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Louis XVI Decorative Boxes

LOUIS XVI STYLE

Reflecting the final era of royal opulence before the upheaval of the French Revolution, antique Louis XVI furniture features more angular shapes than the Rococo curves of the Louis XV style, harkening back to the imposing grandeur of Louis XIV.

Dating between 1750 and 1800, an era that overlapped with the last king of France whose reign was cut short by the guillotine, Louis XVI furniture, known as the goût grec, is emblematic of the neoclassical revision that French furniture underwent during the second half of the 18th century.

Authentic Louis XVI furniture characteristics include clean lines and carved details such as scrolls and acanthus flourishes that were inspired by ancient Greece and Rome. This was informed by a burgeoning interest in antiquity in the 18th century, owing to new archaeological excavations at sites including Pompeii and Herculaneum. It largely eclipsed the more East Asian–influenced ornamentation of Louis XV for something more geometric and symmetrical.

The Louis XVI style was defined by what was being created for the palatial rooms at Versailles and Fontainebleau, particularly for the queen, with cabinetmaker Jean-Henri Riesener being a favorite of Marie-Antoinette’s for his luxurious pieces accented with gilded bronze and marquetry. Furniture maker Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené was also a major designer of the period, with his pieces for the royal residences adorned with giltwood and neoclassical touches like tapered columns for chair legs and laurel leaf carvings. Cabinetmaker Adam Weisweiler occasionally incorporated into his furniture porcelain panels produced by Sèvres, a popular manufacturer of European ceramics that served the crown with serveware, vases and other decorative objects.

Find a collection of antique Louis XVI seating, tables, cabinets and other furniture on 1stDibs.

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Style: Louis XVI
French 19th century Louis XVI st. Baccarat Crystal and Ormolu box
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An attractive and most elegant French 19th century Louis XVI st. Baccarat Crystal and Ormolu box. This beautiful Crystal square box showcases lattic...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Decorative Boxes

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Crystal, Ormolu

Early 18th Century Louis XVI Kingwood Small Chest
Located in Dallas, TX
A Louis XVI kingwood small chest with brass mounts. Opens to a metal lined interior and two velvet working lower drawers. Circa 1700, France.
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Early 1700s French Antique Louis XVI Decorative Boxes

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Metal, Brass

Sterling Silver Gold-Plated Pill Box with Buccioni Miniature, Louis XVI Style
Located in Firenze, FI
Octagonal pill box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with a hand-painted miniature with fired enamel by the painter Romano Buccioni in Louis XVI style from the second half of ...
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1970s Italian Vintage Louis XVI Decorative Boxes

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Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel

An Unusual 19th Century French Dore Bronze Mounted Orange/Red Crystal Box
Located in New York, NY
An Unusual 19th Century French Dore Bronze Mounted Orange/Red crystal box. The box is composed of two sections of French orange/red crystal which are m...
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1890s French Antique Louis XVI Decorative Boxes

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Crystal, Bronze

Late 19th Century French Sevres Style Porcelain Casket
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very decorative late 19th century French Sevres style porcelain, hand painted casket. Having a Burgundy colour ground, with an inset pa...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Decorative Boxes

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Porcelain

21st Century, Clear Crystal and Golden Bronze Box
Located in Calenzano, FI
Hand carved clear crystal and patinated golden bronze clinex-holder. Each object is handcrafted and the care for every detail makes each item unique in its kind. The style of this Kl...
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2010s Italian Louis XVI Decorative Boxes

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Crystal, Bronze

21st Century, Hand-Carved yellow and pink Crystal and Bronze Box
Located in Calenzano, FI
Yellow and pink crystal box with cut engravings embellished with brass detail made with the artisan lost wax technique with patinated silver finish. E...
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2010s Italian Louis XVI Decorative Boxes

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Crystal, Bronze

French Original Black Painted Portable 18th Century Writing Desk
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
An original black painted portable desk from the end of the 18th century. With owner initials, the desk has a French hand-written address on the inside. ...
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Late 18th Century French Antique Louis XVI Decorative Boxes

