Italian Boxes

6238-7239- Pocket cigarette case with spring button in 925/1000 fire-enamelled sterling silver with beautiful vessel miniature hand-painted by th...

Rare GUCCI heart-shaped pink Richard Ginori decorative porcelain box with the Mystic Cat print on the lid and black trim / made in Italy A printed detail at the interior adds a speci...

Egg on engraved tripod with octagonal folding photo holder for 6 photos inside, in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated, with translucent fired enamels on guilloché and pure gold “pa...

Rectangular pocket cigarette case with long rounded sides in 925/1000 sterling silver with black fire-enamelled stripes. With button and spring opening. Measurements cm. 10.3 x 5.8 ...

Sterling silver box in the shape of a perforated brick. The box was made entirely by hand starting from a raw sheet of sterling silver and shaped into the shape of a brick. Round bus...

Gabriella Crespi tortoise and sterling silver box. Vintage Crespi cylindrical cigarette case with engraved Gabriella Crespi logo monogram and original ...

Round favor box with lid in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè and hand-painted miniature of a bouquet of flowers in Art Nouveau style. B...

This elegant box is carved from pale green onyx, beautifully accented with natural brown and white inclusions that give it a distinct, organic character. Smooth to the touch with sub...

Large charming Italian Mid-Century Florentine hand crafted box with classical scenes. This gilt-wood box with red, gold and black detailing can be used t...

Round snuff box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fired enamel on the enameled edge with vertical stripes and fine monochrome miniature hand painted by the painter Renato Dainelli. Diameter cm. 6.2 cm high. 3.4. Weight gr. 222. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1967 and produced in Florence in the Salimbeni company headquarters with manual workmanship by skilled artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for withstanding numerous high-fire enamelled firings at approximately 750 < 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...

Good quality antique box with Roman scenes on all four sides and on top. If you are a collector or enthousiast of anything to do with emperial Rome then this rare, meaningful and hi...

Beautiful cigar case made of red parchment in the 1950s by Giorgio Tura, fine Italian manufacture. The cigar case is very beautiful and striking in red p...

Vintage Italian wooden cigar humidor box with cammei design on faux marble / made in Milan Italy by Fornasetti, in the 1980s Original metal label inside Measures: width 10 inches, de...

Unique Lined Onyx Jewelry Box with Malachite Hippopotamus Handle circa 1960's Artist Unknown The interior of the box is lined Box 4" D x 6" W x 2 1/4" (4" with Hippo) H "in the s...

Rare LARGE vintage Italian onyx jewelry or keepsake box, made in Italy, circa 1960s. This impeccable semi-precious stone box is just superb with its variety of colors and designs fro...

Hand carved clear crystal and patinated golden bronze box. Each object is handcrafted and the care for every detail makes each item unique in its kind. The style of this box is a mod...

This is a large and extraordinary lacquered wooden box, with floral decoration and polychrome drawings that represent a man collecting red coral on the beach, on blue background. Made in precious fir wood, Swiss pine, lacquered and engraved. This blue lacquered box...

Midcentury Leather Embossed Rectangular Box For Jewelry, Cards etc. Italy, circa 1950s. The box is gold embossed decoration banner and lions and is si...

This ever so chic and obscure vintage Italian brass box is simply a pop art design of a form of an opened up envelope that is a box. it is from the lat...

Italian Modernist Lucite and Chrome Box, Attributed to Willy Rizzo, circa 1970 A striking example of Italian modernist design, this rare sculptural Lucite and chrome box evokes the b...

Italian silver box raised on 4 feet, 1970s Italian silver box in curvy octagonal shape with repousse design of flowers and scrolls The purity de...

Exceptional table cigar or cigarette box in 925/1000 sterling silver, gold plated, and decorated with translucent two-tone striped fired enamels over guilloché engraving. Finely hand...

17th Century Italian Ebonized Inlaid Milanese Table Cabinet. Cabinet is an exceptional rectangular box-form cabinet veneered in richly toned ebony and rosewood, lavishly inlaid with ...

We are always on the hunt for these vintage Florentine boxes and rarely we come across one with a lock and a key. This Italian rectangular box, lined in yellow velvet, is prefect to ...

Rectangular table box in 925/1000 sterling silver with translucent fired enamels on the guilloche and, on the corners, miniature of floral shoots hand-painted by the painter Romano B...

Armored jewelry armoire with pull out necklace bar. Available in malachite or white bird's eye maple. See below for more details about finishin...

Large square pocket pill box with rounded corners and sides, in 925/1000 sterling silver with very fine hand engraving in baroque style, fire enamell...

Armored jewelry case with pull out necklace bars. See information below for details of item variations. Gold variation: Shiny gold steel. Inside d...

