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Period: 18th Century and Earlier
Antique Japanese Inro by Shigehide Edo Period
Located in Atlanta, GA
This exquisite four-case lacquered inro was dated to the latter part of 18th century to early 19th century (Edo period) and made by Shigehide. The opposite sides of the inro together features a lavish flower arrangement in a bamboo basket (ikebana). The detailed craftmanship was a true pleasure to behold. Mostly Takamaki-e (high relief) were used to texturize the delicate petals of the chrysanthemums, on which different shades of gold were used to create contrast. Raden (mother of pearl) shells were also used to highlight some leaves, rendering the piece an interesting balance of color and material. The interior was completed in a mottled gold finish. It was signed Shigehide on the bottom with a Kao. There is a small carved rabbit ojime bead...
Category
Japanese Japonisme Antique 18th Century and Earlier Boxes
Materials
Wood, Lacquer
Antique Georgian Paper Scroll Tea Caddy
Located in Northampton, GB
Framed In Boxwood
From our Tea Caddy collection, we are delighted to offer this exceptional Georgian Paper Scroll Tea Caddy. The Tea Caddy of e...
Category
English George II Antique 18th Century and Earlier Boxes
Materials
Glass, Boxwood, Paper
18th Century French Embossed Leather Letter Box, “Coffret a Courrier”
Located in Dallas, TX
More information coming soon…
Known as a coffret a courrier, this French letter box would have been used in the 1700s to conceal private papers or valuables. The leather exterior i...
Category
French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Boxes
Materials
Animal Skin, Leather, Textile, Silk, Upholstery
Japanese Lacquer Incense Box, Kogo, Momoyama or Edo Period, 16th/17th Century
Located in Austin, TX
A wonderful Japanese lacquer incense box, kogo, with a design of plovers in flight, late Momoyama or early Edo Period, circa 1600, Japan.
The small box, called a kogo, was used to s...
Category
Japanese Edo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Boxes
Materials
Gold, Pewter
Meissen Rococo Porcelain Box
Located in New Orleans, LA
Incredible hand-painted scenes inspired by Rococo master Antoine Watteau cover this magnificent Meissen porcelain box. Displaying romantic courts...
Category
German Rococo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Boxes
Materials
Porcelain
18th Century South Staffordshire Snuff Box
Located in Basildon, GB
An 18th Century South Staffordshire Snuff Box, painted with figures and a boat by a classical colonnade . 3.25" wide x 2.5" depth x 1.5" high
Category
English Rococo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Boxes
Materials
Bronze, Enamel
English Pewter Decorative Foliage and Figural Gadrooned Tobacco Jar, Circa 1780
Located in Charleston, SC
English Pewter decorative foliage and figural tobacco jar with a molded edge lid and gadrooning rope borders, Late 18th Century.
Category
English George III Antique 18th Century and Earlier Boxes
Materials
Pewter
Tiffany
Co. 14k Gold Compact on the Chain
By Tiffany
Co.
Located in Sarasota, FL
Tiffany
Co. 14 K gold compact. Marked on the interior. Very lightly used.
Weight 99.3 g or 3.2 t. oz.
Category
American Edwardian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Boxes
Materials
Gold
Dutch Colonial Rosewood And Bone Table Chest
Located in Essex, MA
The case with geometric pattern design. Two drawers with etched bone panels and carved drawer moldings. Bun feet. With key.
Category
Dutch Colonial Antique 18th Century and Earlier Boxes
Materials
Bone, Rosewood
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
French Louis XIV Antique 18th Century and Earlier Boxes
Materials
Leather, Wood
$909 Sale Price
20% Off
Rare silver Herb Box (Yerbera), Upper Peru, Potosí, c. 1775–90 great repoussé
Located in Tel Aviv - Jaffa, IL
Herb Box (Yerbera), Upper Peru, possibly Potosí, c. 1775–90, cast, repoussé, and chased silver,
the design is very intricate, with lions, cats and some other animals, and a women on the lid, it is made in a shell shape with a classical women on top of the lid, the body is all hand made with lions and wild cats with leafs designs, the inner part is divided into two compartments, as usually in this type of boxes. lock is not working but it is very nice and "primitive" looking.
