Price Guide, Information and much more on Antique Boxes
This section has price guides to antique Asian boxes. These include Chinese, Indian and others.
Asian boxes can be found in many different materials such as ceramic, bone, ivory, wood and lacquerware. Asian styles vary enormously.
Price guide to antique Cloisonne boxes. During the reigns of Emperors Kangxi and Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty (1644 – 1911), cloisonne improved and reached its artistic summit. Colors were more delicate, filigrees more flexible and fluent
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Price guide to antique Qianlong jade boxes. Under the patronage of the jade-loving Emperor Qianlong of the Qing dynasty, jade carvings enjoyed unprecedented growth and peaked.
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Price guide to antique Chinese bamboo boxes. In Chinese culture, the bamboo, plum blossom, orchid, and chrysanthemum (often known as méi lán zhú jú ) are collectively referred to as the Four Gentlemen. These four plants also represent the four seasons and, in Confucian ideology, four aspects of the junzi (“prince” or “noble one”).
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Price guide to antique Japanese bamboo boxes. Bamboo is symbolic in Japanese Culture and has been used to make household items and structures for many years.
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Price guide to Japanese lacquer boxes where the majority of the box is black. Black lacquerware is often inlaid with metals and / or sprinkled with gold and / or silver powder while the lacquer is still damp. This technique is known as maki-e.
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Price guide to Japanese gold lacquer boxes. The earliest Japanese export lacquer, made from the 1570s to 1630 for Portuguese markets, was made in Western forms such as cabinets and bowls, with decoration very different from lacquer made for use in Japan.
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Price guide to Chinese red lacquer boxes, also known as cinnabar. Although lacquer is used in many Asian cultures, the art of carving lacquer is unique to China. Lacquer is the resin (or sap) of a family of trees (rhus verniciflua) found throughout southern China.
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Price guide to antique Chinese jade boxes. Jade is the primary hardstone of Chinese sculpture. For most of China’s history, jade has come in a variety of colors and white “mutton-fat” nephrite was the most highly praised and prized.
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Price guide to antique Famille Rose porcelain boxes. Famille-Rose, sometimes known as Rose Famille, was introduced during the reign of the Kangxi Emperor (1654–1722), possibly around 1720.
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A price guide to Japanese Satsuma Ware boxes. Satsuma ware is a type of Japanese pottery originally from Satsuma Province, southern Kyūshū. This post shows some examples of Satsuma ware and the prices they achieved at auction.
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A price guide to antique Japanese wooden boxes including a calligraphers box
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Meiji Period Boxes Price Guide – Price guide to antique earthenware Meiji period boxes. The Meiji period (明治時代 Meiji-jidai), also known as the Meiji era, is a Japanese era which …
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