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Gentleman s portrait on bone in a gilt bezel, c. 1810
Located in Kenilworth, IL
Miniature portrait of a gentleman on a bone pendant under glass. The framed is a characteristic New England gilt brass bezel with display loop. American, probably Boston, circa 1810.
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Early 19th Century American Antique Shadow Box

Materials

Brass, Enamel

Framed Chinese export octagonal plate, c. 1750-1800
Located in Kenilworth, IL
Famille rose Chinese export porcelain armorial plate of octagonal form decorated with sparsely placed sprays of flowers and buds. The cavetto is decorated with a large armorial withi...
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18th Century Chinese Antique Shadow Box

Materials

Porcelain

2 Antique Victorian Black Velvet Lace Bodice Shirtwaist Shadowboxes 30"
Located in Dayton, OH
Impressive pair of circa 1890's Victorian women's dress tops. One elaborately layered black lace / mesh shirtwaist with leg of mutton / gigot sleeve. And one black bodice / jacket in...
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1890s Victorian Antique Shadow Box

Materials

Fabric, Velvet

Antique 18th Century French Neoclassical Hera s Chariot Hand Fan Shadowbox
Located in Dayton, OH
Antique 18th century French Louis XVI / Neoclassical painted boudoir hand fan. White sticks pierced with foliate / floral designs as well as trumpets and sheets of music; gilded acce...
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18th Century Louis XVI Antique Shadow Box

Materials

Silk, Paint

Victorian Hair-Work, Savannah, Georgia, 1888
Located in Savannah, GA
A set of hair-work articles and award lithograph associated with the Flower Show of Savannah, Georgia, 1888. Not removed for inspection, but likely sterling and gold. Presented in ...
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1880s American Other Antique Shadow Box

Materials

Metal

Original Pre Colombian Copper Tumi Tool
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Ancient pre Colombian surgical copper tumi tool, processionally mounted on silk Matt with decorative quality vintage frame . Original cloth encrustation and wrapping patterns visible...
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15th Century and Earlier Peruvian Antique Shadow Box

Materials

Copper

Single 19 Century Antique Suzani Wall Hanging
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Exceptional antique hand embroidery Suzani textile, beautiful purple and indigo colors , fine silk embroidery on cotton background, all professionally hand sewn to linen backing , q...
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19th Century Uzbek Antique Shadow Box

Materials

Cotton, Glass, Wood, Silk

Turkish Hand Embroidery Textile in Shadowbox
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Beautiful Ottoman Empire era textile of gold metallic threads embroidered on purple color silk velvet background ,exceptional patterns. The textile is professionally hand mounted in ...
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19th Century Turkish Antique Shadow Box

Materials

Metallic Thread

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...
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Late 19th Century German Victorian Antique Shadow Box

Materials

Porcelain, Glass, Giltwood

Framed Tibetan Flint Striker, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
In 19th-century Tibet, many men carried a fire striker to help ensure survival in the often-harsh climate of the Tibetan Plateau. Known as mechag, such strikers would hang from one's...
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19th Century Tibetan Tibetan Antique Shadow Box

Materials

Stone, Silver

Framed French Porcelain Fragment
Located in Tampa, FL
A piece, fragment of porcelain off of a piece of furniture in a shadowbox and trimmed in French braided ribbon in the neoclassical style. Early 19th century porcelain could be a litt...
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1820s French Antique Shadow Box

Materials

Porcelain, Wood

French 19th Century Fan
Located in Tampa, FL
19th century French fan in an Italian Florentine fan case and the back is lined in velvet. The fan is hand painted, lace and mother of pearl. The case is turn of the century but fan ...
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1890s French Antique Shadow Box

Materials

Textile, Velvet, Wood

Antique 19th Century Infant Christening Gown Lace Baby Dress Shadowbox
Located in Dayton, OH
"Early 19th century infant’s white lace trimmed christening gown, frame in a shadowbox with robin’s egg blue background and a small dried nosegay of baby’s breath and blue silk flowe...
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Early 19th Century American Regency Antique Shadow Box

Materials

Cotton

Collection of 19th Century Wax Seals
Located in Stockton, NJ
A collection of early 19th century wax seals framed. Small frame measures 7.5" W x 8.5" H Medium circular frame measures 15.5" W x 13.5" H Large frame measures 16" W x 11.75" H.
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Early 19th Century European Antique Shadow Box

