Catalog: Antiques: Furnishings: Accessories: Boxes (86)

Exceptional Napoleon III Tea Chest, ebonized with extensive ormolu mounts; rectangular with cut corners, having a stepped hinged lid with a small compartment surmounted by a figure of a boy holding a tray and opening to a fitted interior with a well, two gilt crystal caddies and a sugarbowl. French, probably TAHAN, late 19th Century.

13" x10" x 13" tall

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Early George II Tea Caddy in rosewood with walnut banding: rectangular with rounded corners and retaining its' original brass carrying handle, escutcheon and paw form feet.

English, circa 1730-40.

8" x 4.75" x 5.25" tall

Fine blonde tortoise Regency tea caddy of rectangular form with rounded corners and opening to an interior fitted with two lidded compartments. English, Circa 1800.

4 ½” x 7” x 4”

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Antique Anglo-Indian Porcupine Quillwork Box ; ebony banding with inset porcupine quills on all four sides and the top. The banding is accented with bone inlaid circles (some missing). Late 19th Century. Provenance: Joseph Edgerton, Alexandria VA

8" x 6.5" x 3.25" tall

Large Antique Anglo-Indian Brass Document Box having a stepped lid surmounted by a carrying handle and heavily incised with scrolling vine and floral decoration. Late 19th/early 20th Century $675. 16" x 11" x 4" tall

Small Tortoise Trinket Box; rectangular with a hinged domed top and small ivory ball feet. English, circa 1800. (repairs to corners)

4.75" x 3.25" x 1.75" high

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Antique English Tunbridge Tea Caddy, with the lid inlaid with the "Tumbling Blocks" pattern. It is unusual to have the tumbling blocks in a variety of exotic wood samples. Made in Tunbridge Wells, circa 1860.

5.25" x 4.25"x 4.25

English Regency tea chest in rosewood with boxwood stringing, of sarcophagus form with pressed brass handles in the form of the Russian eagle, ivory ball feet and escutchon; the slight pyramidal lid opeinng to a fitted interior with two removable lidded caddies and cut crystal sugar bowl. Circa 1820 Provenance: The Cockrell Collection.

Best Quality Black Forest Dog-form Humidor and Pipe Rack; carved wood dog with glass eyes standing on his hind legs and holding a tray for pipes. His head is hinged and opens to a tobacco well. Swiss or German circa 1870.

7" x 5.5" x 13.5" tall

Rare George III Ambry in mahogany having an hinged arched top opening to a well and a paneled cabinet door flanked py pilasters, and the whole raised on ball feet. In Christian churches, items kept in an ambry include chalices and other vessels, as well as items for the reserved sacrament, the consecrated elements from the Eucharist. English, circa 1760.

18" x 14" x 28" tall

Antique Ebonized Wood Planter with an inset handpainted tile of horses and jockeys at a jump, signed with the conjoined initials "AB", and retaining an interior tin liner. English or French, late 19th C. (tile repaired) 22" x 10" x 9" tall

Exceptional Carved Wooden Dresser Box in the form of a dog sitting on open sheet music and a guitar on an oval tasseled pillow, having a hinged lid opening to a velvet lined interior. Probably Black Forest, circa 1860 (splits to sides and minor losses)

12.5" x 9" x 6" tall

Antique English Tea Caddy in mahogany with ebony and satinwood stringing; rectangular with hinged lid opening to two lidded compartments. Circa 1820-40. (Slight warp to lid.)

Height: 4.25”
Length: 9”
Depth: 4.25”

Antique Sheraton Tea Caddy in mahogany, the rectangular top opens to two compartments, with inlaid fan patterae on front and lid and herringbone stringing. English, circa 1780.

Provenance: The Cockrell Collection, Arlington Virginia

7.5" x 4.25" x 4.80" tall

Exceptional Sheraton Tea Chest in satinwood banded in rosewood and with ebony and boxwood stringing: having a rectangular hinged lid with silverplated pull opening to an interior with two fitted tea caddies with oval lids and similar inlaid decoration. English, circa 1790. 8" x 6" x 6" tall

Fine George III Book Form Desk Box in mahogany with satinwood stringing and rosewood banding with two inlaid oval shell form patterae on the top and two small drawers that form the faux spine. Provenance: Arthur Vernay, New York. (drawer interiors re-built) English, Circa 1790. 10.25" x 8.25" x 3.5" tall

Rare Signed American Tea Caddy in mahogany, of rectangular form with a sloped lid opening to a divided interior and retaining a paper label with makers name and a date of 1863.

8.5" x 4.5" x 5.75" tall

Fine Antique English Carved Oak Letterbox with slotted, hinged top and carved on three sides and lid with cherubs, bowl, birds, figures and foliate decoration. Circa 1870.

H-9 1/2", L-13 1/2", D-7 ½”