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Exquisite Antique Islamic- Mughal Engraved & Gilt Enamel Domed Box, #145
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Exquisite Antique Islamic-Mughal Engraved & Gilt Enamel Domed Box, #145 with import label, Persia/IIndia, 20th century
This exquisite antique Mughal domed box is a stunning example of Indo-Islamic artistry from the 20th century, originating from Persia or India. Crafted from patinated cast and forged bronze, this work weighs nearly 10 pounds, emphasizing its substantial and durable construction. Standing 15 inches high with a diameter of 12.5 inches, the circular architectural design is both imposing and elegant.
The box features an elaborate front latch hinge, complemented by a matching rear hinge, showcasing meticulous attention to detail in both form and function. Profusely decorated with intricate, exotic fine engravings and gilt enamel work, the surface is adorned with elaborate patterns that reflect the rich artistic heritage of the Mughal era. The patinated finish adds depth and character, enhancing the visual appeal of the engraved and gilded elements.
Numbered 145 and accompanied by an import label, this piece holds not only aesthetic beauty but historic significance. The numbering suggests it may be part of a limited series or collection, adding to its uniqueness and value. Its impressive workmanship and historical roots make it a remarkable find for collectors or an addition to any interior.
Ready to place in any setting, this domed box serves as both a functional storage piece and a captivating decorative object. Its substantial size and weight make it a standout addition to any room, whether displayed on a mantle, side table, or within a curated collection. This Mughal bronze...
Category
Early 20th Century Asian Islamic Gilt Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Antique Dresser or Jewelry Box with Enamel Portrait and Gilt Bronze Mounts
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This antique dresser or jewelry box is unsigned, but presumed to have been made in France in approximately 1890 in the period Art Nouveau style. The oval shaped box has a very well e...
Category
Late 19th Century French Art Nouveau Antique Gilt Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze, Enamel
Enamel Box Gilt Inside Painted Flowers Garlands Lady's Portrait, France
Located in Vienna, AT
Superb enamel box with flowers garlands and a lady's portrait.
Specifications:
1. The surface of round box is made of white enamel. Additionally, it is stunningly decorated with nicest multicolored flowers' garlands running along the surface / mentioned garlands are hung up at bows.
2. The round bowl's lid is topped with a nicest enamel painted picture, depicting an elegant lady:
The lady's style and appearance is similar to ladies of period of Angelika Kauffmann...
Category
Late 19th Century French Victorian Antique Gilt Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass, Enamel
Hollywood Regency Rope and Tassel Gilt Filigree Tissue Box Holder with Claw Feet
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Hollywood Regency Gilt Brass Tissue Box Holder with Tassel & Filigree, Italian Rococo Style, c. 1960s
Bring vintage glamour to your space with this exquisite Hollywood Regency gilt brass tissue box holder, crafted in the ornate Italian Rococo style of the 1960s. A rare and luxurious decorative accessory, this pierced filigree tissue holder evokes the elegance of Stylebuilt and Matson vanity pieces, blending mid-century modern flair with classical Baroque detailing.
Expertly constructed from gilt brass with an intricate openwork design, the surface features a reticulated filigree pattern enhanced by a regal ribbon and tassel motif. The elevated braided rim and bold lion claw feet lend it a refined, sculptural presence—perfect for accenting vanities, powder rooms, or any Hollywood Regency interior.
Finished in radiant gold ormolu, the box boasts a beautiful vintage patina that speaks to its timeless charm and collectible value. The top lifts easily and fits securely, making it both functional and visually striking.
Key Features:
* Origin: Likely Italy, circa 1960s
* Style: Hollywood Regency, Italian Rococo, Mid-Century Glam
* Material: Gilt brass with pierced filigree and ormolu finish
* Motifs: Ribbon and tassel front, braided edge, lion paw feet
* Dimensions: 3.25” H x 6” D x 11” W
* Condition: Excellent vintage condition; no dents or dings, with light, age-appropriate patina inside lining.
