European Boxes

A Chippendale design mahogany tray of shaped rectangular form with shaped spindle gallery surround and open carrying handles to each side. Please note we are currently working to a ...

Portable box Italian Tobacco Pouch in enamel and square copper, 1950, midcentury. The upper part has a stylized and very elegant glaze, the box is in ...

Christian Dior green rectangular lead glass crystal box with etched texture inside the lid / made in France Original label on the glass / comes in original box Length: 6.5 inches / W...

A refined decorative box crafted from brass with a lid inlaid with turquoise fragments, creating a captivating mottled effect in shades of blue and green. The body features a delicat...

A very rare pair of Italian decorative mid century wooden storing boxes in Russian pine wood with brass keys by Mario Ceroli from the "Mobili della Valle" series produced by Poltrono...

Hallmarked in Sheffield in 1928 by James Dixon & Sons, this stylish, George V period, Sterling Silver Biscuit Box, is in the art deco taste and hexagonal in shape. The biscuit bo...

This piece features dozens semi-precious moonstones. Alfred Louis Achille DAGUET (1875 - 1942) was a metalsmith active in Paris during the first part of the 20th century. His metalw...

A Florentine box from Italy from the turn of the century. Nice patina and a wonderful large box.

Armored armoire in polished Ebony, brass accessories in Ruthenium. Safe with biometric opening device, drawers and trays lined for watches and jewelry. Available with 54 Swiss made w...

A rare and charming graduated pair of Staffordshire covered boxes, each modeled as a graceful swan resting amid a stylized coral-inspired base. These late 19th-century ceramic boxes ...

Unusual and Ornate Gilt Bronze Champlevé Enamel Lidded Casket. Chinoiserie Champlevé enamel casket of rectangular form, styled with bamboo trim. Date: Late 19th century Origin: Fren...

Antque collectible Sailors Valentines sea Shell encrusted miniature commode/ box.

Daguet’s beautifully patinated box is a rich textural and colorful tour de force. The top of Daguet’s box is striking for its bird’s-eye-view of a crab clutching a viper eel. Using r...

The Following Item that we are offering is A Rare and Impressive Magnificent and Exquisite Rare Large Handpainted Limoges Style Baby Boy Porcelain and Bronze Jewelry Holder / Pill Bo...

SILVER BOX Austria-Hungary 18th Century in silver with profuse decoration inspired by the Crimean War, in which Russia lost to an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, United K...

19th century Mauchline Ware trinket or jewelry box. It has applied and printed monochrome decoration entitled “Mineral Wells Moffat”, “Moffat” and “Crai...

Just Andersen. Two pewter matchbox holders, model 260 and 78. Denmark, c. 1930. Dimensions: H. 3.5 cm. L. 10 cm. D. 6 cm. Cast pewter, rectangular form with open sides and an oval re...

MCM lidded green marble trinket box with brass accents, circa 1970s. The box has well cut lines and features brass feet and a cool brass lizard hand...

Chessboard Classic Wood Edition by Meubles Thouret. Numbered and signed by the artists. Delivered with a Certificate of Authenticity. Dimensions: W 48 x D 48 x H 5 cm. Materials: Rar...

925 Sterling Silver Box for Cigars. The body of the box is completely smooth with sharp corners. A small silver protrusion allows the opening of the box. The interior of the box is m...

FontanaArte is an Italian company founded in Milan (as Fontana Arte) in 1932 by Luigi Fontana and Giò Ponti and specializing in glass processing and the production of furnishing acce...

Alfred Louis Achille DAGUET (1875 - 1942) was a metalsmith active in Paris during the first part of the 20th century. His metalwork created prior to the outbreak of World War I, note...

An enameled strawberry shaped pill box made in Austria This is a gorgeous and amazing pill box created during the art-nouveau period in Austria between the 1910 and 1915. This box h...

A set of two Italian Sterling silver cigarette cases from the 19th and 20th century. They have hand-stamped details and are engraved with flowers and scrolling acanthus. One of them ...

- rare - marked - very practical

Marble and golden brass jewelry case designed by Gabriella Crespi. Recorded by Archivio Gabriella Crespi, Milan. Signed Italy 1970s

Large turn-of-the-century German 800 silver figural spice box. A bird grips a gnarly branch with scaly talons. Sweet and downy with tucked-down wings. Head detachable. Marked. Weight...

This wonderful Louis Vuitton paperweight is all made of lithographed metal . It features the letters "A and P" to either end as well as customized ...

A magnificent big size hyper realistic glazed ceramic fish tureen in shades of vibrant red and grey with dark accents manufactured in Portugal, 1950s. Beautiful to use as a wall deco...

Description: Rectangular silver cigarette case with Art Nouveau flower details and spring on the lid. Metal: Silver. Origin: Portuguese. Brand: javali II Title. Weight: 71.15 grams. ...

A beautiful lidded bronze box with amazing patina. Art Deco / Swedish Grace. Made by GAB Guldsmedsaktiebolaget, Sweden, 1930s. Great condition, with only some light scratches. St...

Italian Modern Architectural Brass Inlaid Travertine Box, Circa 1970s Italy, Circa 1970s A sleek and sophisticated Italian modern architectural travertine box with brass inlay, mad...

An Antique Wooden Lidded Box with Brass Mounts, 19th Century Provenance: Private Australian Collection. Dimensions: Height: 13.5cm. Width: 34cm. Depth: 24.3cm. Weight: 5.7kg.

