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Technique: Hand-Painted
French 19th Century Bridal Box
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
A fantastic antique marriage trunk or bridal box from 19th century France decorated with stylized foliate details that grace the exterior: iris and daffodils including their bright g...
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19th Century French French Provincial Antique Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal
19th Century Scandinavian Folk Art Hand-Painted Chest Box
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Impressive hand-painted Folk Art box from the Late 19th Century. The box has been hand-painted in black, red, blues and green. There appears to be either twos horses or maybe unicorn...
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Late 19th Century Scandinavian Folk Art Antique Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal
Antique Folk Art Tejne Wood Container Original Blue Paint, Denmark ca 1850s
Located in Silkeborg, Silkeborg
Antique Scandinavian wooden container with original dark blue paint which is worn off at places. The side are made of one single piece of wide bent wood, closed will stiches of natur...
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Mid-19th Century Scandinavian Folk Art Antique Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Russian Lacquer Hand Painted Tale of Tsar Saltan Box, Mstera, Artist Signed
Located in New York, NY
Soviet era Mstera hand painted, artist signed lacquer box depicting a scene from Pushkin's renown Tale of Tsar Saltan
20th Century
Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin's 1831 masterpiece, "The Tale of Tsar Saltan", a Russian fairy tale...
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20th Century Russian Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Lacquer
Music Box handpainted miniature with Swiss Mechanism by Maison Reuge Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Exquisite Reuge S.A. Musical Table Box
Description:Discover a stunning large rectangular table box featuring elegantly concave corners, showcasing the exceptional craftsmanship of th...
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1970s Italian Empire Vintage Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold Plate
Limoges Hand Painted Metal Mounted Lidded Porcelain Trinket Box
By Limoges
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A stunning and beautifully painted antique French porcelain metal mounted trinket box decorated with exotic birds and made by the world-renowned Limoge Porcelain factory and believed...
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Late 19th Century French Belle Époque Antique Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Pink Panther Collection Royal Orleans Pottery Pink Panther Mounted Box
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A delightful, Japanese licensed Pink Panther Collection lidded box distributed by Royal Orleans and dated 1981. The ceramic box is of large oval form with a fitted slightly domed cov...
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1980s Japanese Modern Vintage Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
18th Century Original Green Painted Wood Box with Handle
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
A Swedish green painted pine wood box from the Folk Art
Rococo-period, meaning late 18th Century or early 19th Century. The lock hardware is original and the key is working working ...
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1790s Swedish Folk Art Antique Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Iron
19th Century Swedish Green Painted Box Dated 1815
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
A Swedish original green painted and carved bentwood box from the Gustavian Folk Art period. These small 19th Century Scandinavian collectibles were usually hand crafted and sometime...
Category
Early 19th Century Swedish Folk Art Antique Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood, Paint
Pill Box Silver Sterling Enamel Blue shades Art Deco-style engraving Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Round pill box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold-plated with Art Deco-style engraving, early 1900s, with translucent fired enamels in various shades. Diameter 4 cm, height 1.3 cm. Wei...
Category
1970s Italian Art Deco Vintage Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Spanish Church Alms Box / Wall Decoration with Carved Nun Detail, 18th Century
Located in Barcelona, ES
Carved wood hand painted donation / offering ALM BOX, Spain, 18th century.
Polychromed carved wood church collection offering donation money box as wall decoration.
This alms box is made of pine wood painted in terracotta hues. A nun carved ornamentation decorates the top.
Wall hanging collection / donation money box. Originally used to collect donations at Christian churches/chapels. Interesting to be used as key box or key cabinet or as wall decoration
Rare find.
Provenance: Private collection.
No key avaliable.
Overall Measures:
45 cm H x 26 cm W x 21 cm D
Poor box...
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18th Century Spanish Medieval Antique Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood, Pine
$3,220 Sale Price
20% Off
Snuffbox savonette shape 925 silver handpainted head running horse Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Snuff box "savonette" shape in 925/1000 sterling silver with fire enamel and hand painted miniature on white background depicting a heads of running horse . English "Art Nouveau" st...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
French Hand Painted Floral Porcelain Trinket Box
By Limoges
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Charming Porcelain Trinket Box painted in purples, gold, green and royal blue. Upon opening the box there is a cute flower design inside the lid. This piece would certainly be a fant...
