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Decorative Boxes For Sale
19th Century, English Regency Leather Oval Hat Box
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Rustic early 19th century English regency oval hat box with a carry handle. The box is crafted from leather and features European and Asian port of call stickers. Beautifully worn pa...
Category
19th Century English Regency Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Leather
Pill Box fired Enamel Miniature Louis XVI style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Shaped pill box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with hand painted miniature with fire enamelling in Louis XVI style, second half of the 19th century, and fine hand engravings...
Category
1970s Italian Louis XVI Vintage Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Pill Box Hand Painted Miniature of a Lady with Small Dog, Art Nouveau Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Domed round 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated pillbox with fire enamels above and below, and hand-painted miniature of a lady with small dog, in Viennese Art Nouveau style second ...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Classical Design English Brass and Copper Coal Hod
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
A fine quality brass and copper coal hod. Classical design, English, late 19th century. Original lift-out handled liner. Associated shovel. The repouss...
Category
Late 19th Century English Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass, Copper
$350 Sale Price
41% Off
Stella Box Nero
Arabescato 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
$390 / item
French late 19th century Louis XVI st. Ormolu and Crystal box
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A stunning and most charming French late 19th century Louis XVI st. Ormolu and Crystal box. This thick rectangular Crystal box displays an outer zig zag design which leads to star sh...
Category
19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Ormolu
An Italian 1970s travertine box with green glazed tile detail.
Located in London, GB
An Italian 1970s travertine box with green glazed tile detail.
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Decorative Boxes
Materials
Travertine
Cornflower/Lilac Bone Box, 12x7
Located in New York, NY
Modernist Cornflower/Hydrangea lavendar bone keepsake box lined in wood. A great addition to any coffee table, bedside or desk.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Spanish Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bone
Vintage Footed Wooden Jewelry Music Box Made in Italy
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Elegant vintage large footed Brown color wooden music box with top finely hand painted and inlaid with foliages floral decor.
Upon opening, the music box begins to play " We've only ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Baroque Revival Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood, Bentwood
Set/5 Ceramic Pots, White, Handmade in Portugal by Lusitanus Home
By Greenapple
Located in Lisboa, PT
Hailey & Henry Pots, Lusitanus Home Collection, Handcrafted in Portugal - Europe by Lusitanus Home.
This beautiful set includes two waterproof ceramic vases and three pots, perfect ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
Footed Blue Jewelry Music Box Made in Italy by Reuge Sainte Croix Sorrento
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Elegant footed wooden music box in deep blue color with top finely hand painted and inlaid with foliages floral gold decor.
Handcrafted footed wooden music box in thuya wood hand painted top.
Thuya tree is famous for rich gold and brown shades of its grain and unique exotic fragrance, similar to cedar.
Lined in green jade velvet, original key with tassel.
Upon opening, the music box begins to play a theme : Romance" Somewhere over the Rainbow...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Baroque Decorative Boxes
Materials
Fruitwood
Vintage Trompe L
oeil Faux Stacked Books Chest / Decorative Box by Don Andres
By Don Andres
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Vintage Trompe l'oeil faux 'pile of books' chest / decorative box by Andres de Morgades for his and Don Russell's eponymous company, Don Andres (ca. 1970s/80s, USA).
Composed of a la...
Category
1970s American Vintage Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood, Lacquer, Paint
21st Century Leather Origami Box for Closet
Wardrobe Handcrafted in Italy
By Pinetti
Located in Bagnatica, Lombardia
Our Origami box is an endlessly useful complement for a master closet. Two sizes ideal for organizing your interior.
Made with eco-friendly, washable an...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Leather
1960
s Original Hungarian Army First Aid Boxes - Large Shape
Located in Hook, Hampshire
1960's Original Hungarian Army First Aid Boxes - Large Shape.
These were standard issue in the Hungarian army and we have a network of pickers that hunt them out for us. Occasionall...
Category
1960s European Vintage Decorative Boxes
Materials
Aluminum
Antique 1850 Victorian Sterling Silver Card Case
By Cronin
Wheeler
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique Victorian English sterling silver commemorative card case featuring The Crystal Palace; an addition to our range of collectable silverware...
