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Baroque Boxes

BAROQUE STYLE

The decadence of the Baroque style, in which ornate furnishings were layered against paneled walls, painted ceilings, stately chandeliers and, above all, gilding, expressed the power of the church and monarchy through design that celebrated excess. And its influence was omnipresent — antique Baroque furniture was created in the first design style that truly had a global impact.

Theatrical and lavish, Baroque was prevalent across Europe from the 17th to mid-18th century and spread around the world through colonialism, including in Asia, Africa and the Americas. While Baroque originated in Italy and achieved some of its most fantastic forms in the late-period Roman Baroque, it was adapted to meet the tastes and materials in each region. French Baroque furniture informed Louis XIV style and added drama to Versailles. In Spain, the Baroque movement influenced the elaborate Churrigueresque style in which architecture was dripping with ornamental details. In South German Baroque, furniture was made with bold geometric patterns.

Compared to Renaissance furniture, which was more subdued in its proportions, Baroque furniture was extravagant in all aspects, from its shape to its materials.

Allegorical and mythical figures were often sculpted in the wood, along with motifs like scrolling floral forms and acanthus leaves that gave the impression of tangles of dense foliage. Novel techniques and materials such as marquetry, gesso and lacquer — which were used with exotic woods and were employed by cabinetmakers such as André-Charles Boulle, Gerrit Jensen and James Moore — reflected the growth of international trade. Baroque furniture characteristics include a range of decorative elements — a single furnishing could feature everything from carved gilded wood to gilt bronze, lending chairs, mirrors, console tables and other pieces a sense of motion.

Find a collection of authentic antique Baroque tables, lighting, decorative objects and other furniture on 1stDibs.

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Style: Baroque
Cigarette Case Baroque style hand engraving enamel Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Cigarette Case rectangular with rounded corners in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with Baroque style hand engraving and hand-painted fired enamel such as malachite stone. Meas...
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1970s Italian Vintage Baroque Boxes

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Gold Plate, Enamel, Sterling Silver

Late 19th Century French Canvas Covered Locking Box
Located in Atlanta, GA
A coated canvas-covered box with nail head decoration, brass lock and brass handle.
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Late 19th Century French Antique Baroque Boxes

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Canvas

Vintage Jewelry Music Box Hand-Made in Italy
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Vintage Italian large footed music box in light gold color with top finely hand painted and wood inlaid with foliages floral decor, brass hardware. Small Vintage Italian handcrafted ...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Baroque Boxes

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Fruitwood

Pill Box pocket engraved and enamel Silver Sterling Enamel Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Large square pocket pill box with rounded corners and sides, in 925/1000 sterling silver with very fine hand engraving in baroque style, fire enamelled. Size cm. 5 x 5 x 2. Weight ...
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1970s Italian Vintage Baroque Boxes

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Gold Plate, Enamel, Sterling Silver

Early 17th Century Italian Red Silk Casket or Box on Stand
Located in Milford, NH
A fine example of an early 17th century Italian wooden casket or box, possibly pine, with slightly vaulted lid covered with red silk and adorned with appliqued foliate velvet with em...
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Early 17th Century Italian Antique Baroque Boxes

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Wrought Iron

Snuff Box Sterling Silver Enameled Miniature Hand Engraved Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Snuff box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fine hand engravings also underneath and fire enamels with beautiful miniature sailboat enameled hand painted by painter Renato...
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1980s Italian Vintage Baroque Boxes

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Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel

Sterling Silver Box Fire Enameled Hand Painted Guilloché Hand Engraved Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Box in sterling Silver gold plated with translucent fire enamels on guilloche on the sides and beautiful hand-painted enamelled miniature by painter Beatrice Mellana reproducing Bouc...
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Early 2000s Italian Baroque Boxes

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Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel

Jewel Box with Miniature Salimbeni Sterling Silver
Located in Firenze, FI
Jewel box with Miniature in 925/1000 sterling silver, gold plated, rectangular with faceted corners. Jewel box with Miniature has translucent fire enamels on guilloche and enriched ...
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Early 2000s Italian Baroque Boxes

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Gold Plate, Enamel, Sterling Silver, Gold

