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Decorative Boxes For Sale
Chinese Red Lacquered Box With Brass Mounts, Mid 20th Century
Located in Stamford, CT
Chinese red and black lacquered box with fine brass mounts in the Chinese Export style. Lovely color. A refined and classic decorative box, beautiful craftsmanship.
20 wide 14 deep ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Fine Korean Box with Tray Iron with Silver Inlay Joseon Dynasty
Located in Atlanta, GA
A fine Korean iron box with intricate silver inlay dated to the late Joseon Dynasty circa 19th century. The body of the box is made from iron of a heavy weight although the wear on t...
Category
19th Century Korean Other Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver, Iron
1839 Fitzmaurice West Victorian Ebony
Brass Inlays Necessaire De Voyage
Located in Germantown, MD
Exquisite antique travelling case or victorian nécessaire de voyage
A work of extraordinary craftsmanship, this exquisite English vanit...
Category
Early 19th Century English Early Victorian Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
1980s Chinese Enamel Box
Located in Tarrytown, NY
1980s Chinese enamel box.
Category
1980s Vintage Decorative Boxes
Materials
Enamel
Spanish Colonial Era 18th/19th Century Inlaid Cedar Wooden Chest Box Trunk
Located in Forney, TX
A charming scarce Spanish Colonial era parquetry inlaid cedar legged storage chest (large table box / small trunk) with nicely aged warm rich dark patina. circa 1790
Rustic handmade...
Category
18th Century Spanish Colonial Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Iron
TRONADOR Rectangular Brown Onyx Stone Box
By AIREDELSUR
Located in Buenos Aires, AR
The shape of the inactive Tronador volcano reminded us of the pyramid shaped idea of our boxes that make up this collection. With a rectangular or square base, the box is a reflectio...
Category
2010s Argentine Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Stone, Onyx
$1,100 / item
1960s Mancer Raymor Italian Borsalino Hat Box
By Raymor
Located in Garnerville, NY
Form and function with a lot of fun. Hide your keepsakes and valuables or use it a a serving piece or just as an object. The ceramic hat form, to me fits more into the Borsalino styl...
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
Vintage English Halcyon Days Enamel Boxes With Sentimental Quotes, Floral Decor
By Halcyon Days
Located in Morristown, NJ
Set of 4 vintage Halcyon Days Enamel Boxes.
"Yesterday and Tomorrow" Halcyon Days Enamel Box
Shape: Oval
Design: A floral and vine motif decorate...
Category
Late 20th Century English Victorian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal, Enamel
Art Deco Malachite Green Bohemian Glass Box
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful hand-made green malachite glass box with female relief in the Art Deco style, circa late-20th century Czech Republic. This is a round b...
Category
Late 20th Century Czech Art Deco Decorative Boxes
Materials
Glass
$495 Sale Price
20% Off
Red Guilloche Enamel Gilt Portrait of Period Lady Compact Powder or Pill Box
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Square guilloche enamel gilt jeweled compact with hand painted portrait of a period lady.
This gold tone metal compact with red guilloche enamel and l...
Category
Mid-20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal, Enamel
Czech Malachite Glass Trinket Box in the Style of Schlevogt, circa 1950
Located in Glasgow, GB
A richly coloured malachite glass trinket box, crafted in Czechoslovakia during the mid-20th century, circa 1950s. This rectangular lidded box is a direct aesthetic descendant of the decorative glassware designed by Heinrich Hoffmann and Curt Schlevogt, two pivotal figures in the Czech Art Deco glass...
Category
Mid-20th Century Czech Art Deco Decorative Boxes
Materials
Glass, Art Glass
Box in marquetry "à la Reine" - 19th Napoleon III - France
Located in Beuzevillette, FR
Adorable little 19th century marquetry box "à la Reine" in the taste of Vervelle Audot.
Napoleon III period box in blackened pear tree. The interior is made of maple magnifying glas...
Category
19th Century Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Large French Wood Fleur De Lis Painted Domed Shaped Box
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Exquisite French wood box featuring the ever classic fleur-de-lis surrounding the exterior. This 1960's box could be used for storage or jewelry and would certainly make a statement ...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood, Paint
1930s Art Deco Coty Perfume Bottle in Original Brass Lighter Style Case
Located in Red Lion, PA
Rare 1930s Art Deco Coty Perfume in Cigarette Lighter-Style Brass and Bakelite Case
This exquisite Art Deco Coty perfume presentation from the 1930s is a rare and collectible exampl...
