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Style: Romantic
Romantic Hand Painted Dieppe Floral Snuff Box - France - Early 19th Century
Located in Chatham, ON
Romantic hand painted Dieppe bovine bone floral snuff box - featuring a colorful display of flowers set against a solid brown background - the sides decorated with garlands and blue ...
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Early 19th Century French Antique Romantic Boxes

Materials

Paint

Romantic French 19th Century Bellows Shaped Porcelain Box with Courtship Scene
Located in Tustin, CA
Exquisite antique French box, from the 1890s, is a handmade and hand painted miniature porcelain box with hinged lid and is shaped like a fire bellows. Th...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Romantic Boxes

Materials

Porcelain

19th Century Majolica Impressionist Flowers Box
Located in Austin, TX
19th Century Majolica Impressionist Flowers Box.
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1880s French Antique Romantic Boxes

Materials

Ceramic, Majolica

Snuff Box with 2 slightly rounded sides and erotic miniature Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Snuff Box Snuff Box with 2 slightly rounded sides is in 925/1000 sterling silver. Snuff Box Snuff Box with 2 slightly rounded sides has fire-enamelled miniature hand-painted by the ...
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1970s Italian Vintage Romantic Boxes

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Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold, Gold Plate

18th Century Dutch Tobacco Box Engraved Brass Snuff Box Brass with Figures
Located in Milano, MI
18th century Dutch brass tobacco box with hinged lid engraved with five circular medallions containing the busts of male noblemen figures with inscriptions and dates, the most recent...
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Mid-18th Century French Antique Romantic Boxes

Materials

Other, Brass

Antique Hand-Crafted Alabaster Jewelry Box with Brass Rose / Vintage Trinket Box
Located in Lisse, NL
Quality made antique alabaster trinket xox with brass rose lid, romantic decor. Beautiful antique lidded box made from alabaster, featuring a finely crafted brass rose as the handle...
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Early 20th Century French Romantic Boxes

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Alabaster, Brass

Silver Mustard Pot / Antique Sterling Sliver Seasoning Pot
Located in BILBAO, ES
Silver mustard pot / Antique sterling sliver seasoning pot Antique sterling silver mustard / glass lined seasoning pot 1919 Beautifully crafted ant...
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1610s British Antique Romantic Boxes

Materials

Silver, Sterling Silver

Antique Limoge Hand Painted Box enamel & brass with Hunting Horse Scene
Located in BILBAO, ES
Antique Limoge 19th Jewellery hand painted porcelain & brass box with hunting horse scene. aprox 1880 hand painted in yellow porcelaine Perfect gift for ...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Romantic Boxes

Materials

Brass

A Primitive Snuff Box, Scandinavia 1847
Located in Hønefoss, 30
A Primitive Snuff Box dated 1847 and signed T.O. from Norway, Scandinaiva. Wear due to age and use showing wonderful patina. Ø: 5 cm H: 9 cm
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19th Century Norwegian Antique Romantic Boxes

Materials

Wood

Antique Limoge 19th Enamel Box Hand Painted Pink with Flowers
Located in BILBAO, ES
Antique 19th Jewellery Antique 19th Jewellery Hand Painted pink Porcelain Box with flowers aprox 1880 Perfect gift for decoration or keeping perso...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Romantic Boxes

Materials

Enamel

19th Century French Papier Maché Snuff Box with Landscape and Figures Painting
Located in Milano, MI
French Painted Papier Maché Snuffbox 1800s. Snuff box of circular shape with fine painting on the lid depicting a mountain landscape with figures and herds crossing a river, a dove f...
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Mid-19th Century French Antique Romantic Boxes

Materials

Other

Antique Limoge Hand Painted Box in Pink enamel with Harbour Scene
Located in BILBAO, ES
Antique 19th around 1880 Hand Painted Pink Porcelain Box with harbour scene Perfect gift for decoration or keeping personal and valuable items P...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Romantic Boxes

Materials

Ceramic

Italian Metal Vermeil Square Compact Case with Lipstick
Located in Guaynabo, PR
This is an Italian metal vermeil square compact with a hand painted pastoral scene of a romantic couple. It depicts a sheperdess resting in the lap of a shepherd in a garden with a f...
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20th Century Italian Romantic Boxes

