Exceptional burled walnut cavι-a-liqueur having hinged top and front panel opening to an interior with removable tray fitted with decanters and glasses. (missing one decanter and two glasses, some minor damage) French, late 19th century.
Extremely Rare George III Tea Caddy in the shape of an urn-form knife box, in partridge wood with satnwood stringing, octagonal with pagoda shaped lid and acorn-form finial, urn-form body and turned socle with square plinth base having inlaid banding (lock replaced). Circa 1790. Provenance: The Terence J. Fox Collection of Tea Equipage, Formerly the Collection of Iroquois Brands, Ltd.. Height, 10.
Exceptional Anglo-Indian tortoise shell veneered box with applied decoration; the hinged octagonal lid having an inset miniature on ivory of a temple doorway, the whole raised on ivory paw form feet. Delhi or Amritsar.* Circa 1870-1880. (Minor losses.)
*See: Jaffer, Furniture of British India and Ceylon.
Antique American miniature tole document box with domed lid and band of floral decoration (losses), either for a doll or child. Circa 1840. Provenance: Estate of Ruthann Coggins Bardes,
Greewich, CT.
Fine Anglo-Indian rosewood box extensively inlaid and banded with brass; with rectangular hinged lid with mirror inset on inside (losses to silvering) and brass side carrying handles. Most likely Punjabi, from the city of Chiniot. Circa 1860.
Antique American shaped tole box with gilt foliate decoration on front and polychrome peacock and floral decoration on hinged lid. Circa 1850-1870. Provenance: Estate of Ruthann Coggins Bardes, Greewich, CT.
Fine Anglo-Indian glove box, rectangular with cut corners, each face and lid decorated with finely carved sandalwood panels, Sadeli work and ebony and ivory banding. (Warp to lid.) Bombay, 1870-1880.
