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Late 19th Century Baccarat Oval Crystal Box
Located in Tampa, FL
A refined late 19th century French Baccarat crystal box, oval in form and beautifully cut to capture the light from every angle. The crystal displays Baccarat’s signature clarity and...
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French Antique Late 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
1890s Baccarat Crystal Box With Dore Bronze Mounts
Located in Tampa, FL
A superb example of Baccarat’s craftsmanship, this 1890s crystal box showcases exceptional clarity and brilliance. The crystal is finely cut, capturing and reflecting the light beaut...
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French Antique Late 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Polyphon 71G disc music box with bells
Located in Zonhoven, BE
Beautiful and Rare Polyphon Music Box with Bells – Type 71G
This lovely Polyphon music box, model 71G, plays music using 24.5 cm discs, which are g...
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German Black Forest Antique Late 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass, Iron
Naturalistic Victorian silver plated folding biscuit box made circa 1890
Located in London, London
Made circa 1890 by James Dixon & Sons, this attractive, Antique, Victorian, Silver Plate folding Biscuit Box, is of traditional form, with push button opening to each side, and gilt ...
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English Victorian Antique Late 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver Plate
19th Century Italian Grand Tour Steel Lidded Sarcophagus Box
Located in Stamford, CT
Rare 19th century Italian Grand Tour steel sarcophagus form box, circa 1880. Nice form, handsome desk-top accessory, great addition to any box collection. It is unusual to find this ...
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Italian Grand Tour Antique Late 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Steel
Antique Austrian Inlaid Bronze Stamp Holder Marked M.F
By M.F. Geschutzt
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A fine antique Austrian or possibly German inlaid bronze desk stamp holder/lick standing raised on four scroll work feet with a hinged cover with central ...
Category
Austrian Antique Late 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Tunbridge Ware Rosewood Handkerchief Box of Square Form With Center Flowers
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Tunbridge ware rosewood handkerchief box, of square form, the sides in scrolling mosaic, the hinged lid with inset mosaic of a bouquet of flowers within a broad floral mosaic borde...
Category
British Georgian Antique Late 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Rosewood
Antique Dressing Table Sewing Set, English, Ebony, Haberdashery, Late Victorian
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique dressing table sewing set. An English, ebony lidded pot and haberdashery accessories, dating to the late Victorian period, circa 1880.
Striking ebony set exudes ...
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British Late Victorian Antique Late 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ebony
Late 19th Century Collar Box, Leather and Silver Plated Metal, Silk Lined
Located in Knivsta, SE
Burgundy Leather Collar Box with smaller Silver Plated Cufflink Box on top, used for detachable collars, 1890. Additional storage on top, for cufflinks, shirt buttons and miscellaneo...
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European Antique Late 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
French Victorian Bronze Portrait Box
Located in Queens, NY
French Victorian bronze and glass bottom box on four legs with small gallery top and round miniature of lady.
Category
French Victorian Antique Late 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Rare Majolica Chesnut Tureen Luneville, circa 1890
By Luneville
Located in Austin, TX
Rare and colorful Majolica chesnut tureen Luneville, circa 1890.
Category
French Rustic Antique Late 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic, Faience
Antique 19th Century Gold Embossed Leather Wood Secret Box Stamp Box Paris
Located in Munich, DE
This elegant box was handcrafted in the last 15 years of the 19th century. It is made out of leather, wood and fabric. The four sloping compartments suggest that this box was used fo...
Category
French Belle Époque Antique Late 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Leather
GERMAN 1890 Treasure Chest Decorative Box In Cedar Wood & Silver Hardware
Located in Miami, FL
A German treasure chest desk box.
This is a beautiful rectangular desk box created in Germany during the Imperial period, back in 1890-1900. The box is crafted in the shape of a treasure chest and fully carved in cedar wood and decorated with forged silver hardware’s. It is fitted with two sets of hinges and a security lock. The box is extremely well made and fitted in the interior with the original red velvet lining. Stamped with an oval bronze plaque, that read E S Schutz Marke...
