17th Century Jewelry Boxes

A rare antique 17th-century Italian Baroque walnut jewelry or strong box, circa 1600. The box made from solid walnut, the substantial box having a locking hinged lid with hand-forge...

Secret box, jewelry box, storage box, tidy rectangular with glazed ceramic lid in shades of gold, white and pellucid and wooden base, by Mithé Espelt. The box is decorated with geome...

Beautiful and refined antique jewelery holder of Italian production from the mid-18th century. Of great artistic quality made on a papier-mâché base with an elaborate floral decorati...

A fine and rare 17th century William and Mary olive oyster marquetry lace box, circa 1670-1690. England Attributed to Gerrit Jensen. The mould...

A walnut, maple and brass rectangular box designed and manufactured in Italy in the Eighties. Brass it's in original patina, woods are in very good conditions. The box embodies the ...

A fine wooden valuables chest with decorative corner braces, a central foliate inlaid door, opening to three fitted drawers with leather pulls, flanked...

A rare and important 17th-century Charles II burr walnut coffre fort adorned in highly decorative gilt brass mounts and strapwork concealing six secret compartments. Attributed to the Royal cabinetmaker, Gerrit Jensen...

An extremely rare late 17th-century arabesque marquetry and olive oyster lace box of large scale, from the reign of William and Mary, circa 1690. England The cross-banded ovolo-mo...

A superb William and Mary Kingwood / Princes Oyster strongbox or coffre fort of small proportions, circa 1680-1700, England. Adorned with highly decorative thick gilt brass strap...

The unique 17th-century William and Mary rosewood coffre forte, circa 1690, raised on George I walnut stand, circa 1720. The rosewood veneered exterior...

A fine and rare 17th century William and Mary olive oyster marquetry lace box, circa 1670-1690. England The ovolo-moulded and holly banded top is c...

A William and Mary Kingwood / Princes Oyster Strongbox or Coffre Fort of Diminutive Proportions, Circa 1680-1700, England. Adorned with highly decorative gilt brass strapwork and decorated entirely in knife cut oysters of kingwood, this box is fit for the most discerning of collectors. The large gilt brass shield-shaped clasp opens on a push-spring release to reveal a box interior lined in rosewood with one drawer and securing bolts. Once the lid is opened you can reach inside to slide the original gilt brass bolt lock to open the fall. Once the fall is open you will find a drawer lined in oak and simulated kingwood. The box appears decorative, but it was also very difficult to break open or steal. It has a strong lock to the centre and two bolts concealed in the sides, so that it could be screwed down into floorboards if necessary or that of a horse-drawn carriage. Strong boxes veneered in oysters of Princewood such as this were luxury objects. The cabinet-makers who would have constructed and veneered the carcase apparently sold them, often using tropical hardwood veneers, and mounted it with sets of mounts, handles and locks bought in from brass founders. The elaborate veneering and conspicuous gilded brass mounts show that the appearance of these objects was important. Thomas Pistor, of Ludgate Hill, London worked with the renowned cabinetmaker Gerrit Jensen...