A standout piece for traditional, eclectic, or vintage-inspired decor, this vintage tissue box holder is a glamorous fusion of function and artistry—ideal for collectors of ornate vanity accessories or lovers of Hollywood Regency decor.
Keywords: Hollywood Regency brass box, vintage ormolu tissue box, gold filigree tissue box holder, rope and tassel design, Stylebuilt Matson style, mid-century glam decor, vintage bathroom accessory, Regency Modern gold tissue box...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Hollywood Regency Gilt Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal, Brass
19th Century Bohemian Moser Attrib Enameled Ormolu Jewel Casket Table Box
Located in Forney, TX
A rare and exceptional Aesthetic Movement period Bohemian enameled jewel casket attributed to luxury glassmaker Moser.
Hand-crafted in the late 19th cent...
Category
19th Century European Aesthetic Movement Antique Gilt Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal, Ormolu
Antique Austrian Alabaster and Gilt Metal Book Box
Located in Houston, TX
Antique Austrian Alabaster And Gilt Metal Book Box.
Unusual Austrian gilt metal and alabaster box in the form of a book.
This lovely decorative box has a wood interior and hinged l...
Category
1920s Austrian Aesthetic Movement Vintage Gilt Decorative Boxes
Materials
Alabaster, Metal
Large Rare French Gilt Bronze Box "Pinocchio" by Line Vautrin
By Line Vautrin
Located in Atlanta, GA
A rare cast gilt bronze box "Pinocchio" by French Parisian art jeweler Line Vautrin (1913-1997). The elongated lidded box depicts a silouette portrait of the famous boy. The interior...
Category
1940s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Gilt Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Indonesian Madura Gilt Treasure Chest with Hand-Carved Details, 20th Century
Located in Yonkers, NY
This 20th century treasure chest with hand-carved details comes from Madura Island, Indonesia. This chest is made of a rectangular wood box mounted on a carved base featuring gilt fo...
Category
20th Century Indonesian Gilt Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Beautiful Ormolu Pincushion Needle Box 19th C. 1890s, Austria
Located in Nuernberg, DE
This listing is for a beautiful Austrian gilt metal needle box on a alabaster base with a pincushion on top, circa 1890s. A beautiful collector's item and sure to be a lovely additio...
Category
Late 19th Century Austrian Victorian Antique Gilt Decorative Boxes
Materials
Alabaster, Metal, Ormolu
Indo-Persian Khatam Micro Mosaic Jewelry Box
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Handcrafted Khatam wooden box with very delicate micro mosaic marquetry from the ancient Persian technique of inlaying from arrangements of so many delicate pieces of wood, precious wood, and delicate miniatures paintings.
This beautiful Middle Eastern Persian style box is covered inside and out with fine Moorish micro mosaic marquetry.
Indo Persian Moorish style micro mosaic inlaid jewelry box with lid.
Intricate inlaid Asian Indian box with floral and geometric Islamic
Moorish Sadeli design in a square shape form with inlay marquetry, very fine artwork, lined in red velvet.
Museum collector piece like the one in Doris Duke Islamic Art Museum.
The repeating geometric patterns of Sadeli Mosaic are what give it beauty and richness. This decorative technique is a type of micro mosaic featuring repeating geometric patterns. A highly skilled craft, it has had a long history in India and the Middle East with early examples dating back to the 16th century. In the 1800s, it became popular as a decoration on a variety of boxes, card cases, and chess boards imported from India. Since Bombay became a center of making them, they became known as Bombay boxes...
Category
Mid-20th Century Asian Moorish Gilt Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Chinese Gold and Black Lacquer Games Box, Early 19th Century
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
An exceptional antique Chinese gold and black lacquer games box raised on four paw feet with a domed lift off cover decorated with figural landscape panels in gilded lacquer colours on a black ground. The cover lifts off to reveal five lidded removable counter boxes...
