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Material: Bone
Austrian Tortoise Shell Silver Box
Located in Delft, NL
Austrian Tortoise shell Silver box
Austrian Tortoise shell Silver box in the shape of an envelope with a flap.
The flap is with a spring.
The box is marked with the Austrian Silve...
Category
Early 20th Century Austrian Bone Boxes
Materials
Silver
Swedish Snuff Box in Cow Horn from the 19th Century
Located in Knivsta, SE
A very charming Swedish Snuff Box made in Cow Horn during the 19th century.
Wear consistent with age and use.
Category
19th Century Swedish Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Horn
19th Century Chinoiserie Sewing Box
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Nice condition for its age. Does not have key. Has original sewing box utensils inside - spools, etc.
Category
Mid-19th Century Chinese Chinoiserie Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Bone, Wood, Lacquer
Rosewood Tea Caddy with Ebony, Ivory and Porcupine Quill Detailing
Located in Hudson, NY
Made of rosewood, this antique tea caddy is distinguished by its porcupine quill detailing. Featuring elements of ebony and ivory dots, the hinge lidded box...
Category
19th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Ivory, Ebony
Maitland-Smith Steer Horn Lidded Box
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Vintage lidded box crafted in steer horn elements with metal spacers and having a carved penshell handle and feet.
Category
20th Century Philippine Mid-Century Modern Bone Boxes
Materials
Horn
Midcentury Bone Inlaid Chest Box or Jewelry Casket
Located in Plainview, NY
Midcentury bone inlaid chest box or jewelry casket mesmerizing decorative patterns and extraordinary sculptural and design details provide this authe...
Category
Late 20th Century Moroccan Moorish Bone Boxes
Materials
Bone
Cigar Box for Decoration, or Desk Box in Wood, Art Deco, France, 1940
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
This box is from France. It has been made in 1940, it is an art Deco Item. The box is in wood.
It is a cigar box but It can be used as a docorative box...
Category
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Bone Boxes
Materials
Bone, Wood
Oval Tortoiseshell & Silver Tea Caddy
Located in Northampton, GB
Small oval tortoiseshell Tea Caddy with applied pressed silver with a rippled design. The front has an ornate silver escutcheon. The tortoiseshell & silver tea caddy interior contains most of its original tin lining with a rippled silver surround incorporating the hinge, and a single floating tortoiseshell lid with silver ball handle which rests on the tea to keep it fresh.
This delightful little oval tea caddy...
Category
Early 19th Century British Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Silver
Tortoiseshell and Silver Box
Located in Tampa, FL
A very attractive tortoiseshell box with silver, on ivory ball feet. English hallmarks on sterling, circa 1880s. The interior has two compartments.
Category
1880s English Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Dimensional Triangle Horn Segement Box, Medium
Located in New York, NY
Handmade decorative keepsake box clad in dimensional triangular horn segments, lined in wood. A great addition to any coffee table, dresser or desk.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Spanish Modern Bone Boxes
Materials
Horn, Wood
19th Century Chinoiserie Tall Box
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In great condition for its age. With bone handle pulls.
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Chinoiserie Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Bone, Wood, Lacquer
Orange, Natural Bone Cheveron Box
Located in New York, NY
Cheveron patterned keepsake, letter box made from dyed orange and natural bone. Box has a wood lining.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Spanish Modern Bone Boxes
Materials
Bone, Palmwood
19C Anglo Indian Vizigapatam Stamp Box
Located in Dallas, TX
Presenting an absolutely gorgeous and very rare 19C Anglo Indian Vizigapatam stamp box.
Made in Colonial India (the Time of the Raj) circa 1860.
Prob...
Category
Mid-19th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Bone, Shell
Antique Edward Souter Barnsley & Co. Sterling Silver & Tortoiseshell Powder Box
Located in Atlanta, GA
An 1894 antique Edward Souter Barnsley & Co. sterling silver and tortoiseshell powder box decorated with a silver laurel leaf and bow inset to...
Category
19th Century Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
18 C, Indo-Portuguese Vargueno Mini Cabinet
Located in Dallas, TX
Presenting a fabulously rare 18c Indo-Portuguese Vargueno mini cabinet.
Extremely rare, highly important and desirable colonial piece !
It is an In...
Category
Late 18th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Brass
French Tortoiseshell and Gold Inlaid Purse
Located in London, GB
A French Tortoiseshell and gold inlaid purse with red silk inner lining. A very pretty and unusual item, the tortoiseshell in very good condition.