Boxes have a long history across cultures and time. In Spanish America, containers of many types, styles, and materials were cherished as gifts. Known today as yerberas (herb boxes) or coqueras (coca boxes...
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier Boxes
Materials
Silver
18th Century Inlaid Marquetry Document Box
Located in Peabody, MA
An antique 18th century New England dovetailed and boxwork inlaid document chest in butternet and walnut.
Category
Campaign Antique 18th Century and Earlier Boxes
Materials
Wood
French 17th Century Leather Box, Coffre
Located in Round Top, TX
A very charming late 17th century French Coffre - Box crafted from beautifully patina'd leather. A wonderful piece to serve as a jewelry box or to adorn any table top.
Category
French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Boxes
Materials
Leather
Louis XIV Fruitwood Casket, Attributed to César Bagard
By Cesar Bagard
Located in Kittery Point, ME
Carved overall with arabesques and scrolls, the lid centering a crowned armorial.
César Bagard was born in Nancy in 1620. Most of the work known to have been carved by him was comp...
Category
French Renaissance Antique 18th Century and Earlier Boxes
Materials
Metal
Antique Japanese Lacquered Incense Box Kobako Ex-Christie
s
Located in Atlanta, GA
An old Japanese lacquered small box likely used to contain incense powder called Kobako, circa Momoyama to early Edo period (16-17th century). The rectangular form box with a fitted ...
Category
Japanese Japonisme Antique 18th Century and Earlier Boxes
Materials
Lead
William And Mary Kingwood Coffre-Fort
Located in Essex, MA
With rectangular hinged top with brass strap mounting. When open the front folds down to expose hidden compartments and wells. Case mounted the same as the lid. Side carry handles. I...
Category
European William and Mary Antique 18th Century and Earlier Boxes
Materials
Brass
Steel Engraved Nuremberg Money Chest or Cash Box circa 1600
Located in Milford, NH
A fine example of a money chest or cash box with steel engraved figures on each side and an intricate locking mechanism under the lid, typical of metalwork coming out of a host of ci...
Category
German Antique 18th Century and Earlier Boxes
Materials
Steel
18th Century South Staffordshire Snuff Box Top / Lid
Located in Basildon, GB
An 18th Century South Staffordshire Snuff Box Top / Lid, decorated with a Lady and Gentleman with a flute in parkland, gilt scroll border, the unde...
Category
English Rococo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Boxes
Materials
Enamel
A Japanese Edo Period Lacquer Kogo (Incense) Box, late 17/early 18th Century
Located in Spencertown, NY
Early Japanese Lacquer Incense Box (Kogo) Late 17thc. Of rectangular form with soft corners, decorated with a diaper pattern in gold lacquer on a brownish black ground, with pewter r...
Category
Japanese Edo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Boxes
Materials
Pewter
Hispano-Moresque Mudéjar Bone-Inlaid Walnut Chest
- Spain, 16th century
Located in Bruxelles, BE
Hispano-Moresque Mudéjar Bone-Inlaid Walnut Chest
Spain, 16th–17th century
Walnut, bone inlay, iron fittings
44.5 × 30.5 × 18 cm
This rectangular walnut chest, richly ornamented ...
Category
Spanish Renaissance Antique 18th Century and Earlier Boxes
Materials
Bone, Walnut
Antique George III English Burr Yew Wood Tea Caddy
Located in Northampton, GB
From our Tea Caddy collection, we are delighted to offer this Antique Burr Yew Tea Caddy. The Tea Caddy of rectangular shape is beautifully finished in veneered Burr Yew wood, edged ...
Category
British George III Antique 18th Century and Earlier Boxes
Materials
Boxwood
Antique George III Harewood Inlaid Tea Chest
Located in Northampton, GB
With Two Tea Caddies
From our Tea Caddy collection, we are pleased to offer this Georgian Harewood Tea Chest. The Tea Chest of rectangular form veneered in Harewood with inlaid Boxw...
Category
English George III Antique 18th Century and Earlier Boxes
Materials
Boxwood, Harewood
18th Century Bilston Enamel Rectangular Patch / Snuff Box Circa 1775
Located in Basildon, GB
18th Century Bilston Enamel Rectangular Patch / Snuff Box Circa 1775, rare purple ground colour, floral motifs around edges, and a central scene of a bird surrounded by fruit, white ...