Category
Mid-20th Century French French Provincial Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Brass
Japanese 18th Century Tsukinami-e 6 Panel Floor Screen, Edo Period
Located in Norton, MA
A Japanese 18th Century Tsukinami-e 6 Panel Floor Screen depicts the Activities of the Twelve Months of the Year, mineral pigments on gold leaf, mounted on wood panels with 6 frames...
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18th Century Japanese Edo Antique Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Leaf
Antique Staffordshire Painted Hen on Nest covered Box or Tureen, Circa 1880
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Antique Staffordshire Painted Hen on Nest Covered Box or Tureen, Circa 1880
A charming antique Staffordshire painted hen on a nest-covered box or tureen, dating to circa 1880. This ...
Category
19th Century English High Victorian Antique Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Porcelain
Joseph Holdcroft Majolica Ceramic Japanese Design Casket
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A rare and unusual antique English Aesthetic Movement majolica ceramic Japanese design casket by renowned makers Joseph Holdcroft and dating from the 1870’s.
At the time there was ...
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1870s English Aesthetic Movement Antique Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
Pill Box Silver Sterling Enamel hand-engraved Baroque-style design Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rounded rectangular pill box in 925/1000 sterling silver with a fine hand-engraved Baroque-style design and fire-enamelled finish. Dimensions: 3.5 x 4.3 x 1.4 cm. Weight: 36 g. Desi...
Category
1970s Italian Baroque Vintage Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
1960s Mid-Century Modern Green and Gold Ceramic Italian Box by La Colonnata
Located in Aci Castello, IT
A green and gold ceramic round box by La Colonnata, small factory established in Sesto Fiorentino, town famous for hand-crafted ceramic. The box it's...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
English Porcelain Jewelry Box Royal Crown Derby
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful authentic English fine bone chine porcelain box in the 'Old Imari' pattern, by Royal Crown Derby, circa late-20th century, England. Piece is hand-painted in 22kt gold. Box has a 'hexagon' shape which is a nice alternative to round. A great piece for smaller items of jewelry (as demonstrated with cocktail ring and earrings.) Colors include a white fine bone china base, blue, dark orange hues, and 22kt gold. All authentication marks on bottom as shown in last three images. Made in England. A great piece for a vanity, dresser, nightstand table, desk, as a gift, etc.
For porcelain butterfly...
Category
Late 20th Century English Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Porcelain
Porcelain Peint Main Vintage Slot Machine Trinket Box by Limoges
By Limoges
Located in San Diego, CA
Beautiful porcelain peint main (hand painted) vintage slot machine trinket box by Limoges, circa 1980s. This piece is in very good vintage condition with no chips or cracks and measu...
Category
20th Century French Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Porcelain
Italian Mid Century Fern Ceramic Box
Located in New York, NY
Mid Century Italian bone white glazed ceramic cigarette box with a hand decorated lid featuring a stylized fern.
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
Kalmar Castle Landscape Architectural Oil Painting on Board, Sweden
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Impressive oil on canvas painting of Kalmar Castle in Sweden. The history of the legendary castle stretches back 800 years. For a long time, it was one of Sweden’s most important for...
Category
Early 19th Century Swedish Baroque Antique Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Paint
Soviet Russian Fedoskino Hand Painted Golden Autumn Landscape Lacquer box
Located in New York, NY
Museum quality Fedoskino soviet era hand painted lacquer box, Golden Autumn, artist signed
20th Century
Depicting an idyllic autumn landscape with a romantic bridge over a still stre...
Category
20th Century Russian Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Lacquer
French Limoges Porcelain Nautical Sailboat Trinket Box
By Limoges
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Found in Paris, a charming Limoges porcelain trinket box painted soothing colors featuring a landscape scene featuring a castle, tree and a sailboat in the center. This piece would c...
Category
Mid-20th Century French French Provincial Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Rare Russian Gzhel Hand-painted Blue White Porcelain Church Trinket Box
Located in Clifton Springs, NY
Rare small lidded trinket box with church-shaped handle on the lid is hand painted in two tone blue on white porcelain background. Floral decor on the body of the box and on the lid,...
Category
20th Century Russian Folk Art Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Porcelain, Ceramic
Chinoiserie Lacquer Sewing Box, 19th Century, Japan
Located in Toronto, CA
This is a remarkable 19th century, Japanese lacquered sewing box with multiple compartments on the interior.