Category
German Black Forest Antique Late 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver, Bronze
$1,225 Sale Price
30% Off
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 Late 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Marble
19th Century Anglo-Indian Mughal Box
Located in North Hollywood, CA
19th century Anglo-Indian Mughal wood box, inlaid and hand carved with the Taj Mahal and some flowers all around.
Jewelry box, Anglo-Raj box from India in great condition.
Nice Mughal Bombay Box...
Category
Indian Anglo Raj Antique Late 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sandalwood
Large Brass Pandan Box, North India, 19th Century
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
A large brass pandan box
North India, 19th century
The body with rounded profile and hinged raised lid
with engraved and punched decoration
centering ...
Category
Indian Anglo-Indian Antique Late 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Intricate Carved French Fruit Wood Trunk, Perfume Box, circa 1880
Located in Bath, GB
A fabulous example of a French fruitwood box carved beautifully carved into the form of a trunk.
Look closely at the amazing detail, the side handles, the leather stitching, the l...
Category
French Late Victorian Antique Late 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Fruitwood
$2,157 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique Gilt Paris Porcelain Table Snuff Box or Round Casket by Bloch & Bourdois
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A compelling round 19th century Paris porcelain box by Bloch and Bourdois.
With raised gold decoration, hand-painted vignettes and floral sprays, and a gilt bronze mount.
Base ...
Category
French Rococo Revival Antique Late 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Porcelain
19th Century Anglo-Indian Sadeli Mosaic Jewelry Box with Lidded Compartments
Located in North Hollywood, CA
19th century Anglo-Indian sandal wood box, Sadeli mosaic box fitted with various compartments finely hand-carved with the Taj Mahal.
Of sarcophagus form ...
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Indian Anglo-Indian Antique Late 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sandalwood
Japanese 7-Pcs, Arita Sweetmeat Set & Matching Lacquer Box Meiji Period, 1880s
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
A seven-piece Japanese Arita Sweetmeat set and matching lacquer box, Meiji period (1880-1890). Comprising of a central hexagonal dish and six-fan shaped ...
Category
Japanese Meiji Antique Late 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Porcelain, Lacquer
Rare 19th Century Set of Staffordshire Swan Tureens
Located in Kilmarnock, VA
A rare and charming graduated pair of Staffordshire covered boxes, each modeled as a graceful swan resting amid a stylized coral-inspired base. These late 19th-century ceramic boxes ...
Category
English Antique Late 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
$2,400 Sale Price
25% Off
19th Century Cherrywood Biedermeier Casket
Located in Darmstadt, DE
Very beautiful small box from the time of Biedermeier, made of cherrywood. In the box is in the lid a mirror and the upper part is as an insert to take out. In very good restored con...
Category
German Biedermeier Antique Late 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Cherry
$835 Sale Price
28% Off
Small Japanese Lacquer Duck Incense Box, Kogo, Meiji Period, Late 19th Century
Located in Austin, TX
An exquisite Japanese Meiji Period small lacquer incense box, kogo, in the form of a duck or goose, late 19th century, Japan.
The delicate lacquer box, known as a kogo in Japanese, ...
Category
Japanese Meiji Antique Late 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Lacquer
Antique Victorian Rosewood Lotto Box with Mother of Pearl Inlay C1890
Located in Big Flats, NY
Antique Victorian Rosewood Lotto Box with Mother of Pearl Inlay C1890
Measures- 3.5"H x 12.75"W x 9.25"D
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Rosewood
$360 Sale Price
20% Off
An Exquisite Victorian Pietra Dura Grand Tour Campaign Collectors Box 1800's
Located in Reading, Berkshire
A Stunning Late Grand Tour Collectors Box 19th Century Mahogany & Ebony Pietra Dura Karlsbad, Germany.
The Lid Is Decorated with Marble And Agate Geometric Motifs.
With Continental ...
Category
German Late Victorian Antique Late 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Agate, Marble, Silver
Anglo-Indian Vizagapatam Bombay Mughal Style Footed Box With Bone Overlay
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Nice and unusual Indian Mughal style large decorative box, filigree and carved horn.
Anglo-Indian footed domed box with exceptional engraved details throughout with filigree and carved veneered bone plaques with arabesque carving.
