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Period: 19th Century
19th Century Edwards and Roberts Satinwood and Rosewood Box
Located in Solebury, PA
A fine 19th Century Edwards and Roberts dome-shaped satinwood box with a lower drawer is elegantly adorned with vases and floral swags and cross-banded in rosewood. It is beautifully...
Category
Regency Antique 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Rosewood, Satinwood
Large Japonisme Moser-Type Bronze Mounted
Enameled Blue Glass Casket Box
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A large and very fine 19th century enameled glass casket or glove box.
Typical of the enamel treatments by Ludwig Moser and reminiscent of Baccarat's Japonisme works.
Likely Bohemian, the blue glass...
Category
Czech Japonisme Antique 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Enamel
19th Century Dore Bronze Mounted Blue Opaline Cut Crystal Box
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
This classic blue opaline cut crystal box catches the light in such a way as to make it seem as if it’s glowing from within. Note the lean cut and smooth edges of its crystal facets....
Category
French Louis XVI Antique 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Antique 19th Century German Gold
Enamel Snuff Box, Freres Jordan, Hanau c.1800
Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Antique 19th Century German gold and enamel snuff box. This elongated rectangular snuff box, features cut corners and a lid adorned with intricate enamel work. The lid's central plaq...
Category
German Other Antique 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Gold, Enamel
Outstanding quality antique Victorian oak tantalus and games box
Located in Ipswich, GB
Outstanding quality antique Victorian oak tantalus and games box, having a quality oak tantalus with quality brass mounts and carrying handles to the sides, having a compartment with three square cut glass decanters with solid silver decanter tags...
Category
English Antique 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Silver, Brass
$1,306 Sale Price
20% Off
Finest Antique English Burr Walnut and Brass Cigar Cabinet / Humidor, circa 1880
Located in Bath, GB
About as fine as they get, this large Burr walnut cigar cabinet is a magnificent quality box beautifully made.
Each corner has a carved column with a polished brass base and brass...
Category
English Victorian Antique 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Walnut
$7,104 Sale Price
20% Off
19th c. Distressed Scroll-Footed Box
Located in San Francisco, CA
ABOUT
A 19th century distressed scroll-footed box with original velvet interior.
CREATOR Unknown.
DATE OF MANUFACTURE c.1800-1899.
MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES Wood, Velve...
Category
English Victorian Antique 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Wood
$75 Sale Price
67% Off
Marvelous 19th Century French Antique Jewelry Box Napoleon III in Burl Wood
Located in Ijzendijke, NL
Marvelous Napoleon III 19th century antique Jewelry box in Burl wood from France.
Impressive wood grain with slight curved edge on t...
Category
French Napoleon III Antique 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Wood, Burl
Rare English Regency Writing Slope With Decorative Brass Trim by Wells
Lambe
By John Lambe
Located in Reading, Berkshire
A Beautiful Handcrafted English Antique 19th Century Hardwood Veneer Writing Slope With A Tooled Purple Leather Writing Liner. Item Featured Brass Carry Handles
Is Finished Wit...
Category
British Regency Antique 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Brass
$3,688 Sale Price / set
45% Off
19th Century Italian Marquetry Box
Located in Winter Park, FL
An early 19th century miniature Italian coffer, or hinged box, made of solid walnut with marquetry inlay of various woods and bookmatched bird's-eye map...
Category
French French Provincial Antique 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Birdseye Maple, Walnut
English Sterling Silver Vanity or Bathroom Jar Box
Located in New York, NY
An antique English sterling silver and cut-glass vanity, dresser, or bath/powder room jar box, Victorian period, circa late-19th century, England. The sterling silver top/lid has a r...
Category
English Victorian Antique 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Stunning Late 1800s Gothic Revival Walnut
Brass Tea Caddy Box W. Great Patina
Located in Lisse, NL
A very pleasing, late 19th century, double compartment tea caddy.
This marvellous and rare tea caddy is in very good condition and the burl walnut has a truly warm, deep and rich pa...
Category
English Gothic Revival Antique 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Bronze, Brass
Antique English Burlwood Voting Box / Still Bank
Located in Forney, TX
A stunning and scarce antique English Victorian era burlwood voting box.
Hand-crafted in the 19th century, the small table box having a rectangular case wi...
Category
English Late Victorian Antique 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Brass
French Post Office Mailbox - Cast Iron - Delachanal Model - Late 19th Century
Located in BARSAC, FR
Public mailbox of the French Post Office Model in molded cast iron manufactured by Delachanal in Paris - Late 19th Century
Good general condition - presented in its original conditi...