Category
Early 19th Century Chinese Antique Gilt Decorative Boxes
Materials
Lacquer
Gilt Faux Bamboo & Faux Caning Tissue Box Holder or Cover
Located in New York, NY
Vintage Gilt Tissue Box Holder in Faux Bamboo and Faux caning in the Hollywood Regency Style. Good overall condition. Has removeable bottom cover to change out tissue box. Circa 19...
Category
Late 20th Century Unknown Hollywood Regency Gilt Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Leaf
Scatola Fiorentina Legno Inciso e Dorato Decorata con Uccellino 1780s Ottagonale
Located in Milano, MI
Originale scatola Italiana in legno laccato ed inciso a bulino di forma ottagonale di epoca Settecentesca, in discreto stato conservativo. Questo tipo di scatole solitamente apparten...
Category
Late 18th Century Italian Neoclassical Antique Gilt Decorative Boxes
Materials
Walnut
18th Century Italian Florentine Silver-leaf Polylobed Engraved Box
Located in Milano, MI
Italian antique silvered Florentine box, polylobed box from the end of the 1700s made of bent and curved wood to obtain a four-pointed polylobe. The ori...
Category
Late 18th Century Italian Neoclassical Antique Gilt Decorative Boxes
Materials
Walnut
Italian Murano Vanity Box Gold and Pink
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful hand-blown Italian Murano art glass and gold gilt metal vanity box, made in Italy. Murano glass exterior is matte in a pink grapefruit/blood orange hue, and lid is gold g...
Category
2010s Italian Gilt Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal
$495 Sale Price
20% Off
Hexagonal 19th Century Wooden Jewelry Box, Handpainted, Austria ca. 1890
Located in Lichtenberg, AT
From the late 19th century around 1890 in Austria - the so-called "Historism" period - comes this extraordinary brown/ golden wooden jewelry box. Artfully crafted with attention to d...
Category
Late 19th Century Austrian Antique Gilt Decorative Boxes
Materials
Stucco, Wood
19th Century Martin Varnish and Gilt Bronze Box, Napoleon III Period.
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
A 19th century Napoleon III period Martin varnish and ormolu box with upholstered interior.
H: 12cm, W: 36cm, D: 24cm
Category
19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Gilt Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Qing Dynasty Red Lacquered Scroll Box with Distressed Gold Chinoiserie Décor
Located in Yonkers, NY
A Chinese Qing dynasty red lacquered lidded scroll box from the 19th century with distressed gold chinoiserie motifs. This exquisite Chinese Qing dynasty red lacquered lidded scroll ...
Category
19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Gilt Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
$1,080 Sale Price
20% Off
Scarce Antique Tuareg Mauritania North Africa Mixed Metal Mounted Wood Chest
Located in Forney, TX
A rare and magnificent antique Tuareg peoples mixed metal mounted wooden chest / coffer / monumental table box.
Most impressive size, hand-crafted in ...
Category
Early 20th Century Mauritanian Tribal Gilt Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass, Copper, Iron
18th Century Italian Florentine Giltwood Engraved Box
Located in Milano, MI
Italian antique gilded Florentine box, octagonal shape realized in white walnut, engraved on each side and the top and with bulin scrolling decor...
Category
Late 18th Century Italian Neoclassical Antique Gilt Decorative Boxes
Materials
Walnut
Antique French Oval Gilt Finished Metal Box with Signed Hand-Painted Portrait
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This small jewelry or decorative box has no maker's signature, but presumed to have originated from France and date to approximately 1900 and done in a Renaissance Revival style. The...
Category
Early 20th Century French Renaissance Revival Gilt Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal
James Bearden "Segment Jewelry Box on Pedestal"
Located in New York, NY
"Segment jewelry box on pedestal," a new work in patinated steel with 24-karat gold leaf and fused bronze, copper, and glass enamel. By Des Moines, Iowa, ar...
Category
2010s American Brutalist Gilt Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze, Copper, Steel
Fine Antique English Gilded Bronze Mounted Coromandel Lap Desk
Located in Bath, GB
A superb quality Victorian writing box / slope in exotic and dramatic Coromandel wood mounted with the most exquisite gilded bronze mounts, all intricately engraved with top-notch screwed mounting.
