All Items : Antiques : Furnishings : Accessories : Boxes : Pre 1800 item #1490479
David Anthony
$1,895.00
A beautiful mahogany shaped knife box made of solid sides and fitted with slotted board to hold knives. The cyma and creased shaped front supports a non-working brass lock escutcheon and opening handle. The corners are molded. The cover is decorated with a star inside, and attached with brass hinges. The base of the box is also molded. Over all, the design and construction are sumptuous.

Condition
Condition is Good/Very Good...
All Items : Antiques : Furnishings : Accessories : Boxes : Pre 1837 VR item #1489967
Spoils of Time
This item will be offered at Vervendi auction after mid March
A fine and rare Pennsylvania Dutch Amish carved, yellow pine, folk art candle box. One side with bas relief carved hex motifs. The other side with the initials, IF and IB (if read left to right, though not sure of the intended order), likely of a married couple and with other carved and incised adornment including hearts. Fitted, sliding top. Possibly a wedding gift. At least 19th century and possibly 18th century...
All Items : Antiques : Furnishings : Accessories : Boxes : Pre 1900 item #1489156
Antique c1900 16" Oak Perpetual Calendar Writing Box Stationary Cabinet AN OAK STATIONARY CALENDAR BOX c1880 This stationary box is in good condition, intact and with both doors intact and working. The box measures 16"w x 12"d and has a "Chairman" plate stuck on the back.
All Items : Antiques : Furnishings : Accessories : Boxes : Pre 1800 item #1488801 (stock #BNJfrenSnuff)
June Hastings
$750.00
Circa 1756, sterling silver French snuff box featuring a man's profile with initials. The bottom has an embossed farming scene with the sides having various vignettes including a hunter and a shepherdess. In very good condition commensurate with age, there is a small separation on the lid, see last photo. Measures 2.75" x 2" x 1" high. Hallmarked.
All Items : Antiques : Furnishings : Accessories : Boxes : Pre 1900 item #1486757
Global Ceramics
$400.00
A tortoise shell and sterling silver inlay cigarette box, the interior cedar wood. The underline of the text with makers mark for Saunders & Shepherd (the firm founded in 1869 and still working), town mark for their Chester branch and L for 1894. Measures "4 / 10.3 cm x "4 / 10 x "2/ 5 cm. Condition: slight warping to the corners of the lid (cf. pics).
All Items : Antiques : Furnishings : Accessories : Frames : Pre 1930 item #1486318 (stock #WN407)
Galerie Hafner
$380.00
shipping included
Two small different shaped photo frames. Made of steel with gold damascene. The larger in the Moorish style with arabesques in the shape of a mihrab, the small one in oval form, backsides gilt. Condition: few traces of usage, the oval one without glass. Dimension: c. 13.8 x 7.8 cm and 8.4 x 6.4 cm.
All Items : Antiques : Furnishings : Accessories : Boxes : Pre 1837 VR item #1485922 (stock #RMT-792)
Antique Pear Form Tea Caddy in fruitwood, turned in the form of a pear with iron escutcheon and stem.  Often made in suite with an apple form tea caddy for your green and black teas. You want to see a curved lockplate as many fruit form string holders are being passed off as tea caddies.  Probably German, Late 18th Century. 6.5” tall with stem
All Items : Antiques : Furnishings : Accessories : Boxes : Pre 1900 item #1485921 (stock #RMT-699)
#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...

All Items : Antiques : Furnishings : Accessories : Pre 1800 item #1485894 (stock #RMT-561)
Rare American Federal tea caddy in nicely figured mahogany with three sides and stepped lid inlaid with banding and corner fan decoration; rectangular, with shaped skirt and French bracket feet and divided interior. Probably 1800. Provenance: The Cockrell Collection. See Montgomery, American Furniture, The Federal Period, #436-439 for other examples. Height, 9.25”; Length, 12”; Width, 6.5.”
All Items : Antiques : Furnishings : Accessories : Mirrors : Pre 1837 VR item #1485893 (stock #500)
Table mirror, resting on 2 feet. At the back, a wooden board unfolds to form a third leg to provide a good base for use on a table. Otherwise, folded, can be used as a hanging mirror. Given its small size and that fold-up leg feature, I think this is probably a travel model...
All Items : Antiques : Furnishings : Accessories : Boxes : Pre 1837 VR item #1485892 (stock #RMT-701)
Chinese Export Black Lacquer Tea Chest, rectangular with cut corners and lobbed body with gilt decoration of figures in courtyards; the stepped, hinged lid opening to two pewter lidded and engraved caddies and the whole raised on gilt dragon-form feet. Circa 1820 (wear to decoration). See our #581, #702. #703 for related examples. 9.75” x 7.25” x 6.75”
All Items : Antiques : Furnishings : Accessories : Boxes : Pre 1837 VR item #1485889 (stock #RMT-530)
#530 Antique Anglo-Indian Tea Chest, sandalwood overlaid with strips of elk horn. The box is rectangular with sloped sides. The elk horn on the top of the stepped, sloping lid arranged in a starburst pattern. The fitted interior is decorated with incised ivory panels, highlighted with lac, a similarly decorated pair of removable caddies and a circular cut crystal sugar bowl and a horn caddy spoon. (The squashed ball feet are later replacements. Lid lack support)...
All Items : Antiques : Furnishings : Accessories : Frames : Pre 1837 VR item #1485887 (stock #RMT-741)
Rare Antique Chinese Export red lacquer melon-form tea caddy with six loebed sides, three gilt dragon paw feet, gilt decoration of figures in gardens on body and hinged lid with carved “stem,” opening to a similarly shaped tin liner. Circa 1825. Height, 5.5”; Diameter, 6.25” Gourds and mellons had a particular significance in Chinese culture.

See: ”Antique Boxes”by Clark and O’Kelly, figure #238 and our #620 for a similar example.

All Items : Antiques : Furnishings : Accessories : Boxes : Pre 1837 VR item #1485886 (stock #RMT-703)
Rare Chinese Export Child’s Black Lacquer Tea Caddy with stepped lid and shaped body having gilt decoration of figures in courtyards and raised on carved dragon form feet. Circa 1820-1830. See our #581, #701 and #702 for related examples.
5.25” x 3.75” x 4”
All Items : Antiques : Furnishings : Accessories : Boxes : Pre 1900 item #1485885 (stock #RMT-637)
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. Height, 4.5”; Length, 8.75”; Depth, 4.5.”

All Items : Antiques : Furnishings : Accessories : Boxes : Pre 1837 VR item #1485884 (stock #RMT-657)
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”
All Items : Antiques : Furnishings : Accessories : Boxes : Pre 1800 item #1485883 (stock #RMT-573)
#573 English octagonal ivory tea caddy with fluted ivory panels with tortoise shell stringing and banding, having a pyramidal lid with silver finial opening to a lidded compartment. Circa 1790. Height, 5”; Length, 4.25”; Depth, 3.25.”

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All Items : Antiques : Furnishings : Accessories : Boxes : Pre 1837 VR item #1485882 (stock #RMT-585)
Rare English Regency Hawksbill and Greenback Tortoiseshell Tea Caddy with ivory and pewter stringing, having cut corners and a bowed front panel with pressed tortoise in concentric ovals with fan corners and central inlaid silver oval with leafage border; the bowed lid surmounted by a ball finial and the whole raised on ball feet. Circa 1800-15. (Key). Height, 6”; Length, 8”; Depth, 4.75.”