Category
English Rococo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Boxes
Materials
Bronze, Enamel
French Snuff Box, circa 1800
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Scarlet tole French snuff box, circa 1800, navette form - silver trimmed.
3.5" w, 1" h, 1.75" d
Whitehall Antiques is a family business that has been...
Category
French Victorian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Boxes
Materials
Tin
$100 Sale Price
55% Off
18th Century Bilston Enamel Oval Patch / Snuff Box Circa 1780
Located in Basildon, GB
18th Century Bilston Enamel Oval Patch / Snuff Box Circa 1780, blue-ground, transfer printed and painted with a flautist and a lady singer in a garden.
35mm high x 90mm wide x 65mm...
Category
English Rococo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Boxes
Materials
Bronze, Enamel
Antique English George III Tuscan Column Tea Caddy
Located in Northampton, GB
With Tuscan Columns & Fan Inlay.
From our Tea Caddy collection, we are pleased to offer this Georgian Harewood Tea Caddy. The Tea Caddy of octagonal shape with a Harewood veneer exterior and crossbanded Tulipwood with Boxwood edging. The front features an oval cartouche with a central fan inlay matching the lid with a further fan inlay surmounted by turned bone...
Category
British George III Antique 18th Century and Earlier Boxes
Materials
Boxwood
Mexican Tortoiseshell and Pen-Engraved Cabinet
Located in Mexico, DF
Mexican cabinet. Made of tortoiseshell, pen-engraved and wood. Possible Oaxaca or Puebla, 17th century.
Category
North American Spanish Colonial Antique 18th Century and Earlier Boxes
Materials
Tortoise Shell
Scottish Horn Snuff Mull
Located in Essex, MA
Unusually large, inlaid with crystal, amber and silver. Engraved with thistles, inside cover carved 1741, Wilm. Ruthven, WH. Provenance; Fountain Walker collection.
Category
Scottish George II Antique 18th Century and Earlier Boxes
Materials
Other
$3,800
Early 17th Italian Renaissance Box Set Ebony, Gilded Bronze and Gemstones
Located in Pistoia, IT
Rare and valuable ebony-plated domed case with rich gilt bronze decoration and central jasper medallion.
Italian Renaissance manufacture from the early 17th century.
The production...
Category
Italian Renaissance Antique 18th Century and Earlier Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Antique Bilston Enamel Etui / Sewing Box Case, circa 1780
Located in Basildon, GB
Antique 18th Century Bilston Enamel Etui / Sewing Box Case, decorated with pink enamel and gilt Rococo cartouche containing romantic figural and animal ...
Category
English Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Boxes
Materials
Enamel
English Gold And Hardstone Snuff Box
Located in New Orleans, LA
This 18th-century English snuff box is composed of a beautiful dark hardstone body encased in gold casework mounts. The box opens with a hinged lid, allowing snuff stored inside to b...
Category
English Rococo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Boxes
Materials
Gold
Meissen Painted Dual Lidded Rococo Box Relief Decoration Brass Mountings, 1750
Located in Vienna, AT
Meissen Gorgeous Dual Lidded Rococo Box with Multicolored Paintings and Decorations of Relief Type.
The box is edged by brass mountings.
height: 6.0 cm (= 2.36 inches)
width: 8.0 cm (= 3.14 inches)
depth: 4.5 cm (= 1.77 inches)
Manufactory: Meissen
Blue Meissen Sword Mark isn't visible here, but authenticity guaranteed ! It is well known that early Meissen items of first half of 18th century
- especially boxes and other objects of daily use - aren't always signed.
Please note: Certificate of this Meissen item's authenticity attached to invoice will be sent !
FIRST QUALITY
Dating: made circa 1750 (= PRE-MARCOLINI PERIOD !)
Material: porcelain
Technique: handmade porcelain / multicolored painted and glazed
painter's sign existing
SPECIFICATIONS:
Dual lidded (= RARITY !) oblong box with rounded edges.
