Belgium - Boxes

Antique large wooden double folding picture frame for traveling 1870s With original patina on all parts It is possible to clean or restore th...

Very Decorative Box in Leather and Metal Studs, Europe, 1950s. This mid-century decorative box is clad in warm brown leather and features intricate stud detailing. The box has a dom...

Puzzle by Line Vautrin – Box in gilded bronze Large and wide box in gilded bronze whose lid is carved with a puzzle by Line Vautrin. The chiselled puzzle p...

Dutch Delft Tabacco Jar The Claw Blue White Delftware Tin Glazed Pottery Dutch delftware tabacco jar. Tin glazed blue and white earthenware with brass c...

Beautiful old camel on wheels, trinket or spice box, vintage toy from the second half of the 20th century, made of solid red-colored wood, probably from India. The object has a beau...

Set of 4 vintage Indonesian nesting bowls, made of light wood that is painted black with gold decoration, jewelry or jewelry boxes, circa mid 20th century. These beautiful bowls are...

Antique Gothic Revival Lidded Tobacco Pot 19th Century. This is a wonderful and very decorative antique tobacco pot or lidded pot, made in the late 19th century in a very distinct g...

Porcelain lided box decorated with the iconic Flora motif : Pretty porcelain box whose lid is decorated with the morif "Flora". The edge of the lid and t...

Curved ribbed silver-gilt pocket snuff box - 19th century George III - John Turner Sterling - Early 19th century Dimensions: 9 x 5 cm (3.5 x 2 in) H: 2 cm (0.8 in) Material: Silver R...

Antique Incombustible Cast Iron Safe Safe - Antique - Coffre-fort Measures : 50x33cm H:38cm Wear consistent with age and use : See Photos

18th century Dutch silver scent box On top a Depiction of Vice Admiral Zoutman The victor of the Dogger Bank Battle Made by Dirk Hoep 178...

Antique Chinese leather box - circa mid-19th century This antique Chinese box was handcrafted from leat Measures : 22x13cm H:8cm Materials...

Neo gothic style bronze box circa 1900.

Midcentury Decorative Box in Travertine Enzo Mari Style, Italy 1970s Vintage - Decoration - Home Decor Measures : Ø 12cm H:5cm

Set of 2 Anglo Indian boxes. Both early 20th century with bone and faux tortoise decorations. In overall good condition. The bone of the back from the larger box is absent and some s...

An elegant mahogany writing slope from the English Navy, featuring brass decorations typical of this type of furniture. Beautiful brass ornamentation includes corner brackets and rei...

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 ...

Old Chinese Opium Box in Cloisonné Enamel, decorated with Vases and Flowers. French Private Collection

Antique Chinese Opium Box in Cloisonné Enamel, decorated with Floral Motifs and Interior Scenes French Private Collection

Old wooden box, jewelry, or trinket box made of inlaid wood pieces, marquetry box with a geometric chevron design, circa mid-20th century. This wooden box is of high quality and a f...

A 17th century cutlery box with the original leather, metal hardware and interior.

An extraordinary Anglo-Indian box from Vizagapatam in fully carved solid ebony, late 19th century. Filigree ornate and sculpted floral decoration...

Marius-Ernest Sabino, the sculptor who became a master glassmaker of Art Deco The year is 1878, Marius-Ernest Sabino was born in Sicily, in the town of Acierale (Italy). In 1882, his...

"Carved Boxwood Tobacco Box – Louis XV Period, 18th Century, Architectural Scene " 18th-Century French Carved Boxwood Tobacco Box – Louis XV Period, Religious Architectural Scene Ori...

Mid-Century Modern Ice Bucket by Aldo Tura, circa 1960, Italy.

Dutch Tobacco Jar Netherlands, 19th century 23 x 15 cm Georgian Dutch Tobacco Jar. Made from different woods, this ring turned Jars show a very nice patina.

Antique Portuguese Wooden Harvest Bin Early 20th-century hand-crafted wooden harvest trug from Portugal, traditionally used during grape harvests (vindima) or general agricultural ga...

