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Period: Mid-20th Century
Midcentury Hand Carved Solid Ebony Wood Box, France, 1950s
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
French handcrafted solid ebony wood box made in the 1950s. Can be used as a jewellery box or as a decorative object. Good condition.
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French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Mid-20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Wood, Ebony

Vintage Lidded Wooden Box with Brass Hinges by Piero Fornasetti
Located in Doraville, GA
A vintage box with a brass hinged lid. The box was designed by Piero Fornasetti in the 1950s / 1960s. The box is composed of what appears to be a mahogany dovetailed wooden box, bras...
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Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Mid-20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Metal, Brass

Art Deco Inlaid 'Sunray' Inlaid Tea Caddy Box with Key, c1930
Located in Devon, England
For your consideration is this superbly iconic Art Deco wooden box with an iconic sunray pattern both on the outside and inside lid . This box is a...
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English Art Deco Mid-20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Walnut

Art Deco Musical Ladies Powder Compact Box, c1930
Located in Devon, England
Beautiful Art Deco ladies musical powder box. It appears to not have ever been used and as such is in remarkable condition. Bright red enamel exterior with gold accents to the edges ...
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European Art Deco Mid-20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Brass

Wilhelm Kienzle Tool Box for Mewa, circa 1950, Switzerland
Located in Brussels, BE
Nice Wilhelm Kienzle tool box for MEWA, circa 1950, Switzertland. Yellow and grey lacquered metal. Black handle, black hammer and pliers patterns. Original good condition. Dimensi...
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Swiss Mid-Century Modern Vintage Mid-20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Metal

Oriental Lacker Boxes on a Tray, Japan, 1930s
Located in Den Haag, NL
4 Small Lacker boxes on a tray. Mother of Pearl inlay. Inside the boxes. Lots off Bone fiches. I think a game. Very good condition.
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Japanese Japonisme Vintage Mid-20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Lacquer

Herman Bergman Temple of Apollo Box Stockholm, 1941
Located in Stockholm, SE
Beautiful pewter box from Herman Bergman, adorned with a strict pewter rectangle on top. Beautiful execution. The images depicted are from the Bassai (sometimes spelt Bassae) Frie...
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Swedish Vintage Mid-20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Brass, Pewter

Sic Rimini Blu Glazed Ceramic Large Lidded Vessel / Box Bitossi Aldo Londi Style
Located in Barcelona, ES
Large Mid-Century Modern blue glazed ceramic (Rimini Blu) round lidded box , Manufactured by S.I.C Ceramiche Italy, 1950-1960s. It has reminiscences in those Rimini blue designs from Aldo Londi and Bitossi...
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Italian Mid-Century Modern Mid-20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Ceramic, Pottery, Terracotta

Gilt Bronze Trousse, France, 1930
Located in Roma, IT
Gilt bronze trousse with tree branch decorations. France 1930. Lid with tortoiseshell base. Inside three compartments for make-up. Good conditions.
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French Vintage Mid-20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Bronze

Unique Silver Box by K Anderson Stockholm Sweden 1932 Signed
Located in Paris, FR
Unique silver box by K Anderson Stockholm Sweden 1932 signed K anderson and has all the embossed with all stamps for Swedish silver. This unique model probably custom made by K Ande...
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European Mid-Century Modern Mid-20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Metal, Silver

Onyx and Brass Hinged Box in Brown, Amber, Taupe and Red, Italian, 1960s
Located in New York, NY
Stunning onyx marble box with brass hinged lid and charming brass feet. Lined with red velvet, which shows a black mark on the interior. The marble exhibits swirls of brown, taupe, ...
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Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Mid-20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Marble, Onyx

Puiforcat Ridged Silver Cigarette Box, circa 1940
Located in London, GB
A stylish cigarette box in reeded silver with cedar lining by Jean Emile Puiforcat (1897-1945), French Art Deco silversmith, sculptor and designer...
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French Vintage Mid-20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Silver

Sterling Silver Box Samodorok technique Russia unknown marquer 1960
Located in Paris, FR
Sterling Silver box made with Samodorok technique in Russia 1960 Unknown maker The inside of the lid is gilded, 9.5 x 14.5 cm, height 4.5 cm. Total weight C. 330 g. Good condition.
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European Mid-Century Modern Mid-20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Sterling Silver

Italian Futurist Crystal Enameled Box with Silver Sculpture, Italy, 1933
Located in Roma, IT
Incredible futurist multifaceted crystal glass box, this stunning piece was produced in Italy in 1933, as it features the 800 silver engraving that w...
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Italian Futurist Vintage Mid-20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Crystal, Silver

