Painted Boxes

A delightful, hand-crafted ceramic pitcher from the renowned Albisola-based workshop, La Casa dell'Arte. It features a classic maritime theme, complete with boats and a small landsca...

A captivating late 19th-century Chinese octagonal multi-tiered stacking presentation or wedding box. This ceremonial dowry vessel features a classic tapered, faceted silhouette envel...

Octagonal box in 925/1000 sterling silver, gold plated with translucent fired enamels and featuring a handpainted monochrome miniature on guilloche of a sailing ship on the lid, depi...

This is a traditional style of Chinese painted wooden Box from Shan Xi, China. It has about 100 years history. Normally it was used to store jewelry and valuable accessories as well ...

This antique Chinese box from the early 20th century exemplifies the lavish splendor of the Qing-dynasty (1644-1911) decorative arts.Used to store documents, money or personal valuab...

This sculptural antique box was crafted in Tibet in the mid to late 19th century, shaped to an unusual trapezoidal form and highly decorated in the Himalayan style. The tall, wooden ...

Chinese Mid-Century small rectangular hinged chest with metal latch and two side ring handles, hand painted featuring two exotic birds (depicted on the top and front), pine, berries,...

19th century hand painted tine decorative box circa 1860. Good quality Swedish tine box, used for storing valuables or foods for secure storage.  This example in it's original blue ...

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...

A small round red, yellow and black trinket box. This vintage hand - painted box will be glamourous on a dresser, nightstand, or coffee table. Large eno...

Porcelaine de Paris (Décor - Chasses Royales). Two small lidded boxes with brass inserts hand-decorated with cheetahs and gold decoration. Approx. 1980s...

Fabulous and large store tea tin by Parnall & Sons who were the people to see for outfitting your store and much more as the company grew from 1830. Hand painted showing a girl servi...

Octagonal pill box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with a hand-painted miniature with fired enamel by the painter Romano Buccioni in Louis XVI style from the second half of ...

Mid 18th century Swedish pine chest decorated with labyrinth circa 1730. Rare and beautiful Swedish pine chest.   Traces of original paint to the outside with decorative metal strap...

A very impressive 19th century Viennese enamel table cabinet having gilded ormolu semi clad maidens surrounding two cherubs and a figure supporting a watch case. Enamel panels aroun...

Nickel- plated cookie bowl with original painted glass vienna around 1960s Original condition

Rounded rectangular snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with beautiful fire enamelled miniature hand painted by the painter Simone Dainelli inspired by the paintings of Boris Vallejo, in fantastic contemporary style, with hand-engraved frame. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1967 and manufactured in Florence in numerous specimens with various subjects and different colors, in the headquarters of the Salimbeni company with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for withstanding numerous high-fire enamelled firings at about 800° C. Miniature is a very ancient technique which consists of painting works in small proportions. It was born for the decoration of the first letter of the paragraph of the books. Over the years, however, this technique is refined and enriched, then moving on to precious personal items. hand painted miniatures can be done with multiple different techniques. The most important that we use on our articles are of three kinds: 1) Fire enamel. 2) Water tempera on an ivory plate. 3) Painted on mother-of-pearl. Fire enameled miniatures: On a first layer of enamel generally white or very clear or even transparent suitably liquefied at a temperature of about 750 ° C, the chosen subject is painted using miniature colors which are as many colored crystals, ground and reduced to a very fine, almost impalpable powder washed and purified in distilled water with the addition of small quantities of deoxidizing acids which, diluted with essential oils (usually essential oil of solder), can be mixed to form a palette of colors. With very fine sable hair brushes you draw the subject starting from the perimeter and then gradually adding various layers of color. It is necessary to carry out various firings very often so that the colors harden and are not absorbed by the underlying glaze as, during the subsequent firings at 750 ° C, during liquefaction, it would spread irremediably. Hence the need to form the painting a little at a time, cooking it numerous times. Therefore it is necessary to proceed with numerous retouching, often overlapping different colors that only the painter's experience knows. A beautiful miniature needs from 20 to over 50 firings and is finished when the painter deems he does not have to further intervene. Some colors must have darker tones than others because then, by superimposing the transparent enamel placed at the end of the miniature, they fade. This transparent layer, called “fondant” in jargon, must be smoothed and polished like all other translucent enamel colors. The miniatures with water tempera colors are painted on real ivory...

This exquisite small, round alabaster pill box is a timeless piece of Italian craftsmanship. Designed by the renowned artist and stonecutter Oscar Vita from Genoa, it retains its ori...