Category
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal
1960
s Small Sized Industrial Scientific Equipment Boxes - Single Box
Located in Hook, Hampshire
1960's Small Industrial Scientific Equipment Boxes - Single Box - Good Quantity Available.
We bought a good volume of these great industrial boxes and are selling them individually....
Category
1960s European Vintage Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
A Highly Important Viennese Enamel, Silver, and Rock Crystal Mounted Hinged Box
Located in New York, NY
A Highly Important Viennese Enamel, Silver, Lapis Lazuli, and Rock Crystal Mounted Hinged Box, Attributed to Hermann Ratzersdorfer. The box is constructed from silver-gilt and fully ...
Category
1860s Austrian Louis XVI Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Lapis Lazuli, Rock Crystal, Enamel, Silver
1850s-60s Edo Japanese antique wabi sabi Urushi Tansu box chest of drawers
Located in 常陸大宮市, JP
product of late Edo period, estimate 1850s- 1860s - about 160+ years-old medium sized tansu (chest of drawers) with 5 drawers.
Finished with traditional Urushi lacquer remains well, and some old paper labels still remained, both giving a good wabi sabi touch to the item.
Fine opening
closing operation for all drawers.
drawer inner
1,2
3 (from the top) : w 20.87 in / d 10.63 in / h 2.95 in, 3.35 in, 4.33 in
4
5 : w 9.84 in / d 10.63 in / h 5.2 in
actual item weight 27.31 lb (12.38 kg)
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Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood, Cedar
$800 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique Southeast Asian Filipino Maranao Silver Inlaid Brass Betel Nut Box
Located in Forney, TX
A scarce fine quality antique silver-inlaid solid brass betel nut box (Lutuan), dating to the second half of the 19th / early 20th century, hand-crafted in Mindanao, Philippines.
Boxes such as this were used to store the areca nut (also known as the betel nut) which would be wrapped in a betel leaf with lime paste and other ingredients, often tobacco, for chewing. Similar to the European tea caddy, these boxes often served as a way to impress while showing off ones wealth.
Betel chewing was prevalent in the southern Philippines as in much of the rest of Southeast Asia. Wealthier Maranao families on Mindanao were able to afford elaborate silver-inlaid brass betel boxes such as this example. Such boxes were used to show off to guests and from which they were offered betel and the other component such as leaves and lime to make up the betel quid.
Rare large size, most extant examples of such boxes tend to measure around 5 inches in length. At slightly more than 7.75 inches the example here is larger than most.
The distinctive decorative box features a very heavy strong-box like rectangular shaped chest form with canted corners, copper handles, and a conforming hinged lid, lifting open to reveal an interior divided into three compartments covered by four hinged lids. Each of these doors is inlaid with silver in stylized orchid flower patterns.
Exceptionally executed throughout, the arabesque silver inlaid exterior is decorated to the top with a large orchid motif within scrolling obid-obid (stylized rope) borders. The front, back and sides are inlaid with sets of stylized tail feathers of the sari-manok bird beneath which are unusual, highly stylized whimsical zoomorphic faces that appear like cat or tiger faces. (Such stylisation is accounted for by Southeast Asian Islamic preferences to avoid the overt and this potentially idolatrous representation of animal and human forms. Designs such as these are drawn from a local design repertoire that has its origins in wood carving.
Although the spread of Islam in the Philippines began in the 14th century, mostly through the influence of Muslim merchants from the western Malay Archipelago, decorative arts in this design remain exceptionally rare. This lutuan represents a fine example of Islamic metalwork from the most eastern outreach of Islamic art and civilisation: Mindanao island being significantly further east than even China – artwork from Islamic Southeast Asia remains chronically under-represented in the world’s major collections of Islamic art.
PROVENANCE / ACQUISITION
Acquired from highly reputable auction house, Austin Auction Gallery, established 1983, Austin, Texas.
References
Brownrigg, H., Betel Cutters...
Category
19th Century Philippine Islamic Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver, Brass, Bronze, Copper
Tiffany
Co. 1980 by Elsa Peretti Pumpkin Trinket Lidded Box In .925 Sterling
Located in Miami, FL
Pumpkin box designed by Elsa Peretti (1940-2021) for Tiffany & Co.
Beautiful vintage rounded trinket box with a lid, designed in the shape of a pumpkin by...
Category
1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
$1,118 Sale Price
20% Off
19th Century Palissy Majolica Pumpkin Tureen
Located in Austin, TX
Small 19th Century Palissy Majolica Pumpkin Tureen.
Category
1890s Portuguese Rustic Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
$600 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique Hand Forged Organic Design Arts
Crafts Multi Purpose Box, circa 1920
By Hugo Berger
Located in Lisse, NL
Unique and all handcrafted, wrought iron box attr. to Hugo Berger Goberg.
