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Antique Chinese Camphorwood Trunk Coffer Coffee Table 19th C
Located in London, GB
This is beautifully carved antique Chinese camphorwood bedding trunk or coffer, circa 1880 in date.
With a rectangular hinged lid and side carrying handles there is no mistaking its...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Other
English Tortoiseshell Tea Caddy
Located in Dallas, TX
A lovely bow front tortoiseshell tea caddy inlaid with mother of pearl flowers and topped with a silver badge. English, circa 1870.
Category
English Antique Late 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Silver
19th Century Majolica Elephant Tobacco Jar Onnaing
By Onnaing
Located in Austin, TX
Majolica tobacco jar signed Onnaing, circa 1890.
The two handles are elephants heads, decorated with corn, the handle of the jar is a corn.
Category
French Majolica Pottery Antique Late 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Majolica
19th Century Hoshiarpur Inlaid Writing Box
Located in London, GB
19th Century Hoshiarpur Inlaid Writing Box
Quite simply, this is a stunning example of a 19th Century hand crafted Hoshiarpur inlaid writing box. The craftsmanship is quite amazing ...
Category
Indian Early Victorian Antique Late 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Wood
19th Century Rosewood Dressing/Jewellery Box
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
Victorian Rosewood Dressing table box with Mother of pearl car-touché to the centre of the lid, the lid does have age related shrinkage. To the inside of the lid it has a blue velvet...
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European Victorian Antique Late 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Rosewood
Antique Jewelry Stand Custom Made of Gilt Bronze, Blue Porcelain and Lucite
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
This piece has a great story. The late 19th Century center object features a gilt metal stand. As found at a market in Copenhagen, Denmark, we later added a thick lucite base and rec...
Category
Danish Mid-Century Modern Antique Late 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Metal, Bronze
Small Antique Apprentice Chest, Anglo-Indian, Colonial Keepsake Box, Victorian
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is a small antique apprentice-piece chest. An Anglo-Indian, carved teak Colonial keepsake box, dating to the late Victorian period, circa 1880....
Category
Indian Late Victorian Antique Late 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Teak
19th C. Italian Grand Tour Micro-Mosaic "Doves of Pliny" Box After Antiquity
By Vatican Mosaic Studio
Located in Atlanta, GA
Italian, likely Circa 1880.
This beautiful box has an exceptional Grand Tour Micro-mosaic plaque depicting the Capitoline Doves or Doves of Pliny after the Roman antiquity. Also by ...
Category
Italian Grand Tour Antique Late 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Slate, Bronze
Hand Painted Porcelain and Gilt Bronze Oval Trinket Box
Located in Guaynabo, PR
This is a hand painted porcelain and gilt bronze oval trinket box. It depicts an oval porcelain plaque featuring an 18th century portrait of an elegant lady. She is wearing a large r...
Category
Unknown Rococo Antique Late 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Porcelain
1890s Antique French Silver Mussel Vesta Case
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique French silver vesta case in the form of a mussel; an addition to our diverse smoking related silverware collection
This exceptional antique French silver vesta case has an elongated asymmetrical form, realistically modelled in the form of a mussel shell.
The anterior and posterior surfaces of the vesta are embellished with engraved decoration replicating the contours of the natural shell.
This fine antique silver vesta...
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French Antique Late 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Silver
Antique Victorian J&S Embossed Gilt Metal Enameled Glove Storage Casket Box
Located in Dayton, OH
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...
Category
Victorian Antique Late 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Metal
Antique Desktop Stationery Box, English, Oak, Arts & Crafts, Victorian, C.1890
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique desktop stationery box. An English, oak correspondence case in Arts & Crafts taste, dating to the late Victorian period, circa 1890.
Striking Victorian craftsmans...
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British Arts and Crafts Antique Late 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Leather, Oak
Singing Bird Cage by Bontems
By Bontems
Located in Zonhoven, BE
Rare and very decorative singing bird automaton.
Made in de 4th quarter of the 19th century by Bontems in Paris (France).
This top quality singing bird has a wooden gilded base to ...
Category
French Late Victorian Antique Late 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Metal, Gold Plate, Other
French Bronze Hand Painted Portrait Guilloche Round Trinket Jewelry/Powder Box
Located in Guaynabo, PR
This is a French patinated bronze metal round trinket lidded box. It depicts a pierced round metal box decorated with a relief of foliages. The lid is ad...
