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Style: Romantic
19th Century Majolica Impressionist Flowers Box
Located in Austin, TX
19th Century Majolica Impressionist Flowers Box.
Category
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 ...
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Romantic Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold, Gold Plate
Antique Limoge Hand Painted Box enamel & brass with Hunting Horse Scene
Located in Neguri, Vizcaya
Antique Limoge 19th Jewellery hand painted porcelain & brass box with hunting horse scene.
aprox 1880 hand painted in yellow porcelaine
Perfect gift for ...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Romantic Boxes
Materials
Brass
$192 Sale Price
35% Off
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
Category
19th Century Norwegian Antique Romantic Boxes
Materials
Wood
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 ...
Category
Early 1900s French Antique Romantic Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Silver Mustard Pot / Antique Sterling Sliver Seasoning Pot
Located in Neguri, Vizcaya
Silver mustard pot / Antique sterling sliver seasoning pot
Antique sterling silver mustard / glass lined seasoning pot 1919
Beautifully crafted ant...
Category
1610s British Antique Romantic Boxes
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
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...
Category
Early 20th Century French Romantic Boxes
Materials
Alabaster, Brass
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 ...
Category
Early 19th Century French Antique Romantic Boxes
Materials
Paint
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...
Category
Mid-18th Century French Antique Romantic Boxes
Materials
Other, Brass
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...
Category
Mid-19th Century French Antique Romantic Boxes
Materials
Other
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...
Category
20th Century Italian Romantic Boxes
Materials
Metal
$360 Sale Price
20% Off
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...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Romantic Boxes
Materials
Porcelain
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...
Category
20th Century Romantic Boxes
Materials
Tin
$200 Sale Price
55% Off
Antique Limoge 19th Enamel Box Hand Painted Pink with Flowers
Located in Neguri, Vizcaya
Antique 19th Jewellery Antique 19th Jewellery Hand Painted pink Porcelain Box with flowers aprox 1880
Perfect gift for decoration or keeping perso...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Romantic Boxes
Materials
Enamel
Antique Limoge Hand Painted Box in Pink enamel with Harbour Scene
Located in Neguri, Vizcaya
Antique 19th around 1880 Hand Painted Pink Porcelain Box with harbour scene
Perfect gift for decoration or keeping personal and valuable items
P...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Romantic Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
Antique Hand Painted Box in Pink enamel with Promenade Scene
Located in Neguri, Vizcaya
Antique 19th hand painted pink porcelain box with promenade scene
Perfect gift for decoration or keeping personal and valuable items
PRADERA is ...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Romantic Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
Antique Limoge Hand Painted Box in Pink enamel with with Sailing Ships scene
Located in Neguri, Vizcaya
Antique 19th Jewellery hand painted porcelain box with hunting horse scene
aprox 1880 hand painted in yellow porcelaine
Perfect gift for decoration or kee...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Romantic Boxes
Materials
Enamel
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Located in New Orleans, LA
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Antique William IV Sterling Silver Table Snuff Box
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique William IV English sterling silver table snuff box; an addition to our collectable silverware collection.
This exceptional antique William IV sterling silver snuff box has a rectangular, rounded form.
The body of the box is embellished with impressive chased floral motifs accented with scrolling stem and foliate ornamentation, all on a matte background.
The decoration to the body incorporates a chased single leaf design to each corner, emanating from the rounded lower portion.
The upper rim of the body and swept sides of the cover are encompassed with a continuous band of engine turned decoration.
The underside of the box features a further panel of engine turned decoration.
This exceptional example of antique silverware is fitted with a hinged hallmarked cover embellished with an engine turned bordered rectangular vacant cartouche to the upper plateau.
The cover is further embellished with an exceptional cast and applied domed, incurved border to the upper portion, matching the ornamentation to that of the body and continuing to an impressive floral thumbpiece to the anterior edge.
This antique sterling silver snuff box opens to reveal the original gilded interior.
Condition
This antique sterling silver snuff box is an exceptional gauge of silver, exceptional quality and in exceptional condition.