The exterior is decorated in elaborate black and gilded motifs including...
Category
Early 19th Century Japanese Chinoiserie Antique Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bone, Wood, Lacquer
Vintage Chinese Black Lacquer Box with Gilt Bamboo and Green Leaf Motifs
Located in Yonkers, NY
A vintage Chinese decorative box, crafted in wood and finished in lustrous black lacquer, its surface delicately adorned with a gilt bamboo and green leaf motif. The design, executed...
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Ceramic Restaurant Matchbox
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The Matchbox Series is composed of roughly 4”x 6” boxes that make direct references to iconic NYC institutions. These boxes come with slide out inserts that are filled with oversized...
Category
2010s American Modern Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic, Clay
Early 20th Century Vintage Artists Paint Box and Pallet, Denmark
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Danish Vintage Artists Paint Box and Pallet, Early 20th Century
Well loved Danish artists traveling wooden box with everything needed to paint on location. This charming box, acqui...
Category
Early 19th Century Danish Folk Art Antique Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Ceramic Restaurant Matchbox - Sadelles
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The Matchbox Series is composed of roughly 4”x 6” boxes that make direct references to iconic NYC institutions. These boxes come with slide out inserts that are filled with oversized...
Category
2010s American Modern Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic, Clay
Black Chinese Box Black Lacquered Gilt Painted 1940s
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Antique Oriental Chinese Export Black Lacquered Gilt Painted Covered Box 1940s.
Large Asian Chinese black lacquered tea box with numerous figures and gilt detail.
Chinoiserie black l...
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Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinoiserie Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Lacquer
Pill Box pocket engraved and enamel Silver Sterling Enamel Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Large square pocket pill box with rounded corners and sides, in 925/1000 sterling silver with very fine hand engraving in baroque style, fire enamell...
Category
1970s Italian Baroque Vintage Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Cigarette Case light blue cabochon sapphire and hand-engraved finishing Salimben
Located in Firenze, FI
Handbag cigarette case in 925/1000 sterling silver with black fire enamel. Opening with spring button. Size cm. 6.3 x 9.7 x 1.5. Weight gr. 215. Created in Art Deco style for Cartie...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
19th Century Swedish Folk Art Painted Marriage Trunk Bride's Box, Dated 1813
Located in Pearland, TX
A lovely Swedish folk art footed trunk / box in Nordic pine with original blue paint from Hälsingland, Sweden, dated 1813. It has a domed top, hand painted initials and decorative fl...
Category
Early 19th Century Swedish Antique Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
19th century hand painted Scandinavian oval strong box
Located in Debenham, Suffolk
19th century hand painted Scandinavian oval strong box circa 1850.
Good quality piece of rustic Swedish craft work, which still functions as a practical storage solution for today.
...
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Mid-19th Century Swedish Rustic Antique Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal
French Style Enameled Holly Motif Frosted Iridescent Box, Style of Daum Nancy
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
French Style Enameled Holly Motif Frosted Iridescent Box, Style of Daum Nancy, France, circa early 20th century
A stunning French style Enameled Holly Motif Frosted Iridescent Box, ...
Category
Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Vintage bronze mounted porcelain box hand painted butterflies and floral decor
Located in Wommelgem, VAN
Porcelain bronze mounted box, Art Nouveau style
Made of hand-painted crackled, glazed high quality bronze mounted porcelain. Signed on the bottom.
An all over polychrome floral deco...
Category
20th Century Japanese Art Nouveau Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Porcelain
Halcyon Days Heart Shaped Enamel Painted Trinket Box
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Charming trinket, pill or small jewelry box in the shape of a heart. Text reads I Love You, surrounded by flowers. This piece would certainly be a fantastic addition to an existing c...
Category
Mid-20th Century English Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Brass
Louis XVI Hand Painted Wedding Box
Located in Essex, MA
Likely made in the Normandy area of France. Domed hinged top with wrought iron hasp and lock. Conforming case. With original painted surface.
Category
Late 18th Century French French Provincial Antique Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Pine
Burmese Gold and Black Lacquer Owl Boxes, Set of 2
Located in Stamford, CT
1960s hand-painted gold and black lacquer owl nesting boxes. Larger box is signed on the underside "handmade in Burma".