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Wood

Imperial Manufacture Of Tula, Russia, End Of The 18th Century. Steel Sewing Box
Located in Bilzen, BE
"Imperial Manufacture Of Tula, Russia, End Of The 18th Century. Steel Sewing Box" Russian work from the imperial factory of Tula from the end of the 18th century. inlaid with copper ...
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Late 18th Century Russian Antique Louis XVI Decorative Boxes

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Copper, Iron

Boîte XVIIIe siècle Arte Povera
Located in VILLENEUVE-LÈS-AVIGNON, FR
Boîte à décor de personnages dit "Arte Povera" (papier mâché) Origine Italie - Venise XVIIIe siècle
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18th Century Italian Antique Louis XVI Decorative Boxes

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Paper

21st Century, Hand-Carved Clear Crystal and Bronze Box
Located in Calenzano, FI
Clear crystal box with cut engravings embellished with brass detail made with the artisan lost wax technique with patinated gold finish. Each object is handcrafted and the care for ...
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2010s Italian Louis XVI Decorative Boxes

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Crystal, Bronze

21st Century, Hand-Carved Clear Crystal and Bronze Box
Located in Calenzano, FI
Clear crystal box with cut engravings embellished with brass detail made with the artisan lost wax technique with patinated gold finish. Each object is handcrafted and the care for e...
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2010s Italian Louis XVI Decorative Boxes

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Crystal, Bronze

21st Century, Hand-Carved Amber Crystal and Bronze Box in Style of Luigi XVI
Located in Calenzano, FI
Amber crystal box with opaque cut engravings embellished with brass detail made with the artisan lost wax technique with patinated gold finish. Each ...
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2010s Italian Louis XVI Decorative Boxes

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Crystal, Bronze

Pill Box oval Silver Sterling Enameled and handcarved Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Domed oval pillbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamels on guillochè, top and bottom, with fine hand-engravings. Viennese Art Nouveau style second h...
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Early 2000s Italian Louis XVI Decorative Boxes

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Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel

French Silver Plate Jewelry Vanity Pill Trinket Box
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Small jewelry or vanity box as found in French market. This 19th Century pill box has a silver plated lid and features a ribbon band decoration. Wonderful patina and certainly will c...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Decorative Boxes

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Metal, Silver Plate

21st Century, Animal Box Collection, Crystal Box with Flamingo
Located in Calenzano, FI
Hand carved crystal box with Flamingo in brass made with the artisan lost wax technique with dark burnished finish. Each object is handcrafted and the care for every detail makes each item unique in its kind. The style of this box is a modern reinterpretation of an object from the second half of the 18th century in France. Also Oggetti d'Arte will follow with the same passion the request of the most qualified studies of interio architecture from around the world, helping them in achievement of their most ambitious projects. This box, at the customer's request, can be made with different metal finishes and with different crystal colors so that it can be inserted in the best possible way within your furniture. This box is included in Animal Box...
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2010s Italian Louis XVI Decorative Boxes

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Crystal, Bronze

21st Century, Hand-Carved Amethyst Crystal and Bronze Box in Style of Luigi xvi
Located in Calenzano, FI
Amethyst crystal box with cut engravings embellished with brass detail made with the artisan lost wax technique with patinated gold finish. Each object is handcrafted and the care fo...
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2010s Italian Louis XVI Decorative Boxes

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Crystal, Bronze

21st Century, Hand-Carved Pink and Light Blue Crystal and Bronze Box
Located in Calenzano, FI
Pink and light blue crystal box with cut engravings embellished with brass detail made with the artisan lost wax technique with patinated silver finish. Each object is handcrafted an...
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2010s Italian Louis XVI Decorative Boxes

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Crystal, Bronze

21st Century, Animal Box Collection, Porcelain Box with Silver Bronze Fish
Located in Calenzano, FI
Porcelain box with cut engravings embellished with brass detail made with the artisan lost wax technique with silver finish. Each object is handcrafted and the care for every detail ...
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2010s Italian Louis XVI Decorative Boxes

