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Style: Victorian
A 19th Century Hand Painted Porcelain Plate in Original Museum Frame
Located in Lambertville, NJ
A hand painted porcelain cabinet plate with elaborate hand decorated raised gilt border, the central figure of a bishop. The porcelain is 19th Century German or Austrian, with a bea...
Category
Late 19th Century German Antique Victorian Shadow Boxes
Materials
Porcelain, Glass, Giltwood
Antique Sailors Valentine with Niagara Falls
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Charming antique sailors or honeymoon valentine with an unusual horse shoe form ambitiously decorated with exotic seashells around a convex glass lens decorated on the inside with sh...
Category
19th Century American Antique Victorian Shadow Boxes
Materials
Shell
Antique English "Victorian” Framed Seashell Shadow Box, Circa 1860-1870
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique English "Victorian” Framed Seashell Shadow Box, Circa 1860-1870.
Exotic Shell Collection
Category
Mid-19th Century English Antique Victorian Shadow Boxes
Materials
Shell, Wood
Collection of Walking Sticks in Shadow Box
Located in Peekskill, NY
There is a nice variety of canes in this early collection and display case. The case looks to be 1800 with wavy original glass. The whole display has a very rich look.
Category
Late 19th Century Unknown Antique Victorian Shadow Boxes
Materials
Glass
Illuminated Natural History Art Diorama Nature Scene with Purple Heron, In Stock
Located in Brooklyn, NY
In Wetland, 2022, a majestic purple heron explores a local estuary in an illuminated update on the traditional Victorian diorama.
Original artwork by Christopher Tennant...
Category
2010s American Victorian Shadow Boxes
Materials
Brass
Vintage Mahogany Deep Shadow Box Frame Felt Cotton Mourning Wreath Wall Art
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vintage mahogany deep shadow box frame felt cotton mourning wreath wall art. Item features a nice deep frame, cotton felt handmade wreath, solid wood frame, beautiful wood grain, ver...
Category
Early 20th Century Victorian Shadow Boxes
Materials
Glass, Mahogany
Antique Victorian Harp Design Flower Mourning Wreath Mahogany Shadow Box Frame
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Antique Victorian Harp Design Flower Mourning Wreath Mahogany Shadow Box Frame. Item features a harp design, floral arrangement wreath, deep mahogany s...
Category
19th Century Antique Victorian Shadow Boxes
Materials
Glass, Mahogany
Antique Hutschenreuther Royal Vienna Porcelain Portrait Plate Le Brun Beehive
Located in Dayton, OH
Framed antique 19th century Royal Vienna style plate by Hutschenreuther with beehive mark, in green and gold with a central reproduction of Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun...
Category
19th Century Antique Victorian Shadow Boxes
Materials
Porcelain, Giltwood
Spaniard Fan Shadow Box
Located in Guaynabo, PR
This is a wood sticks and handpainted Spaniard fan. It depicts four different scenes related to Spain. Starting in the left, there is a bullfighter fighting a bull in a bullring; then an 18th Century scene of a horse carriage with a lady inside it in a country landscape while some people sitting in the grass appear selling pottery; next, there is a bouquet of carnations (the national flower of Spain) and finally some women with flamenco dresses dancing in a square. The fan is saved in a fan shaped gilt wood shadow box...
Category
20th Century Spanish Victorian Shadow Boxes
Materials
Wood
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Sailboat Diorama
Located in Nashville, TN
Diorama with sailboat named Hope sailing through waters in Hunting Island, SC; lighthouse and steamboat in the distance. Wood shadow box.
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Antique Butterfly Collection Glass Shadow Box Wall Decoration, Spain, 1970
Located in Madrid, ES
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1970s Spanish Vintage Victorian Shadow Boxes
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H 9.06 in W 24.81 in D 2.17 in
Japanese 4 Panel Gilded and Painted Screen, Framed in Lucite
Located in Pomona, CA
A Japanese 4 panel screen with a gilt background and a painted bonsai tree. The screen is framed in a Lucite "box" style frame as an artwork.