It is abundantly ornamented with various multicolored paintings decorating the item's walls in finest manner:
°the outer walls of box as well as inner and outer side of one lid are painted with flowers (for example roses, iris flower, dahlias etc.)
°outer side of second lid is painted with veduta (= village situated at lake where a boat with three men is visible)
°inner side of second lid is painted with animals (= cock and brooding hen...
Category
German Rococo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Boxes
Materials
Brass
17th Century, Italian Wooden Box Coated in Engraved Leather
Located in Firenze, FI
Wooden box lined with leather engraved with damask motifs, studded with convex bronze nails. This casket was used by placing it on the altars of the family chapels to house the candl...
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Boxes
Materials
Leather, Wood
18th Century Chinese Beijing enamel snuff box
Located in Basildon, GB
An 18th Century Chinese Beijing enamel snuff box finely painted to the lid and sides with typical Chinese scenes, the base painted with a leafy gourd. The lid is mounted in gilt bron...
Category
Chinese Qing Antique 18th Century and Earlier Boxes
Materials
Bronze, Enamel
18th Century Gold Sewing Box with Wax Case, Scissors, Seal
Located in Paris, FR
A 18th century set presented in trapezoidal case made of light wood and inlaid with marquetry. The vanity case includes a gold wax case decorated with fl...
Category
French Louis XVI Antique 18th Century and Earlier Boxes
Materials
Gold
Dutch Walnut Writing Box with Brass Mounts, Early 18th Century
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A Dutch walnut writing box with brass mounts
Early 18th century
Measures: H. 20 x W. 47 x D. 28 cm
The interior is divided in various compa...
Category
Dutch Antique 18th Century and Earlier Boxes
Materials
Brass
Antique Bilston Enamel Etui / Sewing Box Case, circa 1770
Located in Basildon, GB
Antique 18th Century Bilston Enamel Etui / Sewing Box Case, complete with contents, decorated with teal enamel and gilt Rococo cartouche containing flor...
Category
English Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Boxes
Materials
Enamel
Rare 16th Century Nuremberg Box
Located in Madrid, ES
Rare 16th century Nuremberg box
In iron, measurements: 13 x 18 x 12 cm
Good condition.
Category
German Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Boxes
Materials
Iron
Gold Étui in Original Case
Located in New Orleans, LA
Gold Étui in Original Case
Jacques Martin Petitjean
Circa 1777
Expertly engraved entirely of yellow gold, this remarkably rare Louis XVI-era étui is a work of art. Resplendent colum...
Category
French Louis XVI Antique 18th Century and Earlier Boxes
Materials
Gold
$20,220
Late 17th Century Leather And Brass Travelling Box
Located in Benington, Herts
A very fine and interesting late 17th century English work box or travelling case
English Circa 1680
Of conventional form with slightly domed lid, this piece has acquired a magnifi...
Category
English Antique 18th Century and Earlier Boxes
Materials
Brass
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
English George III Antique 18th Century and Earlier Boxes
Materials
Porcelain
$3,195 Sale Price
54% Off
Meissen Gilt-Metal Mounted Etui / Bodkin Case, circa 1755
Located in Basildon, GB
Meissen Gilt-Metal Mounted Etui / Bodkin Case, circa 1755, cylindrical case painted with floral trails between blue-scale borders, the ends painted with pe...
Category
German Rococo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Boxes
Materials
Porcelain
Box Cannister Caddy Brass Tobacco Tea Dutch
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
A charming early tobacco box or tea cannister
Unusual, large size
Lovely soft contours which enhances the reflection of light in the interior
Original condition including hinges
length 21cm., 8 1/4" depth 7.5cm., 3" height 11cm., 4 1/2".
The Dutch were the main importers of tobacco in the 18th century and manufactured tobacco boxes to sell with...
Category
Dutch Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Boxes
Materials
Brass
C1680 Oak Bible Box Well Carved
Located in Bakewell, GB
C1680 oak bible box well carved on 3 sides
good colour and patination
58cms Wide x 45cms Deep x 24cms High
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier Boxes
Materials
Oak
Spanish Colonial Tortoiseshell And Mother Of Pearl Box
Located in Dallas, TX
Circa 1750. Tortoiseshell and mother of pearl box with sliding top from Mexico 18th century. Beautiful designs all over. As is condition.