It is always refreshing to find an antique object probably by a famous maker, that you have never seen befo...
Category
Early 20th Century German Arts and Crafts Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal, Wrought Iron
Folk Art Dowry Box, Lombok Indonesia, Cowrie, Painted Palm
Bamboo 1950’s Sasak
Located in London, GB
Sasak Dowry Box, Lombok Indonesia, Cowrie & Painted Palm 1950’s
Handwoven and richly adorned, this 1950’s Sasak dowry box from Lombok, Indonesia, captures the ceremonial artistry of...
Category
1950s Indonesian Folk Art Vintage Decorative Boxes
Materials
Other
Petite Ming Shipwreck Box, c. 1500
Located in Chicago, IL
The soft, matte texture and eroded wear of this petite porcelain box suggest it spent many years submerged in saltwater, likely excavated from a sunken trade ship carrying ceramic ex...
Category
16th Century Chinese Ming Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Porcelain
Fine Continental Silver Bonbon Box with Giltwash interior, 900 Standard
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Fine Continental Silver Bonbon Box with Giltwash interior, 900 Standard. Surmounted by a flowerform finial, the two part box is decorated with a twisted gadrooned border, and a gilt-...
Category
20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
Antique Document Sleeve, English, Stationery Box, Desk, Office, Georgian, C.1800
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique document sleeve. An English stationery box in mahogany and satinwood marquetry, dating to the Georgian period, circa 1800. A fine example of late 18th century craf...
Category
Early 1800s British Georgian Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Mahogany, Satinwood
Antique French Kingwood Bird
s-Eye Maple Jewelry Casket Box Tahan Paris
By Alphonse Tahan 1
Located in Dublin, Ireland
A very elegant large French Kingwood Ormolu mounted casket of very generous proportions and of outstanding Museum quality, firmly attributed to Alphonse Tahan Paris (1830-1880), offi...
Category
Late 19th Century French Victorian Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ormolu
Antique English Victorian Marquetry Inlay Tea Caddy Sewing Box Desk Storage
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Antique English Victorian Marquetry Inlay Tea Caddy Sewing Box, Desk Storage. Circa Mid 19th Century. Measurements: 4.25" H x 9.25" W x 6" D.
Category
Mid-19th Century Unknown Victorian Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Stella Box Blue Onyx
Terreno Gold By Greg Natale
By Greg Natale
Located in Sydney,, NSW
With a celestial silhouette, the Stella Box evokes the textures and terrains of lunar landscapes in contour and materiality. Carved from marble with a sculptural handle, the Stella B...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Marble
Regency Specimen Wood Parquetry Tea Caddy
Located in Essex, MA
Rectangular hinged coffered top over a conforming case. Side ring handles and brass paw feet. Fitted interior.
Category
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Meissen
Drüselkästchen
, Lidded Crown Tureen For Maria Josepha Of Austria, 19th
Located in Vienna, AT
Designed for the wife of August III, Maria Josepha of Austria (1699 Vienna - 1757 Dresden), Electress of Saxony and Queen of Poland since 1733, with the ‘Elector of Saxony coat of ar...
Category
1860s German Rococo Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Porcelain
French 19th century Louis XVI st. Ormolu and Sévres Porcelain box.
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An elegant and elaborately decorated French 19th century Louis XVI st. Ormolu and Sévres Porcelain box. This charming oblong oval shaped lidded box is raised by four toupie shaped fe...
Category
19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ormolu
Solid Painted Wood and Ornate Metal Mounted Strongbox
Located in Germantown, MD
Solid Painted Wood and Ornate Metal Mounted Strongbox
Measures 24" in width, 13" in depth and 14.5" in height.
Category
Mid-20th Century American Georgian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal, Brass
South Indian Brass Box Jewel Box Droga Art circa 1950
Located in Labrit, Landes
Little jewel box in openwork metal with floral and plant motifs.
Brass. Typical of the droga art.
Mid 20th century
Shipping:
9 / 13 / 8 cm
Category
Mid-20th Century Indian Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Tiffany Studios Pine Needle Pattern Hankerchief Box
Located in Bronx, NY
This vintage early 20th century Tiffany Studios, New York “handkerchief” box is designed in caramel color favrile art glass with a pine needle pattern...
