A 19th Century English Tortoiseshell Tea Caddy with pagoda lid, silver escutcheon, pewter stringing and bone accents, all raised on flattened bun feet

A 19th Century English Polychromed Bull Dog Inkwell, with glass eyes and carved bone teeth

A Rare 18th Century Bone and Tortoiseshell Tea Caddy, the rectangular form with canted corners, accented with copper lid pull and escutcheon and fitted with two elevated and removable interior compartments with sliding lids

An English Regency Tortoiseshell Tea Caddy, in a rectangular and serpentine form, accented with silver and bone banding, the interior fitted with two lidded compartments, all raised on flattened bun feet

An Exquisite 19th Century English Tea Caddy in the rectangular form with pagoda lid, fitted with two intricately lidded interior compartments, all accented with silver banding and raised on brass ball feet.

A 19th Century Tortoiseshell Jewelry Box in the rectangular form with gracefully curving corners and detailed with silver stringing and silver accents.

A 19th Century Regency Tortoiseshell Tea Caddy with a pagoda lid, opening to reveal two lidded compartments above a bombé form with silver and bone accents, all above bone ball feet

A Small 18th Century Rosewood Jewel Box, the domed top embellished with a papier-mâché polychromed image of a muse surrounded by a parcel-gilt and ebonized oval cartouche and accented with ebony and satinwood crossbanding and stringing and with the whole raised on bone flattened ball feet

A Luxurious 19th Century English Rosewood Inkwell and Writing Set, comprised of a letter box with domed lid, two crystal inkwells with brass tops, a concave pen rest, all above a drawer with conforming brass handle, and with the whole raised on bun feet

A Striking 19th Century Rosewood Valuables Box with bone lozenge escutcheon,and a canted top of diapered parquetry and satinwood stringing

An Early 19th Century Regency Mahogany Wine Cooler with pagoda lid, en tombeau body with reeded radius corners, and raised on lions’ paw feet

A 19th Century English Regency Tortoiseshell Tea Caddy, with pagoda lid and bombé form fitted with two lidded interior compartments, one for green tea and the other for black, embellished with pewter and bone banding, all raised on bone flattened bun feet

A Burl Ash Waste Paper Basket, perfect for a library or study, with moulded top and footed base

An Exceptional and Rare English Regency Pressed Tortoiseshell Tea Caddy, in the Neoclassical taste, the pagoda cover above a serpentine form, fitted with two lidded compartments, the whole raised on bone ball feet

An English 19th Century Tortoiseshell Tea Caddy of Unusual Undulating Form, with sterling escutcheon and medallion, bone banding fitted with two interior conforming compartments, one for green tea and one for black, all above a flaring crenelated skirt

A 19th Century Cut Crystal and Gilt Cave a Liquèur Set, the presentation box with folding lid and the interior featuring secured cordial glasses and flacons

An Italian 17th Century Baroque, Walnut “Bible Box” retaining its original iron hardware including lock, key, and side handles, and carved with acanthus leave corners centered with fielded panels and below a fluted frieze, with the whole raised on lions paw feet

A Unique 19th Century English Tortoiseshell Sewing Box, the rectangular form with canted corners, the top centered by a silver medallion with inscription, ebony banding, silver stringing and sides each adorned with distinctive ebony ring handles all raised on bone bun feet

A 19th Century English Regency Tortoiseshell Tea Caddy, with pagoda lid centered with silver medallion, serpentine front, ebony banding, silver escutcheon and stringing and the interior fitted with two lidded compartments

An Alligator Travel Case, with original brass fittings and handle, now raised on a later mahogany stand

A Striking Pair of Early 19th Century English Regency Bird’s-Eye Maple Knife Boxes, with their interior fittings intact, and accented with mahogany and ebony inlaid banding

A Late 18th Century English Sable Tortoiseshell Decagonal Tea Caddy, accented with pewter stringing and bone banding, the top accented with a shaped sterling handle and the front with a pique sterling ovoid medallion fitted with two interior lidded compartments, fully foiled and designed to raise and lower simultaneously with the tea level and with one compartment for green tea and the other for black, the whole raised on a bone veneered plinth

A Large Late 18th Century French Niello Valuables Box inscribed “D’Apres Saint Albin”, depicting the account of the Royal Court of Louis XV by the Comtesse de Genlis, Stephanie-Felicite Du Crest Saint-Aubin, the educator and memoir writer of the upper classes in the late 18th c. and early 19th c., most famous for her quote “Familiarity is the most destructive of all iconoclasts”. Niello is an etching used in decorating in black on silver and copper (and sometimes gold) that is somewhat related to champlevé work except that the effect is metallic rather than vitreous. Here the design of a court recital is engraved in exquisite detail into the fused copper and silver plates, the indented portions originally filled with a black matte alloy and became fused in the grooves creating the contrasting design

An Unusually Large 1823 English Regency Chinese Export Black, Gold and Red Lacquered Tea Caddy, of octagonal shape, with each faceted side featuring a reserve with scholars and beauties on a garden terrace and auspicious zoomorphs accented with scrolling tendrils, the interior fitted with dual engraved tin compartments each with bone pulls and double seals, one for black tea and one for green, raised on winged dragon feet and in superb condition

An Unusually Large and Rare 19th Century English Regency Tortoiseshell Tea Caddy, with serpentine-shaped front and pagoda lid, featuring two interior compartments with a cut crystal sugar bowl, and accented with silver and bone banding, all raised on flattened bun feet

An English 19th Century Tortoiseshell Tea Caddy of Unusual Undulating Form, with sterling escutcheon and medallion, bone banding, and pewter stringing, fitted with two interior conforming compartments, one for green tea and one for black, all above a flaring crenelated skirt raised on flattened ball feet

A Rare 1840 Italian Empire Mahogany Sewing Box, the satinwood and ebony parquetry top of unusual “clamshell form” opening to reveal fitted compartments below the original mirror supported with ormolu accented bone corinthian columns below a delicate carved bone gallery, raised on two lyres above a rectangular base containing one drawer with original key lock

A Fine 19th Century Regency Jewelry Box, in mahogany with ebony banding, brass inlay and bone escutcheon.

An Unusually Shaped 1820 English Tortoiseshell Tea Caddy with pagoda lid, silvered ball feet, pull and escutcheon, the top lifting to reveal bone banding surrounding two fitted subcompartments, one for green tea and one for black

A Rare 19th Century Rosewood and Mother-of-Pearl Jewelry Box, Now a Side Table, incorporating a lap desk and raised on a later stand

A Rare 19th Century English Regency Macassar Ebony Jewelry Box now fitted as a Side Table, the box with brass inlaid stringing and raised on a later base

An English Regency Tortoiseshell Tea Caddy of Unusual Sarcaphogus Shape, with pagoda lid, two fitted interior compartments for green and black tea, pewter stringing, silver escutcheon, and a wonderfully exaggerated apron raised on ball feet