The box comes complete with the original working Bramah key, always a sign of quality. The bottom section unfolds to reveal the leather covered writing surface with gold embossed tooling. The top opens to reveal a fitted interior with lidded compartments, a sloped compartment for pen nibs, an inkwell compartment complete with brass topped inkwell...
Category
Mid-19th Century British Victorian Antique Gilt Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
$2,142 Sale Price
20% Off
Elegant Scent box in Silver with gilt crown in Rococo dated 1775
Located in Knivsta, SE
Elegant Scent box in Silver with gilt crown in Rococo dated 1775. Probably made in Denmark. Inside in gilded silver. Very period Rococo design.
Wear consistent with age and use
Category
1770s Danish Rococo Antique Gilt Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
French Maison Gellée et Gainier Leather and Brass over Wood Decorative Box
Located in Atlanta, GA
A French wooden decorative box from the 19th century from the Maison 'Gellée Gainier' à la Boule d'Or, Paris, leather bound with brass braces, presenting a compartmented interior and...
Category
19th Century French Antique Gilt Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
20th Century Italian Sterling Silver Decorative Box
Located in VALENZA, IT
Impressive decorative boxes made completely by hand.
The shape of the box is round and low, called in Italy "a pagnottella fiorentina" which means in the shape of a loaf of bread tha...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Other Gilt Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
19th Century Signed Wavecrest Opal Glass Putti Motif Table Box
By CF Monroe
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
19th Century Signed Wavecrest Opal Glass Putti Motif Table Box
C.F. Monroe Company, Meriden, Connecticut, circa 1890
This 19th-century signed Wavecrest opal glass putti motif table box, created by the C.F. Monroe Company in Meriden, Connecticut, circa 1890, is a stunning example of fine craftsmanship and artistry. Standing 4 inches high with a 6-inch diameter, this exquisite piece features a beautifully painted putti motif, showcasing the delicate and intricate detailing characteristic of Wavecrest opal glass. The box is in fantastic, well-cared-for antique condition, with its gilt mounts and original silk lining remarkably well preserved. Raised on four elegant gilt feet, this table box embodies both functionality and decorative appeal. The piece is signed 'Wavecrest,' attesting to its authenticity and heritage. This charming table box is a rare and valuable addition to any antique glass...
Category
Late 19th Century North American High Victorian Antique Gilt Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
19th Century Italian Ruby Glass Box with Miniature of Basilica
Located in Dallas, TX
Lovely little 19th century ring jar or pill box made of a thick wine colored ruby glass.
It has a miniature of a Basilica on top, gilt metal mounts with beautiful filigree on the si...
Category
Early 19th Century Vatican Grand Tour Antique Gilt Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal
Napoleon III Woven Gilt Bronze Handled Basket, Weave Table Box
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Napoleon III woven gilt bronze handled basket -weave table box
France, circa 1875
A whimsical, yet intricately woven of a handled basket weave table ...
Category
19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Gilt Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
$380 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique Sterling Silver Gilt Engraved Vinaigrette Birmingham Edward Smith 1839
By Edward Smith
Located in Portland, OR
A fine antique engraved sterling silver vinaigrette, Edward Smith, Birmingham, 1839.
The vinaigrette is finely engine turned to the hinged top and the undersaide, the lid is monogram...
Category
1830s English Early Victorian Antique Gilt Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Antique Sterling Silver Gilt Engraved Vinaigrette Birmingham Gervase Wheeler
Located in Portland, OR
A fine antique sterling silver-gilt early 19th century Vinaigrette, Birmingham, by Gervase Wheeler, 1839.
This beautiful vinaigrette having f...
Category
1830s English Early Victorian Antique Gilt Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Antique English Georgian Style Inlaid Mahogany Bombe Shaped Tea Caddy
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine antique Georgian style mahogany tea caddy.