Category
1850s English Victorian Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Tunbridge Ware Stationery Box – Cubework and Floral Mosaic
Located in Tunbridge Wells, GB
Heading : Tunbridge Ware – Wedge-Shaped Stationery Box with Isometric Cubes and Floral Mosaic c1870
Date : c1870
Period : Victorian
Origin : Tunbridge Wells – Thomas Barton
Decoratio...
Category
Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
"Pine Needle" model bronze box by TIFFANY
Co
By Tiffany
Co.
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
Bronze box with white and orange glass paste, Pine Needle model, made by TIFFANY & Co, (1837 to the present).
Signed TIFFANY STUDIOS, NEW YORK, 823.
USA, CIRCA 1910.
Category
1910s American Art Deco Vintage Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Vintage Modern Studio Craft Carved Wood Artist Signed Puzzle Box in Walnut 1982
Located in Troy, MI
Signed vintage Studio Craft Walnut Puzzle Box
Signed Bob Goldsmith puzzle box titled Rosie's Desire 1982
Carved walnut abstract form with two slide through drawers
Signed to unders...
Category
20th Century Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Walnut
Rajasthani Decorative Brass Lidded Betel Caddy Box
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Handcrafted decorative round brass Indian lidded betel box with latch and a top handle.
Delicately and intricately hand-chased with geometric designs.
Used as a tea caddy with tea bo...
Category
Late 19th Century Indian Agra Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass, Copper
18th Century, Lowestoft English Porcelain Trinket Box
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
18th century, English porcelain trinket box hand decorated in polychrome glazes and inscribed: "A Trifle from Lowestoft 1795".
Category
18th Century English George III Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Porcelain
$3,195 Sale Price
54% Off
Marilyn Decorated Trunk
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Wood trunk laminated with "Andy Warhol type" lithographic images on four sides & top.
Category
20th Century Decorative Boxes
$1,450
Art Deco Ceramic Powder Box Bowl, French , c1930
Located in Devon, England
Art Deco 1930s ceramic powder bowl, hand signed under the base Aladin France – made in France. Features a young woman vibrantly colored with her white bob haircut and holding a bouqu...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Art Deco Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
Japanese Contemporary Blue Purple Gold Porcelain Box by Master Artist
Located in Takarazuka, JP
Extraordinary museum quality signed Japanese contemporary decorative porcelain box in an elegant rectangular shape, stunningly gilded and hand painted in vivid hues of purple and blu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Japanese Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold
Wilhelm Kåge for Gustavsberg. Square Argenta lidded box in ceramic.
Located in København, Copenhagen
Wilhelm Kåge (1889-1960) for Gustavsberg, Sweden.
Square Art Deco lidded box in ceramic with classic green glaze.
From the Argenta series.
Mid-20th century.
Marked.
In perfect cond...
Category
1940s Swedish Art Deco Vintage Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
$140 Sale Price
30% Off
Antique Japanese Lacquered Incense Box Kobako in Kodaiji Style
Located in Atlanta, GA
An antique lacquered small box that was likely used to contain incense powder (it is called Kobako in Japanese), circa early to mid-19th century of the Edo...
Category
19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood, Lacquer
Tiffany Le Tallec Cirque Chinois Porcelain Box
By Tiffany
Co.
Located in Atlanta, GA
Atelier Le Tallec For Tiffany & Company, 20th century.
One of the most collectible patterns, these boxes do not come available often. Marked to bottom.
Category
20th Century French Chinoiserie Decorative Boxes
Materials
Enamel
Table Box Octagonal Black Enamel with light Blue Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Octagonal table box in 925/1000 sterling silver with fire-enamelled Art Deco design. Dimensions diameter cm. 15.8 high cm . 8.2. Weight gr. 974. Designed by Giorgio Salimbeni for Cartier USA in the 1980s, inspired by objects designed by Louis Cartier around 1920 and manufactured in Florence in various specimens, also in parure with other objects and in different colors, in the headquarters by the Salimbeni firm with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for withstanding numerous high-fire enamelled firings at about 750°<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...
Category
1980s Italian Art Deco Vintage Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Vintage Asian Octagonal Lacquer Box with Turtle Closure
Located in Houston, TX
Vintage Asian Octagonal Lacquer Box With Turtle Closure.
