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An Unusual Square 19th Century English Red Tortoiseshell Tea Caddy with bone stringing, a sterling silver pull, and exotic wood herringbone parquetry inlay embellishing the top and sides

Height: 3 3/4″; Width: 4″; Depth: 3 1/2″
   


England  4216  CC00851

An 18th Century English Green Tortoiseshell Double Tea Caddy with cut corners and inlaid fruitwood piping, silver escutcheon and monogrammed cartouche and matching interior lids

Height: 3 3/4″; Width: 4″; Depth: 3 1/2″
   


England  4216  CC00851

An Early 19th Century Continental Ebony and Bone-Inlaid Red Tortoiseshell Tea Caddy, of rectangular form with geometric mosaic bone inlay on the sides and top, the top centered with a sterling silver pull and accented with a sterling cartouche engraved “Green,” with matching interior lid

Height: 3 3/4″; Width: 4″; Depth: 3 1/2″
   


England  4216  CC00851

Early 19th Century Chinese Black Lacquer Tea Caddy, rectangular in shape with paneled sides and decorated in gold and red enameling

Height: 3 3/4″; Width: 4″; Depth: 3 1/2″
   


England  4216  CC00851

A Late 18th-Early 19th Century English Bone-Inlaid Tortoiseshell Tea Caddy octagonal in shape with silver finial, escutcheon and pique framed oval cartouche

Height: 3 3/4″; Width: 4″; Depth: 3 1/2″
   


England  4216  CC00851

A 19th Century English Anglo-Indian Bone Miniature Desk the slant front over a single drawer with original fitted interior

Height: 3 3/4″; Width: 4″; Depth: 3 1/2″
   


England  4216  CC00851

A Pair of 18th Century Italian Walnut Bible Boxes, each with an unusually low profile, carved with a relating diamond pattern and raised on stylized animal paw feet

Height: 3 3/4″; Width: 4″; Depth: 3 1/2″
   


England  4216  CC00851

An 18th Century Italian Polychrome and Parcel-Gilt Tabernacle Box, crested with a neoclassical pediment, raised on flattened bun feet, embellished with faux marble, intricate stellate carvings and retaining its original key and lock with the door opening to reveal a storage/display area

Height: 3 3/4″; Width: 4″; Depth: 3 1/2″
   


England  4216  CC00851

A 19th Century French Boullework Key Box, the ebonized and brass case centered by an inlaid brass red tortoiseshell and brass door, a keyed lock, the reverse fitted with wall mounts for hanging and the interior fitted with hooks for sets of keys

Height: 3 3/4″; Width: 4″; Depth: 3 1/2″
   


England  4216  CC00851

A Massive 16th Century Tuscan Oak Bible Box, perfect for modern storage needs, with a guilloché motif encircling the box and the whole raised on prototypical Baroque lions’ paw feet. Provenance: from the 19th c. Arezzo gallery of Pietro Bruschi, stamped on the interior lid, later (1920) amongst the household furnishings of Castiglioni Fibbochi, and most likely a late 20th c. deaccessioned piece from
Casa Museo Ivan Bruschi

Height: 3 3/4″; Width: 4″; Depth: 3 1/2″
   


England  4216  CC00851

A Rare and Unusually Large 18th Century Deep Green Tortoiseshell English Tea Caddy, raised on silvered ball feet and accented with pewter stringing and silvered bale handle and escutcheon, with two interior matching compartments retaining some of the original lead lining, one for green tea and one for black

Height: 3 3/4″; Width: 4″; Depth: 3 1/2″
   


England  4216  CC00851

A 19th Century English Tortoiseshell Tea Caddy, with flared skirt and pagoda lid, embellished with pewter stringing and bone, sterling escutcheon and plaque, and raised on flattened bun feet

Height: 3 3/4″; Width: 4″; Depth: 3 1/2″
   


England  4216  CC00851

A 19th Century Tortoiseshell Tea Caddy with flared skirt a pagoda lid with original lock and key, raised on bone flattened bun feet.

Height: 3 3/4″; Width: 4″; Depth: 3 1/2″
   


England  4216  CC00851

An Unusually Shaped 19th Century English Regency Tortoiseshell Tea Caddy with bone accents, the whole raised on silvered ball feet

Height: 3 3/4″; Width: 4″; Depth: 3 1/2″
   


England  4216  CC00851

A 19th Century Tortoiseshell Tea Caddy with a pagoda lid decorated with an inlay of mother-of-pearl in a floral pattern, raised on silver ball feet

Height: 3 3/4″; Width: 4″; Depth: 3 1/2″
   


England  4216  CC00851

A 19th Century English Rosewood Valuables and Jewelry Travel Box, inlaid with mother-of-pearl floral and bird motifs and pewter stringing, and intricately carved, the whole opening to reveal drawers and panels embellished with gold embossed leather, silk compartments, multiple drawers and even a pullout writing surface

