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Vienna Secession Boxes

VIENNA SECESSION STYLE & WIENER WERKSTÄTTE

At the turn of the 20th century, Gustav Klimt, Josef Hoffmann and several of their peers separated from the predominant Association of Austrian Artists to form a new professional union, the Vienna Secession.

The artists’ intent to break free from classical traditions in fine art evolved to encompass applied arts and interior design as well: In 1903, Hoffmann and Koloman Moser founded the Wiener Werkstätte, or "Viennese Workshop," to produce progressive furniture, ceramics, glass and textiles.

This talented collective of Austrian artists, architects and designers most famously created works in the Jugendstil style — the German branch of Western Europe's popular Art Nouveau. Jugendstil is associated with dynamic, rhythmic forms and undulating lines.

On 1stDibs, discover the sophisticated Vienna Secession furniture, art and decorative objects — ranging from watercolor paintings and prints to serveware and seating — that transformed Austria over one hundred years ago and maintain timeless appeal today.

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Style: Vienna Secession
Augarten Porcelain Josef Hoffmann Black & 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 Hoffman in 1929. Decorated in black and gold. By the Vienna Au...
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21st Century and Contemporary Austrian Vienna Secession Boxes

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Porcelain

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 Boxes

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Porcelain

Emanuel josef Margold, a small secessionist box for the Bahlsen factory, c.1915
Located in London, GB
A nice shaped box with a hinged cover; tinplate, gilt and with beautiful colourful motifs. The bottom is embossed with ‘H. Bahlsens Keks-Fabrik Hannover Königl-Preuss-Staatsmedaille ...
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20th Century German Vienna Secession Boxes

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Tin

Emanuel josef Margold, a secessionist box for the Bahlsen cookie factory c. 1915
Located in London, GB
A rare rectangular shaped box with a hinge cover; tinplate, gilt and with beautiful colourful abstract floral motifs. The bottom is embossed with ‘H. Bahlsens Keks-Fabrik Hannover Königl-Preuss-Staatsmedaille Weltausstellungen - 1904 1910 Grosser Preis 1911 1913 Baltische Ausstellung Malmö 1914 Die Königl. Medaille’ Bahlsen's new designs for ornamental giftware packaging were shown at the exhibition held by the Deutsche Werkbund...
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20th Century German Vienna Secession Boxes

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Tin

Diminutive Viennese Secessionist Brass & Velvet Box
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Diminutive Viennese Secessionist Brass & Velvet Box Austria, Circa 1920s A highly detailed and distinctive Diminutive Viennese Secessionist brass & velvet box, originating from Aust...
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Early 20th Century Austrian Vienna Secession Boxes

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Brass

Arts & Crafts Jewelry Box Casket by Erhard & Sohne, Vienna Secession w. Dome Top
Located in Lisse, NL
Stunning and great condition, brass Secessionist box with amazing inlay and the original key. There are -for good reasons- collectors of the Vienne...
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Early 20th Century Austrian Vienna Secession Boxes

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Brass

Secessionist Porcelain Vase by Karl Klaus for Serapis Wahliss
By Serapis Fayence Wahliss, Karl Klaus
Located in Chicago, US
Secessionist Porcelain Lidded Box by KARL KLAUS (1889-1925) for SERAPIS WAHLISS, Vienna, c. 1911, hand-painted in gold and black enamels in a stylized geometric diamond and holly mot...
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1910s Austrian Vintage Vienna Secession Boxes

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Porcelain

Viennese Secession Ceramic Box
Located in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Viennese seseion ceramic box Ceramic Origin Austria circa 1900 Very good condition and no restorations Sealed at its base Some chips on the lid ring due to wear and tear. Pink, black and yellow color with orientalist character on its cover. We are Saint John, a company dedicated to the trade...
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Early 1900s Austrian Antique Vienna Secession Boxes

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Ceramic

Unique Low Cabinet with Intarsia by Viktor Lurje for Wiener Werkstätte c. 1926
By Wiener Werkstätte, Viktor Lurje
Located in Berlin, DE
Unique low cabinet with intarsia designed by the architect, artist and craftsman Viktor Lurje (1883-1944) and manufactured by Wiener Werkstätte GmbH, circ...
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1920s Austrian Vintage Vienna Secession Boxes

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Wood

Bohemian Enamelled Loetz White Tango Glass Box and Cover by Dagobert Peche
Located in Bad Säckingen, DE
Rare white tango box and cover by Loetz enameled with black stylized flowers and black feet and lid finial designed by Dagobert Peche c.1915.
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1910s Austrian Vintage Vienna Secession Boxes

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Glass, Art Glass, Blown Glass, Opaline Glass

Candy Maker Viennese Secession, 1900, in Crystal and Gold
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
Style: Vienna Secession If you have any questions we are at your disposal. We have specialized in the sale of Art Deco and Art Nouveau styles since 1982.If you have any questions we ...
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Early 1900s Austrian Antique Vienna Secession Boxes

