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Decorative Boxes For Sale
Large Moorish Arabesque Inlaid Table Box
Located in Forney, TX
A stunning vintage Moorish arabesque inlaid table box, 20th century, high quality rectangular box with hinged lid, featuring contrasting mother of pearl, exotic hardwood, and bone marquetry inlay arranged in geometric patterns, opening to red fabric lined interior. Dimensions: (approx) 3" High, 16.75" Wide, 6 1/8" Deep; 3.2lbs As warm and attractive as it is functional, having the ideal large size and proportions for a variety of different uses, including concealing a remote control on your coffee table or sofa table, or as a jewelry casket, trinket case...
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20th Century Moorish Decorative Boxes

Materials

Bone, Mother-of-Pearl, Hardwood, Ebony, Rosewood, Tulipwood

Mithé Espelt Ceramic Secret Box Moineau Model, 1968, France.
Located in Brussels, BE
Nice Mithé Espelt "Moineau" model ceramic box, 1968, France. Poetic green bird. Glazed and cracked gold earthenware, blackened wood. Dimensions: 15 cm W, 10 cm D, 7 cm H. Good origin...
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1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Decorative Boxes

Materials

Earthenware, Wood

Cigarette Case fired Enamel stripes in Art Deco style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Large rectangular table box with long rounded sides in 925/1000 sterling silver with fire-enamelled stripes in Art Deco style. With “lost” hinge, i.e. semi-invisible. Dimensions cm. 10.5 x 15 x 2.3. Weight gr. 548. Inspired by drawings by Louis Cartier from the early 1900s in Art Deco style and recreated for Cartier USA in the 1980s, manufactured in Florence in the Salimbeni company headquarters with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick and thick slabs reinforcements suitable for supporting numerous high-fire enamelled firings at about 800° C. About cooperation Salimbeni and Cartier. Our first meetings with the Cartier USA Company took place through the Giorgini Company, the first "Buying Office" set up in Florence immediately after the Second World War, which had the purpose of bringing together Florentine, and also Italian, producers with American buyers, who especially appreciated the artistic objects still manufactured by artisans who still took inspiration from the Italian Renaissance, using techniques handed down from generation to generation. Mrs. Gina Pestelli, wife of a Florentine retail jeweller, was in charge of contacts with Cartier USA, above all an employee, while her daughter, also for Giorgini, took care of the fashion that in those years was affirmed in Florence with the events of "Pitti ". With their help, we began to supply frames and boxes in sterling silver gold plated with malachite and other semi-precious stones. At the same time, the official buyer of Cartier, Mr. William Smith, began to appreciate and commission the first objects with fired enamels, a process of which we have always been specialists. In 1975 we began exhibiting at the prestigious New York Jewellery Association Show, which we participated in both the February and July editions, for a good 26 years until 2001. In New York in those years the "Art deco style" was still very much appreciated, still mindful of the beautiful early 20th century architecture of the great buildings such as the "Crysler" or the "Empire State". We then began to produce frames, boxes, evening bags, "objets de vertu" and other objects in "art deco style" which were very popular with Mr. Smith who gave us some photocopies of Louis Francois Cartier drawings to reproduce them. Thus, numerous cigarette cases, powder compacts, evening bags, frames and table boxes were created exclusively for Cartier USA which, at the time, had the prestigious "Silver Department" on the first floor of the Cartier store on Fifth Avenue. An evening bag, with matching cigarette case and powder compact, were redone on the design created for a gift given to Mary Pickford at the time. In a 1986 Cartier catalogue...
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1960s Italian Art Deco Vintage Decorative Boxes

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Sterling Silver, Enamel

Folk Art Boot and Shoe Cleaning Box with Foot Shaped Shoe Rest
Located in Chillerton, Isle of Wight
Folk Art Boot and Shoe Cleaning Box with Foot Shaped Shoe Rest A handy and attractive little piece, the handle of the polish box doubles up as a rest to put the foot on to polish t...
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1960s Folk Art Vintage Decorative Boxes

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Pine

John Kapel, Furniture Maquettes
Located in Los Angeles, CA
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 ...
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1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Decorative Boxes

Materials

Wood

Anglo Indian Box
Located in Tampa, FL
19th century Anglo Indian box with raised painted arches on front, fantastic with a lot of patina. Does not have a key has small button feet.
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1880s English Antique Decorative Boxes

