Inlay Decorative Objects

Béatrice Serre (Born in 1970) Le Champ des possibles Date : 2012 Technique : Oval-shaped relief. Mixed media, lava, glass paste, bismuth, pyr...

Italian music box table in the Sorrento style, wooden table with floral inlay. The top folds open, and inside are plastic compartments covered ...

This marquetry skateboard from the w o o d p o p studio is an example of the type of modern marquetry that w o o d p o p is becoming synonymous with. Since its inception 10 year...

This is a truly unique antique box, not only does it have a faux book front. Fine inlay detail to the top - showcasing birds but it has a very cool hidden document storage...

Gilt Lacquer Wood Manuscript storage box Burma 19th century. This wooden box is entirely covered in moulded lacquer-work in relief (known as thayo w...

Raised on Four Sterling Silver Scrollwork Legs From our Writing Box collection, we are pleased to offer this Tortoiseshell and Silver Stationery Box by William Comyns. The Stationer...

Long ago, this elegant rosewood box was used by a Qing-dynasty lady to store her favorite pieces of jewelry, each drawer filled with jades, pearls, coral necklaces, and hair pins. Th...

Chest, box forming a cabinet, Orientalist art, 19th century, Napoleon III period. A 19th century Napoleon III period wood and bone marquetry cabinet box, Orientalist. Dimensions : ...

The Paris based label has distinguished themselves since their launch, with their iconic use of shagreen mixed with brass and other exotic materials. All furniture is handcrafted by ...

This tall case clock has a beautifully painted enamel face with a pair of turtle doves featured prominently at the center, indicating that this clock was probably a wedding or annive...

There is type of English sweet called a Licorice Allsort. They are made in different layers and some have little balls covering them. The red lacquer and the little white pieces of e...

A Stunning Late Grand Tour Collectors Box 19th Century Mahogany & Ebony Pietra Dura Karlsbad, Germany. The Lid Is Decorated with Marble And Agate Geometric Motifs. With Continen...

On offer is an Eldred Wheeler Inlaid Maple Sewing Box, handcrafted in Hingham, Massachusetts. Founded in 1977 by Emmett Eldred and Bill Wheeler, Eldred Wheeler was a highly regarded ...

A rare and magnificent fine quality antique French gilt bronze ormolu mounted André-Charles Boulle (1642-1732) style marquetry inlaid tortoise-shell sculptural encrier (inkstand). G...

Antique handcrafted Moroccan jewelry wooden box with camel bone inlay trunk. A large early 20th century decorative Moroccan camel bone casket with bra...

French Patinated Metal Marble and Black Slate Mercury Compensated Mantel Clock, late 19th century, the circular dial with open escapement, centered by inlaid malachite roundel, the m...

The cover inlaid with the title 'COLLECTIO MARMORUM' incorporating ebony, tulipwood and mahogany. The hinged wooden book having the appearance of gold pages and opening to reveal a t...

Moorish style micro mosaic marquetry inlaid jewelry box with lid. Intricate inlaid Anglo Indian box with floral and geometric Islamic Moorish mosaic Sadeli design in a square shape form with mosaic inlay and marquetry, very fine artwork, lined in red velvet. Museum collector piece like the one in Doris Duke Islamic Art Museum. The repeating geometric patterns of Sadeli Mosaic are what give it beauty and richness. This decorative technique is a type of micro mosaic featuring repeating geometric patterns. A highly skilled craft, it has had a long history in India and the Middle East with early examples dating back to the 16th century. In the 1800s, it became popular as a decoration on a variety of boxes, card cases, and chess boards imported from India. Since Bombay became a center of making them, they became known as Bombay boxes...

Fantastic quality antique Victorian rosewood and mother of pearl inlaid work box having a quality antique Victorian work box with stunning mother of pearl inlay, with a lift up lid o...

Simple and elegant antique jewelry box with inlaid wood top, circa 1930s. The piece is more of a decorative item than functional; the top opens u...

From our Tea Caddy collection, we are delighted to offer this Antique Burr Yew Tea Caddy. The Tea Caddy of rectangular shape is beautifully finished in veneered Burr Yew wood, edged ...

This Art Deco perfume or scent bottle is unsigned but presumed to have been made in Bohemia in approximately 1935. The glass is a deep purple with deep faceted sides and etched and cut top. The bottle features an ornate gold toned filigree collar...