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Crystal, Gold

Three Wiener Werkstatte Style Biscuit Tins
Located in Sharon, CT
Three beautifully decorated Austrian/German biscuit or candy tins. The red oval: 8x3.5x5", large square: 8.25x8.25x5.5" and the flower decorated:4.25x8.75x6.75.
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Early 20th Century Austrian Vienna Secession Boxes

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Tin

Wiener Werkstatte Austrian Dressing Table Box by Josef Hoffmann
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A stunning and rare Austrian Wiener Werkstatte secessionist wooden dressing table box with linear patterning attributed to Josef Hoffmann (1870-1956) and dating from around 1912. The box was acquired as possibly by Bertold Löffler...
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1910s Austrian Vintage Vienna Secession Boxes

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Wood

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Late 19th Century English Antique Vienna Secession Boxes

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Brass

Erhard & Söhne Art Nouveau Lidded Pot in Patinated Brass
Located in Tilburg, NL
Erhard & Söhne Art Nouveau lidded pot in patinated brass. Germany, early 20th century. Beautiful art nouveau lidded pot made by Erhard & Söhne in Germany somewhere in the first tw...
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Early 20th Century German Vienna Secession Boxes

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Brass

Brutalist Hammered Brass Box or Jewelry Casket
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Lidded Brutalist Hand Made box in hammered brass with interesting floral details. Catches light beautifully - a complement to any surface. Can be used as a jewelry box, 420 stash box...
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20th Century Vienna Secession Boxes

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Brass

Erhard & Sohne Art Nouveau Casket, c. 1905
Located in London, GB
A beautiful art nouveau casket made by Erhard and Sohne in Germany in c. 1905. The casket is exquisitely executed with foliate detailing, made in the Gothic revival style in both p...
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Early 20th Century German Vienna Secession Boxes

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Brass

Erhard & Sohne Art Nouveau Casket, c. 1905
Erhard & Sohne Art Nouveau Casket, c. 1905
H 2.92 in W 4.3 in D 2.76 in
Walnut Machinist's Factory Tool Box c.1940-FREE SHIPPING
Located in San Francisco, CA
ABOUT A Walnut machinist's tool box used to store cutting tools for a lathe. Dovetail joints. CREATOR Unknown. DATE OF MANUFACTURE c.1940-195...
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Early 20th Century North American Vienna Secession Boxes

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Felt, Wood

Sugar Box Russia
Located in New York, NY
A gorgeous box made of blue glass beautifully decorated with white details. Frame of brass. original lock and key. Made during 19th Century Russian Empire period. Small lockable boxes...
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19th Century Russian Antique Vienna Secession Boxes

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Brass

The Rivera Box
Located in New York, NY
Signed and dated by artist on underside. From architectural follies of the eighteenth-century to crystalline rock formations, Thomas Engelhart translates the angles and polished su...
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2010s American Vienna Secession Boxes

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Paint, Paper

The Rivera Box
The Rivera Box
H 15 in W 8 in D 10 in
Small 3 tune music box
Located in Zonhoven, BE
Small 3 tune mandoline music box. The wooden case has some central inlay to the top of the lid. The front shows the start stop lever to the right there is the change/repeat lever (d...
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1890s Swiss Antique Vienna Secession Boxes

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Bronze, Steel, Cut Steel, Other, Iron

Small 3 tune music box
Small 3 tune music box
H 1.97 in W 5.52 in D 3.55 in
Josef Hoffmann & Wiener Werkstätte Flower Pots Ensemble
Located in Vienna, AT
Group of handcrafted flowerpots, as well available in several sizes Material Solid punched brass.
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2010s Austrian Vienna Secession Boxes

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Brass

Meissen Porcelain Black 'Ming Dragon' Covered Box
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Meissen Porcelain Black 'Ming Dragon' Covered Box Germany, Post WWII 20th Century, Two Slash Canceled Blue Crossed Swords Mark A fine Meissen Porcelain Black 'Ming Dragon' Covered Box, made in post-World War II Germany...
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20th Century German Vienna Secession Boxes

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Porcelain

Vienna Secession / Wiener Werkstätte Josef Hoffmann Gridwork Basket, Bieffeplast
Located in Doraville, GA
Josef Hoffmann (1870 -1956) was an Austrian architect and designer. He was one of the founders of the Vienna Secessionist movement and cofounded the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Worksho...
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1980s German Vintage Vienna Secession Boxes

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Metal

Prodhon Art Deco Wood, Chrome and Glass Cookie Box Candy Jar, France 1930s
Located in Atlanta, GA
Louis Prodhon, Paris, designed and crafted this refined Art Deco decorative cookie box or candy jar in the 1930s. The modernist design boasts a chromed metal and wood holder base wit...
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1930s French Vintage Vienna Secession Boxes

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Metal, Chrome

Previously Available Items
Vienna secession jewelry box atr. Dagobert Peche for Wiener Werkstätte
Located in Banská Štiavnica, SK
Brass jewelry box in style of Dagobert Peche and Wiener Werkstätte.
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Early 1900s Austrian Antique Vienna Secession Boxes