Materials

Wood, Paint

Tommaso Barbi Brown Ceramic and Brass Decorative Box or Centerpiece, Italy 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Delightful large decorative box in brown twisted ceramic and brass. This rare box is signed on the bottom, it was designed by Tommaso Barbi and produced in Italy during the 1970s. ...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes

Materials

Brass

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.
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1890s English Antique Decorative Boxes

Materials

Velvet, Wood

Japan Carved Okimono Group Of A Fisherman and His Kid, 1890 Meiji, Signed
Located in Norton, MA
Japan, Meiji Period, a finely carved figurine with outstanding detail of a fisherman and his kid. The man has a peddle on his right and a fisher on his left hand. The kid also has a ...
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1880s Japanese Antique Decorative Boxes

Materials

Ivory, Paint

Contemporary Italian Rose Quartz Box with Hinged Lid
Located in Toronto, ON
Invite healing energy into your home with an exquisite Rose Quartz box. This box is beautifully made with a hinged lid and expert construction. Lined in black velvet with white marbl...
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2010s Italian Decorative Boxes

Materials

Marble

Contemporary Italian Striped Green Malachite Square Tray
Located in Toronto, ON
Invite healing energy into your home with this exquisite green malachite and black marble vanity tray. This tray is beautifully made with expert co...
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2010s Italian Decorative Boxes

Materials

Malachite, Marble

Chinese Cloisonne Enamel Bird Boxes, Pair
Located in New York, NY
Pair of Chinese Cloisonne Enamel Bird Form Boxes with Gilt Metal, on fitted carved, pierced, and ebonized wood stands. Each overall: 6.75" H x 6"...
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20th Century Chinoiserie Decorative Boxes

Materials

Metal

Japan Carved Okimono Group Of A Goose and Its Seller, 1890 Meiji
Located in Norton, MA
Japan, Meiji Period, a finely carved figurine with outstanding detail of a Goose and its Seller. The man is carrying a goose on his right shoulder with a basket on the waist on the w...
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1880s Japanese Antique Decorative Boxes

Materials

Ivory, Paint

Antique Figured Coromandel Brass Box / Casket 19th Century
Located in London, GB
This is a magnificent antique brass bound coromandel Victorian Gothic Revival casket by Parkins and Gotto, 24 & 25 Oxford Street, London, circa 1860...
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1860s English Victorian Antique Decorative Boxes

Materials

Brass

Italian Carved Round Green Onyx Marble Box with Gilded Lionfeet, 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
A box as precious as the jewels it could contain inside, hand carved in Italy with the highest quality onyx marble from Pakistan (as attested by the adhesive label still present). Al...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes

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Onyx, Metal

Inlaid Wooden Trinket Box
Located in Bradenton, FL
A handmade trinket box made of wood. Each side is inlaid with opposing wooden diamonds made of slivers of angled wood to create a simple geometric pattern. The lid opens with two hin...
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Late 20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Wood

Tortoiseshell Musical snuff box
Located in Zonhoven, BE
Music box made in Switzerland 2nd quarter-19th century. This rare snuffbox plays 2 melodies, on a comb made of several small parts. (Until the mid-19th century, it was not yet possi...
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1840s Swiss Victorian Antique Decorative Boxes

Materials

Bronze, Iron, Cut Steel, Steel

Abalone Inlaid Burlwood Tantalus Chest, 19th Century
Located in New York, NY
European, likely French, Abalone Inlaid Burlwood Tantalus Chest, the lid opening to reveal a gilt bronze stand with four bottle inserts, all upon four squat feet, circa nineteenth ce...
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19th Century French Provincial Antique Decorative Boxes

Materials

Wood, Burl

Contemporary Italian Small Purple Fluorite Box with Hinged Lid
Located in Toronto, ON
Invite healing energy into your home with an exquisite small purple fluorite box. This box is beautifully made with a hinged lid and expert construction. Lined in black velvet with b...
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2010s Italian Decorative Boxes

Materials

Marble, Stone

Contemporary Italian Large Purple Opal Box with Hinged Lid
Located in Toronto, ON
Invite healing energy into your home with this exquisite purple opal box. This box is beautifully made with a hinged lid and expert construction. Lined in black velvet with black mar...
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2010s Italian Decorative Boxes

Materials

Stone, Opal

Small mid 19th century Swedish painted pine strong box
Located in Debenham, Suffolk
Small mid 19th century swedish painted pine strong box circa 1842. Beautiful small scandinavian strong box, presented with scraped back paint to reveal original.  Feintly still bari...
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Mid-19th Century Swedish Folk Art Antique Decorative Boxes