Category
1880s French Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Gold
Natural, Black 3D Bone Box
Located in New York, NY
Hand made dimensional bone box with hand set black centers. Rectangular pieces form a dimensional facade, lined in wood. A great addition to any coffee table to store remote controls...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Spanish Modern Bone Boxes
Materials
Bone, Wood
Swedish 19th Century Birchwood Veneer Jewelry Box
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Swedish 19th century birchwood veneer jewelry box.
The box has a heart of brass for keyhole and knob hardware of antler.
Category
19th Century Swedish Rustic Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Bone, Birch
Faux Tortoise Shell British Cigar or Trinket Box W/Ivory Framing & Original Key
Located in Larkspur, CA
Faux tortoise shell British cigar or trinket box w/ivory framing & original key.
Category
Early 1900s Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Tortoise Shell
Gabriella Crespi Tortoise and Sterling Silver Box
Located in New York, NY
Gabriella Crespi tortoise and sterling silver box. Vintage Crespi cylindrical cigarette case with engraved Gabriella Crespi logo monogram and original ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Bone Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Wooden Black Forest Casket with Antlers Decoration circa 1900s
Located in Berghuelen, DE
Wooden Black Forest casket with antlers decoration circa 1900s
A marvelous rustic wooden casket or cigar box. It is made of handcarved pine wood p...
Category
Early 20th Century German Black Forest Bone Boxes
Materials
Antler, Wood
Romanesque Style Chest, Wood, Bone, Metal, Spain
Located in Madrid, ES
Romanesque style chest. Wood, bone, metal.
Spain Rectangular chest with a lid in the shape of a trough, decorated on the outside with rectangular pla...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Spanish Medieval Bone Boxes
Materials
Other
Victorian Tortoise Shell Jewelry Box with Sterling Medallion
Located in Larkspur, CA
This beautiful box has a cedar interior which is separated into two compartments for jewelry. It also has sterling escutcheon for a key.
Category
1890s Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Tortoise Shell
Natural, Grey Bone Dimensional Tiled Box
Located in New York, NY
Decorative optical illusion keepsake box with beveled details and contrasting bone tiles. Lined in Wood.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Spanish Modern Bone Boxes
Materials
Wood, Bone
Natural, Grey Oblong Inlay Box
Located in New York, NY
Handmade natural bone box inlaid with grey bone oblong segments, lined in wood. A great storage solution for your desk or coffee table.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Spanish Modern Bone Boxes
Materials
Bone
Sterling Silver and Bone Box
Located in New York, NY
Sterling silver and bone box. Antique Continental dark bone/horn fitted case with sterling silver mounts and central oval for monogram; originally a t...
Category
Mid-19th Century European Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Cornflower/Lilac Bone Box, 12x7
Located in New York, NY
Modernist Cornflower/Hydrangea lavendar bone keepsake box lined in wood. A great addition to any coffee table, bedside or desk.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Spanish Modern Bone Boxes
Materials
Bone
Midcentury Italian Horn Marquetry Brass Trunk Box, 1960
Located in Paris, IDF
Beautiful midcentury decorative trunk box made in Italy in the 1960s. This large jewellery or make-up box is covered in Horn tessellated pieces, with brass f...
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Bone Boxes
Materials
Brass
Graphic Pattern Blue / Natural Bone Box
Located in New York, NY
Graphic patterned keepsake box clad in natural and ink blue dyed bone. Tiles are hand set on a wood box.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Philippine Modern Bone Boxes
Materials
Bone
Faux Tortoiseshell Cabinet with Bone and Wood Geometric Shapes Inlays, 6 Drawers
Located in Bosques de las Lomas, MX
Faux tortoiseshell Cabinet with top and sides decorated with inlays of bone and different kinds of wood, creating geometric figures. The front is made up of 6 drawers framed by strip...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Mexican Bone Boxes
Materials
Brass
Black And White Bone Lidded Box, India, Contemporary
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary India black and white camel bone box.
Tiles placed to create 3D effect.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Indian Bone Boxes
Materials
Bone
Antique Chinese Lacquer Table Box 1920's
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Beautiful iron red lacquer Chinese table box. The red background with gilt decoration with carved bone inlay on the top. 9.5 inches square, T...
