Classical Roman Boxes

It is a box in Onyx, with the structures in Brass, as well as the feet of the box. The interior is lined with red felt. It is a jewelry box, which was made in Italy in the 1950s. It ...

Beautiful old box, made of yellow brass, with images of the Classical Roman Empire. The interior is lined with red velvet fabric. The box dates from circa 1920-1930. Including key an...

Wonderfully hand-crafted and excellent condition, late 20th century box. This hand-crafted box from mid to late 20th century Italy is made of the most beautiful green onyx. This nat...

An antique Italian Capodimonte embossed dresser box offers lid with hand enameled and gilt classical scene with figures, decorated base with female mask and goats, blue crown "N" mak...

Presenting an absolutely gorgeous late 19th century Sevres style exceptional samson dressing table box. This is a large tabletop box of the highest quality. Made by Samson of Paris in the style of Sevres. It sits on 4 exceptionally detailed Griffin feet with hand painted floral panels on all sides. The top or lid panel is simply exceptional! It features a pastoral scene of male and female courtesans in 18th century period attire in a garden setting with trees, grass, birds, an elaborate fish water fountain, archaic pillar/column, a pond and swans. In the background is a town or city and Romanesque ruins. We are of the opinion that Based Upon the style of the attire and the architecture that this is an Italian scene, possibly Rome or Florence. The lid is hinged and opens to reveal a padded golden silk interior. The entire piece is mounted on highly chased and decorated gold ormolu mounts and banding with a central Rococo style clasp to the front with triple plumed feathers to the top. In amazing original condition. The ormolu has been re-gilded. This wonderful Antique hand painted box is just bursting with History. Inspired by Edme Samson of Samson & Co., Paris. we believe (Based Upon the markings and natural aging) that it was made between 1880–1890 in France and was meant to resemble an antique of a much earlier period. It is very similar to Sevres pieces with it’s color, decoration and design. Samson specialized in reproducing antiques from the 1600 and 1700s. One of his most interesting works was his Heraldic or Armorial pieces. With this medium sized box, he was not only copying the larger porcelain caskets or coffin boxes...

A ‘Grand Tour’ casket This lockable casket is made of English pollarded oak inset with five Italian polychrome micromosaic plaques. Micromosaic is a type of work consisting of thousands of tiny hand-made glass tiles, which are uniformly shaped into strings while at a hot temperature, cooled, cut and then placed by hand into the desired design. The plaques depict various scenes one may have seen while visiting Rome during a Grand Tour of Europe; an event for ‘young aristocrats’ in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Scenes include the ‘Doves of Pliny’ (top); Temples of Saturn and Vespasian situated in the Roman Forum (front); Pantheon and St Peter's Square (sides); and the Colosseum (back). The plaques have been attributed to the Studio del Musaico dell Reverenda Fabbrica di S. Pietro (Mosaic Studio of the Reverenced Work Shop of St. Peter’s) and were likely made in the early-to-mid-nineteenth century and brought to England and inserted into this casket. Studio del Musaico dell Reverenda Fabbrica di S. Pietro was established around 1576 to create architectural mosaics for the new basilica, and was later recognized as a distinct entity in 1727, supplying extraordinarily detailed views of Rome to the new industry of ‘tourism’, in the form of tabletops, tablets and jewellery, just as these plaques exemplify. The 2nd century AD floor mosaics in Hadrian’s villa in Tivoli, near Rome, were discovered in 1737, inspired the top scene of the ‘Doves of Pliny’. The side panels depicting the Pantheon and St Peter’s Square were inspired by the period’s local architecture, which is significant, as today the Pantheon has been since altered. As history tells us, in the early 17th century, Gian Lorenzo Bernini was commissioned to design and add two Baroque bell towers to the Pantheon, which was originally constructed in the 1st century BC under the orders of Marcus Agrippa...

The lid and sides with micro mosaic panels with Roman views: St Peter's basilica and square, the Pantheon, the Coliseum, the Temple of Vesta, the Temple of Vespasian in the Roman for...

Antique jewelry music box with inlaid top. Measures: 7" length x 4" 3/4 wide.