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Bronze

Pill Box Silver Sterling Enameled Rectangular Louis XVI style Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Pill Box Silver is in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated 24 carats. Pill Box Silver is Rectangular with translucent fired enamels on guilloché. Pill Box Silver has a hand-painted m...
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1970s Italian Vintage Louis XVI Decorative Boxes

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Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel

Vintage Limoges 22k Gold Trinket Jewelry Pieces Louis XVI Courtesan Scene
Located in BILBAO, ES
Elegant vintage Limoges 22-karat gold trinket jewelry decorative pieces. French vintage Limoges porcelain in cobalt royal blue with fine gold decor. Mark...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Decorative Boxes

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Enamel, Gold Leaf

21st Century, Clear Crystal and Golden Bronze Box
Located in Calenzano, FI
Hand carved clear crystal and patinated golden bronze box. Each object is handcrafted and the care for every detail makes each item unique in its kind. The style of this box is a mo...
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2010s Italian Louis XVI Decorative Boxes

Materials

Crystal, Bronze

21st Century, Hand-Carved Clear Crystal and Bronze Box in Style of Luigi XVI
Located in Calenzano, FI
Clear crystal box with opaque cut engravings embellished with brass detail made with the artisan lost wax technique with patinated gold finish. Each object is handcrafted and the car...
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2010s Italian Louis XVI Decorative Boxes

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Crystal, Bronze

Pill Box Silver Sterling Enamel hand-painted Louis XVI style miniature Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Shaped pill box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with hand-painted miniature fire enamelled in Louis XVI style, second half of the 19th century, and fine hand engravings. Siz...
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1980s Italian Vintage Louis XVI Decorative Boxes

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Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel

21st Century, Animal Box Collection, Clear Crystal Box with Crocodrile
Located in Calenzano, FI
Handcarved clear crystal box with Crocodrile made with the artisan lost wax technique with patinated gold finish. This box has got a oval shape. Each object is handcrafted and the ca...
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2010s Italian Louis XVI Decorative Boxes

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Crystal, Bronze

21st Century, Hand-Carved Clear Crystal and Bronze Box in Style of Luigi XVI
Located in Calenzano, FI
Hand-carved clear crystal box with Panther made with the artisan lost wax technique with patinated gold finish. This box has got a oval shape. Each object is handcrafted and the care...
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2010s Italian Louis XVI Decorative Boxes

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Crystal, Bronze

Table Box Squared Green Enamel with oval miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Square table box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamels on sunburst guillochè and Louis XVI French Empire style ornaments. External measurements cm. 12 x 12 x 2.5. Weight gr. 636- Fine oval miniature cm. 3.2 x 4.2 hand painted in tempera on a vegetable ivory plate by the painter Anna Maria Manfriani reproducing a portrait of a Flemish lady...
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1990s Italian Louis XVI Decorative Boxes

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Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel

Vintage Limoges 22k Gold Trinket Jewelry Boxes Louis XVI Courtesan Scene
Located in BILBAO, ES
Elegant vintage Limoges 22-karat gold trinket jewelry boxes. French vintage Limoges porcelain in cobalt royal blue with fine gold decor. Marked on base as “Limoges France" Porcelain D' Art ”. Beautiful cobalt blue porcelain with 22-karat gold hand painted with with the classic courtesan scene of a man and woman in the Louis XVI period attire. Perfect gift for your special someone. One small box. 6 x6 cm / 2.32 x 2.32 inches One piano box...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Decorative Boxes

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Enamel, Gold Leaf

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...
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1970s Italian Vintage Louis XVI Decorative Boxes

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Sterling Silver

Gustavian Style Tissue Box Holder
Located in Sheffield, MA
Add a neoclassical country touch to your countertop or nightstand with a gold gilt edge grey painted galvanized tissue box cover. Add fashion and protection for your facial tissue. E...
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21st Century and Contemporary Louis XVI Decorative Boxes

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Tin

A French 19th century Louis XVI st. Glass and Ormolu box
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A lovely and most elegant French 19th century Louis XVI st. Glass and Ormolu box. The stunning box displays lovely thick diamond shaped cuts throughout with a fine wrap around Ormolu...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Decorative Boxes

