20th Century Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes

Exquisite Austrian Art-Nouveau Tabatière and Matchbox, Around 1900: Rectangular silver cigarette case in a smooth finish, curved, with hinged lid, coloured enamel painting on the top...

One of the rarer shapes from the Keith Murray range, this vase will appeal to the collector and decorator alike. Keith Murray, a renowned figure in the Art Deco movement, made signi...

Antique Berber Kabyle box container to hold rings and pins small jewelry or khol. Made of silver wash with filigree enamel in pagoda shape. Enamel and rhinestone made of silver tone ...

This is a joyful novelty- a Black Forest hand-carved Terrier box. A beautifully executed piece with exceptional detail, right down to the tail. This terrier’s hind legs are attached ...

Black plastic and chromed metal ashtray. Stamped on the bottom. Wear due to time and age of the ashtray.

Classic vintage Hermès cigarette box. Cigarette box is heavy and wrapped in leather. Cornucopia (Horn of Plenty) decorative lid. Removable metal ...

An exceptional, fine and impressive antique George V English sterling silver combination vesta and tobacco box; an addition to our smoking related silverware collection This exceptional antique George V sterling silver tobacco box has a plain circular rounded form. The upper portion of this antique silver...

Rare and original metal Boxe by Piero Fornasetti from 50's, decorated with pipes, with the original package. in very good and original condition, used for matches, cigarettes jewelry...

Rare terracota tabacco boxe showing a head of an old Breton End of XIX century around 1900 France

This wooden box is a Japanese tabako-bon, or 'tobacco tray,' used to store tobacco and smoking accessories. Believed to have evolved from the traditional ...

Vintage 20th Century European solid silver cigarette case. The front features a flying bird amidst foliage, while the reverse displays a simple foliage pattern. The design highlights...

A sterling silver Georg Jensen box, design #1142A by Soren “Søren” Georg Jensen from 1965. The lid is a separate piece and lifts off. There are different sizes of this box, this is t...

Solid silver box for tobacco. The box was made entirely by hand starting from a silver sheet and subsequently shaped and welded giving it an oval and rounded shape. The external part of the body of the box has been polished with pumice stone making it smooth and shiny, while the hand hammering is clearly visible inside the box. The lid was embossed and hand engraved with the figure of a Scottish man...

A sterling silver Georg Jensen box, design #1142A by Soren (Søren) Georg Jensen from 1965. The lid is a separate piece and lifts off, the top surface of the lid is gilt. There are di...

This wooden box is a Japanese tabako-bon, or 'tobacco tray,' used to store tobacco and smoking accessories. Believed to have evolved from the traditional ...

Rounded rectangular snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling silver with fine hand-painted fire-enamelled miniature depicting the Head of the Statue of Liberty in New York. Dimensions cm. 5.5 x 7 x 1.8. Weight gr. 105. Designed by Giorgio Salimbeni in 1975 in Art Deco style and executed in numerous specimens, at the specific request of the firm Tiffany & Co., in Florence in the headquarters of the Salimbeni firm with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for sustaining 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...

Enamelled German cigarette case. Great historical piece, created in Germany during the turn of the century, back in the 1905. This beautiful cigarette box has been carefully craft...

An exceptional, fine and impressive antique Edwardian English 9-karat yellow gold and rose gold vesta case; an addition to our boxes and cases collection. This exceptional antique...

French Art Deco 950 silver box, ca 1920. Round and flat. Concentric engine turned ornament with engraved flowers on top center and patera on bottom center. Gilt interior. Sweet and p...

Piero Fornasetti, Set di due scatole da fumo Scatole in metallo smaltato e legno disegnate da Piero Fornasetti Anni 50 Il set è composto da una scatola porta sigari e una scatola ...

The front of the case exhibiting an exquisite hand painted panel depicting sprays of irises in shades of lavender, royal blue & green, set against a radiant white enamelled machined ...

A mallard duck desk or smoker set in Parisian porcelain, composed of an ashtray, a desk tray, a business card box and a tobacco jar dressed in cellar leather...

A little poem in wood, this early 20th-century Swedish tobacco box is a quiet testament to the beauty of everyday ritual. Hand-turned from golden-hued burled birch, its surface is al...

Art Deco painted porcelain box signed Edouard-Marcel Sandoz and manufactured by Theodore Haviland - Limoges. Stamps on the bottom. Origin France, circa 1920. Box with a cat or fox fi...

Extremely rare covered pot. Rich glazes with a juxtaposition of white and vivid colours forming an abstract overprinted decor. The inside of the cover features a generous dedication...

The brass body showing a hinged lid rising up to a faceted receptacle with an engraved hinged cover, overtop a hinged open compartment which then lifts to reveal an interior fitted ...

Hand painted oval ceramic ashtray with small covered part in the middle. The top of it is decorated with flowers and leaves in bright colours. There are numerous stamps and numbers o...

1980s English metal black trinket box with Egyptian art decoration.

19th century French papier mâché hand painted round trinket box.

Chinese Brass Box with Chinese Letter Inscriptions on the Top.

Antique early 20th century Imperial Russian solid silver tromp l'oeil cigar box, rectangular, the hinged cover, sides and base chased and engraved to simulate woodgrain and tobacco t...

1970s Indian bronze box with character on the lid.

Monkey tobacco box by Edouard Marcel Sandoz (1881-1971) and manufactured by Haviland. Wapler, Jacques-Ph. (1999) "De la sculpture a la porcela...