Vintage Industrial compact four drawer Oak archive cabinet, storage desk organizer, 1930s. Dimensions:H.30cm-W.40-D.60 cm

Leather trunk Spanish, 17th century Boiled Leather, wood and iron Measures: 22 x 53 x 32 cm. Provenance : - collection Metz-Noblat, Château de Clevant, France Rectangular trunk of the form and size of a small suitcase with wrought iron hinges and lock-plate. Wood, covered with leather, cut and embossed with every surface of the thick cow hide covered in interlace, zoomorphic features. The construction method is boiled leather, often referred to by its French translation cuir-bouilli: a process used to change flexible, vegetable-tanned leather into rigid, moulded objects. For shaping of the vegetable-tanned leather, heat and moisture were used, as indicated by the term boiled leather. No written medieval sources describing the production of decorated cuir bouilli objects survive, so knowledge of the process relies on the important studies of the Scottish leather historian John William Waterer. A large range of methods, materials and techniques could be used in various combinations. The vegetable-tanned leather, made supple with moisture and heat, was stuffed, shaped and nailed to the rigid wooden coffer support. The stuffing material was probably modeled beeswax or stearin wax. To shape the leather, to create its topography, « Cushions » were made by lacing a thread through an awl hole and attaching the flexible leather and stuffing to the rigid wooden support on the bottom. Then the decoration was done: lines were incised through the upper layer of the leather (epidermis) with different thicknesses of knives or needles. Contours were created with deep v-shaped cuts, decoration with thin incision and final details with a needle point. For the incision and pouncing stage, the leather was probably kept heated and moistened for suppleness. Once dry, the leather would be hard and rigid. the saturated leather is worked over a form, possibly even damp sand, with the pattern shaped using bone or wooden tools. Compare to metal, leather was lighter and it offered protection from cuts and punctures. Cuir bouilli objects were produced by specialist leather workers and needed skillful craftsmanship. The surface is filled with roundels shaped foliages enclosing animals, lions and peacocks. The foliate arabesques creating a vegetal connection tweet the animals create the impression of a lush verdant space . The vegetal pattern here employed in combination with geometrical pattern came from the pre-islamic artistic traditions of the Byzantine and Sasanian empires. An aspect of Islamic geometry Is the basic symmetrical repetition and mirroring of the shapes that create a sense of harmony. The decoration of this truck is inspired by the islamic « arabesque » a form of vegetal ornament composed of spirals, intertwining plants and abstract curvilinear motifs. An arabesque character is given to the birds of the decorations through extreme stylisation. This arabesque maintained the classical tradition of median symmetry, freedom in Detail and heterogeneity of ornament. The presence of the peacocks is a paradisiacal allusion: in popular Islamic literature they were among the original inhabitants of the garden of Paradise expelled with Adam and Eve. Peacock as a decorative motif may have originated in the West, despite their eastern provenance. There was an ancient belief that the flesh and feathers of peacock do not decay. This led to the peacock becoming a christian symbol for Christ’s resurrection. Renowned for their decorative wall hangings, seventeenth-century Spanish leatherworkers also produced utilitarian objects, such as this trunk. A similar trunk is on display at the Metropolitan museum of art ( 09.158.1). Related literature : Davies L. 2006. Cuir bouilli. Conservation of leather and related materials, 94-102, Oxford: elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann Grabar, Oleg. The Mediation of Ornament. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992 Gabriela Germana Roquez, "El mueble en el Peru en el siglo XVIII...

A charming vintage jewelry box, or trinket box, with colorful marquetry inlay, lined with red velvet, including a working key. Presumably Moroccan, second half of the 20th century. ...

Amour roi de ton coeur (Love King of Your Heart) by Line Vautrin , Silver Bronze Box. Silver-plated bronze box with a lid enhanced with a decoration representing a two-tone wheel, th...

A beautiful antique 19th century Capodimonte porcelain jewelery box in high relief and hand painted decoration with bronze gilt frame 10.5 x 7.5 cm, height 3.4 cm Perfect condition, ...

Swedish antique pine and birch wooden butter storage box . Fine quality of bentwood. It is a true piece from the early 19 century. Painted blue and faded trough time. Nice addition...

A late 18th century blacked wooden sewing box with gold painted decoration all around brass engraved lock and hinges Aged patina 17 x 10.5 cm, total heigth 10.5 cm

Swedish antique pine and birch wooden storage box. . Fine quality of bentwood. It is a true piece from the 19 century. Initials are hand painted on the top 1865 and hand engraved und...