Of bombé form with fruit wood inlay, gilt brass mounts & handle, and bracket feet.
Simply a wonderful, rare form!
Date:
L...
Category
Early 20th Century English Georgian Gilt Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Antique Gilt Copper & Enamel Ladies Compac with Hand Painted Portrait
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This antique miniature ladies compac is unsigned with respect to the maker, but originated from Italy and dates to approximately 1880 and done in a Renaissance Revival style. The box...
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Renaissance Revival Antique Gilt Decorative Boxes
Materials
Copper
Augarten Porcelain Josef Hoffmann White & Gold Melone Covered Box / Sugar Bowl
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine porcelain covered sugar bowl (that doubles perfectly as a table box).
In the Melone (pattern) designed by Josef Hoffmann in 1929.
In white porcelain with gold highlights.
B...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Austrian Vienna Secession Gilt Decorative Boxes
Materials
Porcelain
GERMANY 1900 Orivit Jugendstil Covered Centerpiece In Gilded Bronze With Crystal
By Orivit
Located in Miami, FL
Jugendstil Covered Centerpiece designed by Orivit in Germany.
This is a beautiful and very decorative covered centerpiece created in Germany during the art-nouveau Jugendstil period...
Category
Early 1900s German Jugendstil Antique Gilt Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver, Bronze
$1,225 Sale Price / set
30% Off
Antique American Gilt & Inset Glass Decorative Dresser Box or Vide Poche
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This antique decorative box was made by the Apollo Manufacturing Company of the United States in approximately 1920 in an Anglo-Indian style. ...
Category
Early 20th Century American Anglo-Indian Gilt Decorative Boxes
Materials
Spelter
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...
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Belle Époque Antique Gilt Decorative Boxes
Materials
Stone, Metal
Gilt Bronze Reliquary Pendant by Line Vautrin
By Line Vautrin
Located in Atlanta, GA
A piece of wonderful jewelry by Line Vautrin designed in 1941 on the subject of St Foi, a child martyr on the early fourth century and the patron saint of prinsoers, in a rare form of a reliquary...
Category
1940s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Gilt Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Late Qing Dynasty Wedding Box with Carved Handle, Animals and Foliage Motifs
Located in Yonkers, NY
A late Qing Dynasty period wedding box from the early 20th century, this piece exudes charm with its traditional design and intricate carvings. The box features an appealing hexagona...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Gilt Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
$472 Sale Price
20% Off
English Black Lacquered and Gilt Stenciled Figural Pagoda Tea Box, Circa 1810
Located in Charleston, SC
English black lacquered and gilt stenciled figural pagoda hinged tea box with exterior gilt stenciled dragon motif, original interior pewter hand chased figural container with bone k...
Category
1810s English George III Antique Gilt Decorative Boxes
Materials
Pewter
Set/10 Ceramic, Glass and Wood Pots & Vases Handmade Portugal by Lusitanus Home
Located in Lisboa, PT
Set/10 ceramic, glass and wood vases pots with lids, Lusitanus Home Collection, Handcrafted in Portugal - Europe by Lusitanus Home.
Wooden Box "Lanzarote" L
W. 21 x De. 12 x H. 42cm...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Art Deco Gilt Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Onyx, Marble, Gold Leaf, Metal, Brass, Copper, Stainless Steel,...
Pair of Jacob Petit Orientalist Porcelain Bottles
By Jacob Petit
Located in London, GB
Pair of Jacob Petit Orientalist porcelain bottles
French, Early 20th century
Height 32cm, width 13cm, depth 10cm
This delightful pair of porcelain bottles is whimsically modelled a...
Category
Early 20th Century French Gilt Decorative Boxes
Materials
Porcelain
Wonderful Mid Century Lorin Marsh Black Lacquered Rock Crystal Gilt Box Casket
By Lorin Marsh
Located in Roslyn, NY
A Wonderful Mid Century Modern Lorin Marsh Style Black Lacquered Rock Crystal Large Box Casket
Category
20th Century Mid-Century Modern Gilt Decorative Boxes
Materials
Rock Crystal
Large Hand Painted German Porcelain Covered Box
Located in Tarry Town, NY
Beautifully hand painted and decorated gilt covered glazed porcelain decorative box. The box features a hand gilt and painted decoration garden scene detail in a rectangle shape form...
