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Period: Mid-19th Century
19th Century Lift-Top Walnut Grain Bin or Log Box
Located in Doylestown, PA
Antique handcrafted grain or flour bin with a lift top, circa 1870. This is a beautiful, rustic bin crafted of solid wood planks with bracket feet and a hinged top displaying a desi...
Category
Rustic Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal
Chinese Altar Opium Stand with Dali Marble, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
Dated to the mid-19th century, this petite hardwood box captures in miniature the elaborate form of a traditional Chinese altar table. Crafted of a dense hardwood, the narrow box is ...
Category
Chinese Qing Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Marble
Veneered Footed Sandalwood Glove Box with Penwork Decoration, Vizagapatam, India
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Anglo-Indian penwork decorated veneered sandalwood glove box on turned ball feet the sides and top decorated with scrolling leaf borders and the top with a central leaf-framed cartou...
Category
Indian Anglo-Indian Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal
Antique Walnut Gentleman's Vanity Dressing or Travel Box
Located in LOS ANGELES, CA
Antique Walnut Gentleman's Vanity Dressing or Travel Box. It includes a red velvet interior and original crystal and silver-plated jars and box with a secret compartment that is spri...
Category
French Louis Philippe Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Walnut
Mid 19th Century Studded Leather Table Coffret from France
Located in Dallas, TX
More information coming soon…
This small leather table coffret from France dates to the mid-1800s. The leather is affixed by numerous nailheads, with some arranged in geometrical p...
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French Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Animal Skin, Leather, Textile, Upholstery, Wood
Antique Russian Silver Spice Box
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique Russian silver box; an addition to our Russian silverware collection
This exceptional antique Russian silver spice box...
Category
Russian Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
Antique Ladies Utility Box, English, Burr Walnut, Writing Slope, Sewing, Regency
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique lady of the house utility box. An English, burr walnut and mother of pearl inlaid writing slope and sewing box, dating to the late Regen...
Category
British Regency Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Walnut
Scandinavian Antique Wooden Chest Box Shrine Handpainted, Love Gift Dated 1846
Located in Silkeborg, Silkeborg
Original Scandinavian antique chest box from 1846, most likely from Sweden where we found it.
The chest box is made from pine wood and is ...
Category
Scandinavian Country Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Scandinavian hand painted folk art pine box
Located in Debenham, Suffolk
Scandinavian hand painted folk art pine box circa 1850.
Fine example of traditional Swedish hand painted woodenware.
Slight dome topped lid which opens to reveal a unfitted interio...
Category
Swedish Folk Art Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Pine, Paint
Antique French D'Ore Bronze 2nd Empire Box, Napoleon III
Located in North Miami, FL
Antique French dore bronze 2nd Empire stamps box, Napoleon III Era, circa 1850s.
Category
French Napoleon III Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Scandinavian Folk Painted Pantry Box
Located in Greenwich, CT
Good early 19th Century Norwegian folk painted bentwood pantry box with orange ground, decorated with stylized flowers and retaining original paint in pleasing dry surface.
Category
Scandinavian Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bentwood
Antique English Coromandel Fitted Traveler's Box Compendium, Circa 1850-1860
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique English Victorian Coromandel wood fitted traveler's box Compendium, Circa 1850-1860. Made by J.T. Needs, Late Bramah: Purveyor to Her Majesty, Prince Albert & the Royal Family.
Category
English Victorian Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Silver
19C British Tunbridgeware Micro-mosaic Lap Desk - RARE
Located in Dallas, TX
PRESENTING an ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS and EXTREMELY UNIQUE and RARE 19C British Tunbridgeware Micromosaic Lap Desk.
This lap desk is unlike any of it’s kind we have seen before.
From c...
Category
English High Victorian Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Boxwood, Maple, Walnut
Antique Paul Sormani Signed Parisian Napoleon III Period Glove Box
By Paul Sormani
Located in Forney, TX
A scarce very fine quality Napoleon III Period (1852-1870) gilt bronze ormolu mounted inlaid glove box by important Parisian ébéniste Paul Sormani (1817-1877)
Exquisitely hand-cra...
Category
French Napoleon III Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass, Ormolu
A 19th Century Meissen Porcelain Ormolu Mounted Hinged Box with Watteau Scene
Located in New York, NY
A 19th Century Meissen Porcelain Ormolu Mounted Hinged Box with Watteau Scene Cartouche and the Interior Decorated with Floral Designs.
The box features an ormolu-mounted structure w...
Category
German Rococo Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
An Exceptional 19th Century Renaissance Revival Vienna Silver Sugar Casket
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
An exceptionally fine 19th century ‘Renaissance Revival’ silver sugar casket, showing a hinged lid richly decorated with repousse & hand chased foliat...
