the addition of small quantities of deoxidizing acids which, diluted with essential oils (usually essential oil of solder), can be mixed to form a palette of colors.
With very fine sable hair brushes you draw the subject starting from the perimeter and then gradually adding various layers of color.
It is necessary to carry out various firings very often so that the colors harden and are not absorbed by the underlying glaze as, during the subsequent firings at 750 ° C, during liquefaction, it would spread irremediably. Hence the need to form the painting a little at a time, cooking it numerous times.
Therefore it is necessary to proceed with numerous retouching, often overlapping different colors that only the painter's experience knows. A beautiful miniature needs from 20 to over 50 firings and is finished when the painter deems he does not have to further intervene.
Some colors must have darker tones than others because then, by superimposing the transparent enamel placed at the end of the miniature, they fade. This transparent layer, called “fondant” in jargon, must be smoothed and polished like all other translucent enamel colors.
The miniatures with water tempera colors are painted on real ivory...
Category
Italian Art Deco Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold
Boite en céramique Francaise décoré à l'or fin, French Riviera Vallauris 1960
By Vallauris
Located in London, England
Boite à bijoux ou vide poche en céramique émaillé multicolore dorée à l'or fin .
Fabriquée dans les ateliers de Vallauris elle est richement décorée à l'or fin et le ciselage des fle...
Category
French French Provincial Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
Art Deco Modernist Spritzdekor Metal Tin Box Container Marianne Brandt Bauhaus
Located in Bad Säckingen, DE
Extraordinary Modernist piece of early 20th Century design! This box or container with a hinged lid is lacquered with a fabulous typically constructivist "Spritzdekor" airbrush patt...
Category
German Bauhaus Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal
1910 René Lalique - Box Paon Peacock Glass with Blue Patina
By René Lalique
Located in Boulogne Billancourt, FR
Box "Paon" (Peacock) made in glass with blue patina by René Lalique in 1910.
Engraved signature.
Perfect condition. Extremely rare model.
Height: 5.5 cm
Diameter: 12 cm...
Category
French Art Deco Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Blown Glass
Anglo Indian Brass and Hardwood Chest
Located in San Mateo, CA
Anglo Indian hardwood campaign or dowry chest. This has brass straps, handles and large hinges on the interior. The lock has the original key. The chest is in good condition. It show...
Category
Indian Anglo-Indian 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
20th Century Central European Zinc Box
Located in High Point, NC
This 20th Century Central European zinc box is a remarkable piece, showcasing utilitarian design and industrial aesthetics. The box’s durable zinc construction ensures longevity, whi...
Category
European 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Zinc
Round Antique Brass Pill Box with Hand Painted Mughal Design and Hidden Mirror
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
A small brass snuff box or pill box with a hand-painted Rubaiyat scene. This small box will be great in a purse or even on a side table or coffee table. It is petite and round and fe...
Category
Unknown Moorish 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal
White Majolica Pate Tureen Digoin Sarreguemines Circa 1950
Located in Austin, TX
White Majolica Pate Tureen Digoin Sarreguemines Circa 1950.
Category
French Rustic Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
Vintage Huanghuali Wood Box, China
Located in Norton, MA
A ventage Chinese Huanghuali wood box with a beautiful natural grain of Huanghuali.
Measures: 2.5in (6.3 cm) X 8 3/4 in(22.2 cm) X 4 7/8 in(12.3 cm).
Category
Chinese 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood, Lacquer
Vintage Cleric's Writing Slope, Japanese, Lacquer, Correspondence Box, Art Deco
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is a vintage cleric's writing slope. A Japanese, red lacquer travelling correspondence box, dating to the Art Deco period, circa 1930.
Striking writing case with delightful J...
Category
Japanese Art Deco Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Lacquer
Antique Art Nouveau Ceramic Box by Carl Sigmund Luber for Johann von Schwarz
Located in Bad Säckingen, DE
This exquisite antique Art Nouveau ceramic box, designed by Carl Sigmund Luber for Johann von Schwarz, showcases a charming pastoral scene on its li...
