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Jewelry Boxes For Sale
Antique Enamel Glass & Ormolu Jewelry Box
Located in Seguin, TX
Circa 1890's Wave Crest enameled glass dresser box with decorative brass trim and closure. Some surface wear to painted finish.
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Late 19th Century American Art Nouveau Antique Jewelry Boxes

Materials

Ormolu

Silver Plated Keepsake Box, Early 20th Century
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Offered is a silver plated keepsake box, dating to the early 1900s. The hallmarked box offers great storage solution for jewelry, cufflinks, and other keepsakes, with a divided inter...
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Early 1900s English Antique Jewelry Boxes

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Silver

"COSTE" box by Roberto Giulio Rida
Located in Milano, Lombardia
"COSTE" box by Roberto Giulio Rida Elegant box composed of two elements that go together to create a decoration called "ribbed." The box was conceived as the perfect union of oppo...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Mid-Century Modern Jewelry Boxes

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Crystal, Brass, Steel

An Early Victorian Burr Walnut Velvet Cushion Lined Ladies Vanity Box
Located in High Wycombe, GB
An Early Victorian Burr Walnut Velvet Cushion Lined Ladies Dressing Box Box features an elegant ebonised banding. The domed cover with central brass carrying and fall front handle ...
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19th Century British Victorian Antique Jewelry Boxes

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Brass

Lapis Lazuli Octagonal Box Fine Grade Snowing Day
Located in Somis, CA
Beautiful 1.1 lb octagonal box made of the finest, grade AAA natural lapis lazuli from Afghanistan. All 8 sides are single panel lapis. A round lid with elegant finial and fine carra...
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20th Century Afghan Jewelry Boxes

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Lapis Lazuli, Marble

Korean jewelry box with folding mirror
Located in 'S-HERTOGENBOSCH, NL
Korean jewelry box in exotic persimmon or kaki wood and brass. The box has 2 drawers and on top a flap that serves as a folding mirror.
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1880s Korean Other Antique Jewelry Boxes

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Brass

Georgian Mother of Pearl Jewelry Box
Located in Northampton, GB
Georgian 19th Century Jewellery Box From our Jewellery Box collection, we are delighted to offer this Georgian Mother of Pearl Jewellery Box...
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Early 19th Century British Georgian Antique Jewelry Boxes

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Abalone, Mother-of-Pearl, Velvet

Pill box big size Florentine Renaissance Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Large round pillbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fine fire-enamelled engraving in two colours, in Florentine Renaissance style. Diameter cm. 5 cm high. 2. Weight gr. ...
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1980s Italian Renaissance Vintage Jewelry Boxes

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Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel

Italian Brown Leather Jewelry Box
Located in New York, NY
An Italian brown leather cylindrical jewelry box with gold embossing, circa mid-20th century, Italy. Box can hold jewelry or other items on a desk, vanity, walk-in-closet, etc. Dimensions: 4" Diameter x 3.38" Height. Tray with horse also available, search 1stDibs ref. #: LU1314230770952 For leather and hide tray, search ref. #: LU1314230694692 Agate dish...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Jewelry Boxes

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Leather

English Stitched Saddle Leather Three-Section Watch Box
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
English Stitched Saddle Leather Three-Section Watch Box England, Later 20th Century Elevate your watch collection with this English stitched saddle leather three-section watch box,...
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Late 20th Century English Modern Jewelry Boxes

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Silver Plate, Magnets

Dyrlund Danish Modern Teak Desk Accessory or Jewelry Box
Located in South Bend, IN
A nice Mid-Century Danish Modern solid teak dresser box, jewelry box, or desk accessory box Denmark, circa 1970s Measures: 12"W × 8.75"D × 3.2...
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1970s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Jewelry Boxes

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Teak

17th Century William and Mary Floral Marquetry Olive Oyster Lace Box, Circa 1685
Located in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
A fine and rare 17th-century William and Mary olive oyster floral marquetry lace box, circa 1685. England The cross grain olive moulded and holly banded top is centred by an oval of...
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17th Century English William and Mary Antique Jewelry Boxes

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Bone, Boxwood, Ebony, Oak, Olive, Tulipwood, Holly