Sterling Silver Snuff Box Fire Enameled Hand Painted Miniature Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Sterling Silver Snuff box with rounded corners gold plated with Baroque style engraved and fire enameled frame with fine hand painted enameled miniature by painter Renato Dainelli de...
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Early 2000s Italian Baroque Boxes

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Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel

Sterling Silver Big Oval Jewel Box Baroque Style, with Miniature Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Jewel box Baroque style, in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated. Jewel Box has fine hand engravings around fired enameled spaces with lapis lazuli type painting. Jewel Box Baroqu...
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Early 2000s Italian Baroque Boxes

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Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel

Gilt Heavy Bronze Repousse Rectangular Jewelry/Decorative Box
Located in Guaynabo, PR
This is a gilt bronze repousse rectangular jewelry/decorative box. It features in the top of the lid a scene of Don Quixote riding his horse at the sam...
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Early 20th Century Unknown Baroque Boxes

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Bronze

18th Century Italian Box
Located in Atlanta, GA
This stunning 18th-century Italian box is a fine example of Baroque artistry, embodying the period's characteristic grandeur and attention to detail. Crafted from rich walnut, the bo...
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18th Century Italian Antique Baroque Boxes

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Walnut

Antique German Baroque Classical Silver Box
Located in New York, NY
German Baroque Classical silver box, 18th century. Ovoid, bellied, and lobed; cover raised. Visible handwork. Marked. Weight: 3.7 troy ounces.
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18th Century German Antique Baroque Boxes

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Silver

Snuff Box Round Guilloche Enamel Box Gold Paillons Stars of Sky Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Round table snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent blue fired enamel on guillochè and with the insertion of pure gold “paillons” in the shape of stars to create a starry sky effect. With turquoise enamel circle with hand-engraved motif. Late 1600s Baroque style. Diameter cm. 7.7 cm high. 2.3. Weight gr. 226. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1967 and produced in Florence in several specimens in the Salimbeni company headquarters with manual workmanship by skilled artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for withstanding numerous enamelled firings at high heat at about 800° C - The Paillons processing, now almost disappeared, and a rare technique recognized as a craft. Several layers of enamel are applied to the object, baked one by one in the oven. Afterwards, the designs cut out of thin gold leaves, the paillons foils, are applied one by one by hand to form the desired figure. These sheets are then in turn coated...
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1960s Italian Vintage Baroque Boxes

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Gold, Enamel, Sterling Silver

Antique Spanish Embossed Silver Baroque Style Six Drawer Casket Siege of Toledo
Located in Atlanta, GA
An antique, circa early 20th Century, Baroque style embossed silver clad six drawer wood casket double handled box depicting scenes of Toldeo, Spain and quite possibly the Siege of T...
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Early 20th Century Spanish Baroque Boxes

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Silver

Italian 19th Century Chest
Located in Madrid, ES
Italian 19th century chest. in ebonised wood with an inlaid decor. Measures: 19 x 36.5 x 25.5 cm. Good condition.
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19th Century Italian Antique Baroque Boxes

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Wood

Yellow Lacca Povera Angel Box
Located in New York, NY
Yellow lacca povera angel box. Late 17th century chest with early 19th century lacca povera decalcomania decorations with angels, birds, lions, flowers, and trees; with original hard...
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17th Century Italian Antique Baroque Boxes

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Wood, Paper

Italian Rectangular Green Onyx Marble Box with Gilded Feet, 50ss
Located in Roma, IT
A box as precious as the jewels it could contain inside, almost certainly hand-carved in Italy with the highest quality onyx marble. Although this jewelery box dates back to the 1...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Baroque Boxes

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Onyx, Marble, Metal

Italian Mid-Century Jewelry Collectable Box With Cherubs
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Charming Italian box with Cherubs and Rococo decorations perfect for jewelry or other collectables. This box features intricate baroque and Rococo detailing including cherubs on the ...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Baroque Boxes

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Metal

Small 18th Century Brass Two Compartment Brass Container
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Small 18th Century Brass Two Compartment Brass Container Originally Used For Tea or Tobacco.
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18th Century Scandinavian Antique Baroque Boxes

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Brass

18th Century Italian Baroque Hand Painted Wild Flowers on Burl Wood Tea Caddy
Located in Haarlem, NL
Very pretty 18th Century decorative shaped box, it used to be a tea caddy and is made in wood with burl wood veneer and hand painted decoration. Back from the days when tea was worth...
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18th Century Italian Antique Baroque Boxes