Materials

Pine, Paint

Japan Carved Okimono Group Of Floral and stained Sculpture, 1890 Meiji
Located in Norton, MA
Japan, Meiji Period, a finely carved floral and stained sculpture sits on a vase with outstanding detail in s supper elegant aperience. This caving style was trendy in Japan in the M...
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1880s Japanese Antique Decorative Boxes

Materials

Ivory, Paint

Decorative geode and black glass jewelry box by Don Drumm, late 20th century
Located in View Park, CA
A very unique decorative jewelry box hand-crafted of black glass, mirror, iron, and geode by Don Drumm, late 20th century. The geode boasts a bevy of brilliant blues, from cerulean t...
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Late 20th Century American Post-Modern Decorative Boxes

Materials

Rock Crystal, Iron

Japanese a pair of finely carved cuff links with opposing faces
Located in Norton, MA
Japanese a pair of finely carved cuff links with opposing faces Dimension: Size: 3cm Condition: Excellent Condition, no damage.
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Early 20th Century Japanese Decorative Boxes

Materials

Bone

Mid-Century Hunting Scene Brass, Silver & Stone Inlay Box by Salvador Teran
Located in New York, NY
This exquisitely reserved Mid-Century Modernist Brass, Silver, and Stone Inlay Box with Hunting Scene originates from Mexico by the artist Salvador Teran, Circa 1960. Features a dyna...
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1960s Mexican Mid-Century Modern Vintage Decorative Boxes

Materials

Stone, Silver, Brass

American Midcentury Modern Sterling Silver Jewelry Box
By Schroth Jewelers
Located in New York, NY
Midcentury Modern sterling silver box. Rectangular with straight sides. Cover hinged with straight tab. Box interior velvet lined. Cover interior gilt. Fully marked including maker’s...
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes

Materials

Sterling Silver

Beautiful Ormolu Pincushion Needle Box 19th C. 1890s, Austria
Located in Nuernberg, DE
This listing is for a beautiful Austrian gilt metal needle box on a alabaster base with a pincushion on top, circa 1890s. A beautiful collector's item and sure to be a lovely additio...
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Late 19th Century Austrian Victorian Antique Decorative Boxes

Materials

Alabaster, Metal, Ormolu

R&Y Augousti Circular Shagreen Lidded Box Signed
Located in West Palm Beach, US
Circular lidded wood box covered in ivory colored Shagreen from R & Y Augousti. The interior having a felt removable liner. Measuring 7.25” diameter x 3” high. R&Y Augousti was f...
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20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes

Materials

Shagreen

Antique Bulldog Head Wooden Box, England, 1900
Located in Milan, IT
Antique bulldog head wooden box, England, 1900.
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Early 1900s English Art Deco Antique Decorative Boxes

Materials

Leather, Glass, Wood

White And Tan Raised Pyramid Geometric Design Bone Box, India, Contemporary
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary Indian lidded bone box with white raised pyramid design. Overall geometric pattern. Added texture on border pieces. Part of a large collection of boxes.
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21st Century and Contemporary Indian Decorative Boxes

Materials

Bone

Sterling Silver Box with Navajo Decoration
Located in Litchfield, CT
Circa 1880s, Austrian box, Navajo decoration circa 1950s. This is a one-of-a-kind table decoration. Perfect for your Southwestern decor or to spot ...
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1950s Austrian Vintage Decorative Boxes

Materials

Sterling Silver

Bänsteboa, Lidded Box, Wood, Sweden, 1970s
Located in High Point, NC
A handcrafted wooden lidded box designed and produced by Bänsteboa Slöjdcenter, Sweden, c. 1970s
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1970s Swedish Vintage Decorative Boxes

Materials

Wood

Antique Victorian Scottish Sterling Silver and 15k Yellow Gold Box
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique Scottish sterling silver and 15 karat gold box; an addition to our diverse silver box collection. This exceptional Scottish sterling silv...
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1850s Scottish Victorian Antique Decorative Boxes

Materials

Gold, Sterling Silver

Needlepoint Brass Box with Roses
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful petit needlepoint and enamel brass box with floral rose design, circa early-20th century. Lid has a beautiful petit needlepoint design of three roses, leaves and rose bud...
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Early 20th Century Decorative Boxes

Materials

Brass

19th Century Black Forest Hanging Wall Box
Located in High Point, NC
19th century Black Forest small hanging wall box. The entire piece is hand carved to have the appearance of boards with hand carved appearance of gra...
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19th Century Swiss Black Forest Antique Decorative Boxes