Vizagapatam, late 19th century.
History of the Anglo-Indian Boxes
Beginning in the early part of the 18th century, Indian artisans made what came to be known as Anglo-Indian boxes for the English residents living in India, who eventually brought or sent them back to England. At the beginning of the 19th century, India began exporting these boxes commercially, although not in any significant numbers until the 1850s. People valued them so highly that manufacturers of tins copied the designs on them in the late 19th and early 20th century.
Anglo-Indian boxes fall into four groups: Rosewood or ebony boxes inlaid;
sandalwood boxes veneered; sandalwood boxes covered with Sadeli mosaic; and carved boxes often combined with Sadeli mosaic/
The first two categories came from Vizagapatam in East India while the last two came from Bombay in West India.
English traders discovered the rich woods and intricate workmanship of Indian artisans, so colonial government officials began to recognize the work of the Indian artists and craftsmen as a source for satisfying the need for furniture and boxes, which would both serve to enhance English households in India. This gave rise to the cabinetmaking workshops in Vizagapatam between Calcutta and Madras.
Craftsmen made the first boxes to be decorated with Sadeli mosaic of rosewood or ebony, incised to give further definition to the decoration, directly inlaid into the wood. The shape of the early boxes was either sloping at the front with a flatter section at the back, reminiscent of English writing slopes, or rectangular. Artisans inlaid the borders with stylized floral scrolls and the centers with a single floral motif following a circular or oval symmetrical or asymmetrical pattern. The edging was ornamental and protective, both helped protect the end grain against the weather.
Made in Vizagapatam, situated on the south east coast of India, near Madras
These exotic boxes...
Category
Indian Anglo Raj Antique Late 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Antique French Sèvres Style Painted Porcelain and Gilt Brass Box
Located in Chicago, IL
Antique French Sèvres Style Painted Porcelain and Gilt Brass Box
Antique Jewelry box crafted in the style of Sevres, France circa 1870s. Porcelain bombe casket with cobalt blue and ...
Category
Unknown Victorian Antique Late 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Porcelain
Japonese Lacquered Box with Flower, Late of the 19th Century
Located in Beuzevillette, FR
Nice little black lacquer box from Japan. It is made of black lacquered wood and decorated with flowers and foliage. The inside is covered with red velvet. It is ideal for storing je...
Category
Japanese Antique Late 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Lacquer
Fantastic 19th Century French Dore Bronze Mounted Blue Opaline Crystal Box
By Baccarat
Located in New York, NY
A Fantastic 19th Century French Louis XVI Style Dore Bronze Mounted Blue Opaline Crystal Box. The box is composed of two sections of French opaline crystal which are mounted to a fa...
Category
French Louis XVI Antique Late 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
19Thc Original Mustard Painted Barrel
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This folky original mustard painted over grey barrel was found on a farm in Pennsylvania. The condition is very good and sturdy. The patina is amazing and it has a outdoor protective...
Category
Adirondack Antique Late 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Oak
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Ornate Victorian sterling silver dressing table box made in 1899
Located in London, London
Hallmarked in Chester in 1899 by Nathan & Hayes, this very attractive, Victorian, Antique Sterling Silver Dressing Table Box, is ornately decorated throughout, with a scene on the li...
Category
English Victorian Antique Late 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Beautiful North African Box Richly Decorated with Silver Wire, Late 19th Century
Located in Knivsta, SE
Beautiful North African Box richly decorated with silver wire, very exquisite craftmanship. Probably made in Marocco or Algeria during the late 19th century.
Wear consistent with ...
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African Antique Late 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
19th Century Victorian English Brass Mounted Ebony Wooden Box
Located in New York, NY
Antique (19th century) English campaign chest or box crafted from ebony or coromandel wood with recessed brass handles and fitted lined interior and pull-out drawer. 15 1/2 by 12 by...
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English Late Victorian Antique Late 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Tunbridge Box Still Bank, circa 1870s
Located in Incline Village, NV
This Tunbridge box still bank is indigenous to the Tunbridge ware cottage industries of the town of Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England in the 18th and 19th c...