Lovely 20th century Asian lacquer box with Greek key design and a metal turtle closure.
Th...
Category
20th Century Asian Post-Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl, Lacquer
Art Deco Moser Style Pink Clear White Cased Cut Glass Hinged Lid Lg Dresser Box
Located in Clifton Forge, VA
This is a fantastic Art Deco art glass box with three layers of cased glass, pink on the outside cut in rectangles with the corners cut, clear in the middle cut with intriguing diago...
Category
Early 20th Century Czech Art Deco Decorative Boxes
Materials
Glass
Snuff Box round in Art Nouveau style Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Round snuff box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamels on guillochè and hand-painted floral miniature, surrounded by a frame with leaves on a blue bac...
Category
1970s Italian Art Nouveau Vintage Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Historically Important Circa 1830
s American Document Box Boston
Located in Hudson, NY
This historically important, American leather clad document box, was made in Boston in the early nineteenth century. The box belonged to, Samuel Francis Smith (October 21, 1808 – Nov...
Category
1830s American American Classical Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Leather, Pine, Linen
French Louis XIV Messenger Box - Leather Wrapped Wood - France - 17th 18th
Located in Beuzevillette, FR
Magnificent Louis XIV period messenger box, late 17th and early 18th centuries.
This pretty box is made of leather-covered wood decorated with copper nails forming diamonds on the to...
Category
Late 17th Century French Louis XIV Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Leather, Wood
$903 Sale Price
20% Off
Chinese Vintage Black Lacquer Lidded Box with Hand-Painted Chinoiserie Décor
Located in Yonkers, NY
A Chinese vintage black lacquer lidded box from the mid 20th century, with hand-painted Chinoiserie décor. Created in China during the midcentury period, this black lacquer box showcases an oval lid adorned with a delicate Chinoiserie décor. Topped with a large handle, this black lacquer Chinoiserie box...
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
19th Century French Marquetry Inlaid and Ebonized Wood Box
Located in Bradenton, FL
19th Century Napoleon III precious wood and marquetry Inlaid and ebonized box. Hinged box top features a central motif of fauna and flowers. Inner box is lined with blue satin padded...
Category
19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Empire Pewter 701 Covered Trinket Ring Dish Decorative Box Blue Velvet Inlaid 89
Located in Miami, FL
Scandinavian Modern silver color Jewelry decorative covered box, Trinket, Keepsake by Empire Pewter 701.
Inside is laid out with royal blue velvet and su...
Category
1980s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Decorative Boxes
Materials
Pewter
Chinese ceramic Green Glazed
Shiwan
Opium Pillow, Early 20th Century
Located in Jimbaran, Bali
This Shiwan ceramic pillow of earthenware features a green glaze with hints of blue. Pillows in this shape were not only used by opium smokers but most typ...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Other Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
Silver Plate Humidor with Retriever
Located in East Hampton, NY
American silver plate humidor, Wilcox Silver Plate Co., Meriden, CT hinged lid with figure of retriever with duck, box with repousse scrolled floral and foliate design and paw feet, ...
Category
20th Century Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver Plate
Anglo-Indian Vizagapatam Bombay Mughal Style Footed Box With Bone Overlay
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Nice and unusual Indian Mughal style large decorative box, filigree and carved horn.
Anglo-Indian footed domed box with exceptional engraved details throughout with filigree and carved veneered bone plaques with arabesque carving.
Vizagapatam, late 19th century.
History of the Anglo-Indian Boxes
Beginning in the early part of the 18th century, Indian artisans made what came to be known as Anglo-Indian boxes for the English residents living in India, who eventually brought or sent them back to England. At the beginning of the 19th century, India began exporting these boxes commercially, although not in any significant numbers until the 1850s. People valued them so highly that manufacturers of tins copied the designs on them in the late 19th and early 20th century.
Anglo-Indian boxes fall into four groups: Rosewood or ebony boxes inlaid;
sandalwood boxes veneered; sandalwood boxes covered with Sadeli mosaic; and carved boxes often combined with Sadeli mosaic/
The first two categories came from Vizagapatam in East India while the last two came from Bombay in West India.