Category
1960s Burmese Chinoiserie Vintage Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Paint, Paper
Porcelain Peint a la Main Vintage Grand Piano Trinket Box by Limoges
By Limoges
Located in San Diego, CA
Beautiful porcelain peint a la main (hand painted) vintage grand piano trinket box by Limoges, circa 1980s. This unusual piece is in very good vintage ...
Category
20th Century French Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Porcelain
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...
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1960s Italian Baroque Vintage Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
1750 Venezia Italy Blue Lacquered Wooden Box with Flowers and Figures
Located in Brescia, IT
This is a large and extraordinary lacquered wooden box, with floral decoration and polychrome drawings that represent a man collecting red coral on the beach, on blue background. Made in precious fir wood, Swiss pine, lacquered and engraved.
This blue lacquered box...
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Mid-18th Century Italian Rococo Antique Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood, Lacquer
1930s Art Deco Gold, Brown and Yellow Ceramic Luxury Box by Galvani
By Galvani 2
Located in Aci Castello, IT
This is a luxurious ceramic box from the 1930s, crafted in the Art Deco style. It has been manufactured by Galvani Ceramiche , famous manufacturer of the period. The exterior of the...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Art Deco Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
Set of 5 French Ceramic Kitchen Canisters – 1970s Vintage Floral Design
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
Set of 5 French Ceramic Kitchen Canisters – 1970s Vintage Floral Design
Description:
This charming set of five French ceramic kitchen canisters dates from the 1970s. Each container ...
Category
1970s French French Provincial Vintage Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
19th Century Chinese Lacquered Compartment Box with Gilt Decoration
Located in Sofia, BG
Antique Lacquered Compartment Box with Gilt Decoration
Exquisite antique lacquered box featuring an intricate multi-compartment interior. The piece...
Category
Early 19th Century Chinese Antique Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Porcelain Peint a la Main Vintage Crossword Puzzle Trinket Box by Limoges
By Limoges
Located in San Diego, CA
Beautiful porcelain peint a la main (hand painted) vintage crossword puzzle trinket box by Limoges, circa 1980s. This unusual piece is in very good vintage condition and measures 3"W...
Category
20th Century French Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Porcelain
Decorative Box with lid, Vintage Wooden Brown Jewellery Box, Hand Carved
Located in Wembley, GB
A handmade wooden jewellery box with a lid and lock, it is perfectly designed and created in a suitable size for keeping valuables inside. The top of this box has leaf patterns and l...
Category
1980s Turkish Art Deco Vintage Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Papercord, Boxwood, Driftwood
$338 Sale Price
20% Off
Japanese Lacquer Inro with Netsuke Okame Mask Meiji Period
Located in Norton, MA
Japanese Lacquer Inro with Netsuke Okame Mask, brown lacquer with 3 sections and 2 compartments, and carved ivory polychrome Okame mask and a rope hair. This item is from the Meiji P...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Lacquer
18th Century Decorative Lacquered Portrait Figures Wood Tobacco Snuff Box Black
Located in Brescia, IT
This antique and fine lacquered wood box, is painted on both the sides with an elegant portrait of a woman and on the other side a dancer.
The piece will be delivered with its certi...
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Mid-18th Century Austrian Neoclassical Antique Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood, Lacquer
$569 Sale Price
20% Off
Art Nouveau Majolica Barbotine Box Jar Pheasant on Basket by Sarreguemines
Located in Bad Säckingen, DE
A hand-painted majolica lidded jar / box or tureen in the shape of a pheasant hen sitting on a basket, made by Sarreguemines around 1900. This beau...
Category
Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica
$617 Sale Price
20% Off
Tiffany & Co. Porcelain Lidded Box Designed for Tauck World France
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Tiffany & Co. porcelain round trinket box.
Tiffany & Co. porcelain round map box designed for Tauck World, Made In France.
The porcelain lid cover ...
Category
Late 20th Century French Neoclassical Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Porcelain
Egg style Faberge Blue Enamel Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Large egg on smooth tripod with 8-day mechanical skeletal Swiss movement with alarm, in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guilloché with Russian E...
Category
1960s Italian Empire Vintage Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
19th Century Opaline Glass Jar
Located in High Point, NC
19th century blue opaline glass jar from France with hand painted floral decorations on lid and base.
Category
19th Century French Charles X Antique Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Art Glass
Mini Ceramic Restaurant Matchbox - Commerce Inn
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The Mini Matchbox Series is composed of roughly 2”x 3” boxes that make direct references to iconic NYC institutions. These boxes come with slide out inserts that are filled with matc...