Jewelry box in Marquetry of the 19th century Jewelry box in wood Marquetry, Napoleon III period, 19th century Contact us before ordering to confirm product availability. Dimensions...

c.1800, England, Regency brass inlaid rosewood lap desk in the manner of George Bullock. Rectangular box with double-hinged lid, opening to tooled na...

A fine quality Regency Era / Georgian Period tea caddy set in sumptuous plum-pudding mahogany. Exquisitely hand-crafted in England at the turn of the late 18th / early 19th century,...

Hispano-Moresque Mudéjar Bone-Inlaid Walnut Chest
 Spain, 16th–17th century 
Walnut, bone inlay, iron fittings
 44.5 × 30.5 × 18 cm This rectangular walnut chest, richly ornamented ...

Beautiful clock in walnut root, enriched with maple fillets and with an ebonized wooden base. The decoration of the clock features gilded bronze friezes, inspired by classical elemen...

A Model of Jean Henri Riesener (Received Master in 1768) executed in 1785. (inv. OA 5501 In Louvre Museum). 19th Century. This fine and sumptuous “Regulateur de Pendule” presents a fine amaranth. Of Sycamore oeuil de vermeuil, ebony and buis stringing marquetry. The base and the gaine are decorated with diamond shapes. The hours are inscribed in Roman numerals and the munutes in Arabic. It takes place in a magnificent gilt décor of three winged children playing with garlands on clouds. The regulateur is enriched with a delicate garniture of bronze. The dial and each panel are framed by an elegant frieze of palms and pearls. The top of the gaine is enhanced with a frieze of palms and ovums, foliages and garlands of flowers. Each corner is ornated with fleurons. The front of the gaine is embellished by an Apollo mask (Sun Symbol) and each side with laurel crowns. Under the mask the cartouche is decorated by a stylized vase of flowers. Foliated scrolls, flowers, garlands, cornucopias and musical instruments such as a harp (Apollo Reference) the cherubs are underlined by pearls, scrolls of Acanthus Leaves and garlands dawning out in foliages, framed with ropes until the lions feet. The feet rest on a base ornated with fleurons and foliages with buds of flowers ending in four conical feet with acanthus leaves. With André-Charles Boulle (1642–1732) and Charles Cressent (1685–1768), Riesener was arguably one of the three greatest French ébénistes of the 18th century. Eventually taking over the workshop after Oeben's death in 1763, and marrying his widow some four years later. He is renowned for completing the famous bureau du Roi...

Alfred Louis Achille DAGUET (1875 - 1942) was a metalsmith active in Paris during the first part of the 20th century. His metalwork created prior to the outbreak of World War I, note...

A charming Korean celadon glazed stoneware bowl with white and black sangam inlay, Goryeo Dynasty, 12th - 13th century, Korea. The celadon glazed stoneware bowl of generous propor...

19th century Anglo-Indian Mughal wood box, inlaid and hand carved with the Taj Mahal and some flowers all around. Jewelry box, Anglo-Raj box from India in great condition. Nice Mughal Bombay Box...

18th century Grand Tour Cinerarium Limestone, inlaid with Roman marble fragments and fresco's Annotation of finding spot indistinctively written on the fragments ("forum trajan","for...

Wonderful 1980s Art Deco revival box by Maitland Smith constructed out of tessellated marble with inlaid brass detail.

An early 20th century French Napoleon III marquetry jardinière with inlaid veneer of mahogany. Bronze-mounted with two handles, gallery and trim. Original zinc liner. A beautiful pla...

This elegant 1930s box, crafted in straw marquetry, is attributed to Jean-Michel Frank, one of the most influential French designers of the interwar period. Known for his minimalist ...

An early 19th century miniature Italian coffer, or hinged box, made of solid walnut with marquetry inlay of various woods and bookmatched bird's-eye map...

Always Free Worldwide Shipping Outstanding Feathered Walnut Veneer From our Decanter collection, we are thrilled to offer this rare example Antique Burr Walnut Decanter Box attrib...

This Tunbridge box still bank is indigenous to the Tunbridge ware cottage industries of the town of Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England in the 18th and 19th c...

This mother-of-pearl inlay perfume box is a rare and complete treasure from the famed Palais-Royal of France’s Second Empire. The box is a work of art, meticulously fashioned to deli...

Exquisitely inlaid Georgian period 18th century longcase or grandfather clock. Original boxwood and satinwood inlay in late Georgian neoclassical...

Nice wooden and mother-of-pearl box from the 1900s. The mother-of-pearl inlays form plant motifs (flowers and foliage), incised to give volume to the different parts. It closes with ...