English traders discovered the rich woods and intricate workmanship of Indian artisans, so colonial government officials began to recognize the work of the Indian artists and craftsmen as a source for satisfying the need for furniture and boxes, which would both serve to enhance English households in India. This gave rise to the cabinetmaking workshops in Vizagapatam between Calcutta and Madras.
Craftsmen made the first boxes to be decorated with Sadeli mosaic of rosewood or ebony, incised to give further definition to the decoration, directly inlaid into the wood. The shape of the early boxes was either sloping at the front with a flatter section at the back, reminiscent of English writing slopes, or rectangular. Artisans inlaid the borders with stylized floral scrolls and the centers with a single floral motif following a circular or oval symmetrical or asymmetrical pattern. The edging was ornamental and protective, both helped protect the end grain against the weather.
Made in Vizagapatam, situated on the south east coast of India, near Madras
These exotic boxes...
Category
Late 19th Century Indian Anglo Raj Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Snuff Box with 2 slightly rounded sides Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular table snuff box with 2 slightly rounded sides in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamels on guillochè and hand-painted floral miniature; oute...
Category
1970s Italian Other Vintage Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
1970s Art Deco Style Bone Storage Box with Lion and Elephant Motif
Located in Tampa, FL
This striking 1970s storage box showcases a dynamic battle scene between a lion and an elephant, expertly rendered in early bone. Designed in the Art Deco style, the box features fin...
Category
1970s Indian Vintage Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Tortoise Shell Sewing Box on Stand, circa 1860
Located in Lambertville, NJ
This wonderful example of a 19th century tortoise shell sewing box on stand opens to original fabric lined interior of compartments with a central ...
Category
Late 19th Century Unknown Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Tortoise Shell
French Art Deco Bronze Figure
Trickstress
by CJR Colinet
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Original Art Deco Era 'The Trickstress' nude Female silver-colored bronze Sculpture by Belgian artist Claire Jeanne Roberte Colin featuring a woman juggling small gilt balls and bala...
Category
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Decorative Boxes
Materials
Marble, Bronze
$5,502 Sale Price
36% Off
Line Vautrin
s Jewelry box
By Line Vautrin
Located in Paris, FR
Jewelry box by Line Vautrin
1946
Talosel and incrusted mirror
6x4 cm
Category
1940s French Vintage Decorative Boxes
Materials
Talosel
German Pforzheim 1920 Guilloche Blue Enamel Round Box In .935 Sterling Silver
Located in Miami, FL
A guilloche enameled round box.
Fabulous German early 20th century enamel box, created in Pforzheim Germany, circa 1920. This beautiful box was carefu...
Category
1920s German Edwardian Vintage Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Folk Art Hand-Carved Wooden Box with Grapes and Leaves
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Breathtaking folk art hand-carved wooden box with grapes, vine and leaf detail.
This Dionysian solid wood box is a compliment to any kitchen, great for recipe cards or tea bags. Can also be used for mementos, 420, or a vintage postcard collection.
Category
20th Century Folk Art Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
$680 Sale Price
20% Off
Oriental Brass Bead Stash or 420 Box
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Vibrant and bold multi-color Beaded box. The bead colors and arrangement makes the piece a fine decorative piece.
A compliment to many settings, on a desk or work station to hold e...
Category
20th Century Asian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
$180 Sale Price
20% Off
Art Deco decorative box in sterling silver with blue enamel
Located in Autonomous City Buenos Aires, CABA
Art Deco Sterling Silver Decorative Box with Blue Enamel
This Art Deco decorative box features a circular shape and a restrained design. The exterior is coated with vibrant cobalt bl...
Category
20th Century French Art Deco Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Italian industrial wooden rectangular crates or boxes, 1920s
Located in MIlano, IT
Italian industrial wooden rectangular crates or boxes, 1920s
Pair of vintage rectangular crates entirely made of wood. The wood of one box is lighter than the other. They can be used...
Category
1920s Italian Industrial Vintage Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Rare French Art Deco Period Silver, Enamel,
Jade Box, Attributed to Cartier
By Cartier
Located in New York, NY
A French Art Deco Period Silver, Enamel, and Chinese Jade Double Slot box, attributed to Cartier. The box is barrel-shaped and finished in black enamel. It rests on a pair of Chinese...