Materials

Wood

Antique 19th Century Chinoiserie Hand-Made Fan in a Lacquered Frame, circa 1870
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique 19th century Chinoiserie hand-made fan in a lacquered frame, circa 1870.
Category

19th Century Chinese Antique Shadow Box

Materials

Lacquer, Paper

Architectural Diorama of a French Street
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Rare and unusual antique diorama of a street in a neighborhood, in a city capturing a time and a place for centuries to come. Crafted with metal and paper painted with striking accur...
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Early 20th Century French Archaistic Antique Shadow Box

Materials

Metal

Antique American Hand-Embroidered Three Dimensional Paintings, Circa 1820
Located in New Orleans, LA
Rare antique American Hand-Embroidered three dimensional paintings, Circa 1820. Paintings were mounted in shadowboxes to protect the embroidery.
Category

Early 19th Century American Antique Shadow Box

Materials

Fabric, Wood

Antique Hutschenreuther Royal Vienna Porcelain Portrait Plate Le Brun Beehive
By Hutschenreuther
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’s 1789 Self Portra...
Category

19th Century Victorian Antique Shadow Box

Materials

Porcelain, Giltwood

Antique Francois Grenier Mixed Media 3D La Chasse au Tigre Tiger Hunt Collage
Located in Dayton, OH
Antique mixed-media enhanced engraving artwork attributed to Francois Grenier. François GRENIER b. 1793-1867. This work features a hunting scene from India, framed shadowbox style, s...
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Early 19th Century British Colonial Antique Shadow Box

Materials

Organic Material, Paper

Custom Shadow Box Mirrors with 19th Century Italian Majolica Tiles, 6 Available
Located in North Miami, FL
Two-tone (iron and polished brass) lined and encased with 19th century majolica tiles from Italy. Six total available - priced and sold individually.
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19th Century Italian Antique Shadow Box

Materials

Bronze, Brass

American Applique Picture of a Basket of Strawberries
Located in Downingtown, PA
American oval shadow box felt picture depicts strawberries in an openwork straw basket with the
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Mid-19th Century American Folk Art Antique Shadow Box

Materials

Felt

Collection of Nine Early 20th Century Japanese Woodblock Prints
Located in Gloucestershire, GB
, 1900. Presented in ivory painted shadow box frames.
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Early 20th Century Japanese Antique Shadow Box

Materials

Wood, Paper

Vintage Italian Venetian Mirror
Located in WEST PALM BEACH, FL
This is a lovely, romantic Italian Venetian mirror with glass mirror plate framed by shadow box
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Early 20th Century Italian Other Antique Shadow Box

Materials

Glass

Vintage Venetian Etched Mirror
Located in WEST PALM BEACH, FL
surrounded by a shadow-box frame. The top of the mirror is comprised of an etched ornamental cornice, circa
Category

Early 20th Century Italian Other Antique Shadow Box

Materials

Glass

Framed Plaster Reliefs of German Hunting Prey
Located in Essex, MA
still life’s in white paster relief in burnt sienna velvet shadow boxes with original glass and gilt
Category

Early 20th Century German Antique Shadow Box

Materials

Plaster

Early 20th Century Softshell Turtle Skeleton (Trionychidae) Taxidermy Curio
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A decorative softshell turtle skeleton, housed and mounted within a shadow box. The skeleton
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Early 20th Century European Antique Shadow Box

Materials

Natural Fiber, Glass, Pine

Handcarved Beninese Tribal Mask
Located in Miami, FL
mounted on a wall or framed in a shadow box.
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Early 20th Century Beninese Tribal Antique Shadow Box

Materials

Fruitwood

Pair Of Antique Suzani Wall Hanging
Located in Delray Beach, FL
painted wood shadow box , to make beautiful objects of art for wall hanging. Even though these hand made
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1920s Uzbek Antique Shadow Box

Materials

Wool, Cotton, Glass, Wood

19th Century Watercolour - Artist s Self Portrait
Located in Corsham, GB
a gilt shadow box with velvet lining. On paper.
Category

19th Century Antique Shadow Box

Materials

Watercolor

Nautical Signal Flag Representing The Letter "I" India
Located in Norwell, MA
into a shadow box frame. Great piece of nautical decor. Weight: 11 lbs. Overall Dimensions: 27"H x 30
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1920s North American Antique Shadow Box