Category
Early 20th Century German Gilt Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold
A French Turn of the Century Gilt Metal and Crystal box, attributed to Baccarat
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A sensational and richly decorated French Turn of the Century Gilt Metal and Crystal box, attributed to Baccarat. This stunning etched Crystal rectangular shaped box is possibly by B...
Category
19th Century French Antique Gilt Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Metal
Victorian Gilt, Mother-of-Pearl Inlaid Papier-Mâché Sewing Stand, Ex Christie's
Located in Morristown, NJ
Beautifully decorated mid-late 19th c, England, black lacquered papier-mâché sewing stand. Decorated with gilt, mother-of-pearl and polychrome paint, opening to cloth-lined interior....
Category
1850s English Victorian Antique Gilt Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal, Brass
Paon Stone Box
Located in Paris, FR
Box Paon Stone in white stone, box
with lid with gilded metal peacock on
the lid.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Gilt Decorative Boxes
Materials
Stone, Metal
$342 / item
Chinese Export Hardstone and Gilt Silver Filigree Peacock Box, 1920's, China
Located in Austin, TX
An exquisite Chinese export peacock from hardstone and gilt silver filigree canister box, Republic Period, circa 1920's, China.
The graceful and elegant hardstone container of cyli...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Qing Gilt Decorative Boxes
Materials
Stone, Silver, Enamel
Japanese Green Gilded Porcelain Vase by Contemporary Master Artist
Located in Takarazuka, JP
Exquisite contemporary Japanese decorative porcelain vase, an exclusive signature masterpiece in blue and red by highly acclaimed master porcelain artist of the Imari-Arita region of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Japanese Gilt Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold
Gilt Japonisme Porcelain Dresser Box
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine 2-section Japonisme dresser box.
In gilt porcelain.
With cobalt blue and white geometric circle devices throughout.
Simply a wonderful porcelain dresser box!
Date:
20th Ce...
Category
20th Century Unknown Japonisme Gilt Decorative Boxes
Materials
Porcelain
Moorish Bohemian Decorative Gilt Porcelain Flask with Lid
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Moorish decorative gilt porcelain flask with lid.
The bottle is shaped into soft ripples and given a radiant gold finish.
Nice decorative object with a lid in the shape of a Moorish ...
Category
20th Century Indian Moorish Gilt Decorative Boxes
Materials
Porcelain
Covered Vase with Atlantes, attr. to A. Giroux, France, circa 1880
Located in PARIS, FR
Beautiful ovoid-shaped covered vase in patinated bronze with golden highlights, with rich rotating decoration in relief. The lid, symbolizing Night, is decorated with a turtle, a moon, a dragon flying among the clouds ; and the belly, symbolizing the Day, is decorated with a rising sun, mountainous landscapes, and cherry tree branches.
The whole, topped with a flamed seed, is supported by three African-type atlantes dressed in a loincloth.
Historical and artistic context
This work of art combines elements of Japonism and Orientalism, two important movements representative of the taste of the time for exoticism. Indeed, this taste for Chinoiserie was revived at the end of the 19th century following the Franco-English military campaign against the imperial army in China in 1860. Napoleon III’s French troops bring back part of the treasure from the Summer Palace, constituting in 1863 the famous Chinese Museum of Empress Eugénie at the Palace of Fontainebleau. First in painting, the movement quickly spread to decorative arts and furniture.
This craze for the Far East is encouraged in France by the diffusion of Chinese ornamental works renewing the interior decoration of the luxurious Parisian residences of a clientele eager for something new.