Category
French Belle Époque Antique Late 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Liquor cellar with cut crystal bottles and glasses
Located in Paris, FR
Flamed mahogany liqueur cellar with brass inlaid frame simulating box hardware. The side handles are also inlaid around a motif of two swans facing each other. The keyhole and openin...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Antique English Sheffield Silver Footed Jewel Box, Circa 1890.
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique English Sheffield Silver-Plated Footed Jewel Box, Circa 1890.
Beautiful Chasing
Category
English Antique Late 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Sheffield Plate
Antique Victorian Burr Walnut & Inlaid Marquetry Canterbury Magazine Rack 19th C
Located in London, GB
This is a gorgeous antique Victorian burr walnut and marquetry inlaid enclosed Canterbury circa 1870 in date.
The grain of the burr walnut is truly beautiful. It features a hinged...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Walnut
Sevres Porcelain Cobalt Blue Ground Watteau Lovers Scene Bombay form Box, Signed
Located in New York, NY
A fabulous French Louis XVI style Sevres Porcelain cobalt blue Ground Watteau Lovers Scene Bombay form jewel box and cover, Signed by the Artist. Of cartouche form with bombay shaped...
Category
French Louis XVI Antique Late 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Porcelain
Outstanding Large 19th Century Bronze & Porcelain Jewelry Casket Box
Located in Long Branch, NJ
Outstanding Large 19th Century Bronze & Porcelain Jewelry Casket Box
Dimensions : 14" Tall X 16" Wide X 11" Deep
This gorgeous Antique jewelry ...
Category
German Rococo Antique Late 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Ormolu
Antique Travelling Vanity Box, English, Campaign Correspondence Case, Victorian
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique travelling vanity box. An English, leather bound campaign correspondence case, dating to the late Victorian period, circa 1880....
Category
British Antique Late 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Leather
Vintage Limoges 22k Gold Trinket Ashtray Louis XVI Courtesan Scene
By Limoges
Located in BILBAO, ES
Elegant vintage Limoges 22-karat gold trinket ashtray
French vintage Limoges porcelain in cobalt royal blue with fine gold decor.
Marked on base as “Limog...
Category
French Louis XVI Antique Late 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Enamel, Gold Leaf
19th Century Japanese Style Storage Box - Bamboo and Copper
Located in Casteren, Noord-Brabant
A beautiful antique storage box, made of bamboo, beautifully decorated with plates of gracefully embossed copper.
The chest was probably made in Japan, for the European/French market...
Category
Japanese Chinoiserie Antique Late 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Copper
19th Century Napoleon III Game Box with Burl Wood and Brass
Located in Casteren, Noord-Brabant
Beautiful antique game box from the French Napoleon III period. The box is made of book veneer match, inlaid with brass trims. This box shows the fine craftsmanship of the ebenist wh...
Category
French Napoleon III Antique Late 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Brass
Antique French Victorian Burled Marquetry Inlay Trinket Vanity Case Cigar Box
Located in Dayton, OH
An exceptional large wooden case from the Victorian era, circa 1880s. Made from pine with raised and burled panels. Features a marquetry inlay top showcasing a bird within a flowerin...
Category
Victorian Antique Late 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Pine, Burl
Japanese 7-Pcs, Arita Sweetmeat Set & Matching Lacquer Box Meiji Period, 1880s
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
A seven-piece Japanese Arita Sweetmeat set and matching lacquer box, Meiji period (1880-1890). Comprising of a central hexagonal dish and six-fan shaped ...
Category
Japanese Meiji Antique Late 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Porcelain, Lacquer
Coromandel Jewellery Cabinet Betjemann & Sons (attributed)
Located in Northampton, GB
Dome Topped with Three Drawers
From our Jewellery Boxes collection, we are pleased to offer this stunning dome-topped Coromandel Jewellery cabinet. The Cabinet of rectangular shape...
Category
English High Victorian Antique Late 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Brass
Victorian Period Sterling Silver Heart-Form Trinkets Box Having a Hinged Lid
Located in New York, NY
Victorian Period, sterling silver, heart-form trinkets box having a hinged lid and gilded interior, Birmingham, England, year-hallmarked for 1895, James Aitchison - maker (by Appoint...