Designed by Joe Colombo and produced by Arnolfo di Cambio in the early 1970s, the “Biglia” box is a refined example of material experimentation and functional design. The object refl...

1940's New Old Stock Pharmacy Box. Original new old stock French packaging, never used. Listing is for a single box and lid.

Box Shells in porcelain with porcelain lid. All details in solid bronze in antique finish.

Magnificent Napoleon III style musical cigar humidor dating from the beginning of the 20th century in lacquered wood and garland of brass beads. A lyre adorns each door. By turning t...

This small Venetian gem has lacca povera decoration which is the Italians version of decoupage. It is hand-painted and lacquered with cut-outs of various ...

Art Deco box ,walnut wood base and walnut veneer. The wood box can be use as a cigar box.

This vintage 1920’s intricate designed pressboard watch box is in excellent condition and is made with meticulous craftsmanship. Beautifully embossed top, reminiscent of tooled leath...

A box in from the 1930's in Art Deco style made from wood and etched glass. The glass is possible to lift off to clean. The use is uncertain but we believe it is possibly made to hol...

More than a kilo of sterling silver was needed to create this stunning rectangular tabletop box. Worked with the very complicated guilloche technique, it was then enamelled at high heat with translucent enamel to make the superb workmanship shine through. The fine rectangular miniature cm. 7.5 x 10.7 on vegetable ivory. The small masterpiece handmade by the painter Anna Maria Manfriani reproduces the famous portrait of Empress Eugenia de Montijo, by the painter Franz Xaver Winterhalter. The unenamelled sterling silver parts were then gilded with a 24-carat galvanic bath. In Art Nouveau style, with a “lost” zip, i.e. semi-invisible. Dimensions cm. 15 x 18 x 3.5. Weight gr. 1095. Designed by Giorgio Salimbeni in 1980 and manufactured in Florence at the Salimbeni company headquarters with completely manual execution by artisan artists with a very thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for supporting numerous enamelling firings at around 800° Doña María Eugenia Ignacia Agustina de Palafox y Kirkpatrick, 19th Countess of Teba, 16th Marquise of Ardales known as Eugénie de Montijo was Empress of the French from her marriage to Napoleon III on 30 January 1853 until the fall of the Emperor on 4 September 1870. From July 28 to September 4...

An oil-painted wooden box in the Art Nouveau style, early 20th century. Old patina. The key is missing. 11.5 x 23.5 cm, height 5.5 cm.

Art Deco sterling silver box. Made by Harman Bros in Birmingham in 1990. Rectangular with straight sides. Cover flat and hinged. Corner bracket supports. Engine-turned ornament in plain frames...

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

A fine and rare 17th-century William and Mary period olive oyster lace box of perfect proportions. 1680-1700, England The cross-grain moulded top is entirely covered in well-placed ...

Welcome inside Pinetti smoking accessories collection with Vento ashtray. A stainless steel round revolving ashtray with the properly right spaces ...

Square box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè also on the sides. In the center, a beautiful hand painted tempera miniature on a vegetable ivory plate depicting the portrait of a 19th century lady, signed by the painter Anna Maria Manfriani. Dimensions cm. 12 x 12 x 2.5. Weight gr. 618. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1976 and manufactured in Florence in some specimens with various subjects and different colors, in the headquarters of the Salimbeni Company with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for withstanding numerous enamelled firings at about 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...

French exotic wood tobacco pot made circa 1960-1970. This type of jar was used to keep tobacco in a summer of ideal humidification. This explains the presence of the small plastic bo...

Wooden box with lock and mirror inside. The external covering is in briar wood veneer, brass with mother of pearl inserts, the handles are in brass. Italy half 19th century.

An elegant pair of George III mahogany knife boxes from the late 18th Century showcases exceptional Georgian craftsmanship, featuring a beautifully sloped lid and a classic serpentin...

French Cobalt Blue Opaline Crystal Box with Ormolu Mounts and Scalloped Edges The box is formed in a rectangular shape with a scalloped exterior surface that creates a uniform rhyth...

Charming hand carved box with metal detail.

Karlsbad Czech Republic From our Tea Caddy collection, we are pleased to offer this Rosewood Karlsbad Tea Caddy. The Rosewood Tea Caddy of square form with rounded edges made from R...

An unusual and visually striking carved wooden presentation box, Black Forest region, circa 1880. The box is carved in the form of a stacked book bundle tied with strapwork, its surf...

Superb enamel box with flowers garlands and a lady's portrait. Specifications: 1. The surface of round box is made of white enamel. Additionally, it is stunningly decorated with nicest multicolored flowers' garlands running along the surface / mentioned garlands are hung up at bows. 2. The round bowl's lid is topped with a nicest enamel painted picture, depicting an elegant lady: The lady's style and appearance is similar to ladies of period of Angelika Kauffmann...

Description: Silver cigarette case with engraving on both sides, surrounding a monogram card, interior with cigarette protection and hinged lid. Metal: Silver. Origin: English. Brand...

Hallmarked in Birmingham in 1905 by J. T. Wordsworth & Co. this striking Edwardian antique sterling silver jewellery box is of a rectangular casket form with a hinged lid. The bo...

One of a kind Murano handcrafted large rectangular shaped clear blown glass box with floating 24k gold on black orb center creating a beautiful sculptural bronze color, each box wi...

This is a wonderful and rare piece by the great Austrian Designer, Karl Hagenauer (1898-1956). The box, which is hammered brass over wood, depicts a scene typical of Hagenauer's work...