Category
Mexican Antique 18th Century and Earlier Boxes
Materials
Tortoise Shell, Mother-of-Pearl, Wood
Chest. Carved wood, metal. Spanish school, 16th century.
Located in Madrid, ES
Chest. Carved wood, metal. Spanish school, 16th century.
Rectangular casket with a flat lid decorated on the outside with a series of figurative reliefs in a symmetrical arrangemen...
Category
Spanish Renaissance Antique 18th Century and Earlier Boxes
Materials
Metal, Other
Antique English George III Satinwood Tea Caddy
Located in Northampton, GB
With Conch Shell Inlay
From our Tea Caddy Collection, we are pleased to offer this superb Georgian Satinwood Tea Caddy. The Tea Caddy of rectangula...
Category
English Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Boxes
Materials
Boxwood, Satinwood, Tulipwood
18th Century French Louis XVI Marquetry Secretaire or Desk
Located in Winter Park, FL
An 18th century French Louis XVI marquetry secretaire, or secretary desk with bookcase. Beautifully made with book matched veneer of mahogany and fine inlay of walnut and mahogany. I...
Category
French Louis XVI Antique 18th Century and Earlier Boxes
Materials
Brass
18th Century Swedish Wedding Box
Located in Houston, TX
This late 18th-century Swedish wooden box exudes rustic charm and historical character. Crafted in Sweden during the waning years of the 18th century, this antique treasure showcases...
Category
Swedish Rustic Antique 18th Century and Earlier Boxes
Materials
Metal
A GILT-METAL MOUNTED SNUFF BOX Circa 1750, probably Mennecy
Located in Spencertown, NY
A GILT-METAL MOUNTED SNUFF BOX
Circa 1750, probably Saint-Cloud
Modelled as a reclining monk, one hand supporting his bald head, the other holding a rosary and with a crutch at his s...
Category
French Rococo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Boxes
Materials
Metal
French Original Black Painted Portable 18th Century Writing Desk
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
An original black painted portable desk from the end of the 18th century. With owner initials, the desk has a French hand-written address on the inside. ...
Category
French Louis XVI Antique 18th Century and Earlier Boxes
Materials
Wood
Rare
Important 16th Century Italian Bronze Jacopo Lodovico del Duca Table Box
Located in Forney, TX
A magnificent antique fall-front box with scarce Medieval period bronze lockplate and hasp attributed to Jacopo and Lodovico del Duca.
Featuring an important Lockplate and Hasp designed circa 1570, exact date of manufacture unknown, attributed to the late 16th century Roman foundry of Jacopo 1520-1604) and Ludovico (1551-1601) del Duca, with no apparent signatures or hallmarks which is typical of the era, but we did not remove it and inspect the back.
Boxes such as this hand various uses but were frequently used by merchants as a writing box - slope during travel and trade, as a small coffer - strong box for storing important documents, money and valuables, as well as a jewelry casket.
This hand-crafted European drop-front box dates to the late 19th century, signed L'PUPLET, adorned with a significantly older Italian fine quality cast bronze lockplate with intricate Renaissance era reliefs, including figures, coat-of-arms, and elongated hasp, mounted on a chest of drawers form solid wooden case, wrapped in exotic Japanesque embossed and gilded metallic paper, having a locking fall-front panel with original key included, opening to reveal three interior drawers, all lined in red velvet. circa 1875
The visually striking textured wallpaper covering the box's exterior displays bamboo, birds, and flowers in the oriental Japanesque taste popular in Europe in the 1860s and 1870s following the forced reopening of foreign trade with Japan in 1858 and the ensuing Japonisme craze.
To the interior of the fall front panel is a gilt circular stamp with the somewhat obscured name of the workshop or store (likely) "L'PUPLET" and the city "Burxelles" which is in Brussels, indicating the box was likely made or retailed there.