DuBarry Ivorine Celluloid Jewelry Box with a Turtle Shaped Top
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Celluloid made its appearance in the mid-19th century. One of its most popular forms was to imitate ivory including the grain lines. This jewelry box is marked "PY-RA-LIN" DuBarry. T...
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Early 1900s American Victorian Antique Jewelry Boxes

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Plastic

Decorative Box in Ceramic Reprensenting a duck Brown Color France XX century
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
This is a decorative or jelwery box. It has been made in France in 2000. A. Brown color. Materials are ceramic. Heavy weight.
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20th Century French Jewelry Boxes

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Ceramic

Art Deco Style Tortoise Lucite Trinket Box
Located in Albano Laziale, Rome/Lazio
Here is a jewelry/trinket box in Art Deco style produced during the late 1960's. The material is lucite/plexiglass with black and brown tortise decor and a white inside. The box is i...
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20th Century Italian Art Deco Jewelry Boxes

Materials

Lucite, Plexiglass

Sterling Silver and Jade Box, Farmer, circa 1920
Located in New York, NY
Sterling silver and jade box, Farmer, circa 1920. Marked: Edward Farmer.
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Early 20th Century American Jewelry Boxes

Materials

Jade, Sterling Silver

Japanese Antique Kiri Wood Miniature Tansu Chest with Sliding Doors and Drawers
Located in Yonkers, NY
A Japanese Taisho period kiri wood miniature tansu chest from the early 20th century, with sliding doors and drawers. Created in Japan during the Taisho peri...
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Early 20th Century Japanese Taisho Jewelry Boxes

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Metal

French Wood Jewelry Box
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Beautiful antique jewelry box in original wood finish, metal hardware and round legs. Great metal carving details especially on the legs.
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Early 19th Century French French Provincial Antique Jewelry Boxes

Materials

Wood

Jewelry Box or Decorative Box in Shelll and Wood White Color France 20th Century
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
This box is in wood and recovered with shells. It can be used as a Jewelry box or decorative box. It has been made in France during the XX Century. The color is White and red inside,...
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20th Century French Hollywood Regency Jewelry Boxes

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Shell, Wood

1940s Art Deco Baccarat Powder Box
Located in LA CIOTAT, FR
A charming 1940s Art Deco crystal lidded powder box, from the renowned glass manufacturer Baccarat, and originally used as a container for loose face powder...
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20th Century French Jewelry Boxes

Materials

Crystal

Petite Antique French Neoclassical Gilt Bronze Jewel Casket
Located in Forney, TX
A fine diminutive French Neoclassical ormolu gilded metal jewelry casket. Born around the turn of the 18th/19th century, the exceptionally executed petite masterpiece features a rectangular chest shape with hinged dome lid, opening to the original worn ivory silk-lined interior, when removed revealing mark "XVII" (c.1785-1795) to the bottom of the interior. The top, front, sides and back magnificently decorated in ornate repousse ornamentation, classical masks, fruit filled urns flanked by cherubs...
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19th Century Neoclassical Antique Jewelry Boxes

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Metal, Ormolu

Large Square Bookmatched Malachite Box with Removable Lid Made in India
Located in New York, NY
The malachite for this box was sourced from the Congo, where the finest quality of this mineral is currently found. The malachite for this box was sent to India where the stone was c...
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21st Century and Contemporary Indian Grand Tour Jewelry Boxes

Materials

Malachite, Marble

Alessandro Mandruzzato, Murano Glass Box
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Alessandro Mandruzzato, Murano glass box, Insert of Murano glass with gold glitters included in translucid Murano glass, 24 carats gold finish. Each piece is unique and signed.
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Jewelry Boxes

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Murano Glass

Stacked Jewelry Chest in Cream Shagreen by R&Y Augousti
Located in New York, NY
The irregular stacked jewelry chest in cream shagreen by R&Y Augousti is a stunning geometric piece to store your personal items. This piece has 4 drawer compartments that have black velvet trays...
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21st Century and Contemporary French Art Deco Jewelry Boxes