Category
2010s American Modern Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic, Clay
Pill Box Round, domed in Silver Sterling Enamel on a guilloche pattern Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Giorgio Salimbeni Gold-Plated Sterling Silver and Enamel Pill Box with Miniature by Renato Buccioni, Florence, 1978
Exquisite round, domed pill box in 925/1000 sterling silver, gold...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Art Nouveau Sterling Silver Cigarette Case Enamel and Hand-Painted Miniature
By Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Ladies' handbag cigarette case with an oval section in 925/1000 gilded silver with translucent enamel on a guilloché and a monochrome, hand-painted miniature of a landscape, in the E...
Category
1950s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold Plate
1940s Antique Fine Micro Mosaic Moorish Inlaid Decorative Box
By Mamluke
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Handcrafted marquetry Moorish wood inlay micro mosaic with miniature hand painted scene.
Handcrafted khatam wooden box with very delicate micro mosaic marquetry from the ancient Pers...
Category
20th Century Indian Moorish Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Vintage Trompe L'oeil Faux Stacked Books Chest / Decorative Box by Don Andres
By Don Andres
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Vintage Trompe l'oeil faux 'pile of books' chest / decorative box by Andres de Morgades for his and Don Russell's eponymous company, Don Andres (ca. 1970s/80s, USA).
Composed of a la...
Category
1970s American Vintage Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood, Lacquer, Paint
19C Anglo Ceylonese Sewing Box of Museum Quality
Located in Dallas, TX
Presenting an absolutely stunning 19c Anglo Ceylonese sewing box of museum quality.
Made in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) circa 1860, this is one of the finest sewing boxes of it’s kind that we have ever seen!
The box is made from coromandel wood (an exotic hardwood found in Ceylon) and has a serpentine edging all over the front, back and sides.
Very often the lids/tops of these boxes suffer cracks due to shrinkage but this one is near perfect with no crack in the lid/top. There is some evidence of natural shrinkage but that is around the edges of the lid/top.
It is when you open this box that it reveals it’s true beauty, quality and treasure !
The inside of the lid/top is heavily and beautifully decorated with inlaid bone in scrolling floral patterns which have then been hand painted with red and black ‘lac’ ink. The central medallion is a circle of inlaid specimen exotic hardwoods radiating towards a central bone and hand painted flower. The circle is edged in bone, wood and silver chevrons.
What makes this box Exceptionally rare is that it contains 3 lift out base sections. Normally, there would be a maximum of 2.
The first tray/section is clearly for the purposes ancillary to sewing with a pair of sections with bone spools for thread etc. There are 17 other lidded compartments with each one highly decorated using hand painted bone and specimen woods to replicate tortoiseshell.
The first tray lifts out to reveal a second removeable tray which is made up of a pair of open sections and 8 specimen wood lidded sections each with chevron banding.
The third tray is a smaller tray underneath with 14 lidded compartments each with hand painted bone and specimen wood inlaid lids again, replicating the look of tortoiseshell. Again they are banded with a chevron border.
This is a museum quality piece !
It is in fantastic condition for it’s age with the minor shrinkage to the edges of the lid/top, some finger pulls missing and some very minor cracks to the tray lids and bases but nothing that in any way detracts from the piece. No key.
Dimensions: Closed the box is 16.75 inches wide, 11.25 inches deep and 7.5 inches high
Fully open the box is 16.5 inches high, 16.75 inches wide and 11.4 inches deep
Anglo-Indian and ceylonese boxes: Anglo Indian boxes were made in India for the English residents from the early part of the 18th century. They were brought back or sent back to England usually by the people who had commissioned them. From the beginning of the nineteenth century they were imported more commercially, although not in any significant numbers until the middle decades. They were very highly valued, especially the early ones, to the extent that the designs were copied on late 19th and early 20th century tins.
Anglo-Indian boxes normally consist of 3 main types:-
(1) Most of the best and highest quality Anglo-Indian boxes in the 18th and 19th centuries were made in Vizagapatam, India, renowned for its exquisite craftsmanship in using ivory and tortoiseshell and lac decoration. These are referred to as ‘Vizagapatam Boxes...
Category
Mid-19th Century Sri Lankan Anglo-Indian Antique Hand-Painted Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
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