Hardstone Boxes Archives - Antique Boxes https://antique-boxes.com/price-guide/hardstone-boxes/ Information and Price Guide to Antique Boxes Mon, 22 Jun 2020 15:29:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 Italian Hardstone Boxes https://antique-boxes.com/italian-hardstone-boxes/ Wed, 04 Apr 2018 08:39:43 +0000 http://antique-boxes.com/?p=723 Price guide to antique Italian hardstone boxes and caskets. Hardstone mosaics were a speciality of Italian workshops, especially those of Rome and Florence. Birds were a favourite motif in Florence. The technique…

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]]> Price guide to antique Italian hardstone boxes and caskets. Hardstone mosaics were a speciality of Italian workshops, especially those of Rome and Florence. Birds were a favourite motif in Florence. The technique emerged in Florence, where Ferdinand de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, founded the Grand Ducal Workshop (Opificio delle Pietre Dure).

An Italian specimen hardstone table casket, late 19th/early 20th century AN ITALIAN GILT-BRONZE AND HARDSTONE-MOUNTED TORTOISESHELL, EBONY, AND EBONISED CASKET Italian Gilt-Bronze Mounted Pietra Dura Jewelry Casket AN ITALIAN BLUE HARDSTONE, GOLD AND RUBY TABLE BOX An Italian gold, micromosaic and hardstone snuff box Italian micromosaic and hardstone plaque of the Doves of Pliny

 

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]]> 723 Chinese Jade Boxes https://antique-boxes.com/chinese-jade-boxes/ Tue, 20 Mar 2018 17:33:56 +0000 http://antique-boxes.com/?p=558 Price guide to antique Chinese jade boxes. 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…

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]]> Price guide to antique Chinese jade boxes. 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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A fine white and russet jade openwork plaque Ming Dynasty A WHITE JADE INSCRIBED OVAL BOX AND COVER Chinese Gilt-Metal Mounted Jade Embellished Covered Box A CELADON JADE CARVED 'SHOU' COVER BOX. Chinese wood box with carved white jade cover. A CARVED PALE CELADON JADE HEXAGONAL JAR AND COVER

 

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