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Shagreen Stingray

Sonia Jewelry Chest in Cream Shagreen, Black Pen Shell and Brass by R&Y Augousti
Located in New York, NY
The Sonia jewelry chest in cream shagreen, shell and brass by R&Y Augousti is a stunning piece to store your personal items. This piece has 2 doors that open to 4 drawer compartments, inlaid in a mixture of cream shagreen/black shell and grey blue shagreen, that have black velvet trays...
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21st Century and Contemporary French Art Deco Jewelry Boxes

Materials

Brass

Talisa Jewelry Chest in Cream Shagreen, Black Pen Shell & Brass by R&Y Augousti
Located in New York, NY
Talisa jewelry chest in cream shagreen, black pen shell and brass by R&Y Augousti is a stunning piece to store your personal items. This piece has 2 doors that open to 4 drawer compartments that have black velvet trays...
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21st Century and Contemporary French Art Deco Jewelry Boxes

Materials

Brass

19C Anglo Indian Carved Padouk Wood and Sadeli Mosaic Box
Located in Dallas, TX
PRESENTING A LOVELY 19th century Anglo-Indian Carved Padouk Wood and Sadeli Mosaic Box, featuring a carving of a Hunt Scene. Made circa 1870 in Bombay, India during the Rule of th...
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Late 19th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Antique Jewelry Boxes

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Silver, Pewter

Jewelry Cabinet Titanium
Located in Dietmannsried, Bavaria
Jewelry box handmade Grid lines form the overall picture here Handcrafted, handles integrated. With five drawers made of wood and coated with titanium. ...
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2010s German Industrial Jewelry Boxes

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Metal

Middle Eastern Persian Micro Mosaic Khatam Inlaid Jewelry Box
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Large Middle Eastern Indo-Persian Micro Mosaic Khatam Inlaid Wooden Jewelry Box. Middle Eastern Persian Sadeli micro mosaic marquetry inlaid box with geometric Moorish design. Handcrafted Khatam wooden box with very delicate micro mosaic marquetry from the ancient Middle Eastern technique of inlaying from arrangements of so many delicate pieces of precious hand painted wood, with bone around the edges. This beautiful Middle Eastern Persian, Indian Wooden box is covered with fine Moorish micro mosaic marquetry and is used as a jewelry, trinket box. Lined in deep red velvet. Dimensions: 6.5in.D x 3in.H x 10 wide. Nice Indian Mughal, Indo Persian Box...
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Mid-20th Century Indian Moorish Jewelry Boxes

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Fruitwood

Round favor Box with lid in 925/1000 Sterling Silver Light Blue Enamel Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Round favor Box with lid in 925/1000 Sterling Silver Light Blue Enamel Salimbeni. Favor or small container in cut crystal and lid in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translu...
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1960s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Jewelry Boxes

Materials

Crystal, Sterling Silver, Gold Plate

19th Century French Empire Cloisonné Bronze Jewelry Casket with Velvet Interior
Located in North Miami, FL
19th century French Empire cloisonne bronze jewelry casket with blue velvet interior By: unknown Material: bronze, velvet, enamel, metal, copper Technique: gilt, cloisonné, champlev...
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Late 19th Century Rococo Revival Antique Jewelry Boxes

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Copper, Metal, Enamel, Bronze

1920's Figural Porcelain Perfume Bottle & Trinket Box
Located in Seguin, TX
Circa 1920's porcelain trinket box combined with perfume bottle. Marked Sitzendorf Germany on bottom. Perfume stopper is brass crown, figure is wom...
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Early 20th Century German Victorian Jewelry Boxes

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Porcelain

Brazilian Agate Onyx and Wood Round Jewelry Trinket Box, Brazil, 1980s
Located in New York, NY
A round Brazilian agate onyx and wood trinket or jewelry box, in the Modern style Post-Modern period, circa-late 20th century, 1980s early 1990s, Brazil. Box has a rich brown wood wi...
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Late 20th Century Brazilian Post-Modern Jewelry Boxes

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Onyx, Agate

Regency Leather Box
Located in Greenwich, CT
Regency leather covered sarcophagus shaped sewing box with gilt repoussé brass mounts and ribbed bolster ends over heavily molded top, the bombe body s...
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1810s English Antique Jewelry Boxes