Height: 3 3/4″; Width: 4″; Depth: 3 1/2″
   


England  4216  CC00851

A 19th Century Italian Jewelry Box with parquetry designs of artist’s brushes, palette and easel on the front, with 8 interior drawers

Height: 3 3/4″; Width: 4″; Depth: 3 1/2″
   


England  4216  CC00851

A Mid 19th Century French Boullework Box with red tortoiseshell and fretted brass and in exceptional condition

Height: 3 3/4″; Width: 4″; Depth: 3 1/2″
   


England  4216  CC00851

A Magnificent 18th Century Italian Ebony and Bone Cave à Liqueur, inlaid with elaborate imagery of grapes, ewers, glassware, animals, flowers and butterflies all set amidst scrolling rocaille, the cabinet opening to reveal ten pristine liqueur glasses and three stoppered decanters, all superbly etched with floral and grapevine motifs

Height: 3 3/4″; Width: 4″; Depth: 3 1/2″
   


England  4216  CC00851

A 19th Century Cut Crystal Parfum Box, with gilt brass detailing and retaining its original six parfum bottles with the whole raised on lobed feet

Height: 3 3/4″; Width: 4″; Depth: 3 1/2″
   


England  4216  CC00851

A 19th Century Two Tiered Japanese Jubako Boxes decorated in black, gold and red lacquered images of various motifs, including cherry blossoms and pine needles

Height: 3 3/4″; Width: 4″; Depth: 3 1/2″
   


England  4216  CC00851

An Unusually Large and Rare English Regency Tortoiseshell Tea Caddy, in the Neoclassical taste, the pagoda cover above a rectangular form, fitted with two compartments, the whole raised on brass lion’s paw feet

Height: 3 3/4″; Width: 4″; Depth: 3 1/2″
   


England  4216  CC00851

A Early 19th Century Solid Bone Valuables Box, with intricately carved floral and foliate motifs

Height: 3 3/4″; Width: 4″; Depth: 3 1/2″
   


England  4216  CC00851

A 19th Century Macassar Ebony Valuables Box, retaining its original hardware and keyed lock on two doors fitted with beveled glass and opening to four drawers

Height: 3 3/4″; Width: 4″; Depth: 3 1/2″
   


England  4216  CC00851

Anglo Indian Bone, Ebony, and Tortoiseshell Box

Height: 3 3/4″; Width: 4″; Depth: 3 1/2″
   


England  4216  CC00851

A 19th Century Dutch Translucent Tortoiseshell and Sterling Silver
Valuables Box, the top centered by an ornate cartouche medallion with conforming mounts on the lid and sides of the scalloped box

Height: 3 3/4″; Width: 4″; Depth: 3 1/2″
   


England  4216  CC00851

A 19th Century Shaped Octagonal Chinese Export Chinoiserie Tea Caddy, created for the French market but in the English style, with its original key and embellished with intricate penwork in varying tones of gold and polychrome depicting pavilions, tea rituals and farming, the interior fitted with two lidded tin compartments, one for green tea and one for black, and the whole raised on dragon feet

Height: 3 3/4″; Width: 4″; Depth: 3 1/2″
   


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An Elegant 19th Century English Burl Wood Travel Box, fully outfitted with a complete set of sterling silver and glass jars, boxes, scissors, perfume/cream bottles, mother-of-pearl sewing items, and two interior drawers, one with a leather writing surface and the other for storage, a mirror inside the lid, and the whole accented with gold-plated brass banderole and heraldry inlay as well as the original lock and key

Height: 3 3/4″; Width: 4″; Depth: 3 1/2″
   


England  4216  CC00851

A 19th Century English Walnut and Satinwood Marquetry Sewing Box, with original lock and key, embellished with neoclassical scenes of Roman gods and goddesses on chariot, the interior fitted with compartments and pin cushion

Height: 3 3/4″; Width: 4″; Depth: 3 1/2″
   


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An Unusually Diminutive Tortoiseshell and Sterling Silver Table Box accented with a silver eagle motif on the top along with garlanded banding and an elaborate conforming silver escutcheon, the top opening to reveal a small silver locket for a memento or small treasured item, and with all raised on flattened bun beet

Height: 3 3/4″; Width: 4″; Depth: 3 1/2″
   


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A Whimsical English Bulldog Rosewood Box seamed at the center and accented with glass eyes

Height: 3 3/4″; Width: 4″; Depth: 3 1/2″
   


England  4216  CC00851

A Whimsical 19th Century English Coconut Caddy, with some restorations

Height: 3 3/4″; Width: 4″; Depth: 3 1/2″
   

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