Category
French Art Nouveau Antique 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Iron
English Georgian Tortoise Shell Sewing Box with Silver Winged Paw Feet, C. 1810
Located in Charleston, SC
English Georgian Tortoise shell hinged sewing box with a gadrooned molded edge lid, fitted tufted interior, and resting on the original silver plate winged paw feet. Early 19th Century
Category
English Georgian Antique 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Silver
Mint C. and Large Antique Display Box w. Beveled Glass Top
Silver Spoons
Located in Lisse, NL
Fine quality and condition, 1860s box with perfect working silver lock and key.
This handcrafted spoon box is another one of our recent great finds. It comes with beautifully shaped...
Category
Dutch Biedermeier Antique 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Silver
Silver pill box with engraved ivory couple scene and gold interior
Located in Porto, PT
Description: Silver pill box with a couple engraved on ivory in an idyllic scene on the lid, enameled casing and gold interior. Metal: Silver. Origin: Austro/Hungarian - Remarked boa...
Category
European Antique 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Silver
$4,500 Sale Price
50% Off
A Hand Painted Apple Shaped Tea Caddy
Located in Reading, Berkshire
A 20th Century Hand Painted Hinged Lidded Tea Caddy In The Shape Of An Apple With A Metal Patinated Stalk
A tea caddy is a box, jar, canister, or other receptacle used to store tea...
Category
British Regency Antique 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Wood
$1,516 Sale Price
40% Off
A Mindanao silver inlaid bronze betal nut box, Islamic, mid to late 19th century
Located in Central England, GB
This highly decorative box is a betal nut box. The habit of chewing was relevant in the southern Philippines and much of southeast Asia. Wealthy Maraneo families on the island of Mi...
Category
Philippine Tribal Antique 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Silver
Antique Majolica Tobacco Jar Munich Child in Hofbrauhaus Keg, Germany 1890s
Located in Nuernberg, DE
This offer is for an antique figural tobacco jar featuring the Munich Child on a keg from Munich's famous Hofbrauhaus. The jar reads "Tabak" (german fo...
Category
Austrian Art Nouveau Antique 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Majolica
Antique Folk Art Northern Swedish Handmade Flour Box
Located in Kramfors, SE
Folk Art flour box from northern Sweden. The box was made by hand during the mid-1800s from pine and was used to store flour. Boxes like this would be standi...
Category
Swedish Folk Art Antique 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Pine
19th C. Georgian Continental Tortoiseshell Cigar Case With Vermeil Silver Mounts
Located in Atlanta, GA
This refined cigar case is executed in richly figured tortoiseshell, shaped in a gently contoured rectangular form with softly rounded ends, the exterior polished to a deep transluce...
Category
British Georgian Antique 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Shell
Antique Chinese Canton Carved Wooden Jewelry Box, 19th Century
Located in Bishop
s Stortford, Hertfordshire
An antique Chinese Canton Qing wooden jewelry box carved in high relief with figural panels and dating from the 19th century. This stunning box of rectangular casket shape stands on a pedestal shaped base with a carved edge and has relief carved figural panels...
Category
Chinese Qing Antique 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Wood
Late 19th Century Chinoiserie Tea Tin
Located in High Point, NC
Late 19th century chinoiserie tea tin from England.
Category
English Late Victorian Antique 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Tin
Chinese Export Black Lacquer Game Box
Located in Essex, MA
Rectangular hinged shaped top enclosing small trays. Conforming case with gilded feet.
Category
Chinese Chinese Export Antique 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Lacquer
Petite Etched Chinese Opium Box, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
A petite 19th-century canister once used to store a smoker's personal supply of opium paste. A keepsake from a bygone era, the small box is formed of brass with a copper interior and...
Category
Chinese Qing Antique 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Brass, Copper
Great Shape
Color, Antique Tea Caddy inNutwood with Brass Lock and Hinges
Located in Lisse, NL
A very pleasing to the eye, early 1800s triple compartment tea caddy.
This marvellous tea caddy is in very good condition and the patinated nutwood has a truly warm, deep and rich p...
Category
European Antique 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Brass
Exceptional 19th C Parquetry Tea Caddy with Serpentine Sides Marked TAHAN Paris
By Tahan Paris
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
An exceptional double chamber tea caddy with geometric parquetry panels with crossbanded edges. Each of the four sides of serpentine form and raised on a conforming plinth base edged...
Category
French Napoleon III Antique 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Brass
Art Nouveau Carved Wooden Box
Located in Queens, NY
Art Nouveau wood oblong shaped box with etched floral design.
Category
Unknown Art Nouveau Antique 19th Century Boxes
Ancient Chinese Ivory Snuff Bottle with Erotic Scene, Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Chinese erotic ivory snuff bottle, most likely realized during the late !ing Dinasty (late 19th Century).
Both main faces are finely engraved with Shunga-style erotic scenes, showin...