Category
English Victorian Antique Late 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
19th Century Palissy Majolica Pumpkin Tureen
Located in Austin, TX
Small 19th Century Palissy Majolica Pumpkin Tureen.
Category
Portuguese Rustic Antique Late 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
19th Century Graduated Stack of Paint Decorated Pantry Boxes
Located in Nantucket, MA
19th Century Graduated Stack of Paint Decorated Pantry Boxes, circa 1880, comprising five shaved splint bentwood pantry boxes with straight overlaps fastened via wooden pegs, in late...
Category
American Country Antique Late 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Wood
Antique Silver Caviar BOX Decorative Box, HERRING JAR Glass Insert & Fish Handle
Located in Wembley, GB
Antique valuable handmade silver box or Decorative caviar box with decorative Herring fish lid pressed, cast and chased, glass insert. Rectangular body on short, curved feet with hinged, vaulted lid. All-encompassing C-curves in relief, latticework, rocailles, tendrils of flowers and matching cartouches.
Antique Silver Caviar...
Category
Spanish Art Deco Antique Late 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Silver, Sterling Silver
Fine Antique English Coromandel Decanter / Drinks Box, circa 1880
Located in Bath, GB
A truly magnificent drinks / decanter box made from exotic Coromandel mounted with polished brass mounts inset with a plethora of different kinds of cabochon cut and polished onyx st...
Category
English Late Victorian Antique Late 19th Century Boxes
Singing bird box by Bruguier in silver guilded case with enameled lid
Located in Zonhoven, BE
Rectangular silver guilded case with rounded corners.
The oval lid has an enamel painting on the exterior of a mountain view and on the interior brightly enamelled with flower bouqu...
Category
Swiss Late Victorian Antique Late 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Metal, Silver, Enamel, Other
Large 19th Century Continental Neoclassical Between Dresser Vanity Box
Located in Lambertville, NJ
An extensively filled 19th century ormolu-mounted ebonized wood dresser vanity box fitted with silver gold washed lidded glass gars and sewing tools. The ...
Category
European Empire Antique Late 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Ormolu
CARL HIESS, Antique Silver & Gold Snuff Box with Blue Spinel, Austria, C.1880
Located in Chatham, ON
CARL HEISS - Antique - finest quality - silver and rose gold hinged snuff box with delicate diamond tooled surface - reverse painted French Bulldog on Rock Crystal Intaglio...
Category
Austrian Victorian Antique Late 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Rock Crystal, Sterling Silver
Singing Bird Cage with 2 birds by Bontems
By Bontems
Located in Zonhoven, BE
Rare and very decorative singing bird automaton.
Made in de 4th quarter of the 19th century by Bontems in Paris (France).
This singing bird cage has a brass gilded base to conseal ...
Category
French Late Victorian Antique Late 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Metal, Gold Plate, Other
Very Large 19th Century Ormolu Mounted Sèvres Celeste Blue Ground Porcelain Box
Located in New York, NY
A Very Large 19th Century Ormolu Mounted Sèvres Celeste Blue Ground Porcelain Box with Watteau Scene Cartouches. This box consists of signature celeste blue ground of Sèvres porcela...
Category
French Louis XVI Antique Late 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Ormolu
SIMPSON HALL MILLER & CO - Arts & Crafts Silver Plate Jewelry Box - US - 19th C
Located in Chatham, ON
SIMPSON HALL MILLER & CO. - Arts & Crafts silver plate jewelry/cuff-links box - 'TPMJ' monogram - delicate tooling - cuff-link finial/handle - signed and marked on the base 'QUADRUPL...
Category
American Arts and Crafts Antique Late 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Silver Plate
Silver Enameled Box by Rudolf Steiner, 1899 with a Miniature Painting
Located in Delft, NL
Silver enameled box by Rudolf Steiner, 1899 with a miniature painting
An octagonal Austrian silver white enameled, inside gold-plated box made by Ru...
Category
Austrian Antique Late 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Gold, Silver
19th century French Napoleon III Singing Bird Brass Cage, 1870s
Located in LEGNY, FR
Beautiful Helvetic French Napoleon III period animated Singing Bird Brass wire cage dome with a repousse filigree decorated brass base has two birds in the cage which alternate singi...