Vintage 20th Century Italian onyx stone box. Mounted with a brass hinge and matching rim, the piece highlights the natural banding and warm tonal variation typical of Italian onyx, r...

Discerning materials and excellent craftsmanship meld together in our Selene box. Supported by small feet in chromed brass, this box is handmade of wood with lacquered ivory gloss fi...

Exquisite Reuge S.A. Musical Table Box Description:Discover a stunning large rectangular table box featuring elegantly concave corners, showcasing the exceptional craftsmanship of th...

A stunning 17th century Italian leather covered wood trunk covered in brass nail heads, some spelling out a word on top, and with iron strap hinges a...

Armored jewelry armoire in matte Canaletto walnut or polished white bird’s eye maple and 24 karats gold hardware. Inside, safe with biometric o...

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 exquisite lidded bonbonnière was crafted in Italy during the first half of the 20th century and showcases the elegance of fine materials and skilled craftsmanship. Made from a f...

A magnificent antique fall-front box with scarce Medieval period bronze lockplate and hasp attributed to Jacopo and Lodovico del Duca. Featuring an important Lockplate and Hasp designed circa 1570, exact date of manufacture unknown, attributed to the late 16th century Roman foundry of Jacopo 1520-1604) and Ludovico (1551-1601) del Duca, with no apparent signatures or hallmarks which is typical of the era, but we did not remove it and inspect the back. Boxes such as this hand various uses but were frequently used by merchants as a writing box - slope during travel and trade, as a small coffer - strong box for storing important documents, money and valuables, as well as a jewelry casket. This hand-crafted European drop-front box dates to the late 19th century, signed L'PUPLET, adorned with a significantly older Italian fine quality cast bronze lockplate with intricate Renaissance era reliefs, including figures, coat-of-arms, and elongated hasp, mounted on a chest of drawers form solid wooden case, wrapped in exotic Japanesque embossed and gilded metallic paper, having a locking fall-front panel with original key included, opening to reveal three interior drawers, all lined in red velvet. circa 1875 The visually striking textured wallpaper covering the box's exterior displays bamboo, birds, and flowers in the oriental Japanesque taste popular in Europe in the 1860s and 1870s following the forced reopening of foreign trade with Japan in 1858 and the ensuing Japonisme craze. To the interior of the fall front panel is a gilt circular stamp with the somewhat obscured name of the workshop or store (likely) "L'PUPLET" and the city "Burxelles" which is in Brussels, indicating the box was likely made or retailed there. Marks to box: L'PUPLET, BRUXELLES Inscription: 13, 14, 15 (Interior drawers inscribed on the verso of their backboards in script from top to bottom, respectively) Provenance / Acquisition: The origin of the elaborate lockplate with hasp on the front of the piece is more intriguing. At least 76 lockplates of this design have been recorded in major museums, private collections, and in the antiques trade across the Western World. For example, lockplates of this pattern are in the collections of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the State Museum of Prussian Cultural Heritage in Berlin, the Museum Cicico in Bologna, The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Dallas Museum of Art in Texas, the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the Museo di Palazzo Venezia in Rome, the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.[1] Specialists in Renaissance bronzes, especially Charles Avery...

A beautiful square yellow alabaster trinket box with a floral design. With a hinged lid, a lovely floral motif in purple and green decorates the ...

Wonderful green stone box in brass hinged framing. Small chip to one top corner, very small, right at the brass framing. 5.5 x 3.5 in.

Particolare Scatola Decorativa in bambù intrecciato e Ottone design Italiano 1960.

This warm and elegant Modernist Hand-Blown Murano Glass Box in Amber W/ Brass Fittings originates from Italy during the 21st Century. A sleek and minimal piece with incredible hues a...

Box in onyx, in a green color. It is a decorative or jewelry box, made in Italy circa 1970.

Jewelry box in casted polished brass designed by Nika Zupanc. Smaller ring holder is also available.

Wonderful Mid-Century jewelry or decorative rectangular box, made in charming smoked brownish lucite with a "frozen effect." This elegant object was produced in Italy during the 1970...

Travel leather watch case with capacity for 1 watch in the adjustable leather support. Available in three finishing options: Black leather with poli...

Sphere table cigarette lighter in 925/1000 gold-plated sterling silver and translucent fire enamel on guilloché, in a modern contemporary style. Piezoelectric mechanism. Dimensions d...

Chinoiserie hand painted tole box with hinged top. Pale green background with lovely painted Asian figures. A lovely mid-century Italian piece.

Box quartz and marble in black marble with lid. With natural quartz on lid's top.