Materials

Fruitwood

1950s by Piero Fornasetti Midcentury Italian Design Box
Located in Brescia, IT
Serigraphy on metal, wood box Excellent condition.
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1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Decorative Boxes

Materials

Metal

Whimsical Limoges France Halloween Ghost With Ball & Chain Porcelain Trinket Box
Located in Tustin, CA
Collectible and whimsical, limited edition Limoges porcelain Halloween motif miniature trinket box is handmade and hand painted in France and features an adorable and very expressive...
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Late 20th Century French French Provincial Decorative Boxes

Materials

Porcelain

Swiss Made Music Box from the End of the XIXth Century.
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Swiss made music box from the end of the XIXth century. Swiss made music box from the XIXth century, Napoleon III period, (small damage). h: 10cm, w: 30cm, d: 18cm
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19th Century Swiss Napoleon III Antique Decorative Boxes

Materials

Wood

Antique Burr Walnut, Ivorine & Brass Box Domed Casket with Key 19th Century
Located in London, GB
This is a wonderful antique Victorian burr walnut, ivorine, brass and turquoise bead mounted casket, circa 1870 in date. This wonderful casket has a domed hinged lid with elaborate ...
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1870s Antique Decorative Boxes

Materials

Walnut

Continental Carved Wood Tramp Art Box, 1st quarter 20th century
Located in Atlanta, GA
Rectangular box adorned with panels of geometric carvings popular in the early 20th century and known as Tramp Art
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1910s European Arts and Crafts Vintage Decorative Boxes

Materials

Wood, Boxwood

Large Black R&Y Augousti Hinged Snakeskin Box
Located in West Palm Beach, US
Large wood box clad in snake skin with a removable upper tray on the interior which is suitable for jewelry or small keepsakes. The interior is lined in...
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1990s French Hollywood Regency Decorative Boxes

Materials

Wood, Animal Skin

Italian Natural Alabaster Stone Trinket Box by Romano Bianchi, 1970s
Located in Esbjerg, DK
Decorative natural orange alabaster stone trinket, cigar, jewelry, vanity or cigarette box. Hand-made in Italy during the 1970s by Romano Bianchi. Measurements: 11x8x5 cm.
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1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Decorative Boxes

Materials

Alabaster

Early 20th Century French Wooden & Zinc Decoration
Located in High Point, NC
Discover the enchantment of yesteryear with this authentic early 20th-century French wooden and zinc decoration piece. Crafted with meticulous attention to detail, this charming arti...
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Early 20th Century French Decorative Boxes

Materials

Zinc

17th Century, French Oak Coffer or Box
Located in Buisson, FR
Extremely old and beautiful weathered oak box . Several old repairs that only add to the charm. Rare find. France, circa 1600-1700 Weathered, small losses and old repairs. H:14,5cm ...
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17th Century French French Provincial Antique Decorative Boxes

Materials

Iron

Augarten Porcelain Josef Hoffmann White & Gold Melone Covered Box / Sugar Bowl
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine porcelain covered sugar bowl (that doubles perfectly as a table box). In the Melone (pattern) designed by Josef Hoffmann in 1929. In white porcelain with gold highlights. B...
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21st Century and Contemporary Austrian Vienna Secession Decorative Boxes

Materials

Porcelain

Snuffbox with English Queen Anne style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Octagonal snuff box in gilded 925/1000 silver with English Queen Anne style borders and sides with fired enamels painted like lapis lazuli stone. On the lid, a very fine fire-enamell...
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1980s Italian Queen Anne Vintage Decorative Boxes

Materials

Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel

Travertine Box Pier Alessandro Giusti and Egidio Di Rosa for Up & Up Italy 1970s
Located in Rome, IT
Midcentury amazing round box in travertine marble attributed to the Italian designers Pier Alessandro Giusti and Egidio Di Rosa for Up & Up. Made in Italy in the 1970s.
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1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Decorative Boxes

Materials

Travertine, Marble

Marquetry Wood Box with Mosaic Bone Inlays, Middle East. c. 1970's
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Exquisite handcrafted Khatam wood box with micro mosaic marquetry design, an Ancient Persian technique of inlaying. Moorish style box features geometric inlays of wood and bone. Art...
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1970s West Asian Moorish Vintage Decorative Boxes

Materials

Enamel

Chinese Baitong Stacking Incense Clock, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
This three-tiered container is a 19th-century white brass incense clock, once used as a relatively accurate method to mark the passage of time. Incense c...
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Mid-19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Decorative Boxes