Category
French Napoleon III Antique Late 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Brass
Antique French Black Cut Crystal and Bronze Jewelry Box with Enamel Decorations
Located in Swedesboro, NJ
Dimensions - H: 4 1/4 in W: 4 1/2 in D: 3 in
This Antique French 19th Century Black Cut Crystal and Bronze Jewelry Box showcases the remarkable craf...
Category
French Louis XV Antique Late 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Bronze, Enamel
Anglo-Indian Footed Box with Lidded Compartments, 19th Century
Located in North Hollywood, CA
19th century Anglo-Indian wooden box fitted with various compartments finely hand carved.
The top is finely hand carved with the Taj Mahal.
The interior with removable hand carved nine-lidded compartments, the front cover has a mirror, the whole exhibiting very fine workmanship.
This fine late Victorian Anglo-Indian box from India is in great condition for it age.
A beautiful example of an Anglo-Indian fine art...
Category
Indian Anglo-Indian Antique Late 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Sandalwood
Antique French 20k Gold Snuff Box, Circa 1870
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique French 20 karat tri-coloured gold snuff box; an addition to our 19th century collection.
This exceptional antique French 20k yellow gold snuff box has an oval shaped form.
The body of this antique box is embellished with panels of engine turned and tooled decoration, incorporating circular and floral motifs.
Each incurved cornered panel is encompassed with applied simplified foliate festoon and column style borders, accented with tri-colored gold highlights.
This impressive antique 20ct gold box...
Category
French Antique Late 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Gold
Antique Gilt Bronze Jewellery Casket & Limoges Miniature 19th Century
Located in London, GB
This is a beautiful antique Napoleon III gilded ormolu and Limoges enamel jewellery casket, Circa 1870 in date.
The hinged lid having a beautiful finely painted miniature Limoges en...
Category
French Napoleon III Antique Late 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Ormolu
Naturalistic Victorian silver plated folding biscuit box made circa 1890
Located in London, London
Made circa 1890 by James Dixon & Sons, this attractive, Antique, Victorian, Silver Plate folding Biscuit Box, is of traditional form, with push button opening to each side, and gilt ...
Category
English Victorian Antique Late 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Silver Plate
Antique Correspondence Box, English, Leather, Travel, After Asprey, Victorian
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique correspondence box. An English, aged leather travelling writing case in the manner of Asprey, dating to the mid Victorian period, circa 1860.
Appealing Victorian leather writing...
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British Victorian Antique Late 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Leather
Black and Red Leather Box bearing Arms of Irish MacNamara Clan, 1880s London
Located in Knivsta, SE
Black and Red Leather Box bearing Arms and Words of Irish MacNamara Clan, 1880s London.
A striking leather box, produced by London firm Parkins & Gotto, Oxford Street-based company specialized in leather goods and stationary. Features the coat of arms, with a rearing (rampant) lion surrounded by standing golden arrows in a solid field of red as well as a helmet with coronet, mounted with an arm bearing a sword, as well as the motto of the MacNamara clan (Firmitas in Caelo, meaning Strength in Heaven), an ancient Irish...
Category
English High Victorian Antique Late 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Leather
A Large French Antique Sevres Style Porcelain & Gilt Bronze Box Casket
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Adorned with five painted panels depicting delicate floral motifs and classical scenes, this piece showcases the hallmark elegance and artistry of Sevres porcelain.
Sevres porcelain...
Category
French Antique Late 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Bronze
19th Century Portuguese Palissy Majolica Pumpkin Mustard Pot
Located in Austin, TX
19th Century Portuguese Majolica Pumpkin Mustard Pot signed A.Cunha Caldas da Rainha.
H / 4 inches , Diameter / 4.5 inches.
Category
Portuguese Rustic Antique Late 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
Antique French Sterling Neoclassical 'Four Seasons' Tea Caddy
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Antique French Sterling neoclassical 'Four Seasons' tea caddy
France, circa 1880s
A hefty, highly detailed silver tea caddy/ box, with remo...
Category
European Neoclassical Revival Antique Late 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Victorian Rosewood Tunbridge Ware Tea Caddy
Located in Northampton, GB
Dome Topped Tea Caddy
From our Tunbridge Ware collection, we are delighted to offer this Victorian Coromandel Tunbridge Ware Tea Caddy. The Tea Ca...