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1950s Japanese Vintage Victorian Shadow Boxes
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Framed Pre-Columbian Antique Textile
Located in Atlanta, GA
A small piece of Pre-Columbian antique textile fragment in a Lucite shadow box. Attributed to the Tiahuanaco or Tiwanaku culture, based in the city o...
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American Three Masted Clipper Ship Diorama in Shadow Box Frame, Circa 1850
Located in Hollywood, SC
American three masted clipper ship diorama under glass in shadow box gilt frame. Mid-19th century.
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1850s American Antique Victorian Shadow Boxes
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Glass, Wood, Giltwood, Paint
H 18.5 in W 32.75 in D 4 in
Set of '15' 19th Century Framed Botanical Specimens
Located in East Hampton, NY
19th century French dried plant specimens... signed by G. Babou, dated, and meticulously catalogued including location in France.... a wonderful set of 15.
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1890s Antique Victorian Shadow Boxes
Materials
Paper
Beautiful Antique Oval Shell Shadow Box Diorama
Located in Hopewell, NJ
Lovely Nantucket 19th century oval shell diorama having artistically arranged collection of natural shells against pale blue background. The old world f...
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Late 19th Century American Antique Victorian Shadow Boxes
Materials
Shell, Glass, Wood
Vintage Japanese Hand Painted Cherry Blossom Fan In Gold Shadow Box Frame
Located in Fort Washington, MD
Gorgeous Japanese vintage fan . It features hand-painted Cherry Blossom details and inlaid mother of pearl elements. The fan is displayed within a shadow box frame, which seems to be...
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20th Century Unknown Victorian Shadow Boxes
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Pair, Antique Framed Grand Tour Intaglio Displays
Located in Atlanta, GA
A finely framed and mounted set of 14 Grand Tour Era intaglios displayed in 2 matched pair of frames.
Wire hanging to verso and oval ring to top.
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20th Century Victorian Shadow Boxes
Materials
Brass
Ron Fritts Signed Vintage Pop Art Shadow Box Wall Sculpture
By Ron Fritts
Located in North Miami, FL
This eye-catching and rare Ron Fritts Pop Art shadow box wall sculpture has suspended resin or lucite balls floating in four different window vignettes that change. The background is black Mylar plexiglass and the exterior wood is newly ebonized. The original labels on the back that says RF studios Inc. and a number. The silver interior balls jump around as you pick it up and rotate it and even turn it upside down. The components of the resin have slightly yellowed from age and sun exposure. There is also glue residue from age and coming apart. It is what it is...
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1960s American Vintage Victorian Shadow Boxes
Materials
Aluminum, Chrome
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Antique Carved Wood Glass Wall Hanging Curio Cabinet Vitrine Shadowbox
Located in Dayton, OH
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Late 19th Century Antique Victorian Shadow Boxes
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2 Framed Antique Victorian 19th C Greek Roman Figural Silhouette Cameo Shells
Located in Dayton, OH
"Two antique 19th century carved Cameo shells featuring sillhouettes of a man and woman. The woman is adorned with grapes and leaves, while the soldier holds a spear and wears a figural galea helmet with wings and serpent mohawk.
The most popular cameos today are carved in sea shells, a tradition that began in the fifteenth or sixteenth century and was popularized by Queen Victoria of England. Since that time, cameos have predominately showcased women’s profiles, and been worn by women who enjoy the beauty and craftsmanship of hand-carved cameos.
Yet cameos have not always been decorative jewelry for women. In fact, at different points in history they have been worn as frequently by men. While the birthplace of the cameo was nearly 300 years before the birth of Christ in Alexandria, Egypt, cameos owe their origins to ancient carving traditions. As far back as 15,000 BC, petroglyphs — figures carved into rock — were used to record significant events and communicate information. In ancient times people used cameos...
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19th Century Antique Victorian Shadow Boxes
Materials
Shell
H 6.25 in W 1.5 in D 8.25 in
Antique Victorian Inlaid Writing Table Desk Manner of Edwards & Roberts 19th C
Located in London, GB
This is a lovely late Vicorian Gonçalo Alves and Marquetry writing table / desk, Circa 1880 in date and in the manner of Edwards & Roberts.
The rectangular top has a moulded edge and features satinwood banding with an inset gold tooled green leather writing surface over a central frieze drawer flanked by six small drawers, all superbly decorated with wonderful marquetry of swags and garlands.