The chased and applied ornamentation is all very sharp and the engine turned decoration is all very crisp.
Full hallmarks struck to the interior of the box are all very clear.
Reflections in photographs may detract from the true representation of this antique silverware.
Dimensions
Length 9.8cm/3.9"
Width 6.5cm/2.6"
Height 4.3cm/1.7"
Weight
8.2 troy ounces/253g
Maker: Joseph Willmore...
Category
1830s British Antique Romantic Boxes
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Limoges Hand Painted Metal Mounted Lidded Porcelain Trinket Box
By Limoges
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A stunning and beautifully painted antique French porcelain metal mounted trinket box decorated with exotic birds and made by the world-renowned Limoge Porcelain factory and believed...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Romantic Boxes
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French Antique Ormolu and Limoges Enamel Jewellery Box
By Limoges
Located in Newark, England
LIMOGES ENAMEL PANELS
From our Decorative collection, we are delighted to offer this French Napoleon III Ormolu and Enamel Jewellery Box. The Jewellery...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Romantic Boxes
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19th Century Regency Trinket Box
Located in Tampa, FL
19th century English regency trinket box or jewelry box. The interior tray is covered in original pink velvet, the velvet is in great condition. Has no key.
Category
1890s English Antique Romantic Boxes
Materials
Velvet, Wood
Antique Sterling Silver Japanese Export Engraved Cigarette or Decorative Box
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This antique engraved sterling silver cigarette or decorative box was made in Japan in approximately 1900 in the period Japonisme style. The box is composed of an ebonized hardwood c...
Category
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Materials
Sterling Silver
$995
H 2 in W 5.5 in D 4 in
French Limoges Hand Painted Pink Floral Oval Trinket Box
By Limoges
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A hand painted French Limoges trinket or pill box, circa 1970s.
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Located in New York, NY
George VI sterling silver box. Made by Robert Pringle & Sons in London in 1939. Rectangular with curved corners. Cover hinged and tabbed; top has engine-turned wave ornament and rect...
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Limoges France Hand-Painted Porcelain Floral Jewelry Trinket Box
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Located in Miami, FL
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Category
Early 20th Century French Romantic Boxes
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$336 Sale Price
20% Off
H 2.38 in Dm 5.38 in
French Limoges Enamel Box
By Limoges
Located in New Orleans, LA
This delightful porcelain and enamel box perfectly exemplifies the esteemed French Limoges tradition. It features a meticulously hand-applied pink and blue floral scene against a bro...
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19th Century French Antique Romantic Boxes
Materials
Enamel
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Circa 1930s Huntley & Palmers Biscuit Tin
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
c.1930's Watteau romantic scenes "tea caddy" from Huntley & Palmers biscuit tin. Pseudo-sterling mounts.
5 3/4"w., 3 1/4"d., 4"h.
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Early 20th Century Books & Bookend Form Biscuit Tin by Huntley & Palmers
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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
Materials
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...
Category
Late 19th Century Austrian Antique Romantic Boxes
Materials
Brass, Copper
H 6.13 in W 4.5 in D 3.63 in
Antique Sterling Silver Cigarette Case with Initials B I
Located in Neguri, Vizcaya
Antique Sterling silver cigarette case
Weight 160 grams
PRADERA is a second generation of a family run business jeweler...
Category
1960s Spanish Vintage Romantic Boxes
Materials
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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H 1.46 in W 4.93 in D 3.75 in
Antique Sterling Silver Cigarette Case with delicate peacoks and gold plated
Located in Neguri, Vizcaya
Vintage Silver Cigarette Case
Weight 110 grams
PRADERA is a second generation of a family run business jewelers ofreference in Spain, with a rich track record being official di...
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1960s Spanish Vintage Romantic Boxes
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H 3.94 in W 0.4 in D 3.15 in
Antique 19th Hand Painted Enamel Pipes and cigar holder
Located in Neguri, Vizcaya
Antique 19th Hand Painted Porcelain pipes with promenade scene
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Late 19th Century French Antique Romantic Boxes
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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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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.
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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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