Boxes, Caddies and Caskets

Ever-useful objects, antique boxes and tea caddies can speak a language of not just beauty, but practicality too.

Spanning millennia, it would be difficult to choose a period in which to discuss the evolution of the antique box. The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries make an interesting starting point of observation, as this particular period is significant in the development of design from a societal and aesthetic point of view.