Category
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Decorative Boxes
Materials
Jade, Silver, Enamel
19th Century Scandinavian Folk Art Carved Oak Table Top Chest
Located in Norwich, GB
A lovely 19th century oak lidded-top table chest with hand carved leaf scrolls and roundel carvings, having swivel carrying handles to the sides.
The chest has a rustic charm and sh...
Category
19th Century European Folk Art Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Oak, Pine
Russian Lacquered Palekh Firebird Folk Art Keepsake Trinket Box USSR 5.5"
Located in Dayton, OH
Vintage USSR Russian Firebird folklore / fairy tale keepsake trinket box featuring hinged lid, footed base and red interior.
Palekh
Zhar-Ptitsa (Slavic Firebird)
Chernishova (last n...
Category
Mid-20th Century Folk Art Decorative Boxes
Materials
Hardwood, Lacquer
$164 Sale Price
30% Off
Colorful Semi Precious Stone Rectangular Jewelry or Trinket Box with Lid
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
A beautiful colorful decorative box with a lid created from Carrara marble and inlaid with a variety of semi-precious stones. The sides are inlaid with a variety of stones in abstrac...
Category
20th Century Indian Bauhaus Decorative Boxes
Materials
Stone
$675 Sale Price
25% Off
Antique Russian Sewing Box, Dated 1828
Located in Sarasota, FL
An antique Russian sewing box made of bone, dated 1828 on the lid. Decorated with an etched trailing foliage pattern and topped with original green pin cushion. Lined with original g...
Category
Early 20th Century Russian Neoclassical Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bone, Fabric, Paper
Chapman Brass, Travertine Box
Located in New York, NY
Glamorous 1980s brass letter box with a tessalated travertine lid. Lid adorned with an oversized stylized brass artichoke finial.
Category
20th Century American Hollywood Regency Decorative Boxes
Materials
Travertine, Brass
MCM Ben Seibel for JenFred Ware Copper Trinket Box c.1960
Located in San Francisco, CA
ABOUT
A ribbed copper trinket box lined with cork. Original felt on bottom.
Substantial in weight.
CREATOR Ben Seibel for JenFred Ware.
DATE OF MANUFACTURE c.1960s.
MA...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass, Copper
$265 Sale Price
29% Off
A.E. Jones Attribution Arts
Crafts Lidded Box, Circa Early 20th Century
By A.E. Jones
Located in Bridgeport, CT
An antique copper and silver lidded box with blue/green Ruskin pottery roundel and intricate strap work in a riveted Celtic design. Designed by Annie Stubbs (Anne Grisdale). Lined wi...
Category
Early 20th Century English Arts and Crafts Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver, Copper, Other
Late Qing Dynasty Document Box with Brass Lock and Carrying Handles
Located in Yonkers, NY
An antique Chinese Late Qing Dynasty period wooden document box from the early 20th century with reddish brown lacquer, brass hardware and carrying handles. Created in China during the late Qing Dynasty period in the early years of the 20th century, this wooden document box features a domed lid opening thanks to a traditional brass lock...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Qing Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
19th Century Sterling Silver Match Box Holder and Ashtray Stand by Tiffany
Co
By Tiffany
Co.
Located in North Miami, FL
Presenting an exquisite early 19th-century treasure: a Sterling Silver Match Box Holder thoughtfully integrated into an Ashtray Stand by the renowned ...
Category
19th Century American Antique Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
$5,473 Sale Price / set
44% Off
Surrealist Style Carved Wood Decorative Box
Located in Houston, TX
Surrealist Style Carved Wood Decorative Box.
This lovely decorative box is hand carved and quite interesting. Great coffee table or bookcas...
Category
20th Century Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Large Gilt Bronze Feuille Box by Line Vautrin
By Line Vautrin
Located in Atlanta, GA
A large cast bronze powder box (poudrier) by French Parisian art jeweler Line Vautrin (1913-1997) circa 1945-1950. The box called "Feuille" (Leaf) features an irregular leaf form wit...
Category
1940s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
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.