Marks to box:
L'PUPLET, BRUXELLES
Inscription:
13, 14, 15 (Interior drawers inscribed on the verso of their backboards in script from top to bottom, respectively)
Provenance / Acquisition:
The origin of the elaborate lockplate with hasp on the front of the piece is more intriguing. At least 76 lockplates of this design have been recorded in major museums, private collections, and in the antiques trade across the Western World. For example, lockplates of this pattern are in the collections of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the State Museum of Prussian Cultural Heritage in Berlin, the Museum Cicico in Bologna, The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Dallas Museum of Art in Texas, the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the Museo di Palazzo Venezia in Rome, the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.[1]
Specialists in Renaissance bronzes, especially Charles Avery...
Category
Italian Japonisme Antique 18th Century and Earlier Boxes
Materials
Bronze, Metal
18th Century Georgian Paper Scrolled Quilled Satinwood Tea Caddy
Located in Benington, Herts
A wonderful 18th century George III quill work (scrollwork) tea caddy of hexagon form.
English circa 1790
Finely executed, this very attractive caddy ...
Category
British Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Boxes
Materials
Satinwood
Indo-Portuguese Brass-Mounted Hardwood and Indian Wood Marquetry Cabinet
Located in New York, NY
An Indo- Portuguese brass-mounted hardwood and Indian Wood marquetry cabinet, Goa. Gorgeously made with hand-cut hardwood and the finest quality of othe...
Category
Indian Anglo-Indian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Boxes
Materials
Brass
Georgian Ribbed Bucket Tea Caddy
Located in Northampton, GB
Rare and unusual George III tea caddy in the form of a ribbed bucket.
The tea caddy of beautiful shape with a ribbed exterior carved from alternating panels of plain Sycamore and...
Category
British George III Antique 18th Century and Earlier Boxes
Materials
Cut Steel
18th Century Brass Mounted and Lacquered "Marriage" Dowry Box
Located in Middleburg, VA
Exquisite Indian craftsmanship made of teak with a patinated surface and extraordinary intricate Brass work. Made during the latter part of the Mughal Empire, Southern India circa 1780
Category
Indian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Boxes
Materials
Brass
An Italian Gold Embossed Leather Knife Box, 18th Century
Located in ARMADALE, VIC
An Italian Gold Embossed Leather Knife Box, 18th Century
Description:
The wooden surface with leather overlay and painted gilt surface decoration consisting of florets and a central...
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Boxes
Materials
Leather, Wood
Cute Table Top Italian Early 18th Century Walnut Chest w/Drawers
Located in Atlanta, GA
A small sized Italian walnut chest from the early 18th century. This Italian chest of four drawers features carved column side posts, paneled drawers and sides and sits atop four pet...
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Boxes
Materials
Wood, Walnut
Unique 17th Century Miniature Japanese Namban Lacquer Miniature Dollhouse Chest
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A unique and exceptional Japanese miniature or dollhouse export lacquered chest
Kyoto, circa 1620-1640
The chest of rectangular shape with a domed lid, decorated in Transition-style, in gold hiramaki-e on a black background within reserved lobed cartouches decorated with landscapes animated with birds and rabbits, on a shagreen or samegawa background. The borders are decorated with geometric friezes, the box with gilt-copper mounts, the interior decorated in red lacquer.
Measures: H 9.2 x W 14.5 x D 7.2 cm
This miniature is of exceptional quality and a perfect copy of the famous large size Transition-style coffers. It was most likely ordered by a Dutch lady for her dollhouse (poppenhuis), like the famous Petronella Oortman (1656-1716) doll-house, which is now one of the highlights in the collection of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, or Petronella Oortmans-de la Court’s (1624-1707) dollhouse in the collection of the Centraal Museum Utrecht. Sara Rothé of Amsterdam in 1743 ordered a miniature black lacquered ivory tripod table with gold chinoiserie decoration by Jurriaan Buttner (Monika Kopplin, European Lacquer, 2010, p. 56).
Other Japanned dollhouse...
Category
Japanese Edo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Boxes
Materials
Shagreen, Cypress
Late 18th Century Oak Box with Faux Drawers, Handles and Carved Scrolls
Located in Atlanta, GA
An English oak blanket chest from the late 18th century, with faux drawers and carved scrolls. Created in England during the later years of the 18th century, this oak blanket chest f...
Category
English Antique 18th Century and Earlier Boxes
Materials
Brass
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