Category
German Art Nouveau Antique 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
Novelty English Sterling Silver Jewelry / Ring Box by Joseph & Richard Griffin
Located in Bath, GB
A really charming novelty sterling silver jewelry or ring box modelled in the form of a dressing table including a swing mirror to the back with it's original beveled mirror (minor s...
Category
English Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Vintage Middle Eastern Moorish Mosaic Marquetry Inlay Box
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Vintage Middle Eastern Moorish wooden jewelry box inlaid with marquetry.
Middle Eastern box handcrafted in very fine Moorish micro mosaic diamonds,...
Category
Asian Moorish 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Fruitwood
Antique Burmese Orange Lacquer Round Betel Box, c. 1900, Burma
Located in Austin, TX
An attractive antique Burmese cylindrical orange and black lacquered bamboo betel box, kun-it, with interior tray, early 20th century, circa 1910, Burma (Myanmar).
The visually str...
Category
Burmese Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Lacquer, Bamboo
1970s Hand Craft Wood Box
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
1970s hand craft wood box.
Category
Italian Mid-Century Modern 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Vintage Italian Decorative Box by Gabriella Crespi 1980s
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The Vintage Italian Decorative Box by Gabriella Crespi, dating back to the 1980s, exemplifies the renowned designer's unique artistic ...
Category
Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal
Modernist Italian 800 Silver Small Playing Card Box, C.1950/1960
By Jean Despres
Located in Bath, GB
Hefty Italian silver was used to create this mid-century modern box with a stylish cast silver chain belt and buckle across the top and down the front, beautiful quality and engineer...
Category
Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
Antique Pair Hand Made Wood Hat/Storage Boxes
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
1740 Pair antique hand made cedar hat/storage boxes
large 16x6"
Small 9.5x5"
Category
Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Cedar
Tiffany American Midcentury Modern Box with Chinese Dragon Finial
Located in New York, NY
Midcentury Modern sterling silver box. Made by Tiffany & Co. in New York. Rectangular with straight sides. Cover hinged and flat with scalloped corners and slight overhanding. Cast C...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Japanese Porcelain Vintage Trinket Lidded Boxes Set of Three
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Vintage Japanese porcelain vintage trinket boxes with lid, set of 3.
Vintage Asian porcelain Japanese trinket boxes with Geishas figures wearing traditional kimonos.
Japanese porcelain decorative box, each box with a different design, perfect for storing small items or use them as decorative boxes on a table or shelf.
Asian Trinket Box...
Category
Japanese Chinoiserie Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Porcelain
Beautiful Jewelry or Collecting Treasure Box Inlaid with Walnut, Burl Walnut
Located in Lisse, NL
Great craftsmanship with a great Patina from the early 1900s inlaid with Wood and other woodtypes.
If you are looking for a stylish and truly decorative box to grace your table or d...
Category
French Art Nouveau 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
1980's One of a kind decorative pewter boxe
Located in New York, NY
One of a kind pewter boxe
Signed James Seavey
Halibut point pewter
"The great divide from my head to Minosis "
Category
French Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Pewter
Enamel Egg with Tripod Sterling Silver Gold Paillons Stars of Sky Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Egg with tripod in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent blue fired enamel on guillochè and with the insertion of pure gold “paillons” in the shape of stars to create...
Category
Italian Other Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Gold, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Modernist Tall Box with Wood Marquetry Patchwork, 1970s
Located in Atlanta, GA
This remarkable modernist decorative box dates back to the 1970s. The piece boasts a tall structure that will capture anyone's attention. The box is square and features an interior m...
Category
American Modern Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal, Chrome
Los Castillo Taxco Handcrafted Mexico Silverplate Turquoise & Malachite Cup Mug
Located in San Diego, CA
Wonderful silverplated Los Castillos cup/mug with an inlayed malachite and turquoise eon the handle. This wonderful cup dates from the 1950's and was made in Taxco, Mexico. Signed on...
