Early 20th Century Decorative Boxes

Mappin & Webb

Vintage 1920s English Modern Sterling Silver

Sterling Silver

George V sterling silver box. Made by Mappin & Webb in London in 1927. Rectangular with straight sides. Cover hinged with tapering tab. Box and cover interior cedar lined and partiti...

Berthold Muller

Early 20th Century German Edwardian Sterling Silver

Sterling Silver

German sterling silver heart box. Imported to England by Berthold Muller in Chester in 1904. Straight sides and flat hinged cover. Chased olden-days scenes with merrymaking and labor...

Vintage 1920s American Folk Art Decorative Boxes

Wood

Keepsake American tramp art box (circa 1920-1930) with hand chip-carved wooden decoration in a stepped / pyramidal design. Exterior is in nice condition for its age with the less com...

Early 20th Century French Decorative Boxes

Brass, Brass

The top, front, sides and back are beautifully cast in gilt bronze and feature panels of medieval scenes of revelers hunting and feasting. Good condition with typical marks and wear...

Early 20th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Decorative Boxes

Antique Anglo Indian box crafted in ebony and porcupine quills and decorated with inlaid bone dots. The interior is felt lined.

Early 20th Century Unknown Edwardian Decorative Boxes

Vermeil, Silver, Sterling Silver

An antique sterling silver and guilloche enamel pill or patch box of circular form with a hinged, fitted lid. The box would make a lovely decorative accessory for a desk, nightstand,...

Moorish

Early 20th Century Syrian Islamic Decorative Boxes

Mother-of-Pearl, Fruitwood

Antique Syrian wooden jewelry box inlaid with mother-of-pearl, bone and precious wood. Middle Eastern octagonal box handcrafted in very fine Moorish micro mosaic diamonds, and a con...

Wiener Werkstätte, Josef Hoffmann

Vintage 1920s Austrian Art Deco Decorative Boxes

Brass, Leather

The fashion department of the Wiener Werkstatte was very successful during the 1920s. The most important designers of that period were Eduard Josef Wimmer-Wisgrill and Josef Hoffmann...

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Early 20th Century Cambodian Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes

Silver

Gorgeous vintage handmade Khmer bird silver box. It was used during wedding ceremonies as a box for Betel (Piper betle) paste. It is marked T90% (900 Silver) and a sign of the silver...

La Maison Desny

Early 20th Century French Art Deco Tobacco Accessories

Brass, Macassar

Macassar ebony veneered cigarette box with two horizontal brass bars underneath and two vertical brass bars on top. Impressed underneath DESNY PARIS/ MADE IN FRANCE/ DEPOSE. Prov...

Louis Süe, Christofle

Early 20th Century French Art Deco Decorative Boxes

Brass

Model created for the Exposition des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, 1925. Ten-sided brass box with green and gold patina. With a lid with a gilded stylized grain-shaped finial and gil...

Jean Dunand

Early 20th Century French Art Deco Boxes

Fruitwood, Lacquer

Fruitwood with lacquer and metal, design by Jean Lambert-Rucki In 1912, Dunand learned the ancient and traditional art of Asian lacquerwork from the Japanese master lacquer artis...

Early 20th Century English Edwardian Decorative Boxes

Walnut

We are delighted to offer for sale this attractive small burr walnut trinket or jewellery box A good looking well made circa 1910 box, ideal for storing nick nacks and with the bu...

Vintage 1910s Austrian Jugendstil Serving Pieces

Silver Plate, Crystal

Lovely early 20th century silver plate lidded cookie box with crystal insert. Elegant modernist Jugendstil design with silver plate holder featuring a sort of basket with handles wit...

Early 20th Century German Art Deco Cigar Boxes and Humidors

Metal

Chrome-plated cigarette box with green Bakelite handle, lined with sandalwood, originally for storing and offering cigarettes, also suitable of course for other smoking utensils or b...

Early 20th Century English Art Deco Cigar Boxes and Humidors

Brass, Chrome, Sandalwood

Cigarette box - but also suitable for "other" smoking utensils, ideal for storing cufflinks or similar. Lined with sandalwood, "Made in England" and "Sylva Chrome".

Early 20th Century French Art Deco Decorative Boxes

Chestnut

Store your remote controls in this antique fruitwood box; crafted in Brittany, France, circa 1900, the decorative box is made of chestnut and features hand-carved work including flor...

Early 20th Century Decorative Boxes

Wood

Slated wooden crate designed to collapse after use for better storage. Used to transport chickens and other poultry. The bottom panel pulls out and the main body collapses.

Vintage 1920s English Art Deco Decorative Boxes

Silver Plate, Crystal

An exceptional quality Art Deco box made from an extremely heavy piece of English crystal beautifully cut with Sunflowers around the sides, with Sunflower heads wheel engraved giving...