Category
Austrian Renaissance Revival Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
$2,850 Sale Price
25% Off
19th Century Eastern Tortoiseshell and Bone Blue Velvet Lined Trinket Box
Located in Reading, Berkshire
Beautiful 19th Century Eastern Tortoiseshell and Bone Trinket Box, Lined with Blue Velvet on Paw Feet.
Ideal for jewellery or keepsakes or just as a ...
Category
South Asian Moorish Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bone, Tortoise Shell
19th Century Secret Leather Bound Book Box
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A secret leather bound book box with the most beautiful marbled paper interior.
mid 19th century in age, English in origins.
Age related wear and abrasions
21/13.5/3.5cm
Category
English Victorian Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Leather, Paper
Swedish White Painted Cutlery Tray
Located in Greenwich, CT
A 19th century Swedish wooden cutlery tray with a curved slotted central handle and divider between two compartments, one with a notch for long utensils. Retains old painted finish.
Category
Swedish Gustavian Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Spruce
19th Century Wooden Carved Painted Display Cabinet Chest Tabernacle
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
European 19th Century Wooden Carved Painted Display Cabinet featuring a mirror glass locking door. This versatile piece could be used to store jewelry or collectables. We also see th...
Category
European Empire Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Mirror, Wood
$360 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique 19th Century Malachite and Ormolu Casket
Located in London, GB
Antique 19th century malachite and ormolu casket
Russian, Mid-19th Century
Height 9cm, width 21cm, depth 15cm
This magnificent malachite casket celebra...
Category
Russian Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Malachite, Ormolu
$9,048 Sale Price
30% Off
Scandinavian Paint Decorated Box
Located in Greenwich, CT
Early 19th Century Scandinavian folk painted box with domed lid, the whole with pumpkin ground color and having floral decoration, all in original paint.
Category
Norwegian Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Pine
19th Century hand painted tine decorative box
Located in Debenham, Suffolk
19th century hand painted tine decorative box circa 1860.
Good quality Swedish tine box, used for storing valuables or foods for secure storage. This example in it's original blue ...
Category
Swedish Folk Art Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Pine, Paint
Wooden box with briar veneer and mother of pearl inserts, Italy 1850.
Located in Milan, IT
Wooden box with lock and mirror inside. The external covering is in briar wood veneer, brass with mother of pearl inserts, the handles are in brass. Italy half 19th century.
Category
Italian Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
19th Century French Louis XV Style Bronze Box.
Located in Houston, TX
19th Century French Louis XV Style Bronze Box.
This stunning antique French bronze box with a hinged lid, decorated with cupids surrounded with Sèvres-style porcelain floral and figurative plaques...
Category
French Louis XV Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
$1,820 Sale Price
43% Off
Lacquered papier-mâché box with chinoiserie motifs – Europe, mid-19th century
Located in Beuzevillette, FR
A charming cylindrical box with a domed lid made of black lacquered papier-mâché, known as japanning, is decorated throughout with chinoiserie scenes featuring small figures in a gar...
Category
English Chinoiserie Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Paper
Rosewood Gentleman's Military Campaign Vanity Box with Secret Drawer
Located in Savannah, GA
This handsome rosewood English vanity box retains the original glass bottles and jars with silver plated tops, 19th century. The inside reveals multiple compartments and a spring loaded lever opens the secret drawer...
Category
English Victorian Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver Plate
Antique Swedish Small Handmade Folk Art Box
Located in Kramfors, SE
Swedish folk art box made by hand in solid Swedish pine. The box is in original condition with the untouched original paint. Made in northern Sweden around the 1860s. It has most lik...
Category
Swedish Folk Art Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Pine
Rare Swedish Antique Blue Folk Art Box
Located in Kramfors, SE
Rare antique blue box in folk art from Sweden made during the mid 1800s. The box is an attractive size and can be used for anything from storing doc...
Category
Swedish Folk Art Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Pine
French Neoclassic Maplewood Hinged Box, 2nd quarter 19th century
Located in Atlanta, GA
possibly a cigar box at once point based on its wooden liner of Spanish cedar, having a hinged top with matching grains to the bottom, with a brass pull and escutcheon
Category
French Neoclassical Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Maple
Mid 19th century small Swedish dome top box
Located in Debenham, Suffolk
19th century small swedish dome top box circa 1860.
Good quality dome top box with shaped sides. In original deep blue paint with black painted metalwork. Lid opens to reveal a cl...
