1980s Boxes

A vintage 1989 reproduction by the Museum of Modern Art of an Asante gold dust box. Made of gold toned metal with a beautiful design of birds perched along the edges of the lid. Some...

Beautiful brutalist box designed and manufactured in italy in the early 1980s. Great work of resin and wood. Rare object that will elevate your interior. We specialize in vintage de...

Maison Lancel Paris designed this stunning lidded box. The piece was crafted in France, circa 1980. The minimalist rectangular shape features a sleek design with polished, chromed me...

Vintage wooden box with polish horn decoration and stainless steel rim Italy, Three interior compartments, which could have been intended for: Playing cards (such as bridge or poker...

The set of Wedgwood consists of three lidded boxes in different shape and design and two small serving bowls of which one can be used as an ashtray. All is made of the famous but r...

This is a box for the matcha powder using while tea ceremony in Japan. It is called 'Natsume'. It is made with wood. The design is a boat and it is hand painted. The material is with...

Leo Sewell Trash Can. Made of an accumulation of found objects Signed and Dated on the bottom.

Rectangular snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fine hand engraving, fire enamelled, in “Rococo” style from the early 19th century. Measurements cm. 4.5 x 7.7 x 2. ...

This is a gorgeous and hard-to-find sculptural porcelain box with a lid. It is shaped like a woman's head with a hat; the top of the hat forms the lid. It is not only a highly decora...

Vintage Live Edge Trinket jewelry box by Michael Elkan.

Beautiful jewelry box designed in Italy in the 1980s. Silver plated box depicting a shell symbol of love and beauty since antiquity. Superb design object that will decorate your inte...

Louis Vuitton Beauty Case, France Circa 1980 This Louis Vuitton Beauty Case, also known as the ‘Boite Flacons’, is in excellent condition. The loc...

Superb jewelry box designed and produced in Mexico during the 1980's. This artisanal set with abalone mother-of-pearl and alpaca, is a true work of art. A beautiful item to display i...

This Maitland Smith hommage to Paul Frankl's "Skyscraper Furniture" Features 18 Drawers two drawers and a pull-out shelf. It is a post-modern mast...

Beautiful organic scandinavian jewelry box, made of teak wood. In very good condition.

This is an authentic Soviet era Russian black lacquer multi colored hand painted child's jewelry box, made of papier mache (more desirable and of higher quality than wood) and having...

Maitland-Smith designed this spectacular lidded box. The piece was crafted circa 1980. The box features a tessellated composition of marble, stone, travertine, and brass. The pyramid...

Very beautiful walnut-shaped jewelry box designed and made in italy in the 1980s vintage. Beautiful decorative object perfect for storing your earrings, small necklaces or even your ...

Wonderful architectural jewelry box by the talented British born California artist Po Shun Leong, Leung. It is quite sculptural and will stand alone as u...

This exceptional modernist silver plate lidded box has a design reminiscent of Gabriella Crespi's prestigious production. The rare piece was expertly crafted in Italy circa 1980. The...

This striking and unusual, this Hollywood Regency lidded decorative box was crafted by the renowned luxury design house Maitland-Smith during the mid 1980s. The substantial piece fea...

Boat Shaped Teak Box signed BAE, 1981 Tamborine Door Blue Velvet on Interior "In nice vintage as found condition with some minor wear to wood surface." "Takes some pressure / forc...

The Vintage Italian Decorative Wood Box from the 1980s is a beautifully crafted box with intricate woodwork, originating from Italy. Adorned with t...

Wonderful Extra large Tessellated Travertine and Marble box by Maitland Smith. The hinged Travertine box is complemented by a burgundy border with brass inlays, The box sits on br...

Large 13' tall 1631 Gallon Glass Water Tank with Steel Base featuring a steel industrial grade base with the styling of a 1930s industrial Aquarium. The tank is made of 4" thick glas...

Vintage Hollywood Regency large Maitland-Smith style tessellated Tan / Coral marble with brass trim pill form decorative box with removable lid and lined felt interior. In fine condi...

1980s decorative pen shell cube box attributed to Maitland Smith. Medium brown pen shell with dark gray tessellated stone accents. Wood lined box. No ma...

From Fitz and Floyd, a charming porcelain Dalmation trinket box, dating to 1985. Two yellow and black spotted dogs sit atop an oval, green glazed lidded box with metal bracing. The...

Octagonal table box in 925/1000 sterling silver with fire-enamelled Art Deco design. Dimensions diameter cm. 15.8 high cm . 8.2. Weight gr. 974. Designed by Giorgio Salimbeni for Cartier USA in the 1980s, inspired by objects designed by Louis Cartier around 1920 and manufactured in Florence in various specimens, also in parure with other objects and in different colors, in the headquarters by the Salimbeni firm with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for withstanding numerous high-fire enamelled firings at about 750°<800° C. About cooperation Salimbeni and Cartier. Our first meetings with the Cartier USA Company took place through the Giorgini Company, the first "Buying Office" set up in Florence immediately after the Second World War, which had the purpose of bringing together Florentine, and also Italian, producers with American buyers, who especially appreciated the artistic objects still manufactured by artisans who still took inspiration from the Italian Renaissance, using techniques handed down from generation to generation. Mrs. Gina Pestelli, wife of a Florentine retail jeweller, was in charge of contacts with Cartier USA, above all an employee, while her daughter, also for Giorgini, took care of the fashion that in those years was affirmed in Florence with the events of "Pitti ". With their help, we began to supply frames and boxes in sterling silver gold plated with malachite and other semi-precious stones. At the same time, the official buyer of Cartier, Mr. William Smith, began to appreciate and commission the first objects with fired enamels, a process of which we have always been specialists. In 1975 we began exhibiting at the prestigious New York Jewellery Association Show, which we participated in both the February and July editions, for a good 26 years until 2001. In New York in those years the "Art deco style" was still very much appreciated, still mindful of the beautiful early 20th century architecture of the great buildings such as the "Crysler" or the "Empire State". We then began to produce frames, boxes, evening bags, "objets de vertu" and other objects in "art deco style" which were very popular with Mr. Smith who gave us some photocopies of Louis Francois Cartier drawings to reproduce them. Thus, numerous cigarette cases, powder compacts, evening bags, frames and table boxes were created exclusively for Cartier USA which, at the time, had the prestigious "Silver Department" on the first floor of the Cartier store on Fifth Avenue. An evening bag, with matching cigarette case and powder compact, were redone on the design created for a gift given to Mary Pickford at the time. In a 1986 Cartier...