Category
1920s Chinese Chinoiserie Vintage Bone Boxes
Materials
Bone, Wood, Lacquer
Black, Grey Striped Bone Keepsake Box
Located in New York, NY
Hand made, large scale document/keepsake box clad in hand dyed black, grey bone tiles in a striped pattern. Hand polished, some with hand etching detail.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Philippine Modern Bone Boxes
Materials
Bone, Wood
18C Indo-Persian Campaign Vanity Box
Located in Dallas, TX
PRESENTING AN EXTREMELY RARE AND HIGHLY IMPORTANT Indo-Persian Campaign Vanity Box from circa 1780-1800.
Box inlaid with exquisite mosaic inlay.
In the Indo-Persian style of mosaic with Islamic styles.
The mosaic consists of green semi precious stone, bone, brass and pewter in star shaped geometric designs.
Box opens up to reveal a travel mirror...
Category
18th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Multi-gemstone, Brass
Moroccan Chest or Jewelry Box in Cameal Bone and Brass Inlaid
Located in Plainview, NY
Bring a sense of majesty into your living space with this magnificent Moroccan white bone chest handcrafted from beach wood and inlaid with additional red stones. Boasting a sumptuou...
Category
1960s Moroccan Moorish Vintage Bone Boxes
Materials
Brass
Hand Inscribed Horn, Bone Box
Located in New York, NY
Hand incised horn and bone decorative keepsake, document box. The carving gives the hand laid tiles a sublte texture. Lined in wood. A great addition to any coffee table or desk. Mea...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Spanish Organic Modern Bone Boxes
Materials
Horn, Wood
Johnson and Marcius Bone and Mica Box
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A large scale box
exotic materials and form
Lined interior.
Category
1980s American Vintage Bone Boxes
Materials
Bone
Natural, Turquoise Bone Moorish Box
Located in New York, NY
Decorative keepsake/jewelry box clad in natural and dyed bone tiles. Top is in a Moorish motif of inlaid Turquoise bone elements. Handcrafted.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Philippine Moorish Bone Boxes
Materials
Bone, Wood
Vintage Wood & Bone Inlay Dome Top Jewelry Casket Treasure Chest Trinket Box
Located in Dayton, OH
Mid 20th century jewlery casket or trinket box. Beautifully designed in the form of a dome top trunk with exotic wood and striped bone inlay. Feat...
Category
Mid-20th Century Rustic Bone Boxes
Materials
Bone, Hardwood
19C Anglo Indian Sadeli Mosaic Greeting Card Case
Located in Dallas, TX
Presenting a superb 19C Anglo Indian Sadeli Mosaic greeting card case.
Made in or around Bombay, India circa 1880.
This is a greeting card case used for holding your greeting cards or business cards of the day !
The body of the case is made from sandalwood and it is fully overlaid with bone and highly intricate Sadeli Mosaic made up of thousands of micro mosaic pieces of bone, ebony, silver/pewter and semi precious stone.
The workmanship is stupenduous !!!!
This case is almost museum quality. One or two very, very minor losses of mosaic mainly where the top meets the body but otherwise near mint !
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...
Category
Late 19th Century Indian Anglo Raj Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Bone, Precious Stone, Ebony
Mid-Century Italian Chrome Horn Veneer Jewellery Box, 1970
Located in Paris, IDF
Beautiful mid-century box made in Italy in the late 1970s. This chrome jewellery or make-up box features a horn veneer frame on the top. The mix of chrome and horn is really nice. A ...
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Bone Boxes
Materials
Chrome
Antique Tortoiseshell Singing Bird Box, Most Probably by Bontems
Located in London, GB
A antique tortoiseshell singing bird box, most probably by Bontems,
Going barrel movement,
Gilt metal two-tone brilliance...
When wound and start/stop slide moved to the right, the bird pops up through foliate chased gilt grille, then proceeds to move bone beak, wings and body from side-to-side to good complex continuous synchronized birdsong.
The bird with streaked feathered plumage in brown, yellow, turquoise and red, lime green and purple iridescent highlights, highly polished lid interior for full bird reflection, in plain polished tortoiseshell case, twinned laurel leaf engraved bird lid border with the bird lid engraved with love birds and rose united beneath leaf swag arch, accentuated with gilt on silvered ground, hidden key...
Category
1880s French Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Tortoise Shell
Tessellated Horn Jewelry Box
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Maitland Smith tessellated horn jewelry box.
Category
1980s Philippine Hollywood Regency Vintage Bone Boxes
Materials
Horn
English Tortoiseshell Box
Located in New York, NY
English tortoiseshell box. Ovoid shaped lidded snuffbox with integral handle of richly patterned tortoiseshell, England, circa 1900.