Materials

Metal

Artist's Pallette Huntley & Palmer's Biscuit Tin
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
A wonderful & very rare Huntley & Palmer's Biscuit Tin in the form of an Artist's Pallette. We have never seen this example in England and, in fact, discovered it in the South of Fra...
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20th Century Romantic Boxes

Materials

Tin

Antique Hand Painted Box in Pink enamel with Promenade Scene
Located in BILBAO, ES
Antique 19th hand painted pink porcelain box with promenade scene Perfect gift for decoration or keeping personal and valuable items PRADERA is ...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Romantic Boxes

Materials

Ceramic

Antique Limoge Hand Painted Box in Pink enamel with with Sailing Ships scene
Located in BILBAO, ES
Antique 19th Jewellery hand painted porcelain box with hunting horse scene aprox 1880 hand painted in yellow porcelaine Perfect gift for decoration or kee...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Romantic Boxes

Materials

Enamel

French Bronze Jewelry Musical Box with Portrait Miniature Painting
Located in Autonomous City Buenos Aires, CABA
French Bronze Jewelry Musical Box with Portrait Miniature Painting Late 1800s to earliest 1900s, this elegantly crafted musical box is in very nice condition, just the music string ...
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Early 1900s French Antique Romantic Boxes

Materials

Bronze

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Montesquieu Portrait Tortoiseshell Snuff Box
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Located in New Orleans, LA
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19th Century French Enameled Porcelain Box
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1890s French Antique Romantic Boxes

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19th Century French Enameled Porcelain Box
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19th Century Kashmiri Hand Painted Trinket Box
Located in London, GB
19th century Kashmiri Hand Painted Trinket Box A true work of art, this mid-19th century Kashmiri handcrafted trinket box is covered in beautiful detail. Including peacocks, birds, flowers, and foliage. The hand painted detail is raised from the box with gold gilded paint and vibrant colours. The box is hinged with its original key and painted orange inside, this example would likely have been owner by a wealthy individual considering the amount of detail and craftsmanship that has gone into creating it, A rare survivor. Size of inches approx.: H 4” x W 11.5” x D 4.5” Completely solid in structure and form, with natural wear, loss of surface detail, the paint has worn away over years with damage in areas and loss of detail, The key is present however the lock does not close. The House of...
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1880s Indian Antique Romantic Boxes

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Wood

19th Century Kashmiri Hand Painted Trinket Box
19th Century Kashmiri Hand Painted Trinket Box
$1,661
H 4 in W 11.5 in D 4.5 in
19th Century Oak Box
Located in Vienna, AT
Austrian oak box with brass ornamental elements, second half of the 19th century. Original used condition.
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Late 19th Century Austrian Antique Romantic Boxes

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Brass

19th Century Oak Box
19th Century Oak Box
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French Carved Snuff Box, Mid-19th Century
Located in Spencertown, NY
The elaborately carved snuff box with a scene of two mermaids on the cover and deeply carved shell on the reverse.
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Mid-19th Century French Antique Romantic Boxes

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Boxwood

French Carved Snuff Box, Mid-19th Century
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$1,200
H 1.5 in W 3.25 in D 2.5 in
Vintage wooden Trinket Jewelry Box
Located in Seattle, WA
This Vintage wooden box possibly oak is perfect for trinkets or Jewelry. It has slidable and removable compartments. This Piece has nice patina and character. Vintage Condition as p...
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Wood

Vintage wooden Trinket Jewelry Box
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$79
H 3.5 in W 8 in D 6.5 in
18th Century South Staffordshire Snuff Box - 'Cupid in parkland'
Located in Basildon, GB
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18th Century English Antique Romantic Boxes

Materials

Enamel

18th Century Large South Staffordshire Table Snuff Box
Located in Basildon, GB
An 18th Century Large South Staffordshire Table Snuff Box, painted with figures and animals by classical ruins on a riverscape. 8.25" wide x 5.5" depth x 3.25" high
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18th Century English Antique Romantic Boxes

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18th Century English Agate Snuff Box
Located in New Orleans, LA
Trimmed in elegant yellow gold is this polished English agate snuff box. Distinguished by the dynamic patterning of the agate, the exquisite vessel i...
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18th Century English Antique Romantic Boxes

