Hardwood Boxes

Very rare mid century box with a lid designed and made by Alexandre Noll produced in France 1950s. In good original condition. Dimensions: H: 6,5 cm / 12.55" W: 14 cm / 5.5" D: 9.5...

Vintage hand made lidded oval box crafted in teak and walnut burl wood with copper nail detail. Signed. Dimensions: 7.5" wide x 5" deep x 3" tall.

An Exceptionally Fine Quality English Well Figured Rosewood Ladies or Gents English Georgian Travelling Writing Slope of outstanding quality and unusually large proportions, with lav...

Handcrafted in cherry. in Shaker style by Jefferson Woodworks. Sturdy & well made in a heavy gauge panels.

Early, original George Nelson teak wood thin-edge Jewelry chest model number 5211 for Herman Miller. Signed inside top drawer with original silver Herman Miller Medallion. The case m...

Wood and brass box by Gabriella Crespi. Signed, Italy, 1970s.  

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...

A statement lidded decorative box with shapely handle and feet. Constructed from a mix of fine timbers, to include satinwood, burr maple and rosewood. Lined in a deep plum velvet. It...

Tommaso Barbi designed this great-looking original decorative box. The piece was crafted in Italy circa 1960. The modernist form boasts a substantial square shape, featuring chromed ...

A Small Elegant Domed Burl Wood Trinket Box

Sycamore Tea Chest Circa 1815 From our Tea Caddies collection, we are delighted to offer this Regency Penwork Tea Chest. The Chest crafted from Syca...

Mid-20th century Moorish Spain Inlaid Marquetry Mosaic Box. Handcrafted great geometric one of a kind Moorish design. Middle Eastern Syrian style, Moor...

This is an antique tea caddy. An English, rosewood and satinwood container with glass mixer, dating to the late Regency period, circa 1830. Delightful R...

k0121 super Victorian bird's eye maple and tulipwood jewelry box or sewing box, having finely inlaid front and lid which opens to reveal new relined interior with lift up tray. This ...

A Beautiful & Luxurious Handcrafted Victorian Bramah Hardwood Fold-out Travelling Writing Companion With Fitted Leather Interior, Ceramic Blotting Tablets. Complete with Beautifully ...

Charming, late 19th century jewelry box from the period in Austria around 1890. This real beautiful designed ebonized wooden box impresses with its extraordinary inlay works showing ...

A superb early 18th century kingwood oyster veneered coffre fort with fine gilt brass metal work, the fall front opens to reveal three drawers and three hidden compartments. Lovely c...

Perfume box with crystal bottles, ca 1840 A French perfume box set, made of fruitwood with inside two crystal perfume bottles. The bottles have bot...

Extremely Rare Regency Antique Penwork Cabinet A very interesting and rare Antique Regency Penwork Cabinet decorated with numerous scenes of exquisi...

Round hand painted with birds and flowers compartment jewelry box.

A stunning and rare antique Italian Renaissance revival hand carved wooden match holder and striker mounted with a sleeping putti by world renowned furniture maker and carved Luigi F...

19th century book shaped inlaid olive box circa 1890. Unusual Italian keep sake box made in olive wood.  Inlaid top surface with musical instrument, flowers and a faux peeled back corner, finished in a mosaic border.  Front of the box with hand painted 'souvenir' and roman numeral labelled book ends.   Box currently has no key, but it does have a feature where the bottom of the box slides back and the middle book end slides down to reveal a secret key...

A Beautiful Handcrafted 19th Century Hardwood Veneer Writing Slope With A Tooled Purple Leather Writing Liner. Item Featured Brass Carry Handles & Is Finished With A Decorative Brass...

Beautiful antique Napoleon III tea box, crafted of black ebonised wood. The inlay is in Boulle style, marquetry of mother-of-pearl, brass and tortoise. The interior has tree compartm...

Studio craft signed jewelry box in exotic burl wood with velvet interior.

A William and Mary Kingwood/Princes oyster strongbox or Coffre Fort, circa 1680-1700, England. Adorned with highly decorative gilt brass strapwork and decorated in knife-cut oysters ...

Elegant footed wooden music box in deep blue color with top finely hand painted and inlaid with foliages floral gold decor. Handcrafted footed wooden music box in thuya wood hand painted top. Thuya tree is famous for rich gold and brown shades of its grain and unique exotic fragrance, similar to cedar. Lined in green jade velvet, original key with tassel. Upon opening, the music box begins to play a theme : Romance" Somewhere over the Rainbow...