Materials

Leather

Late 19th Century French Marquetry Jewelry/Dresser Box, Maison Vervelle
Located in Toronto, CA
A beautifully detailed French, brass mounted, marquetry and inlaid burl, fruitwood, and kingwood dresser box. The top is domed and the interior lined with original velvet. Bass bandi...
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Late 19th Century French Beaux Arts Antique Jewelry Boxes

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Fruitwood, Kingwood, Burl

Tiffany Studios New York Bronze Doré and Abalone Desk Box or Jewelry Box
Located in South Bend, IN
A gorgeous Art Deco period bronze doré and inlaid abalone cigarette box, desk box, or jewelry box By Tiffany Studios New York, USA, early 20th century Measures: 5.5"W x 3.5"...
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Early 20th Century American Art Deco Jewelry Boxes

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Bronze

Louis XVI Period Antique 18th Century French vari-coloured 18kt gold oval shaped
Located in Braintree, GB
Louis XVI Period Antique 18th Century French vari - coloured 18kt gold oval shaped box. Makers Mark: LD Made in France, Paris 1773oval-shaped Fully hallmarked. Amidst the opulen...
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1770s Louis XVI Antique Jewelry Boxes

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Gold

Pill Box Yellow floral miniature in Art Nouveau style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Pill Box Yellow floral miniature in Art Nouveau style Sterling Silver Salimbeni.Round pillbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent...
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1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Jewelry Boxes

Materials

Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel

Art Deco French Chrome & Enamel Ladies Powder Compact, C1930s
Located in Devon, England
This is a really cute and rare find, a 1930's Art Deco compact with the most delightful green and black enamel decoration on a chrome casing . The interior is an engineers delight wi...
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Mid-20th Century French Art Deco Jewelry Boxes

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Enamel, Chrome

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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Mid-20th Century Egyptian Moorish Jewelry Boxes

Materials

Mother-of-Pearl, Fruitwood

Tessalated Horn Box
Located in New York, NY
Decorative keepsake document box decorated with hand applied rectangular horn pieces. A great addition to any desk, night stand, bookcase or coffee table.
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21st Century and Contemporary Spanish Modern Jewelry Boxes

Materials

Horn, Wood

French 19th Century Brass Red Agate Stone Jewellery Box Napoleon III
Located in Paris, IDF
A beautiful French 19th century Napoleon III polished agate and brass mounted jewellery box, all sides composed with a total of height panels of vividly-hued red agate stone, atop ba...
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19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Jewelry Boxes

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Agate, Brass

Dior Mid-Century Lucite Tortoiseshell Effect and Brass Jewelry Box, Italy 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Amazing mid-century lucite and brass decorative jewelry box. This fantastic piece was designed in Italy during the 1970s for Christian Dior. This piece, is in its unique elegance,...
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1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Jewelry Boxes

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Brass

Mid Century Cabinet in the Form of Bass Cello Great Storage
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Fabulous bass Cello storage cabinet. Has 4 shelves that are 5 x 5 x 10.5. Door opens and closes with ease. Well made, high quality. In excellent vintage condition with minimal wear. ...
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1970s American Beaux Arts Vintage Jewelry Boxes

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Iron

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 Louis XVI Antique Jewelry Boxes

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Enamel, Gold Leaf

Marble and Onyx Jewelry Box or Decorative Vanity Box
Located in New York, NY
A substantial white marble and onyx-agate jewelry box or decorative vanity box. Box is square, predominately white marble, with an onyx-agate square surrounded by chrome lid detail. ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Unknown Modern Jewelry Boxes

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Onyx, Marble, Metal, Chrome

Antique Bohemian Glass Jewelry Box, 19th Century
Located in Rostock, MV
Fine Unusual Bohemian Casket Jewelry Box with Hinged Bronze Mounts Dore Bronze Swinging Handles Lid is Framed in Bronze Clear Glass with Milky...
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19th Century Antique Jewelry Boxes

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Bronze

Round Bonbonniere in Gold and Enamel, Louis XVI Period, 1779
By René-Antoine Bailleul 1
Located in Paris, FR
Bonbonnie`re, or candy box, in intricately patterned gold and translucent, ruby-red enamel. Thin bands of gold are inlaid in the enamel. A painted enamel medallion decorates the lid ...
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1770s French Louis XVI Antique Jewelry Boxes