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18th Century English Agate Snuff Box
18th Century English Agate Snuff Box
$24,500
H 1.32 in W 3.38 in D 2.69 in
Seashell Jewelry Trinket Box
Located in New York, NY
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Late 20th Century Romantic Boxes

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Shell, Glass, Mirror

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Seashell Jewelry Trinket Box
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Circa 1930s Huntley & Palmers Biscuit Tin
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
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Early 20th Century Books & Bookend Form Biscuit Tin by Huntley & Palmers
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
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Brienz Artisans, Pheasant Box, Late 19th Century Switzerland
Located in PARIS, FR
Beautiful wooden box decorated with two pheasants surrounded by foliage, rocks and flowers. Sold with an embroidered silk pillow. Work from Brienz, Switzerland 19th century, also called, work of the Black Forest (erroneously as explained by Gazette Drouot experts). Still bears the sticker of the boutique it was sold from "Charnaux, Maison des Trois Rois, Genève". The Trois-Rois house has housed several photography workshops. Before 1860, Auguste Garcin set up shop there but sold his business to Henri-Antoine Boissonnas around 1866-1867, who moved to the Quai de la Poste in the 1870s. Charnaux was a dealer of prints, art objects and tourist objects, then creator, around 1870-1880, of a photographic workshop at the Place Bel-Air in the Three Kings house...
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Late 19th Century Swiss Antique Romantic Boxes

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Wood

Mythological Art Nouveau Erotic Lockbox, France Early 20th Century
Located in PARIS, FR
Superb and rare erotic lockbox from the late 1800s originating from France. Sensually decorated and painted with depictions of mythological fauns, wom...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Romantic Boxes

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Wood

Antique Austrian Miniature Table Cabinet or Trinket Box with Enameled Panels
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This antique miniature cabinet is unsigned, but presumed to have originated from Austria and date to approximately 1880 and done in a Romanti...
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Late 19th Century Austrian Antique Romantic Boxes

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Brass, Copper

Antique Sterling Silver Cigarette Case with Initials B I
Located in BILBAO, ES
Antique Sterling silver cigarette case Weight 160 grams PRADERA is a second generation of a family run business jeweler...
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1960s Spanish Vintage Romantic Boxes

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Silver, Sterling Silver

Fedoskino Papier-Mâché Lacquer Box with Phoenix, Signed, Russia, Circa 1980's
Located in Chatham, ON
Fedoskino papier-mâché lacquer box - hand painted Phoenix set against a celestial background on brown lacquer with gilt details - black lacquer frame with gilded scrolls - hinged lid...
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Late 20th Century Russian Romantic Boxes

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Antique Sterling Silver Cigarette Case with delicate peacoks and gold plated
Located in BILBAO, ES
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1960s Spanish Vintage Romantic Boxes

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Silver, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver

Antique 19th Hand Painted Enamel Pipes and cigar holder
Located in BILBAO, ES
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Late 19th Century French Antique Romantic Boxes

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Enamel

Jewellery box with miniatures, end of XIXth Century
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Jewellery box with miniatures, end of XIXth Century Jewellery box with two miniature paintings of portraits, end of XIXth century. In perfect condit...
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1870s European Antique Romantic Boxes

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Bronze

Georgian Pressed Burr Wood Snuff Box Commemorating the Battle of Jena, 1806
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A rare French pressed burr wood snuff box commemorating the Battle of Jena and dating from around 1806. The battle of Jena took place on a plateau a...
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Early 1800s French Antique Romantic Boxes

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Late 19th Century Hand Painted Jewelry Box, Manner of Jean Guérin
Located in Casteren, Noord-Brabant
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Romantic boxes for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a broad range of unique Romantic 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, serveware, ceramics, silver and glass, more furniture and collectibles and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with metal, ceramic and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Romantic boxes made in a specific country, there are Europe, France, and Italy pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original boxes, popular names associated with this style include Baldi Home Jewels, Brienz Switzerland, Huntley & Palmers, and Maitland Smith. 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 $211 and tops out at $3,500 while the average work can sell for $473.

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