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Includes precious metals, iron strongboxes, and etched boxes.
- The Muse Casket, silver, with compartments for perfumes and unguents; Rome, 4th century
- The Projecta Casket, silver; Rome, c. 380
- Casket, gilt silver with niello; Spain (Taifa), 11th-12th century
- Pen box, brass inlaid with gold and silver, western Iran or northern Iraq, 13th century
- Pen-box, Mosul, c. 1230-1250
- Cylindrical box, brass with silver inlay; Ayyubid Syria or northern Mesopotamia, c. 1225-1250
- Coffret with hunt scenes, copper and silver inlay; Syria, 13th century
- Copper alloy casket lid, Winchester, late 13th to early 14th century
- Box shaped like a house, 14th century Spain
- The grand coffret of Louis d'Anjou, iron; France, 14th century (front, back)
- Silver-gilt casket with heraldic decorations (chrismatory?), England, c. 1303-1308
- Minnekästchen in copper (with relief-work) and brass plates over wood, Catalonia, c. 1400 (back)
- Box with a lid, Mamluk Syria, 15th century
- Iron coffer, 15th century Flanders
- Iron coffret, 15th century
- Iron coffret, 15th century
- Iron coffer with openwork, France, 15th century
- Coffer with openwork in iron, 15th century
- Iron lock-box for money or valuables, southern Germany, end of the 15th century
- Iron casket, southern Netherlands, c. 1491-1500
- Similar-looking boxes which may be 15th century French or Spanish, German c. 1500, or Spanish c. 1500
- A brass casket, made in Salzburg in 1500 (back, top)
- Iron casket, southern Netherlands, c. 1501-1510
- Iron casket with figures and inscriptions, southern Germany, c. 1501-1515
- Box and lid, in turned, engraved, and damascened brass with a black lacquer infill; Venice, early 16th century (use V&A Access to Images and search for 44&A-1905)
- < href="http://tarvos.imareal.oeaw.ac.at/server/images/7005257.JPG">A box with armorial decorations, 1519
- Casket, sheet-iron with gilding, 16th century
- Box lid in brass, formerly inlaid with silver; Venice, mid-16th century (use V&A Access to Images and search for M.15-1946)
- Boxes made in Nuremburg in the mid-16th century (though it seems to me they may be all different views of the same box): here, here, here, and here
- Etched iron coffer, southern Germany (Nuremburg?), 16th century
- Etched iron money-box, Nuremburg, 16th century
- Iron casket with etched hunt-scenes, Nuremburg, 16th century
- Etched iron coffer, 16th century Germany
- Engraved brass box, 16th century Germany
- Engraved brass casket, 16th century Germany
- Crystal casket, 16th century Italy
- Trunk with ebony and copper decoration (also here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here)
- Box for writing-tools in gilt brass with coats of arms, Augsburg, 16th century
- Casket in brass and copper with partial gilding, Nuremburg or Augsburg, 16th century (also here, here, here, disassembled)
- Container (for an inkpot?) with a coat of arms; gilt bronze; Saxony, c. 1545-1555 (also here)
- Casket in iron-plate, c. 1541-1560
- Money-box in iron with gilt copper, c. 1550
- Jewelry-casket with gilt musician-putti, Nuremburg, c. 1550
- Coffret with Revolving Combination Lock, gilt bronze, copper, and velvet over a wood core; Paris, mid-16th century (note similarity to following example)
- French box from the second half of the 16th century: here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here
- Painted iron money-box with musicians and coats of arms, Nuremburg, second half of the 16th century
- Coffer, wrought iron lined with velvet; Germany, second half of the 16th century (use V&A Access to Images and search for M.27-1911)
- Damascened coffer, Milan, last third of the 16th century
- Silver writing-set, Nuremburg, 1570
- Etched iron casket with allegorical figures and ornaments, Germany, 1573
- The Dudley Box, made of iron, damascened with gold and silver; England, 1579 (use V&A Access to Images and search for M.665-1910)
- Jewelry-cabinet in iron with gilt bronze, Augsburg, c. 1586-1600
- Box with lid in metal alloy with silver and brass inlay, India, late 16th century
- Jewellry casket, made in France in the late 16th century
- Jewelry casket in silver and gold with glass, precious stones, and shells; Nuremburg, c. 1590
- Casket in etched iron, Nuremburg, c. 1591-1600
- Box made in southern Germany c. 1600 (also here)
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