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Gold, Enamel

French Inlaid Diminutive Commode Jewelry Box
Located in Tampa, FL
1800s French inlaid diminutive commode. It is a salesman sample converted into a jewelry box with the two deep compartments and back lined in velvet. The interior could have been mad...
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Early 1800s French Antique Jewelry Boxes

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Brass

Antique French Silver Plate Horse Racing Jewelry Box
Located in Seguin, TX
Antique french silver plate over copper jewelry casket with very high relief horse racing equine motif all around, circa 1890's. Interior is tufted purple silk, had feet at one time,...
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Late 19th Century French Belle Époque Antique Jewelry Boxes

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Silver Plate, Copper

Watch Box in Oak with Oak Burl Lid
Located in Edinburgh, GB
6 Watch box in Scottish oak, with veneered oak burl lid. The box is finished with solid rosewood edge banding and beautifully figured book-matched walnut on the underside of the lid....
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2010s Scottish Modern Jewelry Boxes

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Brass

Antique Gilt Bronze Decorative Jewelry Box or Casket with Floral Decoration
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This antique gilt bronze decorative or jewelry box is unsigned, but presumed to have originated from France and dates to approximately 1900 and done in a Renaissance Revival style. T...
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Early 20th Century French Renaissance Revival Jewelry Boxes

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Bronze

Antique Victorian Quality Rosewood Jewellery Box
Located in Suffolk, GB
Antique Victorian quality rosewood jewellery box having a quality rosewood lift up lid opening to reveal a fitted blue velvet interior and a storage compartment with beautiful origin...
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1860s English Victorian Antique Jewelry Boxes

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Rosewood

Antique Jewelry Box "The Hunt", 1910s, Silvered, Art Nouveau, Iron Craftmanship
Located in Greven, DE
Exceptional antique jewelry box with fine depictions of hunting themes and forest animals. Heavy iron work, silvered in a very good condition. Lined with turquoise fabric in a good c...
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Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Jewelry Boxes

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Iron

Ormolu and Crystal Glass Trinket Jewelry Box, France, circa 1880s
Located in Nuernberg, DE
A gorgeous glass trinket box with ormolu mounts. No restoration has been carried out on this charming little trinket box, which remains in very stabile and functioning condition, wea...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Jewelry Boxes

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Ormolu

Japanese Meiji Dressing Stand with Mirror Black Lacquer
By Vintage Japanese Monochrome
Located in Valladolid, ES
Elegant and beautiful Dressing Table or it could be suitable for a jewellery box , Meiji Period ( 1868 - 1912 ). Executed with black lacquer, holding a bronze hand mirror ( ekagami) Configured with five smooth-running drawers of different Size. Two are equipped with slender "hirute"-shaped bail handles and three with decorative pull-rings. The front-and backside featuring oval grips for easy transport. Surmounted by a mirror frame in a shape reminiscent of a Shintô shrine torii-gate- a twin-posted framework with a triangular crossbar flared in upswept Chinese-style gable ( Karahafu) endings. Resting of the frame is the Japanese traditional handheld mirror with auspicious embossed design of wisteria ( fuji) and lovely patina. Inscription on the right. Considering its age the set is in a very good condition with some traces of usage and wear conform age. Dimensions: Dressing stand...
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1880s Dutch Meiji Antique Jewelry Boxes