Exceptionally crafted "Kyoto Box" in tessellated penshell with brass inlays on top and trim around base by Karl Springer, American 1980's (signed “Karl Sprin...

From Lalique Crystal, a square shaped covered box in the ‘Duncan’ pattern, France, circa 1980s. The Duncan Line by René Lalique was designed in 1931. The pattern was inspired by th...

Nils Fougstedt (1881-1954), Pewter Box for Firma Svenskt Tenn, 1986 This is an exquisite tin box adorned with intricate meadow flowers in relief. The delicate floral patterns bring ...

This vintage decorative box is crafted from what is possibly tessellated stone in a warm beige and ochre palette, accented with angular brass toned inlay for a striking, sculptural p...

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

A Staffordshire Enamels Old Hall trinket box, England, circa 1980s. A hand-enameled Clover and Butterfly design on a pink base with copper framing. A Butterfly appears on the interi...

This box has a beautiful Patina. In perfect condition, you can use it as a jewlery box, or even to put a candle in the glass inside part. It has been made in France circa 1980

A great organic shaped Box Integrated carved interior tray Beautiful wood selection A large organic example of American Craft

Maitland Smith Mother Of Pearl Box. Offered is a very large decorative box of tessellated mother of pearl in the geometric Art Deco styl...

Vintage Hand Painted Enamel Trinket box by Crummles & Co. The piece features a Victorian ballooning scene.

Gold-Plated Sterling Silver and Enamel Pill Box with Floral Miniature by Romano Buccioni, Salimbeni, Florence, 1980 Exquisite shaped pill box in 925/1000 sterling silver, gold plate...

Maitland Smith Decorative Box. Offered is a handsome cork box by Maitland Smith. This good sized well made box if felt lined makes a great table or bookcase accessory. A great spot ...

Felt-lined lidded box all handcrafted from natural stones Indigenous to the Philippines.

Elegant round decorative box featuring a brass frame with intricate mother-of-pearl inlay arranged in a diamond pattern across the lid and sides. The luminous iridescence of the shel...

A handmade wooden jewellery box with a lid and lock, it is perfectly designed and created in a suitable size for keeping valuables inside. The top of this box has leaf patterns and l...

Porcelaine de Paris (Décor - Chasses Royales). Two small lidded boxes with brass inserts hand-decorated with cheetahs and gold decoration. Approx. 1980s...

Maitland Smith Tessellated Stone Brass Jewelry/Dresser box, 1980’s. Original Measures 9” x 9” 4.5” tall

Bjorn Wiinblad Porcelain box, Quatre Couleurs, designed for Rosenthal, Germany, 1981 A white porcelain lidded box, decorated with a liquid gold painted motif, in four shades of gold....

Round tessellated faux horn box with wood lining. No makers mark or signature

Large rectangular table cigar box with rounded sides in 925/1000 sterling Silver gold plated with translucent fired enamels on guilloche and hand engraving, with two-tone stripes on ...

For your consideration, a decorative wooden box, Attributed to artist Dean Santner. The box features a sleek, rectangular design with rounded edges. The lid is composed of differen...

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A unique, decorative and multipurpose box. If you are looking for a handsome and stylish box for keeping your jewelry or other 'objects of Virtue' than this handcrafted piece could be perfect for you. The maker has gone to great length in making this box, because all sides are perfectly inlaid with square faux shell...

Gold-Plated Sterling Silver and Enamel Pill Box with Floral Miniature by Romano Buccioni for Salimbeni, Florence, 1980 Charming shaped pill box in 925/1000 sterling silver, gold pla...

For your consideration, a vintage box attributed to Maitland Smith (no label present). Tessellated Stone & Brass Square Box. Postmodern era. Dominant colors: off-white, green and go...

Gorgeous vide poche in walnut wood and solid brass. This elegant item was designed by Tommaso Barbi in Italy in the 1970s. This lovely item is made in the shape of a crate combining...

Zig zag patterned cocobolo, blackwood and betel nut lidded box created by Jon Sauer of San Francisco, California. Box measures 7" in height by 3" in diameter. In excellent vintage co...

Large 1980s Tessellated stone with brass handle and rattan by Maitland Smith.

This is the grandfather of Michael Elkan boxes. Retaining it's original surface and the rarely seen or found interior boxes of which this group is intact. All made from the same bloc...

These boxes are a beautiful invention of the master glassmaker Toso Murano who designed them in 1982. They can be used as jewelry boxes, and they are beautiful thanks to the reflec...

For your consideration, a small, handcrafted wooden box, likely a jewelry or keepsake box, featuring a domed lid and various wood types. The box has a polished finish that highlight...