Pewter Box by Nils Fougstedt, Firma Svenskt Tenn, Sweden, 1953
Located in Hägersten, SE
Box designed by Nils Fougstedt. Produced by Firma Svenskt Tenn, this example made in 1953. Made from pewter with brass edges. Good vintage condition with age related patina and wear....
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Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Mid-20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Brass, Pewter

French Art Deco Box Black Lacquer Carved Jade Stone, 1930
Located in Paris, IDF
Unique French Art Deco Jewellery box from the 1930s. This black lacquered wood box features a beautifully carved dark green Jade stone on its cover, re...
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French Art Deco Vintage Mid-20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Jade

1960s Astonishing Box in Onyx. Made in Italy
Located in Milano, IT
1960s Astonishing box in onyx. Made in Italy. This box is amazing and in excellent condition. Dimensions: 7,08 x 4,33 x 1,57 H inches 18 x 11 x 4 H cm
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Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Mid-20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Onyx

Handpainted Crab Terrine by Michel Caugant for Herberstein, Portugal
Located in Antwerpen, Antwerp
Handpainted crab terrine by Michel Caugant dating from the 1950s. Michel Caugant was the son of a French pâté maker, he designed terrines for his father's factory. The terrine was m...
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French French Provincial Vintage Mid-20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Ceramic

Snuff Box Monocrome Miniature Hand Painted Sterling Silver Enamel Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Round snuff box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fired enamel on the enameled edge with vertical stripes and fine monochrome miniature hand painted by the painter Renato Dainelli. Diameter cm. 6.2 cm high. 3.4. Weight gr. 222. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1967 and produced in Florence in the Salimbeni company headquarters with manual workmanship by skilled artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for withstanding numerous high-fire enamelled firings at approximately 750 < 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 Baroque Vintage Mid-20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Sterling Silver, Enamel

Mid-Century Square Abalone Box
Located in Tampa, FL
An abalone on high quality brass square box with a rosewood interior. circa 1940s.
Category

Vintage Mid-20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Brass

Unusual Art Deco Sterling Silver Table Box With Hinged Lid
By Hassett & Harper Ltd
Located in New York, NY
Unusual, rare, Art Deco Period, footed sterling silver table box with rounded, hinged lid, Birmingham, England, year-hallmarked for 1938, Hassett and Harper Ltd. - makers. Underside ...
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American Art Deco Vintage Mid-20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Sterling Silver

Fontana Arte Wooden Box with Mirror Glass Top Designed by Pietro Chiesa, 1930s
Located in London, GB
A very beautiful box from the 1930, designed by Pietro Chiesa for Fontana Arte with a rectangular base in light brown walnut wood worked in an undulated manner and with a refined fai...
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Vintage Mid-20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Mirror, Walnut

1930s Shagreen Stingray Box Leather and Wood
Located in Chula Vista, CA
1930s Art Deco elegance Shagreen Trinket Keepsake Box Stingray Leather Wood interior 8.5 w x 3.88 d x 2.75 tall Fabulous design in the style of Jean Michel Frank. No label present...
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Art Deco Vintage Mid-20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Leather, Wood, Shagreen Stingray

Cigar Box for Decoration, or Desk Box in Wood, 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 box is in wood. It is a cigar box but It can be used as a docorative box...
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French Art Deco Vintage Mid-20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Bone, Wood

Cigarette Case Fired Enamel on a Fine Hand-Engraved Mountain Landscape Sterling
Located in Firenze, FI
Rounded rectangular snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with beautiful fire enamelled miniature hand painted by the painter Simone Dainelli inspired by the paintings of Boris Vallejo, in fantastic contemporary style, with hand-engraved frame. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1967 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 high-fire 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 Modern Vintage Mid-20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Gold Plate, Enamel, Sterling Silver

1960s Italian Leather Book Motif Trash Can
Located in Tarrytown, NY
Italian leather trash can made with book bindings.
Category

Vintage Mid-20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Leather

Midcentury Italian Horn Marquetry Brass Trunk Box, 1960
Located in Paris, IDF
Beautiful midcentury decorative trunk box made in Italy in the 1960s. This large jewellery or make-up box is covered in Horn tessellated pieces, with brass f...
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Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Mid-20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Brass