Materials

Linen

Antique Italian Religious Giltwood Reliquary Relief Carved Sculpture
Located in Forney, TX
carved from bone. Displayed in a contemporary acrylic and wood shadow box. Dimensions: (approx) Object
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Early 19th Century Italian Baroque Antique Shadow Box

Materials

Bone, Giltwood

19th Century French Painted Silk of Mother of Pearl Fan with Frame Case
Located in Brea, CA
19th Century French painted silk of mother of pearl fan, shadow-box framed antique ladies fan, made
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1850s French French Provincial Antique Shadow Box

Materials

Mother-of-Pearl

19th Century French Painted Paper and Mother of Pearl Fan
Located in Brea, CA
19th century French painted paper and mother of pearl fan, shadow-box framed antique ladies fan
Category

1850s French French Provincial Antique Shadow Box

Materials

Mother-of-Pearl

Antique Chinese Silk Embroidered Framed Collar
Located in Wallkill, NY
This is exquisite, stunning embroidery work on this Chinese collar. Sits is a framed shadow box
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1890s Chinese Antique Shadow Box

Pair Custom Framed Roman Artifacts, 16"x22"
Located in Atlanta, GA
artifacts which have been decoratively displayed within custom natural wood framed shadow boxes with soft
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15th Century and Earlier Unknown Antique Shadow Box

Materials

Metal

Erblüth a Large 19th Century Berlin KPM Porcelain Plaque
By Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur (KPM)
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
composition shadow box frame. Signed 'Weigel', impressed sceptre mark, 'KPM', numeral 18, incised letter W
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19th Century German Antique Shadow Box

Materials

Porcelain, Giltwood

“William Shakespeare”
Located in Southampton, NY
wax. Condition is very good. Most likely of British origin. Original shadow box frame with newer gold
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1840s Academic Antique Shadow Box

Materials

Wax

Framed Pre-Columbian Proto Nazca Textile Frangment
Located in Atlanta, GA
. Framed in a shadow box, the piece features a biomorphic face typical of the Nazca work from early horizon
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15th Century and Earlier Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique Shadow Box

Materials

Wool

Antique 19th Century Jeweled Hand Colored Lithographs Period Frames
Located in New Orleans, LA
period burled fruitwood frames, shadow boxed with coved brass inner frames. Ladies in the garden in
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1870s French Renaissance Revival Antique Shadow Box

Materials

Multi-gemstone, Gold, Brass

Framed Japanese Festival Kimono with Tsutshugaki Dye
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Japanese festival kimono expertly mounted and displayed in a large acrylic shadow box. This
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Early 20th Century Japanese Japonisme Antique Shadow Box

Materials

Textile, Acrylic

Framed Ottoman Coat with Metallic Thread Embroidery
Located in Atlanta, GA
, presented in a shadow box gilt frame with dark blue fabric lining. The jacket was made from a silver damask
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19th Century Turkish Islamic Antique Shadow Box

Materials

Brocade, Silk, Wood

Two Framed Pre-Columbian Textile Fragments Nazca Culture
Located in Atlanta, GA
Two small fragments of pre-Columbian textiles in shadow box frames. Both have strong geometrical
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15th Century and Earlier South American Pre-Columbian Antique Shadow Box

Materials

Wool

Japanese Silk Embroidery Tapestry Meiji Period
Located in Atlanta, GA
lucite shadow box with gilt wood border. The silk picture is dated to 1890-1910s toward the end of Meiji
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1890s Japanese Japonisme Antique Shadow Box

Materials

Fabric, Silk, Lucite

Antique Georgian Double Stuart Crystal
Located in Stamford, CT
Great Britain. Each crystal is faceted giving a shadow box affect to the gold wire squiggle encased in
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1760s British George III Antique Shadow Box

Materials

Crystal, 15k Gold, Sterling Silver

Large framed Antique Indonesia Ceremonial Ikat Hinggi from Sumba
Located in Atlanta, GA
in a chromed metal frame with lucite shadow box that measures 113 x 49 inches. Provenance: Campbell
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Early 20th Century Indonesian Tribal Antique Shadow Box

Materials

Cotton

Pair framed Antique Parsley Shaw Fragments
Located in Atlanta, GA
Two fragments of parsley shawl lovely framed in acrylic shadow boxes on linen background and
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Late 19th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Antique Shadow Box

