Antique & Stylish Gothic Revival Gilt Bronze & Brass Church Relic or Jewelry Box

Rare size, solid bronze, Victorian Gothic box with multiple church window-like panels. Over the years we have sold a number of rare and unique boxes, but never a Gothic Revival one of this length and looking like a medieval antiquity. Let us start of by saying that this antique box truly looks much better in real life than in our photos. There are as many as 28 Gothic church-like panels depicting biblical scenes all around. They are not the most detailed, but we feel this was done in an attempt to make this antique box look truly time-worn and medieval. Anyone who knows what it took (in terms of time and skills) to create this box will be just as enthousiastic as we were when we first saw it. It would have taken the artisan(s) working for Adolph Frankau of London quite a few hours (if not days) to first design this luxurious box piece on paper. The Gothic cathedral windows would then have to be hand carved out of wood or handmade using clay or another material. Then molds would have to be made from those sculptural plaques after which they would have been cast in bronze. The castings would have to be polished and the panels would have to somehow be welded together. Then any sharp edges would have to be grinded down and all the pieces of this box would also have been patinated and the lid hinged. When you look at this box with that in mind then you will see it in a whole new perspective. Have you also noticed the beautiful Gothic leaf pattern on the lock plate? This fully marked antique box comes with a working lock and key, but we will not try to close it, because one never knows if it will open again. If it won't then you have to damage this beautiful antique to be able to open it again. This rare and long antique box actually is a copy of what special Gothic boxes would look like in the 14th, 15th and 16th century. Back in those (Medieval) days these long Gothic boxes were made for safe-keeping and transporting parchment rolls and/or ordinances. In all our years we have never seen an antique copy...

Rare size, Gothic Revival, octagonal design chandelier with 9 glass shades. With early 1900s lighting as one of our specialities we can tell you that you will hardly ever come accro...

Good size and all handcrafted antique bronze chandelier with brass chains. Finding good quality and great looking Gothic antiques in their original condition always lifts our spirit...

Rare and beautifully handcrafted church relic with a chapel dome top. For the collectors of rare and interesting antiques in the Gothic style we also have this remarkable, hexagonal church lantern. We believe that it was initially made for a church or monastery, because this was not always an electric pendant. This Gothic Revival lantern was almost certainly used (for ceremonial purposes) in a house of prayer and this used to be (and could certainly again be) the missal or sanctuary lantern...

A wonderful heavy cast bronze, hinged/lidded box, lightly polished, and glowing. Depicting ancient relief scenes / characters of Ancient Roman or Greek...

A Gothic Revival style bronze and parcel-brass church candle chandelier / hanging sanctuary lamp, Spain, mid-18th century, probably from a famil...

Jewelry Box Casket Chest Brass Finely Cast A finely cast solid brass box with stylized decorative panels of rural scenes and velvet lined with maker's stamp underneath.

This well executed antique musical jewelry box has no maker's marks, but presumed to have been made in Continental Europe in circa 1895 i...