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Wood, Burl, Paint, Paper

Inlaid Ebony Table Cabinet
Located in Greenwich, CT
Fine 18th century ebony and bone inlaid table cabinet with geometric and line inlay on eight drawers with turned bone knobs and standing on turned e...
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Early 18th Century Italian Antique Baroque Boxes

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Bone, Ebony

18th Century Dutch Walnut & Iron Polychromed Domed Table Box
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
18th-century Dutch Walnut and Iron Polychrome Domed Table Box  Netherlands, 18th century or older A 18th-century Dutch walnut and iron polychrome domed table box, likely retaining i...
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18th Century Dutch Antique Baroque Boxes

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Iron

Early European Faux Bois Jewelry Box With Mirror and Brass Hardware
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
European 19h Century jewelry box with a green patterned fabric insert. This wood box is handcrafted in a faux bois style with brass hardware and etched mirror glass inside. The cond...
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Mid-19th Century French Antique Baroque Boxes

Materials

Brass

Spanish Colonial Gilt Wood Vargueno With Red and Black Paint
Located in Stamford, CT
Spanish Colonial style painted and gilt wood table top vargueno, a chest with eight drawers and four doors with iron drop pulls. A sweet little chest with a lot of personality, decor...
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Early 20th Century Baroque Boxes

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Iron

Bronze and glass jewelry box
Located in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Bronze and glass jewelry box The box has cut crystals and the patina is gold and silver It is made with bronze and acid-cut glass. Origin France ci...
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1920s French Vintage Baroque Boxes

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Crystal, Bronze

18th Century Swedish Miniature Baroque Chest of Drawers
Located in Mjöhult, SE
Good 18th century Swedish miniature Baroque jewellery box / commode in it's original finish with good patination. ca 1750 Sweden.
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18th Century Swedish Antique Baroque Boxes

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Wood

P.¨P. Rubens Adoration of the Magi Tin, De Beukelaer Antwerp
Located in Retie, BE
P.P Rubens - Peter Paul Rubens - Adoration of the Magi A Tin box for De Beukelaer Antwerp - Antwerp Biscuit Factory. This rectangular tin looks like a framed Rubens painting. Rube...
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Mid-20th Century Belgian Baroque Boxes

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Metal

17th century leather studded travellers Chest
Located in London, by appointment only
A large French 16th Century Beech wood & leather chest, with iron flowerhead and domed stud work to front top and sides. Original hasp and lockplate, the interior of the box with lat...
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Early 17th Century French Antique Baroque Boxes

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Leather

18th Century, Heavily Carved Bone Inset & Iron Mounted Spanish Vargueno
Located in Atlanta, GA
Spanish, 18th century or earlier. An 18th century Spanish bargueno or vargueno traveling desk, used for storing documents, jewels, or sewing box. The six drawer chest is inset with ...
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18th Century Spanish Antique Baroque Boxes

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Iron

RARE OFFICE ARK Indo-Portuguese, from the 17th century (early)
Located in Madrid, ES
RARE OFFICE ARK Indo-Portuguese, from the 17th century (early) in ebony. Rectangular box with drawer. Opens with a lid secured by 2 hinges. The decoration limited by ivo.. fillet...
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Early 17th Century Portuguese Antique Baroque Boxes

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Wood

Rare baroque 18th Century Hatbox Lid: Authentic Wall Decoration for Rustic Homes
Located in Hamburg, DE
Step back in time with this exquisite find: the lid of a rare hatbox dating back to the early 18th century, circa 1740. Crafted from solid wood and ado...
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1740s German Antique Baroque Boxes

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Wood

19th Century Small Baroque Gilt Bronze Jewelry Box
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Small baroque jewelry box in embossed gilted bronze with inner compartments and key.
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19th Century Danish Antique Baroque Boxes

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Brass

Early 18th Century Italian Carved and Dovetailed Walnut Alms Box
Located in San Francisco, CA
Early 18th century Italian carved and dovetailed walnut alms box, circa 1725 Large dovetails and old handwrought nails give this small scale box a hea...
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Early 18th Century Italian Antique Baroque Boxes