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Ormolu

A French Turn of the Century Louis XVI st. Glass and Ormolu box
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A charming French Turn of the Century Louis XVI st. Glass and Ormolu box. This most elegant lidded box displays stunning diamond shaped cuts throughout the circular body. The cut Gla...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Decorative Boxes

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Ormolu

Vintage Limoges 22k Gold Trinket Ashtray Louis XVI Courtesan Scene
Located in BILBAO, ES
Elegant vintage Limoges 22-karat gold trinket ashtray French vintage Limoges porcelain in cobalt royal blue with fine gold decor. Marked on base as “Limog...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Decorative Boxes

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Enamel, Gold Leaf

French Louis XVI Style Bronze Dore Box
Located in Queens, NY
French Louis XVI-style (19/20th century) bronze dore rectangular shaped jewel box with round plaque of lady and man.     
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19th Century Antique Louis XVI Decorative Boxes

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Bronze

French late 19th century Louis XVI st. Ormolu and Crystal box
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A stunning and most charming French late 19th century Louis XVI st. Ormolu and Crystal box. This thick rectangular Crystal box displays an outer zig zag design which leads to star sh...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Decorative Boxes

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Crystal, Ormolu

Enamel Coffer with Mythological Scenes Signed Klein in Paris, 19th Century
Located in Paris, FR
Small, rectangular, enamel coffer decorated with mythological scenes that are framed with spiraling lines of ormolu and attached with flowers at the corners. The Rape of Proserpina by the god Pluto adorns the lid. The front and back of the box are decorated with images of Diana being woken by her nymphs and the Rape of Europa. The sides have images of Mercury educating Cupid and a bath scene...
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1860s French Antique Louis XVI Decorative Boxes

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Enamel, Ormolu, Bronze

French Louis XVI Bronze Dore Box
Located in Queens, NY
French Louis XVI-style (19th Century) bronze dore rectangular shaped box with onyx inset top.   
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19th Century Antique Louis XVI Decorative Boxes

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Bronze

French Sevres Louis XVI Wood Mirror Vanity Box, 19th Century
Located in Lisbon, PT
A French 19th century travelling classic case box for the personal items of the aristocracy ensuring that toiletries and other beauty essentials stay organized and secure. A stunning...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Decorative Boxes

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Metal, Brass, Bronze

Vintage Great Britain Silver 3 Pill Box "Victoria" 1838 - 1887
Located in BILBAO, ES
Vintage Great Britain Silver 3 Pill Box "Victoria" 1838 - 1887 Measures 5'5 x 3'5 x 2'5 cm / 2,16 x 1,37 x 0,98 inches Weight 48 gr Pradera is a second generation of a family ru...
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Late 19th Century Spanish Antique Louis XVI Decorative Boxes

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Silver

French 19th Century 'Sevres' Porcelain Mounted Casket
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A fine quality late 19th century gilded ormolu and Sevres style porcelain mounted casket, the hinged lid opening to a silk lined interior (needing repair) and raised on ormolu melon ...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Decorative Boxes

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Porcelain, Walnut

True Pair Of French 19th Century Louis XVI St. Terra Cotta Keepsake Boxes
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A unique and finely detailed true pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. Terra Cotta keepsake boxes. Each wonderful box is raised on a rectangular based with a rope designed edge ...
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19th Century French Antique Louis XVI Decorative Boxes

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Terracotta

Louis Xvi decorative boxes for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a broad range of unique Louis XVI decorative boxes for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage decorative boxes created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include decorative objects, serveware, ceramics, silver and glass, case pieces and storage cabinets and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with metal, bronze and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Louis XVI decorative boxes made in a specific country, there are Europe, France, and Italy pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original decorative boxes, popular names associated with this style include Oggetti D'Arte, Limoges, Franco Salimbeni, and Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres. It’s true that these talented designers have at times inspired knockoffs, but our experienced specialists have partnered with only top vetted sellers to offer authentic pieces that come with a buyer protection guarantee. Prices for decorative boxes differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $165 and tops out at $359,153 while the average work can sell for $1,430.

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