Catalog: Antiques: Furnishings: Accessories: Boxes (98)

Tunbridge Ware Trinket Box in rosewood having sides decorated in a band of Berlin woolwork floral pattern with a veneered lid and raised on bun feet.

5.5" x 3.5" x 2.25" tall

Exceptional Chinese Export Black Lacquer Jewelry Chest with raised and gilt Chinoiserie decoration: having a hinged top upper compartment above two doors revealing an arrangement of small drawers and below a larger shallow drawer. 19th century.

14.75" x 8.5" x17.5"high.

Antique Rosewood Tea Caddy inlaid with brass stars and opening to two lidded compartments.

Circa1850, probably French.

7.5" x 4.25" x 4.5" tall

Antique Anglo-Indian turned wood box and cover with brass mounts

Diameter: 5", Height 3.25"

Large Antique Chinese Black Lacquer Tea Caddy, rectangular with hinged lid opening to an engraved pewter (pac-tung) liner ; the whole decorated with figures in gardens and with brass carrying handles.

Circa 1860. 13.5" x 11" x 8.5" tall (minor losses, filled crack in lid)

French Boulle Style Tea Caddy, rectangular with cut-corners and slightly domed lid with all sides and two interior lids extensively inlaid with engraved brass and red and black colored lacquer simulating tortoise-shell in the 17th century manner. Circa 1850.

Provenance: The Cockrell Collection. (Key). (See our #555 for a related example with blue lacquer ground.) See Clark & O’Kelly, p. 109-10 for related boxes...

Fine Pair of Oval Circassian Burled Walnut Tea Caddies with piano hinged lids , circa 1860

6.5" x 3 .75" x 4.5" tall

Rare Red Lacquer Tea Chest of bombe shape with cut corners having a hinged steppedlid opening to two engraved pewter caddies,t he whole with gilt decoration and raised on dragon form feet.

Chinese,circa 1850

9.5" x 7"x 5.5" tall

Unusual Late Victorian Tea Chest in the form of a Sideboard, in mahogany with cross-hatched inlaid panels and carved bandings and skirt, the shaped top opening to two lidded tea caddies and a sugarbowl.

English, circa 1870.

22" x 8" x 6.5" tall

Antique American traveling box constructed with strips of alternating light and dark woods; with sliding lid opening to a fitted interior. Ca. 1840.

Length: 8” Depth: 4.5” Height: 2.35”

Antique Sorrento-ware Book Form Trick Box; in olivewood, with a rectangular book form lid with marquetry inlay of a musician and dancing couple, the front with a hidden keyhole, and a hidden compartment in the base.

9.25" x 4.75" x 4.5" tall

Late 19th, early 20th C.

Small antique Chinese black lacquer tea caddy with gilt decoration of figures in landscapes. Circa 1880.

Length: 6”
Width: 4”
Height: 3.25”

Pair of miniature three drawer chests, in mahogany, circa 1860, probably desk top boxes. Dimensions :12 "x 12"x 9"deep

Antique Chinese Export Rouge Lacquer Tea Caddy with faux painted brass banding; rectangular with brass carrying handles and gilt decoration, the hinged lid opening to a large pewter removable box with hinged lid and engraved decoration of figures in a landscape. Circa 1870. (rubbing to painted banding)

11.5" x 7.75" x 5.5" tall

Antique American Wooden Book Form Bank, with coin slot below and hinged cover above.

Circa 1860-80

6.25 x 4.5"x 2"deep

Antique French Straw Work Souvenir Box, Circa 1820 (minor losses).

8" x 4.5" x 3.25 tall

This box dates to the Napoleonic wars between the French and English. Prisoners-of-war were held in purpose-built prisoner-of-war depots or moored ships and typically were soldiers and sailors of the rank and file. Straw was a popular craft material for prisoners of war...

Antique Tunbridge Ware Trinket Box in Rosewood having a hinged lid inlaid with a floral spray taken from Berlin woolwork patterns, framed by bandings of tessellated mosaic marquetry. Circa 1840.

6.5" x 4" x 2" tall

Antique Black Forest Tea Caddy in the form of a dog house with a mounted bronze of a dog, carved on all sides and back and with a trick latch to open. German, circa 1870 . 8.5" x 7.5" x 7" tall