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English Victorian Antique Late 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Fine Antique Anglo Indian Mughal Carved Box
By Rajhastani
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Fine antique Anglo-Indian hand carved wooden jewelry box inlaid.
A Nice Mughal Anglo Indian Pen Box
19th Century
The box with a Mughal I...
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Indian Agra Antique Late 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
English Petite Mother-of-Pearl Inlay Box, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
This late 19th century English trinket box has an elegant design of lacquered papier-mâché with mother-of-pearl inlay. The inlaid decoration depicts a spray of various flowers which ...
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British Victorian Antique Late 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl, Wood, Lacquer
19th century Victorian pollard oak and brass dome top stationary box
Located in Debenham, Suffolk
19th century victorian pollard oak and brass dome top stationary box circa 1890.
Beautiful quality piece of desktop storage. Made in a fiddleback pollard oak to all exterior surfac...
Category
English Victorian Antique Late 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Small Victorian Gilt Metal Dresser or Ring Box with a Pietra Dura Plaque
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A superb small gilt Victorian dresser box with a Pietra Dura plaque to the top.
It retains a (torn) note with a dedication dated 1876.
Leng...
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Italian Belle Époque Antique Late 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Stone, Metal
Peacock Sculpture Patinated Bronze Box Islamic Art Mughal India
Located in North Hollywood, CA
This is an antique patinated bronze sculpture of a stylized form peacock.
Used as a betel box or tobacco opium box.
Produced using the traditional 'lost wax'...
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Indian Antique Late 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Victorian Period Sterling Silver and Peach Enamel, Mounted Crystal Dresser Jar
Located in New York, NY
Victorian Period, sterling silver and peach guilloche enamel - mounted dressing table jar, Providence, Rhode Island, Ca. 1895, Foster and Bailey - makers. Sterling silver lid is bord...
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American Victorian Antique Late 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Japanese Cloisonne Lidded Trinket Box with Bun Feet from the Meiji Period
Located in San Diego, CA
An exquisite Japanese cloisonne lidded box with brass bun feet from the Meiji period, circa late 1800's. The box has a great inticate geometric de...
Category
Japanese Meiji Antique Late 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass, Enamel
$960 Sale Price
20% Off
19th Century French Black Hand Painted Wooden Box Decorated with Flowers
Located in Sofia, BG
Beautiful hand painted box decorated with flowers and leaves in red and yellow on black base. Very good condition, signed on the top.
France, circa 1890.
Category
French Antique Late 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
$697 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique Gentleman's Glove Box, English, Walnut, Burr, Keepsake, Case, Victorian
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique gentleman's glove box. An English, walnut sarcophagus shaped keepsake or card case, dating to the mid Victorian period, circa 1870.
Delightful craftsmanship, idea...
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British Victorian Antique Late 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Walnut
Late 19th Century Lidded Onyx box with Bronze Dog
Located in Casteren, Noord-Brabant
An antique decorative lidded box with a bronze dog. The base made of wood, with onyx paneled against it, which is framed with floral ornate copper rims. The...
Category
French Belle Époque Antique Late 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Onyx, Brass, Copper
Antique English Jennens & Bettridge Paper Mache Ladies Writing Box or Lap Desk
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This antique writing box or lap desk was made by the highly renowned Jennens & Bettridge of England in approximately 1880 and done in the period Vi...
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English Victorian Antique Late 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Paper
French Victorian Bronze Dore Box
Located in Queens, NY
French Victorian round shaped bronze dore box with festoon design and lady portrait in center.
Category
French Victorian Antique Late 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
A Spanish studded leather domed trunk, C 1870.
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Wrapped in a light shade of leather, the metal stud decoration stands out on a trunk raised on gothic arched wooden supports. It will look wonderful on a sofa table as a hiding spot ...
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Spanish Antique Late 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal
Antique French Belle Epoch Burlwood Revolving Door Decorative Box
Located in Forney, TX
A charming fine quality antique French demilune decorative box from the late 19th century, finished in stunning rich briar elm burlwood, the half-moon shaped bentwood revolving door table or desk box - jewelry casket - trinket keepsake small cabinet - old fashioned cigarette case, features flower...
