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Material: Bone
Vintage Geometric Tessalated Bone Box
Located in Houston, TX
Vintage Geometrtic Tesselated Bone Box.
This beautiful decorative box is the perfect accessory for a coffee table, dressing area or bookcase.
Category
20th Century Unknown Art Deco Bone Boxes
Materials
Bone, Wood
Bones Box with Brass Decoratifs Elements, India XX Century
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
This box is a vintage Indian camel bone jewelry box.
Rectangular shape with hand hammered brass details. Cover has pierced leaf pattern details and bra...
Category
1980s Indian Vintage Bone Boxes
Materials
Brass
Japanese Carved Bone Floral Birds Inro, signed early 20th Century
Located in Norton, MA
Nicely carved Inro with birds and flowers. Quality craftsmanship. Hand-carved pierced sides and top. Opens into two pieces, held together with a rust-red s...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Bone Boxes
Materials
Bone
19th Century Anglo-Indian Sadeli Inlaid Work Box Traveling Writing Desk
Located in Stamford, CT
A stunning camel bone, ebony and metal inlaid sadeli work box with portable writing desk, Bombay, circa 1850.
The sandalwood body of faceted rec...
Category
Mid-19th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Metal
Chinese Lacquered Happiness Box with Birds & Blossoms, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
This finely lacquered box was once presented as a gift, filled with popular snacks like roasted melon seeds, dried fruit, and cinnamon-toasted soy beans. Dated to the late 19th centu...
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Bone, Mother-of-Pearl, Wood, Lacquer
Vintage Monumental Karl Springer Style Horn and Wood Pyramid Box Rare
Located in North Miami, FL
This stunning and commanding vintage horn and wood monumental Karl Springer style pyramid box makes a statement. The size alone is most unusual. The interior wood color is black and ...
Category
1980s American Organic Modern Vintage Bone Boxes
Materials
Horn, Wood
19th Century English Tortoiseshell Tea Caddy
Located in Atlanta, GA
19th Century English Tortoiseshell Tea Caddy
Category
19th Century English Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Tortoise Shell
Anglo Indian Micro Mosaic Inlay Jewelry Box
Located in New York, NY
Exquisitely crafted early 20th century Anglo Indian micro mosaic Sadeli box with gorgeous antique Persian geometric pattern.
The finely detailed box featu...
Category
Early 20th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Bone Boxes
Materials
Bone, Fruitwood
Architectural Model Box of the Alhambra Palace, with Key
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Architectural Model Box of the Alhambra Palace, with Key
Handcrafted in Granada, Spain, Circa 1960s
A stunning architectural model box that showcases the ...
Category
20th Century Spanish Moorish Bone Boxes
Materials
Brass
Large 19th Century French Napoleon III Marquetry Jewelry Box, Marked Lucie
Located in Fayetteville, AR
This large mid nineteenth century marquetry box from the Napoleon III period features a burl thuya wood field surrounded by a concentric border of intricately inlaid ebonized pearwoo...
Category
Mid-19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Regency Anglo Indian Quill Work Vizagapatam Sandalwood Sewing Box
Located in Huntington, NY
This fine Regency period quill work, bone, ivory & sandalwood sewing box
with intact interior w sewing implements.
Category
Early 19th Century Indian Regency Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Bone, Sandalwood, Ivory
Large Middle Eastern Moorish Turkish Mother-of-pearl Inlaid Chest
Located in Bradenton, FL
A large Turkish mother-of-pearl inlaid chest inlaid throughout to show foliate scrolls and geometric forms, raised on four legs.
From the 16th century onwards the dominant influence...
Category
20th Century Syrian Moorish Bone Boxes
Materials
Bone, Mother-of-Pearl, Wood
Vintage Turtle Box by Antony Redmile
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Whimsical mid century trinket box crafted in composition in a turtle form having a polished stone lid handle and silver plate on brass head and...
Category
20th Century English Mid-Century Modern Bone Boxes
Materials
Silver Plate, Copper
Moorish Islamic Mughal Raj Decorative Vizagapatam Carved Bone Jewelry Box India
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Decorative Mughal Raj Vizagapatam Carved Veneered Bone Jewelry Rectangular shape Box.
Vintage Asian lidded box crafted with bone finely engraved and hand painted in black with geometric Moorish designs.