Category
Swedish Rustic Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal
Large 19th Century French Napoleon III Box
Located in Vilnius, LT
Large antique French Napoleon III box with inlaid bronze decor, polished black color surface, inside brown velvet. Includes key.
After the reno...
Category
French Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
19th Century Italian Voting Box Tuscan Confraternity Carved Barrel Ballot Box
Located in Milano, MI
19th century Italian Confraternity Voting Urn of Tuscan origin realized with turned and carved poplar wood. The barrel-shaped central body, in which hands were inserted to insert the ballot ball into one of the two holes connected to the small drawer below, where on the front we find the inscription YES and NO related to voting, SI and NO, in order to distinguish for and against votes on paper, then collected in two separate small drawers, just below. Standing on four curly feet, it has a beautiful curved handle and carved parts at both ends, highlighted by ebonized details.
In a fraternity, this ballot box was used to collegially adjudicate community choices. In good age related condition, with sogns of wear and use. This antique Italian ballot wooden box, carved and painted, coming from Tuscany, in Central Italy. This ballot urn is an excellent example of a 19th century wooden voting box...
Category
Italian Neoclassical Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Poplar
Exceptional Bronze Mounted Burl Caddy
Located in Greenwich, CT
A Napolean III gilt bronze mounted burlwood caddy of exceptional quality, having inlaid top with engraved brass monogram and heavily molded body, the interior with gilt-bead trimmed ...
Category
French Napoleon III Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
19th Century French Napoleon III / Boulle Box
Located in Vilnius, LT
Antique French Napoleon III box with inlaid bronze decor, polished black color surface and red velour textile inside. Includes key.
After the r...
Category
French Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
French Glass and Ormolu Wedding Casket, circa 1860
Located in Vienna, AT
Glass and ormolu-mounted rectangular casket. Made in France in the 1860s.
Perfect original condition with a lovely patina.
Category
French Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ormolu
19th Century, Rosewood & Brass Scent Box
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
A charming and particularly good quality mid-19th century, Victorian Period, rosewood perfume scent box, with attractive brass bound decoration and hinged li...
Category
English Victorian Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Antique Display Dome, English, Glass, Walnut, Taxidermy, Collectibles, Victorian
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique display dome. An English, glass and walnut taxidermy or collectibles showcase, dating to the early Victorian period, circa 1850.
Del...
Category
British Victorian Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Glass, Walnut
Antique Sterling Silver Gilt Vinaigrette (1835)
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique English sterling silver gilt castle top vinaigrette depicting Dryburgh Abbey; an addition to our collectable box collection.
This excepti...
Category
English Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Antique Bohemian Ruby Red Enameled Gilded Glass Jewelry Casket Box, 19th Century
Located in Rostock, MV
Antique Bohemian Ruby Red Crystal Glass Jewelry Casket – 19th Century
This exquisite 19th-century Bohemian jewelry casket is a rare and luxurious exam...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal
19th Century Burr Amboyna Glove Box by Paul Sormani, 114 Rue du Temple, Paris
By Paul Sormani
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
A fine Napoleon III burled amboyna wood glove box with rounded walnut edges and mounted with incised pewter straps with fleur-de-lis terminals, the corners ...
Category
French Napoleon III Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Pewter
Meissen 'Drüselkästchen', Lidded Crown Tureen For Maria Josepha Of Austria, 19th
Located in Vienna, AT
Designed for the wife of August III, Maria Josepha of Austria (1699 Vienna - 1757 Dresden), Electress of Saxony and Queen of Poland since 1733, here equipped with the ‘Alliance coat ...
Category
German Rococo Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Porcelain
Fine Antique Sterling Silver Gilt Vinaigrette Francis Clarke Birmingham 1841
Located in Portland, OR
A very early Victorian sterling silver gilt viniagrette by Francis Clarke, Birmingham, 1841.
This very nice vinaigrette is in fine condition with an engine turned top, engraved with ...
Category
English Early Victorian Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
19C Anglo Indian Vizigapatam Stamp Box
Located in Dallas, TX
Presenting an absolutely gorgeous and very rare 19C Anglo Indian Vizigapatam stamp box.
Made in Colonial India (the Time of the Raj) circa 1860.
Prob...
Category
Indian Anglo-Indian Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bone, Shell
Grand French Three-Piece Desk Set, Hand Painted Porcelain Inset, circa 1860
Located in Bath, GB
Wonderful to find a top-notch, highly decorative and most unusual desk set, French in origin dating to around 1860. Made from nutty coloured burl Walnut, all three pieces are mounted with the most wonderful polished brass mounts all inset with fabulous hand painted porcelain plaques.
Our restorer had to remove all the mounts to professionally clean and on doing so found the name of the figure depicted on the plaques, "Ninon De Lenclos" a French Author, Courtesan, Freethinker and Patron of the Arts.