Rectangular shaped table box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fine hand-engravings fire enameled hand-painted like lapis lazuli stone and beautiful hand-painted enameled ...

This is a vintage hand painted leather clad dresser box. This dresser box was handmade in Canton China. This box has two small drawers at the front and a lid that opens up and presen...

18th Century Mennecy Porcelain Cat Snuff Box, modelled as a cat with kittens and decorated in polychrome enamels, the hinged lid revealing a floral interior.

Rectangular table box with rounded corners in gold-plated 925/1000 sterling silver with very fine hand-engraving, also on the sides, of peacocks with “ramage” similar to tiger tails,...

A highly decorative vintage Chinese red painted stacking picnic box and carrier, painted in the Tibetan style, circa 1990's, China. The large painted and textured wood picnic box and carrier comprised of three trays or boxes, and one lid, all housed in a handled carrier. The red painted boxes and cover stack. A large roundel design of a golden dragon face within a cloud collar...

A wonderful artistic Art Deco Porcelain box with corresponding lid - made inJapan, the piece is a treasure as a decorative piece. The box has a slight octagonal design, making it even more special. A compliment to any shelf, cocktail table or side table. The piece is large enough to hold desk supplies...

Soviet Mstyora Firebird Lacquer Box Signed by V. Snyatkov, circa 1980 Large Soviet Russian Mstyora lacquer box depicting the Firebird, hand-painted and signed by V. Snyatkov, circa ...

Oval curved snuff-box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold-plated with translucent fired enamels on guilloché, above and below. Modern contemporary style. Size cm. 4.5 x 6.5 x 2.3. Weigh...

An elegant 19th-century Oriental desk box or storage chest, crafted from wood and hand-decorated with exquisite polychrome detailing in shades of red, bl...

An elegant French Limoges porcelain tea caddy dating from circa 1900, beautifully decorated with hand-painted floral motifs and fitted with a hallmarked silver mount and removable li...

Exquisite piece of Mary Gregory all original black amethyst glass hinged perfume box. Inside is formed with gilt wire inserts with three glass scent or cut glass perfume bottles co...

Round snuff box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamels on guillochè and hand-painted floral miniature, surrounded by a frame with leaves on a blue bac...

Octagonal table cigarette case in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with external edges and fired enamels inserted in fine designs in the Baroq...

This is a Herend Porcelain reticulated round lidded potpourri bombonniere box. It is hand painted with colorful flowers and pink ribbons scrolls. Its lid and bowl borders are gilded....

Shaped box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with painted fire enamels like lapis lazuli stone and beautiful miniature hand painted by the painter Beatrice Mellana reproducing ...

Tiny porcelain hand painted box by Limoge decorated with a rose and with small scissors as a clasp. France, circa 1880.  

A GILT-METAL MOUNTED SNUFF BOX Circa 1750, probably Saint-Cloud Modelled as a reclining monk, one hand supporting his bald head, the other holding a rosary and with a crutch at his s...

19th Century Swedish Folk Art Bentwood Box from Hälsingland, Northern Sweden. Oval box with lid. Originalpainted with nice patina after several hundred years of use. Beautifully pain...

Behold the epitome of elegance and craftsmanship: a square table box, meticulously crafted from gold-plated 925/1000 sterling silver. This masterpiece features exquisite engravings a...

Created at the height of the Art Deco period, in 1940s France, but clearly inspired by the monumental male nudes of Michelangelo and the high Renaissance in Italy, this 1942 drawing ...

An 18th Century South Staffordshire Snuff Box Top / Lid, decorated with a Lady and Gentleman with a flute in parkland, gilt scroll border, the unde...

Square form with hinged lid with original brass bail handle. Faux bois decoration. The matt black painted wood base with square section legs and H form stretchers.