Delightful Anglo Indian footed box crafted with an intricate patterned polished bone inlay mosaic over a wood frame.
Handmade in Vizagapatam, India, mid 20th century.
Elegant intricate pattern. A true work of Islamic artwork...
Category
Late 20th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Bone Boxes
Materials
Bone, Wood
English George III Satinwood Inlaid 'Aesop's Fables' Tea Caddy, circa 1800
Located in Kinderhook, NY
A wonderful and unusual circa 1800 English George III two compartment tea caddy having rectangular satinwood veneered oak case with Kingwood, boxwood, and ebony inlaid borders and 'A...
Category
Early 19th Century English George III Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Brass
Antique Anglo Indian Bone and Tortoise Box
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Impressive antique Anglo Indian lidded box handcrafted in indigenous hardwoods clad in tortoise shell and decorated with elaborate lacy bone designs, featuring an etched and painted ...
Category
Early 20th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Bone Boxes
Materials
Bone, Tortoise Shell
French Tortoise Shell Circular Box With Inlaid Silver Top Depicting Fox & Stork
Located in San Francisco, CA
French Tortoise Shell Circular Box With Inlaid Silver Top Depicting Fox & Stork
Category
18th Century Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Tortoise Shell
Vintage Bohemian Tessellated Horn Decorative Box by Nordstrom
Located in San Diego, CA
Incredible luxurious vintage bohemian box created for Nordstrom's signature line. This beautiful piece is sculptural and pleasing to the eye. A great pi...
Category
1970s East Asian Bohemian Vintage Bone Boxes
Materials
Horn, Wood
Moroccan Chest or Jewelry Box in Cameal Bone and Brass Inlaid
Located in Plainview, NY
Bring a sense of majesty into your living space with this magnificent Moroccan white bone chest handcrafted from beach wood and inlaid with additional red stones. Boasting a sumptuou...
Category
1960s Moroccan Moorish Vintage Bone Boxes
Materials
Brass
Exceptional Anglo-Indian Stag Horn Veneered Sewing / Work Box From Vizagapatam
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
An unusually large stag horn veneered sandal wood sewing box from Vizagapatam, India. This large, fitted box in the Regency taste has tapered sides and a two-tiered sloped lid, all c...
Category
Mid-19th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Antler, Sandalwood
Intricately inlaid vintage Damascus box with hinged lid
Located in Kenilworth, IL
Intricately inlaid vintage Damascus box with hinged lid in hardwood, sandalwood, ebony, and camel bone. The box features a geometric inlaid field over fiv...
Category
Early 20th Century Bone Boxes
Materials
Bone, Hardwood, Ebony, Sandalwood
19C Anglo Ceylonese Sewing Box of Museum Quality
Located in Dallas, TX
Presenting an absolutely stunning 19c Anglo Ceylonese sewing box of museum quality.
Made in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) circa 1860, this is one of the finest sewing boxes of it’s kind that we have ever seen!
The box is made from coromandel wood (an exotic hardwood found in Ceylon) and has a serpentine edging all over the front, back and sides.
Very often the lids/tops of these boxes suffer cracks due to shrinkage but this one is near perfect with no crack in the lid/top. There is some evidence of natural shrinkage but that is around the edges of the lid/top.
It is when you open this box that it reveals it’s true beauty, quality and treasure !
The inside of the lid/top is heavily and beautifully decorated with inlaid bone in scrolling floral patterns which have then been hand painted with red and black ‘lac’ ink. The central medallion is a circle of inlaid specimen exotic hardwoods radiating towards a central bone and hand painted flower. The circle is edged in bone, wood and silver chevrons.
What makes this box Exceptionally rare is that it contains 3 lift out base sections. Normally, there would be a maximum of 2.
The first tray/section is clearly for the purposes ancillary to sewing with a pair of sections with bone spools for thread etc. There are 17 other lidded compartments with each one highly decorated using hand painted bone and specimen woods to replicate tortoiseshell.
The first tray lifts out to reveal a second removeable tray which is made up of a pair of open sections and 8 specimen wood lidded sections each with chevron banding.
The third tray is a smaller tray underneath with 14 lidded compartments each with hand painted bone and specimen wood inlaid lids again, replicating the look of tortoiseshell. Again they are banded with a chevron border.
This is a museum quality piece !
It is in fantastic condition for it’s age with the minor shrinkage to the edges of the lid/top, some finger pulls missing and some very minor cracks to the tray lids and bases but nothing that in any way detracts from the piece. No key.
Dimensions: Closed the box is 16.75 inches wide, 11.25 inches deep and 7.5 inches high
Fully open the box is 16.5 inches high, 16.75 inches wide and 11.4 inches deep
Anglo-Indian and ceylonese boxes: Anglo Indian boxes were made in India for the English residents from the early part of the 18th century. They were brought back or sent back to England usually by the people who had commissioned them. From the beginning of the nineteenth century they were imported more commercially, although not in any significant numbers until the middle decades. They were very highly valued, especially the early ones, to the extent that the designs were copied on late 19th and early 20th century tins.
Anglo-Indian boxes normally consist of 3 main types:-
(1) Most of the best and highest quality Anglo-Indian boxes in the 18th and 19th centuries were made in Vizagapatam, India, renowned for its exquisite craftsmanship in using ivory and tortoiseshell and lac decoration. These are referred to as ‘Vizagapatam Boxes...
Category
Mid-19th Century Sri Lankan Anglo-Indian Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Silver
Faux Tessellated Tortoiseshell Mother-of-Pearl Jewelry Box by Maitland-Smith
Located in San Diego, CA
Vintage jewelry box in faux tessellated tortoise shell with mother-of-pearl and Abolone shell edge, circa 1970s. Simple, elegant and unique. Bin #N
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Category
20th Century American Hollywood Regency Bone Boxes
Materials
Tortoise Shell, Mother-of-Pearl
Antique English Tortoiseshell Box
Located in Charlottesville, VA
An Exceptional Antique English Tortoiseshell Box. Late 19th-early 20th Century.
Category
Early 20th Century English Bone Boxes
Materials
Tortoise Shell
20th Century Tessellated Bone Trinket Box
Located in Bradenton, FL
An elegant modern style tessellated bone trinket box with black felt-lined interior. Mostly cream in color, but does have hints of light pink througho...
Category
20th Century Philippine Modern Bone Boxes
Materials
Bone, Felt
18th Century, Heavily Carved Bone Inset & Iron Mounted Spanish Vargueno
Located in Atlanta, GA
Spanish, 18th century or earlier.
An 18th century Spanish bargueno or vargueno traveling desk, used for storing documents, jewels, or sewing box. The six drawer chest is inset with ...
Category
18th Century Spanish Baroque Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Iron
Petite Antique Anglo Indian Bone and Tortoise Box
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Charming petite antique Anglo Indian lidded box handcrafted in indigenous hardwoods clad in tortoise shell and decorated with elaborate lacy bone designs, featuring an etched and pai...
Category
Early 20th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Bone Boxes
Materials
Bone, Tortoise Shell
Russian Prisoner Of War Carved Bone Miniature Desk
Located in Essex, MA
Made as a slant lid desk with fold down writing lid opening to a fitted interior. Two drawers below and bracket feet. Bone is white and tinted green. Carved details.
Category
1790s European Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Bone, Wood
Wooden Black Forest Casket with Antlers Decoration circa 1900s
Located in Berghuelen, DE
Wooden Black Forest casket with antlers decoration circa 1900s
A marvelous rustic wooden casket or cigar box. It is made of handcarved pine wood p...
Category
Early 20th Century German Black Forest Bone Boxes
Materials
Antler, Wood
Tessalated Horn Box
Located in New York, NY
Decorative keepsake document box decorated with hand applied rectangular horn pieces. A great addition to any desk, night stand, bookcase or coffee table.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Spanish Modern Bone Boxes
Materials
Horn, Wood
Woven Bone Document, Keepsake Box
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary document, keepsake box featuring bone tiles in a cheveron pattern over a wood structure. A great solution for remote control storage, or as a desk accessory.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Spanish Modern Bone Boxes
Materials
Bone, Wood, Bentwood
Anglo Indian Tortoise and Bone Box
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Impressive Anglo Indian box crafted in mahogany and clad in tortoise shell decorated with bone straps, carved and painted floral panels, and paw feet. The inside has a mirror and bon...
