Catalog: Antiques: Furnishings: Accessories: Boxes (91)

Wonderful Victorian Church Form Whimsey in mahogany, having two drawers and a small well beneath the steeple.

English or American, circa 1870.

10" x 6"x 16"tall

Tea Chest in the Form of a Sideboard, in mahogany and deal, having a rectangular hinged top with shaped and carved backsplash, opening to a felt lined interior with two compartments for teaspoons and a moulded crystal sugarbowl...

Charming Antique English Hanging Cutlery Box in oak, banded in mahogany and inlaid with a knife and fork, having a hinged lid and carved crest rail. Circa 1800.

7.5" x 5" x18.75 "tall

Antique American Late Federal Octagonal Tea Caddy in mahogany; the hinged top with satinwood stringing and banding opens to an interior well with a “floating” lid. Circa 1830 (see #5036 for another by the same unknown maker)

Height: 5”
Width: 6.5”

Antique Regency Penwork Decorated Tea Caddy of sarcophagus form having a stepped lid opening to two lidded compartments and Chinoiserie penwork decoration. English, circa 1815.

8" x 4.5" x 5.25" (losses to the decoration)

Antique Charles X Style Cut Crystal Box, oval with alternating rounded and facet cut decoration, and mounted with ormolu bands and escutcheon. Circa 1900, Probably French.

6.25" x 4.75" x 5" tall

#699 Antique Scottish Penwork Tea Chest in Maple with all over decoration of leaves and acorns and a central paterae on the stepped lid of a mother with two children. Inside are two removable lidded tea caddies with penwork leaf and grape decoration and the underside of the lid has a faux coral design.

Attributed to Charles Stiven of Selkirk

See: “Antique Boxes” by Clarke & O’Kelly pages 126-130 for other examples and our #704, #528 and #700...

Rare Child’s Miniature Tole Tea Caddy of Sarcophagus Form, having a shaped lid surmounted by a cast brass knop and with paw form feet: decorated with “smoke” graining and on the front a patera of polychrome flowers. American or English. Circa 1810. (Losses) Provenance: The Cockrell Collection. 3” x 2.25” x 3.5”

Exceptional antique English Regency Collectors Cabinet in nicely figured mahogany; rectangular with two paneled doors opening to twelve graduated small drawers and the whole with shaped skirts and ebonized ball feet. Circa 1815

13.5" x 7.75" x 15.25" tall

Large Georgian Tea Chest in nicely figured mahogany; rectangular with quarter column corners, having a stepped lid surmounted by a brass carrying handle and opening to a fitted interior retainiing two tin tea caddies and a sugar box and the whole raised on ogee bracket feet. English, Circa1780.

11.75" x 7.5" x 6.5" tall

Rare True Pair of 18th Century English Tea Caddies in harewood, of oval form with satinwood and ebony stringings and bandings. The hinged lids with a finely enlaid paterae of flowers in an urn and opening to a interior with "floating lids".
Circa 1790

Provenance: From the Estate of Edward Bridgeforth, Winchester,VA

Most single compartment tea caddies were originally one of a pair; one for green tea and one for black tea...

Unusual Late Chippendale Tea Chest with extensive brass decoration, having a stepped, hinged lid opening to a fitted interior and the whole raised on later bracket feet.

English, circa 1790

9.25" x 6" x 6"

Rare 18th century fruit wood tea caddy in the form of a large apple, having a circular hinged lid with carved “stem” opening to a tin-lined interior; lock and escutcheon are original, hinge is replaced (repair to lid). Probably Continental, circa 1760-80.

Height: 4.5”
Diameter: 4.5”

Antique Hepplewhite Tea Caddy in mahogany with a fan inlay on the top and swag inlay on front.Having a hinged lid opening to two compartments for black and green tea, and raised on later ivory ball form feet.

English,Circa 1790

8" x 5" x 5.75" tall

Fine English Chippendale bombe-form tea chest in nicely figured mahogany veneer over deal, the stepped rectangular lid with brass carrying handle. Circa 1760. (key). (See Clark and O’Kelly, “Antique Boxes, Tea Caddies and Society”, Figure 304 for a related example.)

Height; 6”;
Length: 10.25”;
Depth:5.75"

Antique Black Lacquer Chinese Export Tea Caddy with paneled, cut corner hinged lid opening to a well , vignetts of figures in gardens, and raised on carved dragon form feet. Daoguang Period, Circa 1840

8" x 6" x 5.75" tall (cracks and minor losses to lacquer)

Antique English Bagatelle Box in Mahogany with original wooden insert and later ball and cues, now mounted on a metal stand.

Circa 1840

Bagatelle was a billiards-derived indoor table game, the object of which was to get a number of balls past wooden pins into holes that are guarded by wooden pegs; penalties were incurred if the pegs are knocked over.

36" x 17.75" x 18.5" tall (closed)

Small Tumbridge Ware Trinket Box in Rosewood having a hinged lid inlayed with a display of roses depicted in micro mosaic, framed by bandings of contrasting light and dark wood and particularly well matched geometric micro mosaic.

4.35" x 2.8" x 1.5" tall