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Belle Époque Antique Late 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
Vintage Limoges 22k Gold Trinket Jewelry Small Tray Louis XVI Courtesan Scene
By Limoges
Located in BILBAO, ES
Elegant vintage Limoges 22-karat gold trinket small tray
French vintage Limoges porcelain in cobalt royal blue with fine gold decor.
Marked on base as “Limoges France" Porcelain D'...
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French Louis XVI Antique Late 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Enamel, Gold Leaf
Antique Victorian Traveling Desk With Ebony and Mother-of-Pearl Banding
Located in Morristown, NJ
Victorian English bird's eye maple lap desk, with ebony and mother-of-pearl inlay. The dome shaped top has a brass shield medallion in the center. The interior has a vibrant purple f...
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English Victorian Antique Late 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl, Birdseye Maple, Ebony
A figured oak and brass late 19th Century smoker's companion
Located in Reepham, GB
A figured oak smoker’s companion of great character, taking the form of a horse-drawn delivery van, dated 1897, having a hinged lid and stay rail enclosing two storage compartments, ...
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Antique Late 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Early Bohemian Enamel Moser large, metal bound box and lid, 1895
Located in Worcester Park, GB
Fabulous good sized early metal clad box attributed to Moser c 1895 in bright blue coloured glass heavily enamelled with a stylised kite-block pattern in pale greens and orange red and yellow curls -the decoration is on the top of the box and on the shoulders of the base (see pictures). Moser glass boxes...
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Czech Arts and Crafts Antique Late 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Art Glass
Champlevé Enamel & Double Sided Agate Pill Box / Snuff Box, France c. 1880
Located in London, GB
An elegant and very collectible 19th century French gilt metal, champlevé enamel and banded agate pill or snuff box made c. 1880.
The box has oval form with a frieze of colourful fl...
Category
French Victorian Antique Late 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Agate, Enamel
1890s Antique French Silver Mussel Vesta Case
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique French silver vesta case in the form of a mussel; an addition to our diverse smoking related silverware collection
This exceptional antique French silver vesta case has an elongated asymmetrical form, realistically modelled in the form of a mussel shell.
The anterior and posterior surfaces of the vesta are embellished with engraved decoration replicating the contours of the natural shell.
This fine antique silver vesta...
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French Antique Late 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
Black Forest Hand-Carved Dog Head Tobacco Jar in the manner of Walter Mader
By Walter Mäder
Located in San Francisco, CA
How can this not make you smile? This well-carved antique Black Forest box of an expressive shaggy dog with glass eyes, forward gaze, open m...
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Swiss Black Forest Antique Late 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Walnut
Tortoise Shell Sewing Box on Stand, circa 1860
Located in Lambertville, NJ
This wonderful example of a 19th century tortoise shell sewing box on stand opens to original fabric lined interior of compartments with a central ...
Category
Unknown Antique Late 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Tortoise Shell
19th Century Original Folk Art Painted Chest of Drawers
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
19th Century original Folk Art painted chest of drawers.
A Very attractive painted pine chest of drawers, it is decorated with flowers on the top and sides, the drawer fronts and ...
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Folk Art Antique Late 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Paint
Box Brass Repousse Coal Nautical Galleon Warship
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
- Charming and characterful nautical design
- Depicting a fleet of five galleons or warships at anchor in a bay with three men in a dingy rowing ashore on the top
- The front with ...
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French Baroque Revival Antique Late 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Royal Copenhagen Circular Biscuit Plaque & Fine Terracotta Circular Box
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
A Royal Copenhagen
Circular biscuit plaque
20th century
Measure: 5 1/2 In.(14 Cm.) diameter
Together With,
Fine terracotta circular box by Carl B...
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Danish Greek Revival Antique Late 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Terracotta
Chinese Gilt Lacquer Stacking Box, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
This finely painted box was once presented as a gift, filled with popular snacks like roasted melon seeds, dried fruit, and cinnamon-toasted soy beans. Used like a modern lunchbox, e...
Category
Chinese Qing Antique Late 19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bamboo
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