Category
Early 20th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Bone Boxes
Materials
Bone, Tortoise Shell
Georgian Tortoiseshell Tea Caddy
Located in Northampton, GB
Oval Tea Caddy with Silver Mounts
From our Tea Caddy collection, we are delighted to offer this Georgian Silver and Tortoiseshell Tea Caddy. The Tea Caddy is of oval shape with a Tortoiseshell exterior mounted with engraved silver stringing, a silver shield plaque below the silver escutcheon and a silver looped handle. The interior features a floating tea shelf...
Category
Early 1800s English George III Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Silver
Boho Chic Moroccan Inlaid Bone Jewelry Chest or Box with Brass Inlay
Located in Plainview, NY
A decorative handmade orange bone and black tribal design chest or jewelry box. The chest interior is leather and features gorgeous brass inlay design with natural decorative stones.
Category
1980s Moroccan Tribal Vintage Bone Boxes
Materials
Brass
Antique Anglo Indian Box Form Quill Lap Top or Travel Desk
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Impressive antique Anglo Indian lap top desk crafted in quills and ebony decorated with bone dots. The surprising interior has multiple components featuring a felt writing surface, n...
Category
Early 20th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Bone Boxes
Materials
Bone, Felt, Wood, Ebony
Tortoiseshell Minaudiere Box
Located in New York, NY
Tortoiseshell Minaudiere Box. Chic antique tortoiseshell clutch with mirrored flap, blotting paper holder and two lidded interior compartments. I...
Category
1920s Italian Art Deco Vintage Bone Boxes
Materials
Brass
Vintage Hindu Indian Punjab Inlaid Marquetry Rosewood & Bone Jewelry Box
Located in Portland, OR
A very attractive vintage inlaid rosewood Indian jewelry box.
The hinged box made is from solid figured rosewood and finely and is sumptuously inla...
Category
Mid-20th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Bone Boxes
Materials
Bone, Ebony, Rosewood
French Art Deco Bone Marquetry and Macassar Wood Box
Located in Atlanta, GA
This elegant Art-Deco, lidded box was hand-crafted in France in the 1930s. The top of the lid is ornate with bone marquetry. The design is very modernist using slices of bovine bones...
Category
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Bone Boxes
Materials
Bone, Wood, Macassar
Art Deco Thuya Burl Cigarette Box w/ Walnut Burl and Bone Detail
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Art Deco Burled Thuya wood 2 chamber cigarette box having an inlay of burled walnut edged with bone running up both sides of each corner and configured to appear as though each piece...
Category
Early 20th Century English Art Deco Bone Boxes
Materials
Bone, Walnut, Cedar
Antique Vizagapatam India Table Box Ebonized Wood & Bone Carvings
Located in Forney, TX
Vizagapatam box, India, 19th century.
This highly decorative and unusual Anglo-Indian table box features rustic workmanship that adds to the character and charm of this unique Sout...
Category
19th Century Indian Anglo Raj Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Bone, Wood
Vintage Geometric Tessellated Bone Box
Located in Houston, TX
Vintage Geometrtic Tesselated Bone Box.
This beautiful decorative box is the perfect accessory for a coffee table, dressing area or bookcase.
Category
20th Century Unknown Art Deco Bone Boxes
Materials
Bone, Wood
English Tortoiseshell Pagoda Form Tea Caddy, Early 19th Century
Located in Atlanta, GA
English Tortoiseshell Pagoda Form Tea Caddy, Early 19th Century
Category
Early 19th Century English Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Tortoise Shell
18 C, Indo-Portuguese Vargueno Mini Cabinet
Located in Dallas, TX
Presenting a fabulously rare 18c Indo-Portuguese Vargueno mini cabinet.
Extremely rare, highly important and desirable colonial piece !
It is an In...
Category
Late 18th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Brass
Austrian Tortoise Shell Silver Box
Located in Delft, NL
Austrian Tortoise shell Silver box
Austrian Tortoise shell Silver box in the shape of an envelope with a flap.
The flap is with a spring.
The box is marked with the Austrian Silve...
Category
Early 20th Century Austrian Bone Boxes
Materials
Silver
Anglo Indian Hexagonal Porcupine Quill & Bone Inlaid Box For Restoration
Located in Bridgeport, CT
Anglo Indian hexagonal porcupine quill and bone inlaid box comprised of dark hardwood and inlaid with bone dots framing the panels of regimented porcupine quills. The lid opens to re...