Rounded rectangular snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling silver with fine hand-painted fire-enamelled miniature depicting the Head of the Statue of Liberty in New York. Dimensions cm. 5.5 x 7 x 1.8. Weight gr. 105. Designed by Giorgio Salimbeni in 1975 in Art Deco style and executed in numerous specimens, at the specific request of the firm Tiffany & Co., in Florence in the headquarters of the Salimbeni firm with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for sustaining numerous high-fire enamelled firings at approximately 750 < 800° C. Miniature is a very ancient technique which consists of painting works in small proportions. It was born for the decoration of the first letter of the paragraph of the books. Over the years, however, this technique is refined and enriched, then moving on to precious personal items. Hand-painted miniatures can be done with multiple different techniques. The most important that we use on our articles are of three kinds: 1) Fire enamel. 2) Water tempera on an ivory plate. 3) Painted on mother-of-pearl. Fire enameled miniatures: On a first layer of enamel generally white or very clear or even transparent suitably liquefied at a temperature of about 750° C, the chosen subject is painted using miniature colors which are as many colored crystals, ground and reduced to a very fine, almost impalpable powder washed and purified in distilled water with the addition of small quantities of deoxidizing acids which, diluted with essential oils (usually essential oil of solder), can be mixed to form a palette of colors. With very fine sable hair brushes you draw the subject starting from the perimeter and then gradually adding various layers of color. It is necessary to carry out various firings very often so that the colors harden and are not absorbed by the underlying glaze as, during the subsequent firings at 750 ° C, during liquefaction, it would spread irremediably. Hence the need to form the painting a little at a time, cooking it numerous times. Therefore it is necessary to proceed with numerous retouching, often overlapping different colors that only the painter's experience knows. A beautiful miniature needs from 20 to over 50 firings and is finished when the painter deems he does not have to further intervene. Some colors must have darker tones than others because then, by superimposing the transparent enamel placed at the end of the miniature, they fade. This transparent layer, called “fondant” in jargon, must be smoothed and polished like all other translucent enamel colors. The miniatures with water tempera colors are painted on real...

Mexican chest. New Spain, 18th century. In polychrome wood. Slight paint losses on the lid. Measurements: 7 x 16 x 6.5 cm. Wooden chest from the vicerega...

Antique Oriental Chinese Export Black Lacquered Gilt Painted Covered Box 1940s. Large Asian Chinese black lacquered tea box with nume...

Rounded rectangular snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fine hand-painted fire-enamelled miniature depicting a female face wearing Art Nouveau style clothing, hand-...

Rare small lidded trinket box with church-shaped handle on the lid is hand painted in two tone blue on white porcelain background. Floral decor on the body of the box and on the lid,...

Intriguing antique Indian lidded box crafted in hardwoods in a domed form featuring hand painted figures with floral borders.

Handcrafted Moroccan Moorish gilt glass perfume bottle. Hand blown glass perfume bottle gilded with 24-karat gold hand painted designs...

Round snuff box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fire enamel on guilloche and hand-painted miniature of stylized blue bird, late 19th-century Viennese Art Nou...

This is an exquisite and happy subject, the hand-painted porcelain realized by the master is signed with his well-known blue initials "J.P." as his monogram mark. From 1834, Jacob Pe...

This gorgeous ceramic lidded rectangular box was made by Rookwood Pottery of Cincinnati, Ohio, and decorated by renowned artist, Sara Sax. Rookwood has long been recognized as one of...

Delightful and rare painted ceramic box made in the 40s by the Arte Casa factory in Albisola. Fairly good condition, slight defects in the ceramic. Manufacturer's mark on the base.

Romantic Porcelain Trinket Box with Garden Scene, France, Mid-20th Century A charming hand-painted porcelain trinket box, likely French, dating to the mid-20th century. Measuring 10 ...

A ventage Chinese Huanghuali wood box with a beautiful natural grain of Huanghuali. Measures: 2.5in (6.3 cm) X 8 3/4 in(22.2 cm) X 4 7/8 in(12.3 cm).  

This colorful tartan plaid box is hand decorated with shades of green; orange; red and yellow. It retains the original paint in very good condition. A new...

Art Deco porcelain monkey tabacco box Hand-glazed and hand-painted, created by Edouard-Marcel Sandoz and manufactured by Theodore Haviland By: Edouard-Marcel Sandoz, Theodore Havila...

Antique 19th century American folk art paint decorated wood candle box with smoke pattern design. With sliding lid. Useful for storage of small items. Measures 11 1/4" x 5 3/4" x 6 3...

Charming vintage set of six Dutch spice canisters, individually labeled Cinnamon, Ginger, Nutmeg, Allspice, Pepper, and Cloves. Crafted in tin, each square canister features a warm m...

This Antique lacquered painted lunch box from China has about 100 years history and still maintained very good condition. There are some traditiona...

A Mid 19th Century Staffordshire Pottery Cottage Money Box, Circa 1840 This delightful mid 19th century Staffordshire pottery money box is made in the form of an English country est...

Maquettes refer to small-scale models or prototypes often used by designers to plan or visualize larger projects before they are created on a full scale. These models serve as a way ...