A fine quality Regency Era / Georgian Period tea caddy set in sumptuous plum-pudding mahogany. Exquisitely hand-crafted in England at the turn of the late 18th / early 19th century,...

An important early antique Italian Renaissance table box, handcrafted in Northern Italy in the 17th/18th century, cassone chest form, richly inlaid, the top and front panel with fruitwood banding framing...

An extensively filled 19th century ormolu-mounted ebonized wood dresser vanity box fitted with silver gold washed lidded glass gars and sewing tools. The ...

Antique Victorian J&S glove, casket, keepsake or jewelry box crafted of wood clad in gold tone enamel finished embossed metal with a fine orange velvet l...

This gorgeous French Art Deco decorative box is reminiscent of Desny's work. It features Macassar wood hexagonal sides with chromed metal accents on the lid. French Art Deco decorati...

Regency antique 19th century burr elm tea caddy having a sarcophagus shaped lip which lifts to reveal two lidded compartments with original turned knobs, standing on small bun feet. ...

An Exceptionally Fine Quality English Well Figured Burl Amboyne and Coromandel Ladies or Gents English early Travelling Writing Slope of outstanding quality and unusually large propo...

Handmade Vintage Wooden Khatam Indo Persian Pill Box. Small Persian marquetry wood trinket box with star pattern. Good condition with very slight signs of use. 2 in x 1.5 in x 1 in H. Circa 1930s. About Indo-Persian Moorish Style Khatam Sadeli Jewelry Box...

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...

A very nice Danish modern solid teak tambour door box, circa 1970s. The box is in very good vintage condition and measures 9.75"W x 10.5"D x 5.5"H. #2783

Framed In Boxwood From our Tea Caddy collection, we are delighted to offer this exceptional Georgian Paper Scroll Tea Caddy. The Tea Caddy of e...

Anglo Indian rectangular porcupine quill, bone and parquetry box. The box with a hinged lid that opens to reveal embossed red velvet lining and a decorated wood panel...

A beautiful antique decorative box, inlaid with different types of wood. This type of marquetry work is also called 'Oeben Cubes', named after the famous ebenist Jean Oeben (1721-176...

1419 Italian hand crafted 4 drawer jewelry box in the shape of a rococo chest of drawers .

Shiny white bird’s-eye maple shiny jewel chest with 24-karat pink gold-plated hardware. Two necklace bars. The two doors lock the whole chest.

Elegant octagonal wooden music box in thuya wood. Thuya tree is famous for rich gold and brown shades of its grain and unique exotic fragrance, simila...

Wooden Viennese pharmacy containers of the late 19th century, in a set of 22 pieces. The containers with lids are made of boxwood and printed with the names of various spices in ...

For your consideration is this superbly iconic looking Art Deco wooden box which we think was a tea caddy or for cigarettes originally. The exterior of the box is veneered in a beaut...

An exceptional Indo-Portuguese colonial mother-of-pearl veneered casket with silver mounts India, Gujarat, 2nd half of the 16th century, the silver mounts Goa or probably Lisbon Measures: H. 16 x W. 24.6 x D. 16.1 cm An exceptional Gujarati casket with a rectangular box and truncated pyramidal lid (with slopes on each side and a flat top) made from exotic wood, probably teak (Tectona grandis), covered with a mother-of-pearl mosaic. The tesserae, cut from the shell of the green turban sea snail (Turbo marmoratus, a marine gastropod) in the shape of fish scales, are pinned to the wooden structure with silver ball-headed nails. The casket is set on bracket feet on the corners. The masterfully engraved decoration of the silver mounts follows the most refined and erudite Mannerist repertoire of rinceaux and ferroneries dating from the mid-16th century. The high quality and refinement of the silver mounts and, likewise, the silver nails that replaced the original brass pins used to hold the mother-of-pearl tesserae in place indicate the work of a silversmith probably working in Lisbon in the second half of the 16th century. The Indian origin of this production, namely from Cambay (Khambhat) and Surat in the present state of Gujarat in north India, is, as for the last three decades, consensual and fully demonstrated, not only by documentary and literary evidence - such as descriptions, travelogues and contemporary archival documentation - but also by the survival in situ of 16th-century wooden structures covered in mother-of-pearl tesserae. A fine example is a canopy decorating the tomb (dargah) of the Sufi saint, Sheik Salim Chisti (1478-1572) in Fatehpur Sikri in Agra district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, north India. This is an artistic production, geometric in character and Islamic in nature, where usually the mother-of-pearl tesserae form complex designs of fish scales or, similar to the dishes also made using the same technique, with the thin brass sheets and pins, stylized lotus flowers. The truncated pyramidal shape corresponds, like their contemporary tortoiseshell counterparts also made in Gujarat, to a piece of furniture used in the Indian subcontinent within the Islamic world prior to the arrival of the first Portuguese. This shape, in fact, is very old and peculiar to East-Asian caskets, chests or boxes used to contain and protect Buddhist texts, the sutras. A similar chest is the famous and large reliquary chest from Lisbon cathedral that once contained the relics of the city's patron saint, Saint Vincent. Both match in shape, having the same kind of socle or pedestal and bracket feet, and in their engraved silver mountings, featuring the same type of refined, erudite decoration. Their differences lie in the silver borders that frame the entire length of the edges of the chest (both the box and the lid), pinned with silver nails, and on the lock plate, shaped like a coat of arms in the Lisbon example. Given the exceptional dimensions of the reliquary casket...