Early 20th Century English Jewelry Boxes

Sterling Silver

Antique silver Jewelry Trinket Box, Birmingham 1919, Hassett and Harper Ltd. The box in the form of a commode, engine turned hinged lid engraved Doris, with original gold satin inter...

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Early 20th Century American Folk Art Decorative Boxes

Velvet, Wood

Geometric lines add to the beauty of this wooden box. The interior has a plush lining of rich blue velvet. There is a key to the box but it does not lock.

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Early 20th Century Greek Decorative Boxes

Metal

This is a stunning antique lidded pressed glass casket. The box is composed of pressed glass with panels decorated with a strawberry cut pattern throughout the exterior and silver to...

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Early 20th Century Czech Art Deco Glass

Glass

Deco era Czech malachite glass lidded box with leaf design. Unknown maker and pattern. Excellent overall vintage condition.    

René Lalique

Vintage 1910s French Art Deco Decorative Boxes

Blown Glass

Rene Lalique "Roses en Relief" box made in 1913 in molded frosted glass with blue-grey patina. Molded "LALIQUE" signature on bottom Félix Marcilhac, René Lalique - Catalogue R...

Alfred Daguet

Antique Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Decorative Boxes

Metal

French Art Nouveau period box made in metal repousse´ panels with inserted colorful glass cabochon jewels, created by French artist Alfred Daguet in the 1910's in Paris. The decorati...

Alfred Daguet

Antique Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Decorative Boxes

Metal

French Art Nouveau period box in metal repoussé´ panels with inserted colorful glass cabochon jewels, made by Alfred Daguet in the 1910s in Paris. The highly decorative brass lid pan...

Antique Early 1900s Chinese Decorative Boxes

A carved red lacquered Chinese box in the form of cloth wrapped lunch box, circa 1900. The red lacquered finish with geometric gilt decoration, giving the impression of a tied, twist...

Early 20th Century Syrian Islamic Decorative Boxes

Silver, Bronze, Copper

Beautiful and important Syrian cabinet of the early 20th century bronze whose rich decoration inlaid copper and silver floral garlands and votive phrases. The work, of great finess...

Early 20th Century Chinese Qing Decorative Boxes

Brass, Wood, Lacquer, Paint

Beautifully proportioned and vibrantly colored, this early 20th-century document box likely once sat on the writing desk of a prominent Qing-dynasty scholar. The perfect size for a r...

Vintage 1910s Japanese Meiji More Asian Art, Objects and Furniture

A Meiji period cloisonné box, of rectangular form decorated with s single branch of blossom on a sky blue ground, with silvered rims and textile lining, Japanese, circa 1910.    

Early 20th Century English Trunks and Luggage

Brass

A large English camphor wood box with brass accents from the early 20th century. Born during the Turn of the century, this English camphor wood trunk features a rectangular lid accen...

Wang Hing & Co.

Early 20th Century Hong Kong Chinese Export Metalwork

Sterling Silver

A very rare Chinese export silver box. Rare because it bears English silver import marks. Made by the famous Wang Hing in Hong Kong and decorated with typical Chinese dragons o...

Marius Hammer

Vintage 1910s Norwegian Decorative Boxes

Sterling Silver, Enamel

A fabulous antique sterling silver box made from a good heavy gauge of silver with a lift-off lid. The top and side is decorated with a fabulous deep lilac guilloche enamel with a...

Cohen & Charles

Vintage 1910s English Decorative Boxes

Sterling Silver, Enamel

A fabulous antique silver pill box fully hallmarked for Birmingham 1911 together with the makers mark for the silversmith, Cohen & Charles. The lift-off lid is beautifully decorat...

Early 20th Century French Decorative Boxes

Brass, Brass

The top, front, sides and back are beautifully cast in gilt bronze and feature panels of medieval scenes of revellers hunting and feasting. Good condition with typical marks and wea...

Antique Early 1900s English Late Victorian Decorative Boxes

Sterling Silver

This little late Victorian sterling silver pill box is decorated with all over repousse work and crimped edges to top and bottom. The top was inlaid with a tablet of Italian Pietr...

Joseph Gloster

Antique Early 1900s English Late Victorian Sterling Silver

Sterling Silver

A wonderful antique English solid silver sovereign case, beautifully decorated both back and front; the front with a vacant shield-shaped cartouche. The little button below the ri...

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Early 20th Century Japanese Taisho Decorative Boxes

Lacquer

An exceptional box of the highest quality lacquer and of a striking modern design. The rectangular top with rounded corners depicting flowering and fruiting double gourd vines in hir...

Early 20th Century English Chinoiserie Decorative Boxes

Paper

Early 20th century black papier-mâché chinoiserie box with hand-painted polychrome and gilt detailing. No makers mark.

Marie Zimmermann

Early 20th Century American Arts and Crafts Decorative Boxes

Copper

An unusual Arts and Crafts era covered box of bronze or copper finished with a distinctive red patina by American metalsmith Marie Zimmermann (1879-1972). The box comes directly from...