Category
Early 20th Century American Art Nouveau Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Chinese Wooden Jewelry Box
Located in Lugo, IT
Chinese Wooden Jewelry Box
Good Condition
Thanks
Category
1950s Chinese Victorian Vintage Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
$218 Sale Price
20% Off
Art Deco Wood and Lucite Box, 1940s
Located in Atlanta, GA
This stunning hand-carved modernist Art Deco decorative lidded box was crafted in France circa 1940. The rectangular shape features solid wood and crystal-clear Lucite on the sides, ...
Category
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Decorative Boxes
Materials
Lucite, Wood
Japanese Antique Buddhist Shrine Box "Zushi", Edo Period
1603-1868
Located in Hitachiomiya-shi, 08
This antique Buddhist shrine box was crafted in the Edo Period (1603-1868).
Known in Japan as a “Zushi,” it served as a small sanctuary to enshrine Buddhist figures, scriptures, or ...
Category
Mid-17th Century Japanese Edo Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Cedar
Antique 17th Century Charles II Carved Oak Bible Document Box 6 Plank Trunk 1680
Located in Portland, OR
A good antique English, Charles II (Carolean) period carved oak bible or document box, circa 1680.
Such boxes were particularly popular in the 17th century, when printed bibles were very expensive and a treasured family possession. The bible was most likely the only book owned by a family and was also the means of recording births, deaths & marriages which would be written on the flyleaf or endpapers. They were also used to protect other important documents and valuables and were brought to colonial America by early settlers.
This bible box dates shortly after the English Civil War & the brief time that England was a Republic (known then as the Commonwealth) under Oliver Cromwell. The box typifies those Puritan values, simple six plank construction with a hinged lid enclosing a storage area for a bible or important documents. The front of the box having a carved foliate twin lunette design with a hand cut steel lock & hasp above, the box is robust & solid & for it's 350 or so years it is in very good condition!
This very early antique carved bible box...
Category
1680s English Charles II Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Iron
Vintage Huanghuali Wood Box, China
Located in Norton, MA
A ventage Chinese Huanghuali wood box with a beautiful natural grain of Huanghuali.
Measures: 2.5in (6.3 cm) X 8 3/4 in(22.2 cm) X 4 7/8 in(12.3 cm).
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood, Lacquer
Art Deco Monogrammed "WCC" Silver Plated Cigarette Box c.1930
By Napier Co.
Located in San Francisco, CA
ABOUT
An original Art Deco silver plated cigarette box monogrammed "WCC" with a Sandalwood insert. Stamped "Napier".
CREATOR The Napier Co.
DATE OF MANUFACTURE c.1930-1940...
Category
Early 20th Century American Art Deco Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver Plate
$120 Sale Price
20% Off
Mid-Century German Ceramic Box with Lid, 1960s
Located in Hamburg, DE
Mid-Century German Ceramic Box with Lid, 1960s, in Very Good conditions. Designed 1960 to 1969.
Additional information:
Materials: Ceramic
Color: Beige
Styles: Mid-Century Modern
Co...
Category
20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
Maitland Smith Lidded Shagreen Box, c.1985
Located in San Juan Capistrano, CA
Maitland Smith Lidded Shagreen Box, c.1985.
Category
20th Century Philippine Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Shagreen, Wood
Petite Chinese Cinnabar Lacquered Turtle Box
Located in San Diego, CA
A petite Chinese cinnabar lacquered turtle box, circa 1980's. The box is in very good vintage condition and measures 3.5"W x 2.5"D x 1.75"H. #3427
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Decorative Boxes
Materials
Lacquer
Brass Box Goliath Scarab with Shagreen Lid by Ginger Brown
By Ginger Brown
Located in Bourguebus, FR
The Goliath Scarab box is a best seller at Ginger Brown
This piece is made in lost wax cast brass with a bronze patina. The brass lid is covered with shagreen.
That box has been realized from a real scarab. The famous Megasoma actaeon from the family of the rhinoceros beetle...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary French Arts and Crafts Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
XL rattan and brass basket, Italy, 1970, 36cm Diam
Located in BARCELONA, ES
Very beautiful and large rattan and brass basket made in Italy in the 1970s. Round shape, mid-century modern style, it is inspired by the designs of Gabriella Crespi. Magnificent dec...
Category
1970s Italian Hollywood Regency Vintage Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wicker, Rattan
Anglo Indian Micro Mosaic Inlay Jewelry Box
Located in New York, NY
Exquisitely crafted early 20th century Anglo Indian micro mosaic Sadeli box with gorgeous antique Persian geometric pattern.
The finely detailed box featu...
Category
Early 20th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bone, Fruitwood
17th Century Italian Leather Box
Located in Chicago, IL
A stunning 17th century Italian leather covered wood trunk covered in brass nail heads, some spelling out a word on top, and with iron strap hinges a...