Dimensions: 3.5...
Category
Early 1900s English Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Tortoise Shell
1905 Edwardian Leather, Tortoiseshell and Silver Mounted Letter Box
Located in Morristown, NJ
1905, England, Unusual and striking Edwardian letter box with leather sides. The curved top and base are mounted with scrolling sterling silver. T...
Category
Early 1900s English Edwardian Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Silver
Mid-Century Italian Chrome Horn Stripes Veneer Jewellery Box, 1970
Located in Paris, IDF
Beautiful Mid-Century box made in Italy in the late 1970s. This chrome jewellery or make-up box features horn veneer stripes on the top. The mix of chrome and horn is really nice. A ...
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Bone Boxes
Materials
Chrome
Tessellated Horn and Cedar Wood Box
Located in San Diego, CA
A very well crafted tessellated Horn cedar wood box, circa 1980s. The piece is very heavy and solid and measures 6.375"W x 4.5"D x 3.5"H.
Category
Late 20th Century North American Bone Boxes
Materials
Horn, Cedar
Mudejar Style Andaluza Box, Faux Tortoiseshell, Bone Inlays, Silver-Plated Brass
Located in Bosques de las Lomas, MX
Box inspired by Mudejar-style works from the XVIIIth Century, inlaid with faux tortoiseshell, bone and ebony forming geometric figures. The hardware is made of silver-plated brass.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Mexican Bone Boxes
Materials
Brass
Whaler Made Bone and Ebonized Wood Round Lidded Box, circa 1850
Located in Stamford, CT
Whaler made antique bone and ebonized wood round box, circa 1850. With pierced bone medallion and delicately carved bone spiral decorative supports on the...
Category
Mid-19th Century American Folk Art Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Bone, Wood
Antique French Louis XV Ormolu Mounted Tortoiseshell Patch or Rouge Box
Located in London, GB
A lovely little antique French Louis XV casket of scarlet tortoiseshell with superb ormolu mounts. Set on ormolu paw feet and with a profusion of ormolu mounts this lovely little box...
Category
1760s French Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Ormolu
Bones Box with Brass Decoratifs Elements, India XX Century
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
This box is a vintage Indian camel bone jewelry box.
Rectangular shape with hand hammered brass details. Cover has pierced leaf pattern details and bra...
Category
1980s Indian Vintage Bone Boxes
Materials
Brass
Carl Auböck Box, Austria, 1960s
Located in Berlin, DE
Carl Auböck horn and brass box, Austria 1960s.
Category
1960s Austrian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Bone Boxes
Materials
Brass
Faux Tessellated Tortoiseshell Mother-of-Pearl Jewelry Box by Maitland-Smith
Located in San Diego, CA
Vintage jewelry box in faux tessellated tortoise shell with mother-of-pearl and Abolone shell edge, circa 1970s. Simple, elegant and unique. Bin #N
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Category
20th Century American Hollywood Regency Bone Boxes
Materials
Tortoise Shell, Mother-of-Pearl
Mid-Century Bone Tessellated Trinket Box
Located in New York, NY
Mid-century bone trinket box. With a wooden interior. 5" L x 3.5" W x 3.75" D. With slight wear to the interior wood.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Bone Boxes
Materials
Bone, Wood
19th Century Snuff Box with Intarsia
Located in Delft, NL
A 19th century snuff box with intarsia
A horn snuff box with a diamond-shaped embedded smaller diamond-shaped surfaces on the box in relief. The box has been a utensil and is in goo...
Category
19th Century French Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Horn
Première Dame Jewelry Box in Ebony with Bone Inlay by Giordano Vigano
Located in Novedrate, IT
“Première Dame” is a jewelry box made of ebony. The inside is divided in different compartments covered in soft suede. The engraved decoration on the lid...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Bone Boxes
Materials
Bone, Ebony
XL Polished Horn Rectangular Segment Box
Located in New York, NY
Large scale decorative box clad in heat set dimensional horn pieces hand set over a wood structure. A great storage solution to add to any coffee table, dresser or desk.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Spanish Modern Bone Boxes
Materials
Horn, Wood
17th-18th Century Spanish Colonial Box With Domed Top
Located in Dallas, TX
Spanish Colonial inlaid bone and faux tortoiseshell domed top box. Original hammered iron hinges. Circa 1680-1740. Excellent condition and very rare.
Category
1690s Spanish Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Iron
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