Category
Chinese Antique 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Ivory
19th Century Swedish Allmoge Folk Art Bentwood Chest
Located in Pearland, TX
An incredible Swedish hand-painted chest, having hand-forged iron straps and fittings. Original key included.
Category
Swedish Folk Art Antique 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Bentwood
Japanese Meiji Period Antique Lacquer Box with Gold Maki-e Decoration
Located in New York, NY
A fine antique Japanese Meji Period lacquer box decorated with a fan and a stylized star shaped window in the maki-e technique. The fan at the top right corner, fully opened depictin...
Category
Japanese Meiji Antique 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Lacquer
Antique Figured Coromandel Brass Box / Casket 19th Century
Located in London, GB
This is a magnificent antique brass bound coromandel Victorian Gothic Revival casket by Parkins and Gotto, 24 & 25 Oxford Street, London, circa 1860...
Category
English Victorian Antique 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Brass
English Pressed Glass
Carved Oak Greek Key Motif Biscuit Barrel or Humidor
Located in Atlanta, GA
English, circa 1867.
An unusual antique biscuit barrel or humidor. The main body is formed of pressed glass with a greek key border, paneled window and a reeded edge. The glass rest...
Category
British Antique 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Glass, Oak
19th Century English Regency Style Inlaid Box
Located in Tampa, FL
beautiful 19th century English Regency style trinket box, showcasing exquisite craftsmanship and attention to detail. The box features intricate inlay work across the surface, highl...
Category
English Antique 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Silk, Wood
Antique Victorian Rosewood Brass Bound Writing Box
Located in Ipswich, GB
Antique Victorian Rosewood Brass Bound Writing Box with a lift up lid that opens to reveal a green leather writing surface and a fitted interior with inkwell.
Good condition.
Category
Early Victorian Antique 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Rosewood
Gilt Bronze, Pearl and Enamel Singing Bird Box by Bontems, circa 1890
By Bontems
Located in London, GB
A stunning gilt bronze and seed pearl singing bird box by Bontems of Paris - CIRCA 1890.
The bird rises from beneath the enamal oval lid and is sure to delight!
Category
French Victorian Antique 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Bronze, Enamel
Rare 19th Century Antique Bronze Mounted KPM Hand Painted Porcelain Casket
Located in Casale Monferrato, IT
Truly rare, this finely decorated antique rectangular casket, German porcelain manufacturer KPM, circa 1870. The KPM brand is engraved on the inside. Made with a finely chiseled bron...
Category
German Antique 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Bronze
$15,187 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique Chinese Elaborately Relief Carved Glove Box W/ Original Hinges and Lock
Located in Norton, MA
Chinese elaborately Relief carved glove box with original hinges and lock, no key, no damage or cracks,
9 ¾” w. x 3 ¾” d x 3” h.
Notes: Very good condition
Category
Chinese Antique 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Zitan
19th Century English Gentleman
s Mahogany and Brass Campaign Jewelry Box
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
High quality English mahogany and brass fine jewelry box that was likely used for stationary as well. Attention to detail, originality and surviving k...
Category
English Campaign Antique 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Brass
$2,600 Sale Price
20% Off
19th Century Anglo Chinese Padouk Tea Caddy
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
A Rare Mid 19th Century Anglo-Chinese Padouk Wood Rectangular Tea Caddy Having Attractive Silver Plate Mounted Decoration Throughout, The Hinged Lid Enclosing Two Lidded Divisions, W...
Category
Chinese Victorian Antique 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Padouk
Pretty antique Victorian tunbridge ware inlaid trinket box
Located in Ipswich, GB
Pretty antique Victorian tunbridge ware inlaid trinket box having a pretty antique Victorian trinket box with a lift up lid opening to reveal a l...
Category
Antique 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Walnut
$431 Sale Price
20% Off
1890s Antique Victorian Sterling Silver Tobacco Box
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique Victorian English sterling silver tobacco box; an addition to our smoking related silverware collection.
This exceptional antique Victorian sterling silver tobacco box has a plain oval rounded form.
The underside of this box is embellished with a bright cut engraved stemmed rose, floral and foliate design; this indicates the high quality of the piece, as typically the underside would remain unembellished.
The upper portion of this antique silver tobacco box...
Category
English Victorian Antique 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver, Silver
Black Forest Decanter Set in Carved Box with St Louis Crystal Decanters/Stems
Located in Houston, TX
This cave a liqueur set is truly special because the box is exquisitely
Carved and has the original beveled glass. The decanters and stem
Ware are by St. Louis and the original la...