Materials

Brass

Antique Victorian Coromandel Brass Wooden Letters Stationery Writing Box Casket
Located in Dublin, Ireland
Absolutely stunning early Victorian well figured Coromandel Stationery Casket of museum quality and in outstanding condition. Mid to late Nineteenth Century, of English origin. Th...
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Mid-19th Century English Victorian Antique Decorative Boxes

Materials

Brass

Decorative Box Silver Chrome By Gucci, Italy, 1980
Located in Le Grand-Saconnex, CH
Elegant Gucci Cigar or jewelery box. Made in chrome and brass, with a nice interior lined in warm and precious toned wood. The top shows a bimetallic "baguettes" decoration with the ...
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1960s Italian Hollywood Regency Vintage Decorative Boxes

Materials

Chrome

19th Century English Dresser Box
Located in High Point, NC
19th century English dresser box made from exquisitely grained rosewood. The box has wonderfully inlaid patterns on the top and front in ivory, along with the beaded ivory trim. Th...
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19th Century English Victorian Antique Decorative Boxes

Materials

Ivory, Rosewood

19Thc Original Brown Painted Box W/ Drawer & Handle
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is either a 19thc hardware drawer box or a cash drawer of sorts.The construction is early cut nails and a dovetailed drawer.There is a brass & iron handle on the side of the box...
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1890s American Adirondack Antique Decorative Boxes

Materials

Brass, Iron

Antique Sheffield Four Seasons Silver Box
Located in Tampa, FL
This fabulous silver plate box is with the four seasons depicted on each side. On the front is summer. Winter, fall and spring are on the sides and back. It is lined in a blue green ...
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1910s English Vintage Decorative Boxes

Materials

Silver Plate

Rare Vintage Villeroy & Boch Lidded Box of the Series Faces France, 1980s
Located in Bochum, NRW
This is a gorgeous and hard-to-find sculptural porcelain box with a lid. It is shaped like a woman's head with a hat; the top of the hat forms the lid. It is not only a highly decora...
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1980s French Vintage Decorative Boxes

Materials

Porcelain

Antique Philippines Silver Inlay Betel Nut Box
Located in Montreal, QC
This is a fine example of an early 20th C rectangular bronze betal nut box with beautiful and elaborate silver inlay from Mindanao in the Philippines. The box has a handle on each si...
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Early 1900s Philippine Antique Decorative Boxes

Materials

Silver

Chinese Lacquered Brush Box with Painted Birds, Late 19th Century
Located in Labrit, Landes
Lacquered paintbrush box, made in the chinese style. In 19th-century Europe, oriental objects were highly prized and liked to be reproduced. In this painting features two birds and v...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Decorative Boxes

Materials

Wood

Circa 1830s English Regency to George IV Penwork Box
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Circa 1830s English penwork box, Regency to George IV. Sarcophagus form; decorated with a large Asiatic panel with floral sides & borders. Replaced lion mask ring handles. Lacks inte...
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1830s English Regency Antique Decorative Boxes

Materials

Wood

Antique, New and Vintage Decorative Boxes

Antique, vintage and new decorative boxes will safely store items while adding a splash of color or texture to a corner in any room. They have had a range of purposes over the years — from trinkets to serving as useful receptacles, such as snuff boxes, jewelry boxes and more. Boxes have also been designed in a range of forms and styles.

Box making is a craft dating back thousands of years. Early boxes as decorative objects were regularly designed and decorated both inside and out, ranging from minimal looks to more flashy styles. Decorative boxes have been constructed from different materials, with wood and metal being the most common. Wood is widely available and versatile, with woodworkers able to carve complex designs or showcase its natural grain.

Some antique jewelry boxes were made with tortoiseshell, mother-of-pearl, ivory and even porcupine quills, such as those created by the Anishinabe in Canada and the United States. In Sri Lanka, well-crafted boxes were inlaid with porcupine quills and ivory discs between ebony bands. Chinese sewing boxes and tea boxes made of black lacquer were popular in Europe during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. These often featured gold-painted designs or landscape scenes. Silk, paper and velvet frequently enhanced these boxes’ interiors.

Any style of decorative box can be a nice tabletop or desktop decor, whether to hold candy or tea in the living room or paper, pencils and other business supplies in the office. They can also act as jewelry boxes. Sewing boxes can be a lovely touch to any space while storing magazines or other trinkets.

You can find metal, wood and silver antique boxes on 1stDibs. The collection includes mid-century modern, Victorian and Art Deco styles that can add elegance to any home.

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