Dated to the mid-19th century, this petite hardwood box captures in miniature the elaborate form of a traditional Chinese altar table. Crafted of a dense hardwood, the narrow box is ...

This is an antique cleric's swing-out case. A Chinese, hardwood travelling box, dating to the late Victorian period, circa 1890. Charmingly provincial box, presented in original tim...

Decorative Box for Cigarettes in wood brown color India

PRESENTING A LOVELY 19C Anglo Indian Highly Carved Sadeli Mosaic Inlaid Sewing Box. Made in Bombay, India, circa 1880. The box is made of sandalwood with highly carved raised teak wood panels on all sides, depicting temple scenes, animals and foliage. The box is in a sarcophagus form. It is edged in bone (and we can tell it is bone and not ivory, from the color and evidence of capillaries, which are not found in ivory), and banded with Bombay Sadeli mosaic and ebony veneer. The lid opens to reveal a removable tray with various open compartments and lidded compartments. 5 lidded compartments, 1 unlidded compartment and 8 holders for thimbles, etc The tray lifts to reveal a blue velvet (original) lined section, for storing jewelry etc, with sections for collars etc. The inside of the lid has a removable mirror (the mirror is missing on this one but can easily be replaced). Behind the mirror is the original green velvet lining. It has its original brass carry handles on the sides and sits on 4 silvered button feet (of recent origin). Some repairs to the exterior and condition issues (priced accordingly), but still a LOVELY COLLECTIBLE box! These boxes were made by superb Indian craftsmen, specifically for sale to the ruling British elite. These types of boxes, carved padouk and sandalwood, (whilst beautiful and superbly crafted) were of a lesser quality, than the more profusely and intricately mosaic inlay, tortoiseshell and ivory boxes, made for the British ‘Upper Classes’ in the areas of Bombay and Vizagapatam. These type of boxes were much more affordable back in 1880 (and indeed today) and would probably have been bought by mid-level diplomats, civil servants or visitors. Sewing boxes (in general), were in EVERY Victorian home in Britain in the 19th century and like other boxes etc were ‘status symbols’ of your place in society! The more ornate the box, the more ‘Upper Class’ you were! 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...

Exquisite handcrafted Middle Eastern mosaic marquetry inlaid walnut wood box. Large box intricately decorated with Moorish motif designs which ha...

Large vintage maitland smith oval toleware box or bin with painted metal base, handles, and wooden lid, painted in black with yellow roses in a wreath pat...

This is a fine antique shotgun carry case. An Indian State Railway gun box in teak and brass, dating to the late Victorian period, circa 1900. Rich with historic charm and superb cra...

This is a magnificent antique Victorian Gonçalo Alves table top Vanity Box, circa 1860 in date. The fitted interior reveals a lift-out compartment tray, dressed with a green velve...

This is a fine antique Georgian period lidded waste bin, presenting as a distinguished Dutch fireside store in oak and fruitwood, circa 1800. This versatile antique is ideal for use ...

Beautiful set of teak canisters. This vintage set is aesthetically pleasing visually and current, as it is full of purpose. The practicality of the nes...

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...

A Beautifully Worn Late Edo Period Wabi Sabi "Safe"/Storage box. Originally used to store money & valuables. Heavily patinated cedar & chestnut. Perf...