Category
French Black Forest Antique 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Crystal
$4,875 Sale Price / set
25% Off
19th C. Gold, Damascene, Etched Steel Casket Box/Safe with Noble Coat of Arms
Located in New York, NY
An Incredible 19th Century Royal Casket Box/Safe with Coat of Arms, Made of Gold, Damascene, and Etched Steel. Charles Le Hon, a Belgian politician, lawyer and industrialist, served...
Category
French Renaissance Revival Antique 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Gold, Steel
Late 19th Century Decorative Box - Black Forest - Carved Wood
Located in Casteren, Noord-Brabant
This charming 19th-century Black Forest decorative box is beautifully hand-carved in solid wood, featuring detailed floral and foliate motifs throughout. The lid is adorned with an i...
Category
German Black Forest Antique 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Walnut
Victorian Period Sterling Silver-Mounted Cowrie Shell Snuff Box With Hinged Lid
Located in New York, NY
Victorian Period, sterling silver-mounted (unmarked, but tested) Cowrie shell snuff box with hinged lid, England, Ca. 1840's. Measures 3 inches long x 2 inches deep x almost 2 inches high. Sterling silver mount is engraved Mrs. Margaret Burke...
Category
English Victorian Antique 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Chinese Chinoiserie Black Lacquer Box
Located in Tampa, FL
Early nineteenth century Chinese chinoiserie black lacquer box with gold decoration. The exterior shows a finely detailed village scene with houses...
Category
Chinese Antique 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Lacquer
Qing Dynasty Period Chinese Box with Brass Lock, Banding and Removable Top
Located in Yonkers, NY
A Qing Dynasty period Chinese old box from the 19th century with traditional etched brass hardware, metal banding, partially removable top and light patina. Im...
Category
Chinese Antique 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Brass
19th Century General Store Counter Tea Bin Dispenser
Located in Forney, TX
A large 19th century rustic Victorian era industrial general store counter tin bin tea / coffee dispenser - mercantile retail display with beautifully aged distressed patina.
Pain...
Category
Victorian Antique 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Metal
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
British Victorian Antique 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Brass
$4,426 Sale Price
40% Off
Antique French Silvered Copper Jewellery Casket Box B Wicker 19th C
Located in London, GB
This is a beautiful Antique silvered copper French Jewellery Casket, engraved by by the famous French engraver B.Wicker, Paris C 1880's.
This...
Category
French Antique 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Copper
19th Century French Large and Finely Gilt Bronze Casket
Located in Dallas, TX
Finest quality French 19th century bronze doré box. Beautiful scenes of cherubs at play on all sides. Boucher scenes. Lined with a beautiful silk original key.
Category
French Louis Philippe Antique 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Bronze
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
Philippine Islamic Antique 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Silver, Brass, Bronze, Copper
Victorian Military Campaign Burr Walnut Brass Bound Writing Slope With Key
Located in Reading, Berkshire
19th Century Victorian Military Campaign Burr Walnut Brass Bound Writing Slope With A Tooled Black Leather Scriver
Slope will include
A Single Glass Inkwell
A vintage pen
S moder...
Category
British Campaign Antique 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Brass
$2,106 Sale Price / set
40% Off
19th Century Toleware Grocer’s Shop Tea Tin
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
19th century toleware grocer’s shop tea tin,
A beautiful decorative Grocers Tea Canister, it would have been filled with Tea for sale, it has a very attractive style. The lid is...
Category
Arts and Crafts Antique 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Tin
Hand Painted Porcelain and Gilt Bronze Oval Trinket Box
Located in Guaynabo, PR
This is a hand painted porcelain and gilt bronze oval trinket box. It depicts an oval porcelain plaque featuring an 18th century portrait of an elegant lady. She is wearing a large r...
Category
Unknown Rococo Antique 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Porcelain
$450 Sale Price
25% Off
Antique Tortoiseshell singing bird box, by Bontems
Located in London, GB
A antique tortoiseshell singing bird box, by Bontems
Circa 1890,
Going-barrel movement,
Motor-view light anomaly...
When wound and start/...
Category
French Antique 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Tortoise Shell
Large 19th Century French Dore Bronze Mounted Hand-Cut Prismic Crystal Box
By Baccarat
Located in New York, NY
A Fantastic and Large 19th century French dore bronze mounted hand-cut prismic crystal box. The mount is hand-chased and hand-chiseled with the finest detail. The entire mount is des...
Category
French Louis XVI Antique 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Cast Brass Engraved Brazier Box with Pierced Charcoal Tray, North India
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Cast Brass Engraved Brazier Box with Pierced Charcoal Tray, North India, Late 19th Century
Dimensions:
Consisting of Two Pieces: the Box and the Removable Tray
Box: 10.5” W to handl...
Category
Indian Anglo Raj Antique 19th Century Boxes
Materials
Brass
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