What were rosewood boxes used for?

Specific domestic jobs, and the title usually names the job first. Tea, letter-writing, jewellery, sewing kit and dressing-table bottles account for the bulk of what turns up. The smallest end was made for narrower tasks still. Postage stamp boxes, glove boxes and needle cases all appear, glove boxes in ten titles.

Which type is most common?

Writing boxes and slopes form the largest single block, at roughly a fifth of listings. Tea caddies run almost level with them. Jewellery boxes come next, then sewing and work boxes, with the two uses paired freely in the same title. Vanity and dressing boxes make a smaller but distinct group.

How old are most of these boxes?

Nineteenth century. Victorian and Regency are the labels dealers use most, followed by plain '19th Century', with Georgian well behind. Clean years, where they are given, run from 1800 to 1920 and cluster on the middle decades. Only a minority of listings carry a year at all.

What does brass inlaid mean on a caddy?

Cut brass let into the rosewood veneer, as lines, borders or scrolling foliage. It's a Regency habit and it runs right through the category. Brass bound is different: strips or edging laid over the corners and edges rather than set into the surface. Both phrases appear in the titles.

Are rosewood boxes British?

The title vocabulary is overwhelmingly English, and dozens of listings say so outright. Purpose-made boxes for tea, writing and needlework were standard household furnishing in Britain across the century. Non-British examples surface singly rather than as a group: a Karlsbad souvenir box, a Palais Royal jewellery box, Chinese and Anglo-Indian travelling boxes, a French box on stand.

Do rosewood writing slopes have secret drawers?

Some do, and they are advertised when they are there. Secret drawers and hidden compartments show up in a small handful of writing slopes. They are not a general feature of the form. Where they appear, they tend to sit alongside other signs of a more elaborate box, such as size, double hinges or heavy inlay.

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A rosewood box is a nineteenth-century British lidded box, named by the job it did: holding tea, carrying a writing slope, keeping jewellery, sewing kit or dressing-table bottles.

Two Early C19th George IV Period ‘En Suite’ Rosewood Box Desk-tidys Attributed to Gillows of Lancaster.

19th century

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Two Early C19th George IV Period ‘En Suite’ Rosewood Box Desk-tidys Attributed to Gillows of Lancaster.

From M Lees and Sons

£1,100

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19th century

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Excellent Quality 19th Century Writing Slope

From The Fine Art Fund

£1,800

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English Regency Rosewood Desk / Jewellery Box - Cut Brass Inlaid C.1820

19th century

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English Regency Rosewood Desk / Jewellery Box - Cut Brass Inlaid C.1820

From Puckerings

£750

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Antique Sarcophagus Tea Caddy, English, Loose Leaf Case, William Iv, Circa 1835

18th century

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Antique Sarcophagus Tea Caddy, English, Loose Leaf Case, William Iv, Circa 1835

From London Fine Antiques

£895

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Regency Rosewood and Brass Inlaid Tea Caddy

19th century

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Regency Rosewood and Brass Inlaid Tea Caddy

From Hobson May Collection

£525

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Highly Decoratve Early 20th Century Chinese Hardwood & Mother of Pearl Inlaid Box

1900 - 1920

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Highly Decoratve Early 20th Century Chinese Hardwood & Mother of Pearl Inlaid Box

From LVS Decorative Arts

£550

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Regency Rosewood Oblong Tapered Tea Caddy

19th century

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Regency Rosewood Oblong Tapered Tea Caddy

From E W Cousins and Son

£400

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1900 - 1920

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Rosewood Ladies Vanity Box

From AJD Antiques

£445

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Victorian Rosewood Sarcophagus Tea Caddy

19th century

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Victorian Rosewood Sarcophagus Tea Caddy

From Past to Present

£145

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19th century

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19th Century French Rosewood and Brass Inlaid Dressing Box

From E W Cousins and Son

£1,300

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The largest things to pass through Sellingantiques under this heading stretch the word box: a rosewood work table, and a table cabinet fourteen inches each way.

19th century

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A Regency Jewel Box

From The Antique Partnership

£250

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19th century

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Victorian Box, in Rosewood C 1880

From Minerva Antiques Ltd

£360

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Victorian Music Box Circa 1860. Musical Box.

19th century

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Victorian Music Box Circa 1860. Musical Box.

From Frank Craig Antiques

£950

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Georgian Rosewood and Mother of Pearl Inlaid Gentlemens Table Cabinet

18th century

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Georgian Rosewood and Mother of Pearl Inlaid Gentlemens Table Cabinet

From Peter Harris Clocks & Militaria

£750

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1900 - 1920

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Antique Rosewood Inlaid Coal Box

From The Antique Shop

£195

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19th century

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A Rosewood Correspondence Box

From John Beazor Antiques

£425

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Antique Rosewood Boxes

Two Early C19th George IV Period ‘En Suite’ Rosewood Box Desk-tidys Attributed to Gillows of Lancaster.

Excellent Quality 19th Century Writing Slope

English Regency Rosewood Desk / Jewellery Box - Cut Brass Inlaid C.1820

Antique Sarcophagus Tea Caddy, English, Loose Leaf Case, William Iv, Circa 1835

Regency Rosewood and Brass Inlaid Tea Caddy

Highly Decoratve Early 20th Century Chinese Hardwood & Mother of Pearl Inlaid Box

Regency Rosewood Oblong Tapered Tea Caddy

Rosewood Ladies Vanity Box

Victorian Rosewood Sarcophagus Tea Caddy

19th Century French Rosewood and Brass Inlaid Dressing Box

A Regency Jewel Box

Victorian Box, in Rosewood C 1880

Victorian Music Box Circa 1860. Musical Box.

Georgian Rosewood and Mother of Pearl Inlaid Gentlemens Table Cabinet

Antique Rosewood Inlaid Coal Box

A Rosewood Correspondence Box

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