Category
Mexican 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver Plate
A Rosewood Trinket Box by Alfred Klitgaard & Bodil Eje for Klitgaard
Located in Sagaponack, NY
A masterfully crafted rosewood trinket box with a colorful green and red ceramic tile inset in the lid.
Category
Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic, Rosewood
Antique Early 20th Century Carved Decoration Sycamore Box Germany Circa 1910
Located in London, GB
An early 20th century sycamore box with carved decoration with straps, & gilded buckles Interior has been relined, Germany, circa 1910.
This is a stunning quality box with great deta...
Category
German Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sycamore
Enormous Copper and Brass Clad Log Bin, Early 20th Century
Located in London, GB
An Enormous Early 20th Century Copper and Brass Clad Log Bin with circular and diamond shaped embossed panels to two of the four sides, and overall muted and sleepy surface patina.
...
Category
20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Copper
Coconut Rectangular Box
Located in Alessandria, Piemonte
Rectangular coconut box by Tobacco Company in Italy.
It's a beautiful elegant unusual box for jewels, playing cards, watches, writing pens etc.
Category
Italian Other 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Coconut
SET Suitcase and Beauty Case with Kilim, Vuitton Model
Located in Alessandria, Piemonte
Anatolian Old Cicim manufactured suit-case and beauty-case, with Italian red Bordeaux fine leather -
I suggest to place on a shelf or cupboard -
ref. 01/02 -
Category
Italian International Style Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Leather
Jens Quistgaard "Rare Woods" Rosewood Lidded Box for Dansk
By Dansk, Jens Quistgaard
Located in Los Angeles, CA
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Transforming a piece of Mid-Century Modern furniture is like bringing history back to life, and we take this journey with passion and preci...
Category
Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Rosewood
Philippe Cheverny Style Geometric Lucite and Gilded Metal Box, circa 1970
Located in Atlanta, GA
This stunning rectangular decorative lidded box has a design reminiscent of Philippe Cheverny's work. Crafted in the 1970s, the lovely decorative piece boasts a geometric shape with ...
Category
French Mid-Century Modern Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal, Chrome
Midcentury Rectangular Box in Travertine and Brass Enzo Mari Style, Italy 1970s
Located in Rome, IT
Midcentury beautiful rectangular box in travertine and brass in the style of Enzo Mari.
Made in Italy in the 1970s.
Perfect desk object or gift idea.
Category
Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Travertine, Metal, Brass
Vintage Footed Wooden Jewelry Music Box Made in Italy
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Elegant vintage large footed Brown color wooden music box with top finely hand painted and inlaid with foliages floral decor.
Upon opening, the music box begins to play " We've only ...
Category
Italian Baroque Revival 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood, Bentwood
Late Qing Dynasty Red Lacquer Document Box with Gilt Floral Scrolling Motifs
Located in Yonkers, NY
This antique Chinese red lacquer document box, dating to the late Qing dynasty (19th to early 20th century), exudes timeless elegance and functionality. Crafted from softwood, the bo...
Category
Chinese Qing 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Softwood
Antique Hand-Carved Chestnut Box in Asian Bamboo Style Inlaid with Soapstone
Located in Lisse, NL
Exclusive & fine quality hand-crafted Chinoiserie box.
The diversity in techniques and materials used by craftsman around the world and over the last centuries never seizes to a...
Category
European Chinoiserie 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Soapstone
Mid-Century Modern Ice Bucket by Aldo Tura, circa 1960, Italy
By Aldo Tura
Located in Brussels, BE
Mid-Century Modern Ice Bucket by Aldo Tura, circa 1960, Italy.
Category
Italian Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Pill Box fired Enamel Miniature Louis XVI style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Shaped pill box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with hand painted miniature with fire enamelling in Louis XVI style, second half of the 19th century, and fine hand engravings...
Category
Italian Louis XVI Vintage 20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
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