Category
17th Century Italian Baroque Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Leather, Wood
Antique English Victorian Bramah Leather Fold-out Stationary Writing Desk
Located in Reading, Berkshire
A Beautiful
Luxurious Handcrafted Victorian Bramah Fold-out Travelling Writing Companion With Fitted Leather Interior, Ceramic Blotting Tablets.
Complete with Beautifully Desi...
Category
19th Century British Victorian Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
$4,849 Sale Price
34% Off
19th Century Korean Traveling Vanity Box With Mirror
Located in Queens, NY
Asian Korean (19th Century) Campaign style rosewood box with brass trim and interior cabinet with a mirror top and drawers with folding side sections.
Category
19th Century Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Dowry Box, Lombok Indonesia, Cowrie, Painted Palm
Bamboo 1950’s
Located in London, GB
Dowry Box, Lombok Indonesia, Sasak, Cowrie & Painted Palm 1950’s
Handwoven and richly adorned, this 1950’s Sasak dowry box from Lombok, Indonesia, captures the ceremonial artistry o...
Category
1920s Indonesian Folk Art Vintage Decorative Boxes
Materials
Other
Box in Burled Wood and Brass Brown Color France 19th Century
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
This box is in burl wood. It has been made in France in the 1870s. The color is brown, and it is in an good condition.
Brown color.
Category
19th Century French American Classical Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silk, Wood
$256 Sale Price
20% Off
Novelty Solid Silver Box by Theo Fennell - 1986
Located in Bath, GB
A highly collectable heavy, solid sterling silver box signed on the underside by the famed London silversmith and Jeweller, Theo Fennel.
The box is hand crafted in the form of a tru...
Category
1990s British Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Fine Josef Hoffman Wiener Werkstätte Art Nouveau box Austria 1912
Located in Vienna, AT
Fine and distinguished box, designed by the “Hero” of the Wiener Werkstatte, Josef Hoffmann. Made of nickel plated brass, leaves and stars in the pattern. This box is not marked, but...
Category
1910s Austrian Jugendstil Vintage Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass, Nickel
Folk Art Dowry Box, Lombok Indonesia, Cowrie, Painted Palm
Bamboo 1950’s Sasak
Located in London, GB
Sasak Dowry Box, Lombok Indonesia, Cowrie & Painted Palm 1950’s
Handwoven and richly adorned, this 1950’s Sasak dowry box from Lombok, Indonesia, captures the ceremonial artistry of...
Category
1920s Indonesian Folk Art Vintage Decorative Boxes
Materials
Other
Set of 3 Boxes in Pen Shell and Bronze Patina Brass by R&Y Augousti
By R
Y Augousti
Located in West Hollywood, CA
This sleek set of 3 Desk Boxes by R&Y Augousti exemplifies the perfect balance between modern elegance and timeless luxury. Crafted in black pen shell with a curved top, each box...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Philippine Art Deco Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Large Honey Onyx Box 6" Rectangular
Located in Somis, CA
This exquisite 2-lb creation is crafted from the finest rare honey onyx sourced from Pakistan. Hand made by a master artisan in Italy, showcasing beautiful patterns and bands that ar...
Category
2010s Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Onyx
$255 Sale Price
66% Off
Salimbeni Pocket Cigarette Case, 8 Section Sterling Silver Natural
By Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Salimbeni Pocket Cigarette Case, octagonal section, in 925/1000 sterling silver.
Salimbeni Pocket Cigarette Case has a spring-loaded button and opening
Salimbeni Pocket Cigarette C...
Category
1970s Italian Modern Vintage Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
French Doré Bronze Mounted Peach Opaline Crystal Round Covered Box
Located in New York, NY
A French Dore Bronze Mounted Peach Opaline Crystal Round Form Covered Box. The cylindrical form includes a flat-topped lid that fits precisely onto the base, joined by a decorative ...
Category
1920s French Louis XVI Vintage Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
$3,560 Sale Price
20% Off
Modernist Wood and Enamel Box, circa 1960
Located in Atlanta, GA
Exceptional Mid-Century Modern French Enamel and Wood Lidded Box, circa 1960
A rare and elegant example of French Mid-Century Modern design, this exquisite lidded box was masterfully...
Category
1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal, Copper, Enamel
Russian Hand Painted Lacquerware Palekh Miniature Table Box
Located in Forney, TX
A rare and exceptional finely painted vintage Imperial Russian lacquerware box.
Exquisitely hand-crafted in the Palekhsky District (Палех) of wes...
Category
20th Century Russian Folk Art Decorative Boxes
Materials
Lacquer
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.