Category
20th Century Asian Anglo-Indian Bone Boxes
Materials
Other
19C Anglo Ceylonese Specimen Wood Trinket Box
Located in Dallas, TX
PRESENTING A BEAUTIFUL and RARE 19C Anglo Ceylonese Specimen Wood Trinket Box.
Made in ‘Galle’, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) circa 1860-80.
Made for the ex...
Category
19th Century Sri Lankan Anglo-Indian Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Bone, Hardwood, Ebony, Sandalwood
Midcentury Bone Inlaid Chest Box or Jewelry Casket
Located in Plainview, NY
Midcentury bone inlaid chest box or jewelry casket mesmerizing decorative patterns and extraordinary sculptural and design details provide this authe...
Category
Late 20th Century Moroccan Moorish Bone Boxes
Materials
Bone
Ceylonese 'Sri Lankan' Ebony Writing Slope
Located in Greenwich, CT
Very fine early 19th century carved ebony writing slope, the exterior richly carved with foliate decoration, the interior profusely inlaid with bon...
Category
Early 19th Century Sri Lankan Anglo-Indian Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Bone, Ebony, Sandalwood
Blonde Tortoiseshell Tea Caddy, England 19th Century
Located in Atlanta, GA
Blonde Tortoiseshell Tea Caddy, England 19th Century
Category
19th Century English Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Tortoise Shell
Art Deco Cedar Lined Amboyna & Thuya Burl, Shagreen Box with Bone Trim
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Art Deco table top cedar lined cigarette box in burled Thuya and amboyna wood trimmed with bone and with four panels of pink dyed shagreen in the top conforming to the darker burls o...
Category
Early 20th Century English Art Deco Bone Boxes
Materials
Bone, Shagreen, Amboyna
White Bone Box, India, Contemporary
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary India white camel bone box.
Rectangular shaped tiles with slightly raised pyramid shaped top.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Indian Bone Boxes
Materials
Bone
English Tortoiseshell Box
Located in Tampa, FL
An English tortoiseshell box on ivory ball feet. Complete with all original interior, no key. England, circa 1800s to 1820s.
Category
1820s English Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Ivory, Tortoise Shell
Tessellated Horn Jewelry Box with Adventurine Green Stone Border
Located in New York, NY
Tessellated horn box with green stone border on top. Mahogany lined interior and felt bottom. Maitland Smith, 1980s.
Category
Late 20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Bone Boxes
Materials
Stone
Composition tortoiseshell and gilt metal singing bird box
Located in London, GB
A good antique composition tortoiseshell and gilt metal singing bird box,
German
circa 1900
Going-barrel movement
Setting the birds free...
When wound and the sta...
Category
Early 1900s Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Tortoise Shell
19th Century Moorish Tortoiseshell and Bone Blue Velvet Lined Trinket Box
Located in Reading, Berkshire
Victorian Import 19th Century Moorish Tortoiseshell and Bone Trinket Box, Lined with Blue Velvet on Paw Feet.
Ideal for jewellery or keepsakes or jus...
Category
Mid-19th Century Moroccan Anglo-Indian Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Bone, Tortoise Shell
English Georgian Chinroserie Tortoise Shell Tea Caddy with Ball Feet, C. 1800
Located in Charleston, SC
English Georgian Chinroserie bow front tortoise shell tea caddy with a hinged tiered lid, Chinese landscape mother of pearl inlays with flanking pagodas, fences, & foliage trees, central paktong plaque and escutcheon, bone fitted interior border with two lidded tortoiseshell foil lined compartments, and resting on the original four bone ball...
Category
Early 1800s English Georgian Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Foil
Silver and Tortoiseshell Singing Bird Box by Bontems, circa 1900
By Bontems
Located in London, GB
A beautiful Singing bird box by bontems of Paris, Circa 1900. Tortoisesheel embellished with sterling silver, with silver and enamel lid.
Category
Early 1900s French Late Victorian Antique Bone Boxes
Materials
Silver
A vintage Maitland Smith tessellated horn and stone box with brass trim.
Located in Winnetka, IL
A flat top brown polished horn box by Maitland Smith having two wide bands of polished green stone tiles surrounded by a gold brass band. The interior is a warm mahogany wood.
Category
Mid-20th Century Philippine Mid-Century Modern Bone Boxes
Materials
Stone, Brass