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Bronze

19C Anglo Indian Bombay MOP Sadeli Mosaic Trinket Box
Located in Dallas, TX
PRESENTING a LOVELY 19C Anglo Indian Bombay MOP (Mother of Pearl) Sadeli Mosaic Trinket Box from circa 1875-85. Gorgeously detailed and hand-crafted ‘sadeli mosaic’ inlay, from the Bombay Area, with deep greens with silver, pewter, mother of pearl, bone and ebony in geometric patterns. The box case, is made of sandalwood but completely covered in MOP, bone, faux ivory, ebony and mosaic inlay. Edged with faux ivory and banded with a different pattern of sadeli mosaic. Some minor damage to the top (repair is obvious in pics) and ivorine replacements to some edging, but it still a BEAUTIFUL BOX and of real QUALITY! The mosaic work is FABULOUS! Box opens to reveal its original blue velvet lining. It sits on 4 (recently added) silvered button feet. SADELI MOSAIC: “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. The ancient art of Sadeli Mosaic is said to have been introduced from Shiraz in Persia via Sind to Bombay, a long time before the Anglo Indian boxes were made. It was a technique, which required a high degree of skill and patience. It was executed very lavishly, in that the frequent cuts wasted a great amount of the precious materials used. The workmanship was however more than commensurable to the value of the materials. Ivory, silver, pewter (or other metals), wood and horn were cut into faceted rods which were bound together to form geometric patterns. When the glue has set, the rods were sliced in transverse sections. This gave the maker a number of angled circular pieces in the original pattern. Several variations of patterns could be achieved by combining the materials in different ways. The ivory was sometimes dyed green to give an extra color. The mosaic pieces in a combination of patterns, often separated by ivory, ebony, horn or silver stringing were used to veneer sandalwood boxes. In the early boxes, which date from the turn of the 18th to the 19th century, there are large panels of mosaic covering tops and sides of boxes. It took incredible skill to cover such large areas without any shakes or wavering of the pattern. The corners and joins on these boxes are impeccably matched. The makers (reputed to be Persian) of Sadeli mosaic made in the first two decades of the 19th century displayed a total understanding of the qualities of the different materials they used. They combined substances, which can expand and contract according to atmospheric conditions with others, which are hard and unyielding. The result was a sharp definition of the lines and patterns, which made up the whole design. On the early boxes the designs look deceptively simple. The fact is, they emerged from a culture, which had mastered geometry and understood how to generate a pattern from a set number of points. The patterns are so harmoniously combined that their incredible complexity is not immediately apparent. The earliest Sadeli boxes...
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Late 19th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Antique Jewelry Boxes

Materials

Silver

Antique Bohemian Moser Enameled Glass Jewelry Casket Box, 19th Century
Located in Rostock, MV
Fine Moser Casket Jewelry Box with Hinged Bronze Mounts Standing on Dore Bronze Feet and Matching Swinging Handles Lid and Base are Both Framed in B...
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19th Century Antique Jewelry Boxes

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Bronze

Antique, New and Vintage Jewelry Boxes

If you have jewelry, chances are you have an antique, new or vintage jewelry box. This simple item was born from a simple need. It offers jewelry lovers a place to store their most cherished treasures. The idea behind a good jewelry box is that precious items deserve a place of honor.

It’s no surprise, then, that jewelry boxes (also called jewelry caskets or trinket boxes) have existed for as long as we’ve worn jewelry. It’s among the most popular decorative boxes we have in our homes, and we can find early versions that date at least as far back as Ancient Egypt. All Egyptians adorned themselves with necklaces, rings, earrings and other accessories, and the era’s jewelry boxes resembled small treasure chests. Later, fine jewelry became cost prohibitive and the only people with jewelry boxes were those who could afford jewelry.

Following the Industrial Revolution, jewelry was no longer made by hand. Mass production and the demand of the growing middle class rendered jewelry more accessible. Jewelry of the Romantic period, which refers to early Victorian jewelry, is reflective of these economic shifts. Jewelry from this time tends to be feminine and ornate, and embellished with seed pearls, coral and turquoise. Naturally, it was stored in elaborate, decorative Victorian-era jewelry boxes that were sometimes crafted from hand-painted porcelain or sterling silver.

Nowadays, jewelry boxes do more than keep jewelry safe and organized. They’re popular collector’s items that have become as treasured as the contents themselves. An eye-catching vintage jewelry box, which is at least 20 but less than 100 years old, is a valuable decorative object, a sign of luxury and elegance that adds character and texture to any bedroom. Some jewelry boxes are even embellished with a few jewels of their own.

If you’re not tucking your jewelry into a drawer or shallow tray atop your vanity, perhaps an Art Deco trinket box with charming brass hardware or a sculptural, hand-carved rosewood mid-century modern jewelry box lined with linen and velvet will do?

Today’s jewelry boxes come in a variety of styles and sizes and are made of metal, wood, plastic and other materials. Give your cherished jewelry the good home it deserves — find an extensive collection of antique, new and vintage jewelry boxes today on 1stDibs.

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