Lidded Pot in Wood, Europe, 1950s. Wonderful lidded pot in solid turned wood. Great design with rings all over - even the handle on the lid is a ring itself. Would be wonderful as a...

Offered for sale is an exquisite antique French bronze jewelry or trinket box, featuring an elaborate pierced Rococo-style design and a finely hand-painted miniature pastoral scene, ...

“L’altruisme est amour” (Altruism is love) by Line Vautrin, gilt bronze box. Gilt bronze box, the lid finely chiseled with a rebus. The rebus can be deciphered as follows: * The ins...

Swedish antique pine and birch hand painted wooden barrel. Made to be used as a washing basin. Fine quality of bentwood. It is a true piece from the early 19 century. Beautiful patin...

Richly carved hardwood Indian box for storage of fans in a fine quality Late 19th century length 38 cm, width 6.5 and 12.5 cm, height 7 cm Aged patina

France / 1900 / sewing box / oak / antique / rococo A large French antique sewing box in oak hand crafted in France around 1900. This beautiful ...

Combat of March 30, 1814. On the heights of Saint Chaumont where an Artillery post served by students of the École Polytechnique fought fiercely and was saved from death by General S...

Swedish antique pine and birch wooden backpack storage box. It was use to pickup the berries in the woods. Fine quality of birch bentwood. It is a true piece from the early 19 centur...

“Trianon” or “Les pavés du Roy”, silvered bronze compact by Line Vautrin. Silver-plated bronze compact depicting the cobblestones of the Château de Versailles. On the upper part, a h...

Belgium / 1930 / tin can / tin / Art Deco / Mid-century / Vintage An adorable egg shaped Easter tin can by Cote d'Or with a bunny walking with 2 chicks in the cart. Made in England ...

Meindert Zaalberg Studio Pottery 'Stop' lidded box. The Netherlands, 1962. Beautiful lidded box or pot designed by famous Dutch pottery artist Meindert Zaalberg (1907-1989) for hi...

A tin box from the Art Nouveau period is a beautiful example of the artistic movement that flourished in Europe at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. The Art Nouv...

Swedish antique pine hand build wooden kitchen cabinet. Made to be used as a dough plater storage to the left side and a storage to the right side. Fine quality of wood. It is a true...

Swedish antique pine hand carved wooden barrel. Made to be used as a grain storage. Fine quality of wood. It is a true piece from the early 19 century. Beautiful patina on the inside...

Swedish antique pine and birch wooden butter storage box . Fine quality of bentwood. It is a true piece from the early 19 century. Hand graved 1882 inside the lid. Nice addition in...

Swedish antique pine and birch wooden storage box. It was left with the natural wood who now have a charming patina. Fine quality of bentwood. It is a true piece from the early 19 ce...

Swedish antique pine and birch wooden storage box. It was painted blue with black edges. Fine quality of bentwood. It is a true piece from the early 19 century. More units could be f...

France / 1900 / sewing box / wood, fabric / Art Deco / Mid-century / Vintage Very decorative French sewing box with graphical carvings and a yellow ...

Beautiful old tramp art box, jewelry box or trinket, trinket box, made in the first half of the 20th century, Belgium. Beautiful form of folk art, anyone could make a tramp art obje...

Germany / 1910 / bread bin / enamel / Art Nouveau / Vintage / Antique Art Nouveau lunch box or bread bin made in Germany around 1910. Decorated with white and blue honeycomb pattern and the written on top: Unser tägliches Brot gib uns heute (give us our daily bread...

A 19th century Hanau sterling silver presentation box or jewelry box with hinged cover. Large 800 silver box of quatrefoil form, impre...

Antique Sterling Silver tea caddy / box Style Georgian, French Empire, Napoleonic, Dutch A sterling silver very stylized tea box with good working lock Decorated with embossed pearl...

France / 1930 / jewelry box / facet cut glass, oak / Art Deco / Mid-century An elegant jewelry box in facet cut glass with oak wooden frame, handcrafted in France in the 1930s. The ...

France / 1900 / sewing box / wood, fabric / Art Deco / Mid-century / Vintage Very decorative French sewing box with graphical carvings and a yellow ...

This is an amazing jewelry box. Perfect for storing keys or watches. The box is handmade. Turned from old oak wood. The bright, natural oak color will make you enchanted! Dimensions:...