The set is made up of a Stationery box with brass swing handles each side; the box complete with a working tasselled key. The box opens to reveal the wonderful original gilded leather lining with the original paper lining the sides of the dividers. The lock and hinges are beautifully engraved, a true sign of quality.
The next piece is a hefty large oval Walnut Inkstand with a large glass inkwell...
Category
French Victorian Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
$2,993 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Miniature 19th Century Victorian Figured Mahogany Chest of Drawers
Located in Morristown, NJ
19th c. Charming antique miniature chest of drawers. The chest has a marble top. The case is figured mahogany, with four stacked drawers, the ...
Category
English Late Victorian Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Marble, Brass
Antique Folk Art Northern Swedish Handmade Flour Box
Located in Kramfors, SE
Folk Art flour box from northern Sweden. The box was made by hand during the mid-1800s from pine and was used to store flour. Boxes like this would be standi...
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Swedish Folk Art Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Pine
Whaler Made Bone and Ebonized Wood Round Lidded Box, circa 1850
Located in Stamford, CT
Whaler made antique bone and ebonized wood round box, circa 1850. With pierced bone medallion and delicately carved bone spiral decorative supports on the...
Category
American Folk Art Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bone, Wood
Sampson Mordan & Co 1850’s Calamander & Brass Inlaid Vanity Box Sterling Silver
Located in Palm Springs, CA
A lovely vanity box crafted out of Calamander with brass inlay. It is by the prestigious British firm Sampson Mordan & Co of London. The utensils feature mother of pearl handles and ...
Category
English Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Brass
Chinese Export Black Leather Box On Stand
Located in Essex, MA
Rectangular box with brass tacks and hinged lid set in a brass base.
Category
Chinese Chinese Export Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Exquisite Antique Cherrywood Jewelry Casket
Located in Stahnsdorf, DE
Exquisite Antique Cherrywood Jewelry Casket – Finely Ebonized & Intricately Inlaid
This distinguished antique jewelry casket is a true testamen...
Category
German Biedermeier Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Cherry
Small Antique Seamstress' Button Box, Japanese, Brass, Decorative, Victorian
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is a small antique seamstress' button box. A Japanese, brass decorative tin, dating to the early Victorian period, circa 1850.
Delicately crafted bo...
Category
Japanese Japonisme Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
English Victorian Silver Plate Tea Caddy, circa 1860
Located in New York, NY
English Victorian silver plate tea caddy, circa 1860
In shape of a beehive. Also can be used as a box.
Category
English Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver Plate
Biedermeier Box, Ice Birch, Brass, Germany, circa 1840
Located in Regensburg, DE
Biedermeier Box, Ice Birch, Germany, circa 1840
Beautiful, simple Biedermeier casket box from Germany, circa 1840.
Ice birch veneer on oak and softwood painted black on the inside....
Category
German Biedermeier Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
$755 Sale Price
20% Off
Italian Decoupage Straw Box
Located in New York, NY
Italian decoupage straw box. Charming floral decorated paper box with coloured straw compositions under glass with canted sides and top opening to re...
Category
Italian Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Straw
19th Century Chrome Yellow Shaker Box with Original Surface
By Shakers
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oval Shaker box in chrome yellow paint with four swallowtail joints.
Northeastern United States, 19th century.
Completely original, dry, untouched surface.
Measurements: 3 1/8” ...
Category
American Shaker Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Maple, Pine
Very Fine Quality English Mahogany Letter Box Made and Labeled by F. Waller
Located in San Francisco, CA
A very fine quality English mahogany letter box made and signed by F. Waller and so labeled. This finely crafted letter box has 2 drawers one on each side fitted with campaign style ...
Category
English Regency Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Mid 19th century mahogany brass bound campaign writing slope
Located in Debenham, Suffolk
Mid 19th century mahogany brass bound campaign writing slope circa 1860.
Good quality military-campaign writing slope, with secret compartments.
Rectangular shaped box with brass s...
Category
English Campaign Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Antique Green Opaline Enamelled Glass Casket Jewelry Box, 19th Century
Located in Rostock, MV
High-quality casket made of opaline alabaster glass with hinged metal mounts, cut and hand-painted all around, all side panels are richly decorated with gold and colourful enamel wor...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Opaline Glass
Small mid 19th century Swedish painted pine decorative box
Located in Debenham, Suffolk
Small mid 19th century Swedish painted pine strong box circa 1842.
Beautiful small Scandinavian strong box, presented with scraped back paint to reveal original. Feintly still bari...
Category
Swedish Folk Art Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal