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Iron

Italian Wood Carved Casket Box
Located in Bradenton, FL
19th century Italian wooden carved casket box in the baroque style. Features gothic faces and lions paw feet. Can be used as a jewelry or trinket box or ...
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19th Century Italian Antique Baroque Boxes

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Wood

Box shaped enamel hand painted, engraved and miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Box shaped enamel is in 925/1000 sterling. Box shaped enamel has handpainted fired enamels miniature. Box shaped enamel is engraved and fire-enamelled ornaments. Box shaped enamel is...
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1970s Italian Vintage Baroque Boxes

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Gold, Enamel, Sterling Silver, Gold Plate

Snuff Box Venetian landscape miniature Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Snuff Box Snuff Box Venetian landscape is in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated 24 carats.. Snuff Box Snuff Box Venetian landscape has translucent fired enamel on guilloche and min...
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1960s Italian Vintage Baroque Boxes

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Gold, Enamel, Sterling Silver, Gold Plate

Vintage Dutch Country French Baroque Style Silver Plated Figural Jewelry Box
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vintage Dutch Country French Baroque Style Silver Plated Figural Jewelry Box. Circa Early 1900s. Measurements: 1.5" H x 8" W x 6" D.
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Early 1900s Antique Baroque Boxes

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Silver Plate

Italian Florentine Giltwood Domed Shaped Box
Located in Sheffield, MA
An elegant Baroque style giltwood trinket boxes with a dome top. Wonderfully decorative to hold jewelry, trinkets. note cards or any clutter you might want to get off your table or d...
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Early 20th Century Italian Baroque Boxes

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Wood, Giltwood

Walnut and Metal Small Chest, 17th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Small rectangular ark with a flat lid, with a lock of golden metal worked (crown on two facing lions, located on a garland of great size, and all around a symmetrical composition wit...
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17th Century European Antique Baroque Boxes

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Metal

COUNTER CASH 17th Century Flemish
Located in Madrid, ES
COUNTER CASH 17th Century Flemish in walnut wood with inlays, consisting of two drawers and a drawer. Signs of use. Dim.: 31.5 x 44 x 27 cm good state
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17th Century Dutch Antique Baroque Boxes

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Wood

18th Century or Earlier Brass - Iron Bound Continental Lockbox
Located in Lomita, CA
There is a fantastical quality to this casket lockbox with its dramatic presentation. It has brass rings with lions' (or wolves) heads and a latch/escutcheon. The size and complexity of the latch suggest that it was designed to keep prying hands away. But it has a very interesting look that many people will like. The style and appearance suggest Continental origins, and appraisers say it was produced in the 18th century or earlier. The baroque casket...
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Early 18th Century European Antique Baroque Boxes

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Brass

Snuff Box White with noble coat of arms Baroque style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Snuff Box noble coat of arms is in 925/1000 sterling silver. Snuff Box noble coat of arms has White fired enamels on guilloché and handpainted miniature of arabesques with noble coat...
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1990s Italian Baroque Boxes

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Sterling Silver, Enamel

Decorative Sevres Style Porcelain Box
Located in Southall, GB
Elegant and highly decorative porcelain box with exquisite painted scenes and bright colours on a sky blue background depicting a landscape and country house. Internally there is a d...
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21st Century and Contemporary European Baroque Boxes

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Porcelain

IMPORTANT CUT-OUT BOX, SÈVRES 18th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
IMPORTANT CUT-OUT BOX, SÈVRES 18th Century Sèvres. Polychrome and gold decoration with reserves with landscape and figures. Rims and clasp in relief bronz...
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Mid-18th Century French Antique Baroque Boxes

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Porcelain

Antique Portuguese Baroque Rosewood Chest, Circa 1830
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Portuguese Rosewood Baroque Chest, Circa 1830 Suited for Jewelry, Occasional Storage, or Decorative Use Sourced by Martyn Lawrence Bullard from Lisbon, Portugal
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18th Century Portuguese Antique Baroque Boxes

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Rosewood

Table Box Baroque style with two-tone fired enamels Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
This awesome Table Box Baroque style is in 925/1000 sterling silver. it has a Rectangular shape with hand-engraved intricate design Black and Green color fire enameled. Table Box Bar...
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1970s Italian Vintage Baroque Boxes

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Gold, Enamel, Sterling Silver, Gold Plate