The Yakisugi Block is a piece designed to offer both beauty and versatility. It’s meant to be the perfect accent piece, and can be used as a side table, stool, or accent piece as ne...

From our Tea Caddy collection, we are pleased to offer this Georgian octagonal Inlaid Tea Caddy. The Tea Caddy of octagonal form veneered in Harewood with inlaid twin Tuscan Columns ...

Superb quality antique Regency rosewood inlaid bracket clock by Seller of Reading, having a brass bezel and a signed circular white dial with Roman numerals and the original hands, t...

A very striking twin fusee bracket clock in an Egyptian revival style case by Paul Philip Barraud. The eight day movement with unusual round plates of thick brass engraved on the bac...

Handcrafted Pietra Dura Marble Inlay Mosaic Dish from Agra, India, featuring Mughal-style floral motifs in white marble, meticulously crafted in Rajasthan. This classical 1950s piece showcases intricate geometric and botanical designs inlaid with green malachite, shell, and abalone. A vintage rectangular tray, crafted from exquisite Agra marble...

19th Century pair Anglo-Indian carved rosewood elephant statues with bone inlay. The pair are hand carved and profusely inlaid throughout with intric...

Handcrafted Khatam wooden box with very delicate micro mosaic marquetry from the ancient Persian technique of inlaying from arrangements of so many delicate pieces of wood, precious wood, and delicate miniatures paintings. This beautiful Middle Eastern Persian style box is covered inside and out with fine Moorish micro mosaic marquetry. Indo Persian Moorish style micro mosaic inlaid jewelry box with lid. Intricate inlaid Asian Indian box with floral and geometric Islamic Moorish Sadeli design in a square shape form with inlay marquetry, very fine artwork, lined in red velvet. Museum collector piece like the one in Doris Duke Islamic Art Museum. The repeating geometric patterns of Sadeli Mosaic are what give it beauty and richness. This decorative technique is a type of micro mosaic featuring repeating geometric patterns. A highly skilled craft, it has had a long history in India and the Middle East with early examples dating back to the 16th century. In the 1800s, it became popular as a decoration on a variety of boxes, card cases, and chess boards imported from India. Since Bombay became a center of making them, they became known as Bombay boxes...

A wonderfully naturalistic large Japanese Meiji period mixed metal okimono (ornamental sculpture) of a pair of oriental turtle doves ...

Antique silver mounted hardstone snuff box with micromosaic view of St. Peter's Cathedral, Rome. Italy, early 19th century. Dimension: 2.4" W x 1.2" D x .75" H.

Elegant Baroque casket crafted in oak, richly veneered with hand-cut walnut and finished with ebonised mouldings. The lid features pronounced Baroque-s...

This stunning 18th-century Italian box is a fine example of Baroque artistry, embodying the period's characteristic grandeur and attention to detail. Crafted from rich walnut, the bo...

Anglo Raj inlaid marble pietra dura decorative box with lid. Handmade marble decorative lidded box inlaid with semi precious stones, jasper and carnelian for orange. It is the same craft that you see in the Taj Mahal. Very nice fine pietra dura art...

Dome Topped Tea Caddy From our Tunbridge Ware collection, we are delighted to offer this Victorian Coromandel Tunbridge Ware Tea Caddy. The Tea Ca...

Pair of Russian Malachite Tazze Imperial Lapidary Works Circa 1830 A magnificent example of early 19th-century Russian craftsmanship, this pair of malachite tazze was created by the Imperial Lapidary Works of Ekaterinburg, circa 1830. These works exemplify the period when malachite emerged as the principal decorative material in Russian hardstone...

19th Century Italian micro mosaic grand tour paperweight - The Doves of Pliny. Rome - Circa 1870. Cartouche shaped black slate ground, inset ...

The inkwell with a square base having four faceted faces leading up to a central boulle lidded square glass inkwell with brass collar. The Boulle work finished in typical fashion wit...

Vintage Mosaic Marquetry Moorish Octagonal Footed Music Box Granada Spain 1950. Exquisite handcrafted vintage Middle Eastern Islamic style mosaic marquetry inlaid walnut wood footed ...

Rare unusual antique Edwardian musical quality inlaid marquetry grandmother clock having an outstanding quality inlaid marquetry case with a shaped inlaid marquetry hood and barley t...

PAIR of Asian Chinese-style (19th Century) silver 2 arm candelabra of heron standing on turtle with turquoise and rust enamel inlay. (PRICED AS PAIR)