This is a luxury Art Deco wood and sterling silver lidded box, handcrafted by silversmith Adriana Binazzi. The rare piece was crafted in Firenze, Italy, circa 1930. The rectangular s...

Jewelry box in briar and mahogany, matte finish, ultra suede lining. 24-karat gold plated brass accessories. With removable tray and necklace bar.

Hollywood Regency Gilt Brass Tissue Box Holder with Tassel & Filigree, Italian Rococo Style, c. 1960s Bring vintage glamour to your space with this exquisite Hollywood Regency gilt brass tissue box holder, crafted in the ornate Italian Rococo style of the 1960s. A rare and luxurious decorative accessory, this pierced filigree tissue holder evokes the elegance of Stylebuilt and Matson vanity pieces, blending mid-century modern flair with classical Baroque detailing. Expertly constructed from gilt brass with an intricate openwork design, the surface features a reticulated filigree pattern enhanced by a regal ribbon and tassel motif. The elevated braided rim and bold lion claw feet lend it a refined, sculptural presence—perfect for accenting vanities, powder rooms, or any Hollywood Regency interior. Finished in radiant gold ormolu, the box boasts a beautiful vintage patina that speaks to its timeless charm and collectible value. The top lifts easily and fits securely, making it both functional and visually striking. Key Features: * Origin: Likely Italy, circa 1960s * Style: Hollywood Regency, Italian Rococo, Mid-Century Glam * Material: Gilt brass with pierced filigree and ormolu finish * Motifs: Ribbon and tassel front, braided edge, lion paw feet * Dimensions: 3.25” H x 6” D x 11” W * Condition: Excellent vintage condition; no dents or dings, with light, age-appropriate patina inside lining. A standout piece for traditional, eclectic, or vintage-inspired decor, this vintage tissue box holder is a glamorous fusion of function and artistry—ideal for collectors of ornate vanity accessories or lovers of Hollywood Regency decor. Keywords: Hollywood Regency brass box, vintage ormolu tissue box, gold filigree tissue box holder, rope and tassel design, Stylebuilt Matson style, mid-century glam decor, vintage bathroom accessory, Regency Modern gold tissue box...

Ladies’ cigarette case rectangular convex “olive” shape in 925/1000 sterling silver with black and white fire enamel with Art Deco style design. With “lost” hinge, that is semi-invis...

Polished white bird’s-eye maple or polished walnut matte finish armored chest, 24-karat gold-plated accessories. Round handle with biometric opening device and emergency key integrat...

Pipe holder box featuring a lid and small lateral handles designed to hold a pipe securely. The surface is horizontally incised and coated with a bright orange glaze over a brown bas...

Wood Box Design Ingo Knuth Prod. DNK Daniela Mola Milan, 1970 Wood and Leather Adjustable Height Sticker Label under the base Excellent Condiction h max: 36 cm H min: 27 cm

An elegant Murano glass hinged box in the form of an egg, exemplifying the refined craftsmanship of Venetian glassmaking. The body is composed of softly opalescent glass, adorned wit...

Egg on tripod engraved in 925/1000 gilded silver with translucent enamel on fire on guilloché, Russian Empire style inspired by the eggs of Carl Fabergé late 19th century, early 20th...

Beautiful and rare Gothic Revival treasure box with bronze handle. If you are a collector of antique boxes and/or if you are looking for an extraordinary jewelry box to grace your credenza or side table then this unique and top quality made specimen in the Gothic style could be perfect. Gothic Revival boxes are very hard to find and we have never seen one with such prodigious carvings on all sides. The unique and cat-like dragon gargoyles (with fangs) that look like they are carrying this casket, are just some of the stunningly carved and detailed sculptures that make this antique rarity even more artistic and impressive. Another great feature are the peacock sculptures. In Christianity the peacock is the symbol of purity. Christians believe that once someone has passed their soul rises and goes to heaven. This is why in earlier times Christians would spread the feathers of a peacock over the deceased since it symbolized a pure soul that was immune to corruption. The peacock also represents immortality, resurrection, and the spiritual teachings of Jesus Christ and the Christian church. Have you also noticed the top quality details on both ends of the bronze handle on top? The quality of that ornamental work is of the absolute highest standard also. There are many more incredibly beautiful, hand carved details and together they show that no expense was spared to create one of the most amazing Gothic caskets...

Lockable jewelry box with removable tray, lined for earrings, rings, necklaces. Available in polished ebony, polished red burl wood or white bird’s...

This exceptional 15th-century Venetian painted casket is a rare example of early decorative art from the late Medieval to early Renaissance period in the Republic of Venice, Italy. H...

Large vintage Italian Capodimonte Porcelain box. Stunning large vintage Italian Capodimonte porcelain box. This lovely...