Scandinavian 18th Century Wooden Box, Dated 1752
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
A Swedish Baroque box with original ironwork, key and big strong perfectly working lock dated (forged in the iron) 1752. This special shaped pine wood box, bought in the region of "...
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1750s Norwegian Antique Baroque Boxes

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Iron

20th Century Italian 800 Solid Silver Jewel Box
Located in VALENZA, IT
Solid silver jewelry box. This box was made completely by hand, rectangular parallelepiped. To detach it and elevate it from the support surface, 4 small feet made with the casting t...
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Late 20th Century Italian Baroque Boxes

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Silver

Footed Blue Jewelry Music Box Made in Italy by Reuge Sainte Croix Sorrento
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Elegant footed wooden music box in deep blue color with top finely hand painted and inlaid with foliages floral gold decor. Handcrafted footed wooden music box in thuya wood hand painted top. Thuya tree is famous for rich gold and brown shades of its grain and unique exotic fragrance, similar to cedar. Lined in green jade velvet, original key with tassel. Upon opening, the music box begins to play a theme : Romance" Somewhere over the Rainbow...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Baroque Boxes

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Fruitwood

Table Box for Cigarettes in Sterling Silver Sterling Enamel Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table box for cigarettes in sterling silver 925/1000 gold plated with hand-engraved design in Baroque style with two-tone fired enamels. Measure cm. 6.5 x 10.2 x 2. Weigh...
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1970s Italian Vintage Baroque Boxes

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Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel

19th Century Italian Baroque Parcel Gilt and Hand Painted Table Box Casket
Located in Dallas, TX
Decorate a coffee table or a shelf with this elegant and colorful casket. Crafted in Italy circa 1880, the Venetian box stands on heavily carved feet decorated with gilt acanthus lea...
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Late 19th Century Italian Antique Baroque Boxes

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Oak

Snuff Box Black enamel Baroque style engraving Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Shaped table snuff box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fine fire-enamelled baroque style engraving. Very fine hand engraving on all surfaces. Dimensions cm. 6.2 x 7.8 cm...
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1970s Italian Vintage Baroque Boxes

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Sterling Silver, Enamel

Spanish Renaissance Casket of the 16th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Spanish Renaissance casket, 16th century In carved, polychrome and gilded wood decorated with a vase with horns of plenty, heads of cherubs and fruits. In the lock a shield with two ...
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16th Century Dutch Antique Baroque Boxes

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Wood

Pill Box very fine hand-engraving in baroque style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Square pill box with rounded corners and curved sides in 925/1000 sterling silver with very fine hand-engraving in baroque style, fire-enamelled with black enamel also on the sides. ...
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1980s Italian Vintage Baroque Boxes

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Sterling Silver, Enamel

Portuguese silver jewerly box with semi-precious stones on the lid circa 1850.
Located in Rio De Janeiro, RJ
Incredible portuguese silver jewerly box with semi-precious stones on the lid circa 1850.
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1850s Portuguese Antique Baroque Boxes

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Silver

Early 18th century Scandinavian baroque oak iron bound box
Located in Debenham, Suffolk
Mid 18th century scandinavian baroque oak iron bound box circa 1720. Characterful oval shaped box profusely covered with iron edging and strap work.  This p...
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Early 18th Century Swedish Antique Baroque Boxes

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Iron

Unique Portuguese Pharmacy Scale with Doubt 19th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Unique Portuguese pharmacy scale with doubt 19th century. Box in different woods with carvings and two drawers. Signs of use, small defects. Good general conditions. Dim: 70x32x60 cm.
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19th Century Portuguese Antique Baroque Boxes

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Wood

Baroque boxes for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a broad range of unique Baroque boxes for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the Late 20th Century, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage boxes created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include decorative objects, more furniture and collectibles, serveware, ceramics, silver and glass and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with metal, wood and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Baroque boxes made in a specific country, there are Europe, Italy, and France pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original boxes, popular names associated with this style include Franco Salimbeni, Europa Antiques, Arval Argenti Valenza, and Reuge Ste-Croix. It’s true that these talented designers have at times inspired knockoffs, but our experienced specialists have partnered with only top vetted sellers to offer authentic pieces that come with a buyer protection guarantee. Prices for boxes differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $61 and tops out at $18,599 while the average work can sell for $2,418.

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