Walter Zeischegg Stacking Ashtrays / Bowls, 1967 for Helit, Fantastic Plastic
Located in London, GB
Walter Zeischegg for Helit, Ulm, W. Germany Large stacking ashtrays / bowls, model 84009, designed 1967 Red melamine, original labels. This is an e...
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German Space Age Vintage Mid-20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Plastic

Faux Bamboo Rectangular Tissue Box, France 1940, Brown Color
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
Very rare box in faux bamboo. It can be a tissue box or a box of games, which opens by articulating the flap which allows you to put the many game objects you want inside, it can als...
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French Art Deco Vintage Mid-20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Faux Bamboo, Glass, Plastic

Vintage Scandinavian Brutalist Box in Copper
Located in Esbjerg, DK
A wellmade and beautifully patinated box in hammered copper. Suitable for Jewelry or small personal items. Distinct brutalist styling with architectural...
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Scandinavian Brutalist Vintage Mid-20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Copper

Vintage Moorish Box Mosaic Marquetry
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Exquisite handcrafted Middle Eastern Lebanese mosaic marquetry wood box. Small octagonal walnut Syrian style box intricately decorated with Moorish...
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Lebanese Moorish Mid-20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Abalone, Mother-of-Pearl, Shell, Fruitwood

Bitossi for Rosenthal Netter Ceramic Box, Ashtray and Votive Candle Holder
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Bitossi for Rosenthal Nette ceramic box, ahstray and votive candle holder. All three in deep blue with white traces. Signed. Retains original paper label on the underside, which read...
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Mid-Century Modern Mid-20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Ceramic

Vintage Italian Jewelry Box in Burgundy Leather, Circa 1950's
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Amazing Rectangular Burgundy leather jewelry box with gold Embossing and Bevelled Lei With Multiple Code of Arms. Signed / Marked Made in Italy and Genuin...
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Italian Baroque Mid-20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Gold Leaf

Piero Fornasetti Mahogany Painted Wood Box 1950
Located in Paris, IDF
Beautiful Piero Fornasetti decorative box made in Italy in the 1950s. This box is carved from mahogany wood, with painted varnished wood on both sides of the top, and brass side hing...
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Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Mid-20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Brass

Maches Mexican Brutalist Bronze Dresser Box with Gemstones & Nude Dancing Figure
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine Brutalist dresser box. With stylized nude figures around its circumference, linked hand-in-hand as if in a Bacchanalian dance, the male figures with erect penises...
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Mexican Brutalist Mid-20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Brass

French Green Glass Cabbage Box, Circa 1960
Located in Austin, TX
French green glass cabbage box, Circa 1960.
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French Rustic Vintage Mid-20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Glass

Midcentury Brass and Abalone Box
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
8-256 Brass and abalone brass box.
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Vintage Mid-20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Abalone

Mid-Century Small Hand Carved Wood Box, 1950's
Located in Praha, CZ
Made in Czechoslovakia Made of wood, Veneer Good original condition.   
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Czech Mid-Century Modern Vintage Mid-20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Wood

1950s Motorola Town & Country Model 6L2 Portable Butterscotch Radio
Located in Miami Beach, FL
WORKING Motorola town and country portable AM Radio. The chassis is model HS-226. This is a 5 tube Transoceanic type 1V tubes. It has the original cord. There...
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American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Mid-20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Resin

Small Vintage Keepsake Box, Indian, Teak, Storage Case, Carved, Art Deco, C.1940
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is a small vintage keepsake box. An Indian, teak storage case with carved finish, dating to the late Art Deco period, circa 1940. Petite a...
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Indian Mid-20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Teak

Maitland Smith Tessellated Stone Fossilized Coral Decorative Wood Stash Dome Box
Located in San Diego, CA
We are offering a beautiful elegant natural tessellated mosaic fossilized coral stone decorative stash box designed by Maitland Smith. This box does not have the original tag on the ...
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American Mid-20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Stone

Mid-20th Century Decorative Wooden Box
Located in Beirut, LB
Decorative wooden box with fluted sides with a top in several wood veneer marquetry inlays executed in geometrical shapes. Interior covered wi...
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French Mid-Century Modern Mid-20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Wood

1950s Wooden Box with Silver Lined 800 Thousandth Silver Frame
Located in Marbella, ES
1950s Wooden box with silver lined 800 Thousandth silver frame.
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Spanish Mid-20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Silver

Egg on Tripod Hand Painted Sterling Silver Enamel on Guillochè Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Egg on tripod in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè, Russian Empire style inspired by Carl Fabergè eggs ...
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Italian Other Vintage Mid-20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Gold, Enamel, Sterling Silver, Gold Plate