It was also under the Second Empire that the Orientalists were propelled to the forefront. Emperor Napoleon III, aristocrats as well as wealthy bourgeois in search of exoticism fill the order books of the most renowned artists. It is then not the predominantly academic style of the Orientalists that counts but above all the exoticism that they show to a fascinated public.
Biography
Alphonse Giroux and Company, famous curiosity and luxury goods shop was situated in Paris, at No. 7 rue du Coq-Saint-Honoré and in business from the time of the Consulate until the end of the Second Empire. The company was founded by Francois-Simon-Alphonse and continued in 1838 by his two sons, Alphonse-Gustave (1810-1886) and André (1801-1879). The father became a close associate of the royal family and specialized in the manufacture of refined items for gifts. Kings Louis XVIII and then Charles X were both supplied with gifts for « The Children of France » by Giroux. Making progressively small furniture, they were mentionned for the first time in 1837 in the class « cabinet...
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1860s French Napoleon III Antique Gilt Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
England 1780 Georgian Battersea Enamel Baroque Decorated Box in Gilded Bronze
Located in Miami, FL
Late 18th century Georgian Battersea enamel box.
A beautiful antique English Battersea Bilston table snuff box, created in the district of Bat...
Category
1780s English George III Antique Gilt Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze, Enamel
$2,089 Sale Price
30% Off
Antique English Art Deco Sterling Silver Box, 1927
Located in New York, NY
Art Deco sterling silver box. Made by Henry Matthews in Birmingham in 1927. Square with straight and plain sides. Cover hinged, tabbed, and chamfered. On top parcel gilt with engine-...
Category
1920s British Art Deco Vintage Gilt Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Austrian Classical Medallion Box with Sweet & Sentimental Finial
Located in New York, NY
Antique Austrian Classical gilt-washed 800 silver box, ca 1875. Ovoid and bellied on plain inset foot. Cover hinged and domed with cast figural finial: A little girl sits cross-legged and barefoot and rests her hand on the back of a hungry animal while spooning sustenance into its mouth. Engraved ornament: Leafing rondels inset with heads alternating with same shaped frames (vacant) on engine-turned border. Shoulder has leaf-and-dart border and cover top leaf-and-patera border. Fully marked including Diana head...
Category
Late 19th Century Austrian Neoclassical Revival Antique Gilt Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
An 18th Century Meissen Porcelain Box, Louis XV Period.
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
An 18th century Meissen porcelain box, Louis XV period.
An 18th century Meissen porcelain box, Louis XV period, gilt brass mounting.
H: 14cm, W: 9cm, D: 9cm
Category
18th Century French Louis XV Antique Gilt Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Wonderful French Dore Bronze Onyx Ormolu Jewelry Box Mini Dresser
Located in Roslyn, NY
A Wonderful French Dore Bronze Ormolu Jewelry Box In The Form Of A Mini Dresser With Honey Onyx Top And Upholstered On The Interior With A Red Velvet
Category
Early 20th Century French Belle Époque Gilt Decorative Boxes
Materials
Onyx, Bronze
Spain 1960 Barcelona Mid Century Modernist Enameled Box In Wood And 915 Sterling
Located in Miami, FL
Enameled center piece made in Barcelona
An extraordinary piece of Spanish silversmith, created in the city of Barcelona during the post war and the mid century periods, back in the ...
Category
1960s Spanish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Gilt Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold Leaf
$1,575 Sale Price
30% Off
Italian Solid Silver decorative Round Box
Located in VALENZA, IT
Round "oak" box in solid 800 silver.
The box was completely handmade, both in shape and workmanship.
The body is round, rounded with embossing on the upper part depicting acorns, lea...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Other Gilt Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
$1,793 Sale Price
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Set/5 Jars & Pots, White & Mint Green, Handmade in Portugal by Lusitanus Home
Located in Lisboa, PT
Set/5 Ceramic Jars & Pots, Lusitanus Home Collection, Handcrafted in Portugal - Europe by Lusitanus Home.
This beautiful set includes three waterproof ceramic jars and two ceramic...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Gilt Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Leaf
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