Materials

Textile

Framed Antique Embroidered Purse Qing Dynasty Provenance
Located in Atlanta, GA
displayed in a giltwood shadow box frame with contrast deep blue color cloth matts. Owned by a noble lady
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19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Shadow Box

Materials

Linen, Silk, Giltwood

Framed Antique Hand Carved Panel
Located in New York, NY
Antique hand carved panel from Toraja. Framed in a Minimalist black teak wood shadow box. This
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Early 1900s Primitive Antique Shadow Box

Materials

Wood, Teak, Reclaimed Wood

Framed Antique Two-Piece Chinese Embroidery Winter Jacket Ensemble
Located in Atlanta, GA
(late Qing dynasty) is presented in two matching giltwood shadow boxes. Tailored in light auberge silk
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19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Shadow Box

Materials

Giltwood, Silk

Chelsea Chinoiserie Japanned Desk Clock, Boston, c. 1925
By Chelsea Clock
Located in Atlanta, GA
devices, and feathered fronds—framing a recessed, gilded shadow-box bezel. The circular dial displays a
Category

Early 20th Century American Antique Shadow Box

Materials

Brass

Korean Buddhist Temple Scroll Painting Sinjung T aenghwa Joseon Dynasty
Located in Atlanta, GA
A large Korean Buddhist painting on silk framed in wood with an acrylic shadow box. The type of the
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1880s Korean Other Antique Shadow Box

Materials

Silk, Acrylic, Wood

Framed Antique Silk Ikat Chapan Robe Central Asia with Provenance
Located in Atlanta, GA
background in a shadow box, the textile art was part of the former corporate collection with a metal tag that
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Late 19th Century Afghan Tribal Antique Shadow Box

Materials

Silk

Framed Antique Hand Carved Panel
Located in New York, NY
Antique hand carved panel from Toraja. Framed in a minimalist black teak wood shadow box. This
Category

Early 1900s Primitive Antique Shadow Box

Materials

Wood, Teak, Reclaimed Wood

Antique Hand Carved Panel Framed
Located in New York, NY
the home. Originally used as an exterior panel. Framed in a minimalist black teak wood shadow box
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Early 1900s Primitive Antique Shadow Box

Materials

Wood, Reclaimed Wood

Massive Japanese Embroidery Tapestry Display Box Meiji Period
Located in Atlanta, GA
A massive Japanese embordered tapestry professionally displayed in a custom acrylic shadow box. The
Category

Early 20th Century Japanese Japonisme Antique Shadow Box

Materials

Brocade, Silk, Acrylic

Framed Antique Chinese Silk Robe with Dragon Roundel Design
Located in Atlanta, GA
. Professionally mounted to a white silk backing and beautifully presented in a gilt wood shadow box frame with a
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Late 19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Shadow Box

Materials

Metallic Thread

Zuni Sleeping Beauty Turquoise and Sterling Earrings
By Zuni
Located in Coeur d Alene, ID
with three drops each containing more turquoise beads each in small shadow box settings. PERIOD: Mid
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Early 20th Century American Native American Antique Shadow Box

Materials

Turquoise, Sterling Silver

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Antique Shadow Box For Sale on 1stDibs

At 1stDibs, there are many versions of the ideal antique shadow box for your home. An antique shadow box — often made from wood, glass and fabric — can elevate any home. Whether you’re looking for an older or newer antique shadow box, there are earlier versions available from the 18th Century and newer variations made as recently as the 20th Century. An antique shadow box is a generally popular piece of furniture, but those created in Victorian, Folk Art and Industrial styles are sought with frequency. Jules Etienne Carot, Mark Indursky and Chateau des Tuileries each produced at least one beautiful antique shadow box that is worth considering.

How Much is a Antique Shadow Box?

Prices for an antique shadow box can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — at 1stDibs, they begin at $275 and can go as high as $19,500, while the average can fetch as much as $1,595.
Questions About Antique Shadow Box
  • 1stDibs ExpertSeptember 25, 2019

    A shadow box is a shallow enclosed case, usually with a glass front, in which something, often a sentimental object, is set for protection and display. 

  • 1stDibs ExpertSeptember 25, 2019

    On 1stdibs, shadow boxes displaying items like dioramas, memorabilia and collections of natural and man-made items cost between $100 and $21,500.

  • 1stDibs ExpertFebruary 22, 2021
    Antique ice boxes can be worth up to $2,000 - $3,000. Depending on its condition, an antique ice box can be a highly coveted item.

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