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Style: Dutch Colonial
18th Century Antique Dutch Etched Oval Brass Tinder Tobacco Snuff Box
Located in Dayton, OH
Antique late 18th century oval brass Dutch tinder / snuff / pill box, etched with phrases and a landscape of two figures plowing a field.
Voor ene goede vrind / for a good friend \[...
Category
18th Century Antique Dutch Colonial Boxes
Materials
Brass
$160 Sale Price
31% Off
18th Century Dutch Brass Oval Etched Snuff Tobacco Trinket Box 5"
Located in Dayton, OH
Antique Dutch 18th century oval shaped brass tobacco snuff box with hinged lid, engraved with a low relief pattern of two figures flanked by angels.
Category
18th Century Antique Dutch Colonial Boxes
Materials
Brass
$188 Sale Price
20% Off
17th century colonial Sinhalese ebony two-door cabinet with silver mounts
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A splendid Dutch-colonial Sinhalese ebony two-door cabinet with silver mounts
Sri Lanka, Kandy, 2nd half 17th century, the mounts later
The cabinet with a central drawer with hidde...
Category
17th Century Sri Lankan Antique Dutch Colonial Boxes
Materials
Silver
18th century Dutch-Colonial ‘Vizagapatam’ pen-engraved bone inlaid ebony box
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A large Indian Colonial ‘Vizagapatam’ pen-engraved bone inlaid ebony box
Masulipatnam or Vizagapatam, 2nd half 18th century
H. 10.8 x W. 47 x D. 34 cm
...
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Late 18th Century Indian Antique Dutch Colonial Boxes
Materials
Bone, Ebony
18th-century Dutch-colonial Peranakan mother-of-pearl casket with silver mounts
Located in Amsterdam, NL
An Indonesian Peranakan mother-of-pearl inlaid mastic sirih casket with silver mounts
Jakarta (Batavia), circa 1720-1730, the silver hinges marked for Batavia, maker’s mark HS or SH...
Category
Mid-18th Century Indonesian Antique Dutch Colonial Boxes
Materials
Silver
A superb Dutch-colonial Indonesian silver filigree sirih box
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Probably Sumatra, Padang, 18th century
H. 8.4 x W. 22.5 x D. 15.3 cm
Weight 1700 grams
Due to the form of this box, together with the date, the most likely place of production of t...
Category
18th Century Indonesian Antique Dutch Colonial Boxes
Materials
Silver
Colonial box in ebony wood
Located in 'S-HERTOGENBOSCH, NL
A Dutch colonial box from Batavia in the former Dutch East Indies.
Hand-carved with floral motives in ebony, used for jewelry or letters,
ca. 1800. Origi...
Category
1790s Indonesian Antique Dutch Colonial Boxes
Materials
Ebony
Dutch Colonial Rosewood And Bone Table Chest
Located in Essex, MA
The case with geometric pattern design. Two drawers with etched bone panels and carved drawer moldings. Bun feet. With key.
Category
Late 18th Century Antique Dutch Colonial Boxes
Materials
Bone, Rosewood
Dutch Colonial Miniature Cupboard in Coromandel Wood, Ceylon
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A fine Coromandel wood miniature cupboard
Sri Lanka, 18th century
Measures: H 89.5 x W 60.5 x D 28.8 cm
This entire four-door miniature cupboa...
Category
18th Century Sri Lankan Antique Dutch Colonial Boxes
Materials
Macassar
19th Century Dutch Ebony Box With Silver Mounts and Hinges
Located in Stamford, CT
Dutch Colonial ebony box with silver mounts, large silver hinges and the original steel lock and key. This rare box was likely made in the Dutch East India possession of Sri Lanka, o...
Category
Early 19th Century Sri Lankan Antique Dutch Colonial Boxes
Materials
Silver, Steel
Dutch-Colonial Satin and Rosewood, Ebony and Teak Collectors’ Table-Cabinet
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A charming satin and rosewood, ebony and teak collectors’ table-cabinet
Sri Lanka, second half of the 18th century
Measures: H. 86.5 x W. 62.5 x D. 34.7 cm
In the top of the shaped cornice, there is a carving of a butterfly or moth. Under the cornice two panelled doors with scorched chequered motif, and under the doors one long drawer. When the doors are locked, so is the drawer. Behind the two doors, there are eight drawers, suitable to store small collectors’ items, such as a coin collection, or mineral specimens, small shells, collections of animal teeth, etc. The 17th and 18th centuries saw a wide-spread interest in exotic cultures and collecting of botanical, zoological and geological specimens...
Category
18th Century Sri Lankan Antique Dutch Colonial Boxes
Materials
Ebony, Teak, Satinwood
Late 18th Century Dutch Colonial Oak Decorative Box
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Magnificent and rare Late 18th Century Dutch Colonial decorative box.
Striking Dutch design from the 1790s.
Made out of Slavonian solid oak with original patinated iron handles and l...
Category
Late 18th Century Dutch Antique Dutch Colonial Boxes
Materials
Iron
Ebony Veneered Captain's Chest or Strong Box 'Coffre Fort', 17th Century
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A strongbox was a type of travelling chest and these types of boxes were more common in England than anywhere else where they were fabricated between 1660 and 1720. The earliest proo...
Category
Late 17th Century Dutch Antique Dutch Colonial Boxes
Materials
Brass
Fine Dutch Colonial Indonesian Casket with Silver Mounts, circa 1706
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A fine Indonesian Ambonya burl, ebony and teak casket with silver mounts
Jakarta (Batavia), circa 1706 (year letter W (1705-1710), marked DV, probably Dirck Vooght
The outer ri...
Category
Early 18th Century Indonesian Antique Dutch Colonial Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Majestic Spinning Wheel Made of Ebony Wood
Located in Doornspijk, NL
Not only Sleeping Beauty's hair has the color of ebony wood, so do a number of details of this antique spinning wheel. The well shaped lances and bu...
Category
18th Century Dutch Antique Dutch Colonial Boxes
Materials
Bone, Ebony
Vintage Lidded Box with Countersunk Coins
Located in Dallas, TX
From Holland, a lidded box with Dutch currency welded into the lid.
Category
Early 19th Century Dutch Antique Dutch Colonial Boxes
Materials
Wood
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