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Brass

Lidded Porcelain Jugendstil Box
By Karl Klaus, Serapis Fayence Wahliss
Located in Chicago, US
Jugendstil Porcelain Lidded Box by KARL KLAUS (1889-1925) for SERAPIS WAHLISS, Vienna, circa 1911, hand-painted in gold and black enamels in a stylized geometric diamond and holly mo...
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1910s Austrian Vintage Vienna Secession Boxes

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Porcelain

Lidded Porcelain Jugendstil Box
Lidded Porcelain Jugendstil Box
H 6 in W 5.5 in D 4 in
Stained Oak Vienna Secession Decorative Box, 1900s
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Stunning and rare Vienna Secession decorative box. Design in the style of Josef Hoffmann. Striking Austrian design from the 1900s. Solid stained oak with hand-crafted geometric el...
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Early 1900s Austrian Antique Vienna Secession Boxes

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Brass

Unique Museum Specimen of a Casket by Viktor Lurje for the Wiener Werkstätten
By Wiener Werkstätte, Viktor Lurje
Located in Saarbrücken, SL
A Vienna / New York history. Unique museum specimen of a casket by Viktor Lurje for the Wiener Werkstätten, dated 1920. Signature Viktor Lurje VL and th...
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1920s Austrian Vintage Vienna Secession Boxes

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Wood

Snuff Box or Pill Box Guilloche Enamel Floral Miniature, White and Blu Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rounded rectangular pill-box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fire enamel on guilloche with hand painted bouquet of flowers and hand engravings . Size cm. 3,6...
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1970s Italian Vintage Vienna Secession Boxes

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Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel

Vienna Secessionist Pottery Hinged Picnic Box
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
An unusual Austrian Secessionist lidded pottery box with carry handle made by Royal Vienna and dating from around 1910. Probably a picnic box it is of rectangular slightly rounded sh...
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1910s Austrian Vintage Vienna Secession Boxes

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Pottery

Vienna Secessionist Pottery Hinged Picnic Box
Vienna Secessionist Pottery Hinged Picnic Box
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H 4.14 in W 8.47 in D 4.93 in
Austrian Bronze Jewelry Box, c 1900
Located in Buenos Aires, Olivos
This early 1900s gilded bronze box was made in Austria and shows all the quality of their pieces. The top has a large central stone. The sides are in an intricate bronze ormolu pane...
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Early 1900s Austrian Antique Vienna Secession Boxes

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Bronze

Austrian Bronze Jewelry Box, c 1900
Austrian Bronze Jewelry Box, c 1900
H 3.15 in W 4.89 in D 3.71 in
"Black Cat in Moonlight, " Wiener Werkstätte-Era Enameled Box with Cabaret Vibe
Located in Philadelphia, PA
An extraordinary work of art that shows the clear influence of the Wiener Werkstätte and emerging Art Deco style, evoking the decadent atmosphere of Liza Minnelli in "Cabaret" and Marlene Dietrich in "The Blue Angel," this copper and enamel box...
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1920s Austrian Vintage Vienna Secession Boxes

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Enamel

Antique Secessionist Painted Metal Jewelry Box with Engraved & Inlaid Brass Top
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This very decorative jewelry chest is unsigned, but presumed to have been made in Austria in circa 1900 in the period Secessionist style. The box is composed of formed metal panels w...
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Early 20th Century Austrian Vienna Secession Boxes

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Metal

Erhard & Söhne German Secessionist Humidor or Casket Box In Gilt Brass Filigree
Located in New York, NY
German Secessionist humidor or casket box with exquisite gilt brass filigree cover and rosewood, made by Erhard & Söhne. The piece has a makers mar...
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Early 1900s German Antique Vienna Secession Boxes

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Brass

Austria, Vienna, Silver Etrog or Sugar Box with Lock, Great Modern Look
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Beautiful sugar box made in Austria, probably Vienna. Stamped with wagon wheel mark with Number 13 and date 1864. Also artist marks unreadable near wheel stamp. This is a 19th century box and has a great modern...
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1860s Austrian Antique Vienna Secession Boxes

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Silver

Silvered Art Nouveau Jewelry Casket by W.M.F.
Located in Englewood, NJ
A German Art Nouveau silver plate on pewter "jewelry casket" with a secessionist Art Nouveau decoration throughout with a wood liner. The casket is signed "WMF" and bears others make...
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20th Century Austrian Vienna Secession Boxes

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Bronze

Vienna Secession boxes for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a broad range of unique Vienna Secession boxes for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the Early 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, case pieces and storage cabinets, serveware, ceramics, silver and glass and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with metal, wood and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Vienna Secession boxes made in a specific country, there are Europe, Austria, and Germany pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original boxes, popular names associated with this style include Emanuel Josef Margold, Viktor Lurje, Wiener Werkstätte, and Dagobert Peche. 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 $475 and tops out at $53,258 while the average work can sell for $1,306.

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