René Lalique

Vintage 1920s French Art Deco Decorative Boxes

Blown Glass

Rene Lalique "Chrysamthemes" box made in 1920 in wooden with a panel insert of molded glass with grey patina. Another panel for the lock, original key is here.  Molded "R.LALIQUE"...

Vintage 1920s German Industrial Trunks and Luggage

Brass, Leather, Fabric, Canvas

A very elegant and hard to find early 20th century (about 1920) wardrobe steamer trunk in wonderful green canvas. The inside is lined with purple fabric, which along with the green c...

Vintage 1920s German Bauhaus Decorative Boxes

Birdseye Maple, Walnut

Beautiful and spacious Bauhaus Casket box. On the outside it has a wonderful double book-matched Walnut veneer with amazing grain. Inside its a mad from Birdseye Maple giving it a ni...

René Lalique

Early 20th Century French Decorative Boxes

Glass

Rene Lalique box Laurens with a rows of beads design covering the top of the lid, circa 1933. Measures: 5 and 1/2 inches long by 4 inches wide Signature: "R.Lalique FRANCE".

Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Decorative Boxes

Copper, Wood, Lacquer

Japanese gilt copper mounted gold lacquer box or robe chest (Hasami-Bako) 19th or early 20th century A rare example of a serenely beautiful Japanese lacquer box exclusively decora...

Newlyn Industrial School

Early 20th Century English Arts and Crafts Decorative Boxes

Copper

This handcrafted casket by the Newlyn school has a hammered finish and is decorated with fish and shells in repousse work. Marked 'Newlyn' to the underside. circa 1900-1910.

Early 20th Century Portuguese Art Nouveau Sheffield and Silverplate

Crystal, Silver

Art Nouveau set of two boxes, hand-cut crystal body and silver plated top with engraded ornament, by Topázio, Portugal, circa 1920 Impressed with Topázio poincon. Very good conditi...

Early 20th Century Indian Anglo Raj Decorative Boxes

Silver, Bone, Precious Stone, Ebony

Presenting a highly important and exceptional Anglo-Indian document or scroll box from the 1920s. 1924 to be exact!! Made in Punjab, in the style of Bombay Sadeli Mosaic. It bears...

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Early 20th Century Swedish Art Deco Decorative Boxes

Silver

All of these heavy sterling silver boxes have a beautiful hand-beaten martele finish with beaded decoration to border of lid. Monogrammed: TE Hallmarks: 925 silver/ K. Anderson/ Sto...

Gustave Keller Freres

Early 20th Century French Art Deco Decorative Boxes

18k Gold, Sterling Silver, Eggshell

3 13/16" wide; 3 3/16" long; 1/2" high 5.0 ozs. Silver box with eggshell and red and black lacquer on top and bottom in pattern with denser eggshell toward lower edge. With silve...

Mappin & Webb

Early 20th Century English Art Deco Decorative Boxes

Silver, Crystal, Tortoise Shell

Measures: 5 ¼" wide; 1 3/4" long; 1 1/4" high Cut crystal vanity box with silver piqué inlaid faux tortoiseshell top. Impressed for 925 silver/ Birmingham/ 1917/ M & Wb. Piq...

Maison Cardeilhac

Early 20th Century French Art Deco Decorative Boxes

Macassar

Measures: 3 3/4" diameter; 2 1/2" high With multiple vertical ridges around the box and a metal bead on top with attached tassel. Impressed CARDEILHAC PARIS underneath/ Inscribed...

Early 20th Century English Decorative Boxes

Porcelain

Royal crown derby heart-shaped box, circa 1910. Japan pattern.

Edward F. Caldwell & Co.

Early 20th Century American Renaissance Decorative Boxes

Bronze, Velvet

A large gilt-bronze mounted red velvet box / trunk by E.F. Caldwell & Co, in the Italian Renaissance style, early 20th century. Very large box can be used as a luxury storage box, t...

Antique Early 1900s Chinese Decorative Boxes

A most elegant Chinese suitcase made of wood and covered in goatskin leather. The interior is lined in hand woven indigo cotton and paper and the handles and lock are hand cast bronze.

Early 20th Century American Industrial Decorative Boxes

Steel

Steel storage box designed to slip onto a tractor. Used to store tools specifically for the tractor.

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Early 20th Century Austrian Other Decorative Boxes

Silver, Sterling Silver, Enamel

A fine antique sterling silver and guilloche enamel vesta case: part of our enamelled silver collection This fine antique sterling silver and guilloche enamel vesta case has a pla...

David Andersen

Early 20th Century Norwegian Edwardian Decorative Boxes

Vermeil, Silver, Sterling Silver

A vintage sterling silver gilt and enamel covered box from Norwegian silversmith, David Andersen dating to the 1920s. At 3 inches diameter, the piece is significantly larger than a p...