Category
English High Victorian Antique Late 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Wood
Gilt Bronze Box with Enamel Portrait of Beautiful Lady on Four Raised Feet
Located in Boston, MA
Bronze box with an enamel artist signed portrait of a beautiful lady on four raised feet. It is artist signed L. C. The box has a rose velvet interior. It is from the late 19th centu...
Category
French Napoleon III Antique Late 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Fine Gilt Bronze and Wedgwood Two-Handled Casket, circa 1875
Located in New York, NY
Fine gilt bronze and Wedgwood two-handled casket, circa 1875.
Category
English Antique Late 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Anglo-Indian Vizagapatam Bombay Mughal Style Footed Box With Bone Overlay
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Nice and unusual Indian Mughal style large decorative box, filigree and carved horn.
Anglo-Indian footed domed box with exceptional engraved details throughout with filigree and carved veneered bone plaques with arabesque carving.
Vizagapatam, late 19th century.
History of the Anglo-Indian Boxes
Beginning in the early part of the 18th century, Indian artisans made what came to be known as Anglo-Indian boxes for the English residents living in India, who eventually brought or sent them back to England. At the beginning of the 19th century, India began exporting these boxes commercially, although not in any significant numbers until the 1850s. People valued them so highly that manufacturers of tins copied the designs on them in the late 19th and early 20th century.
Anglo-Indian boxes fall into four groups: Rosewood or ebony boxes inlaid;
sandalwood boxes veneered; sandalwood boxes covered with Sadeli mosaic; and carved boxes often combined with Sadeli mosaic/
The first two categories came from Vizagapatam in East India while the last two came from Bombay in West India.
English traders discovered the rich woods and intricate workmanship of Indian artisans, so colonial government officials began to recognize the work of the Indian artists and craftsmen as a source for satisfying the need for furniture and boxes, which would both serve to enhance English households in India. This gave rise to the cabinetmaking workshops in Vizagapatam between Calcutta and Madras.
Craftsmen made the first boxes to be decorated with Sadeli mosaic of rosewood or ebony, incised to give further definition to the decoration, directly inlaid into the wood. The shape of the early boxes was either sloping at the front with a flatter section at the back, reminiscent of English writing slopes, or rectangular. Artisans inlaid the borders with stylized floral scrolls and the centers with a single floral motif following a circular or oval symmetrical or asymmetrical pattern. The edging was ornamental and protective, both helped protect the end grain against the weather.
Made in Vizagapatam, situated on the south east coast of India, near Madras
These exotic boxes...
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Indian Anglo Raj Antique Late 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Wood
Vintage Limoges 22k Gold Trinket Jewelry Small Tray Louis XVI Courtesan Scene
By Limoges
Located in BILBAO, ES
Elegant vintage Limoges 22-karat gold trinket small tray
French vintage Limoges porcelain in cobalt royal blue with fine gold decor.
Marked on base as “Limoges France" Porcelain D'...
Category
French Louis XVI Antique Late 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Enamel, Gold Leaf
19th Century Oak and Metal Bound Silver Chest
Located in Cheshire, GB
19th century oak and metal bound silver chest, applied with iron side swing handles and corner brackets, opening to an arrangement of four compartmentalised removable trays.
Dimensi...
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British Antique Late 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Oak
Wooden Box
Located in London, England
Brass bound box in walnut. Circa 1880
H 31cm x W 63cm x D 25cm
Category
British Antique Late 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Brass
Antique Travelling Jewellery Box, Chinese, Lacquered, Campaign Case, Victorian
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique travelling jewellery box. A Chinese, lacquered pine campaign case, dating to the late Victorian period, circa 1900.
Delightful example of red lacquered craftsmans...
Category
Chinese Chinoiserie Antique Late 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Pine, Lacquer
A Japanese Meiji Period Black Lacquer Hokai Lidded Box with Brass Mounts
Located in San Francisco, CA
this large ribbed and cylindrical Japanese shell-game box with domed lid decorated overall with Maki-e (gold lacquered) foliate wreaths and stylized flower heads and incised brass mounts; raised on four splayed supports.
Hokai boxes...
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Japanese Meiji Antique Late 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Lacquer