It is raised on four elegant square tapering legs that terminate in their original brass castors.
Complete with working locks and keys, this elegant desk will make a wonderful addition to your home.
Condition:
In excellent condition having been beautifully cleaned polished and releathered in our workshops, please see photos for confirmation.
Dimensions in cm:
Height 75 x Width 122 x Depth 57
Height 61 x Width 53 - Kneehole dimensions
Dimensions in inches:
Height 2 foot, 5 inches x Width 4 foot x Depth 1 foot, 10 inches
Height 2 foot x Width 1 foot, 9 inches - Kneehole dimensions
Edwards & Roberts
The firm Edwards & Roberts was one of the best English antique furniture cabinet makers of the second half of the eighteenth century. The company was founded in 1845 and by 1854 was trading as ‘Edwards & Roberts’, 21 Wardour Street, Antique and Modern Cabinet...
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1880s English Antique Victorian Shadow Boxes
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Leather, Wood
H 29.53 in W 48.04 in D 22.45 in
Three 19th C. French Memento Mori Hair Art Mourning Souvenirs in Oval Frames
Located in Haarlem, NL
Three French Memento-Mori hair mourning souvenirs with decorative 3-dimensional shapes from hair of a deceased loved one in oval black and metal frames with convex glass.
These muse...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Victorian Shadow Boxes
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Glass, Paper, Wood
H 8.27 in W 6.89 in D 0.79 in
French Style Hand Painted Gilt Mother of Pearls Fan Shadow Box
Located in Guaynabo, PR
This a mother of pearl sticks and hand painted fan depicting a royal scene in a palace. There are some gilded overlay pierced foliage in the sticks and, in the center is highlighted ...
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Late 19th Century Unknown Antique Victorian Shadow Boxes
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl
Antique Victorian Oil on Canvas Portrait of Woman in Shadow Box by Asti, C 1890
Located in Big Flats, NY
An antique Victorian oil on canvas painting by Asti depicts portrait of a young woman with a flower in her long hair, artist signed lower left ...
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Late 19th Century European Antique Victorian Shadow Boxes
Materials
Canvas, Glass, Wood, Giltwood
H 11.5 in W 8.75 in D 2.75 in
Antique Victorian Mourning Hair Wreath in Giltwood Shadowbox Frame, circa 1880
Located in Big Flats, NY
An antique Victorian mourning hair wreath mounted in deep giltwood shadowbox frame, circa 1880
Measures: 24" H x 20" W x 5" D, sight 19" H x 15" W.
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Late 19th Century American Antique Victorian Shadow Boxes
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Wood, Giltwood
H 24 in W 20 in D 5 in
Antique Victorian Mixed Fruit Wax Diorama Displayed in Giltwood Shadow Box
Located in Big Flats, NY
An antique Victorian still life diorama offers wax mixed fruit displayed in shadow box with giltwood frame, circa 1840
Measures- 15.38"...
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Mid-19th Century European Antique Victorian Shadow Boxes
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Glass, Giltwood
H 15.38 in W 17.5 in L 15.38 in
Vintage Red and Gold Distressed Wall Hanging Curio Cabinet Display Case Acorn
Located in Dayton, OH
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H 20.75 in W 5.5 in D 21.5 in
Set of 4 Original Antique Botanical Prints in a Shadow Box
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Great set of 4 botanical prints in an antique pine shadow box
Lithographs circa 1900
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I p...
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1890s English Antique Victorian Shadow Boxes
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19th Century Valentine
Located in Nantucket, MA
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Antique French Caribbean Sea Shell-Work Picture
Located in Downingtown, PA
French Caribbean sea shell-work picture,
circa 1820-1840.
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Victorian shadow boxes for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Victorian shadow boxes for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage shadow boxes created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include wall decorations, decorative objects and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with wood, glass and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Victorian shadow boxes made in a specific country, there are Europe, North America, and Spain pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original shadow boxes, popular names associated with this style include Hutschenreuther, and Tennant New York. 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 shadow boxes differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $115 and tops out at $7,637 while the average work can sell for $650.
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