Piet Zwart "Koksmaat" for Bruynzeel
By Piet Zwart, Bruynzeel
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Painted plywood coffin attributed to Piet Zwart. Manufactured by Bruynzeel (Netherlands) in circa 1938. Painted plywood coffin "Koksmaat" (Cook's mate). Dimensions: H 49 cm / ...
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Dutch Mid-Century Modern Vintage Mid-20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Plywood

Nanni Valentini Ceramic Container for Ceramica Arcore, Italy, 1960s
Located in Milan, IT
Nanni Valentini ceramic container for ceramica arcore, Italy, 1960s.
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Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Mid-20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Ceramic

Vintage Blue Glazed Ceramic Box Handsigned by Cases, circa 1960
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Vintage blue glazed ceramic box, handsigned base by Cases. By unknown artist from Spain, circa 1960. In original condition, with minor wear cons...
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European Mid-Century Modern Vintage Mid-20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Ceramic

Scatola in Legno Nargento, xx Seco, Argento Smaltato, Argenteneria Ottaviani
Located in Milano, MI
scatola in legno nargento - xx seco - argento smaltato - argenteneria ottaviani. Dettagli Condizione Usato - Come nuovo Paese di origine it Periodo di tempo 1950 scatola in...
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Italian Mid-20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Silver

Middle Eastern Mosaic Wood Box with Inlays of Mother of Pearl, C. 1950s
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Middle Eastern Mosaic wood box with Inlays of bone and mother of Pearl, C. 1950s Exquisite handcrafted Egyptian decorative wood box with mosaic ...
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Egyptian Moorish Mid-20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Mother-of-Pearl, Fruitwood

Vintage Spanish Inlaid Marquetry Decorative Music Box Inlaid with White Bone
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Vintage Spanish Granada Inlaid Marquetry Decorative Music Box Inlaid with White Bone. It is intricately designed with a sadeli Syrian style mosaic, s...
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Spanish Moorish Mid-20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Bone, Fruitwood

Gio Ponti & Pietro Chiesa, Unique Cigars Box, Fontana Arte, Italy, 1930
Located in Firenze, IT
Unique piece. “Grissinato” turned wood box with decorated blue crystal, blue corrugated crystal lid, hand-decorated. “Pipe smoking man” decoration. Designed by masters Gio Ponti &...
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Italian Art Deco Vintage Mid-20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Crystal, Brass

Burl Wood Jewelry Box and Picture Frame
Located in New York, NY
A burl wood box with picture frame/lid, circa mid-20th century. A beautiful box to hold jewelry for other items on a desk, vanity, sideboard, etc...
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European Mid-20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Felt, Glass, Wood, Burl

Midcentury Abalone Shell and Brass Decorative Trinket Box
Located in San Diego, CA
Beautiful midcentury abalone shell and brass decorative trinket box with hard wood lining made in Mexico in the style of Los Castillios, circa...
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Mexican Mid-Century Modern Mid-20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Brass

Art Deco Box, 1930, France
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
We have specialized in the sale of Art Deco and Art Nouveau and Vintage styles since 1982. If you have any questions we are at your disposal. Pushing the button that reads 'View All ...
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French Art Deco Vintage Mid-20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Chrome

Vintage South Asian Folk Art Hand Painted Wooden Box - India - Mid 20th Century
Located in Chatham, ON
Vintage South Asian hand painted wooden box with removeable lid - featuring a full length portrait of an Indian woman in a pink sari to the lid...
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Indian Anglo-Indian Mid-20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Softwood, Paint

Italian Leather Box
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful vintage Italian all leather jewelry box in red burgundy with gold embossing, circa mid-20th century, Italy. Marked "Florence" on bottom as shown in image #15. Dimensi...
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Italian Mid-20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Leather

Armenian Alphabet by Line Vautrin, Gilt Bronze Compact
Located in Brussels, BE
Line Vautrin was inspired by the Armenian alphabet to create this very pretty compact whose lid and reverse are entirely carved with the characters o...
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French Mid-Century Modern Mid-20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Bronze

Piero Fornasetti, "Plants" Cigars Box, Milan Italy, circa 1950
Located in Firenze, IT
Piero Fornasetti, "plants" cigars box Mahogany and lacquered aluminium, Milan Italy, circa 1950 Measures: 30 x 10 x 4 cm Conditions: Good, slight defects.
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Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Mid-20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Metal

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