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Includes precious metals, iron strongboxes, and etched boxes.
- British Museum 1866,1229.2, the Muse Casket, silver, with compartments for perfumes and unguents; Rome, 330-370
- British Museum 1866,1229.1, the Projecta Casket, silver; Rome, c. 380
- Met 89.2.194, a pen box, brass inlaid with gold and silver, western Iran or northern Iraq, 13th century
- British Museum 1884,0704.85, a pen-box, Mosul, c. 1230-1250
- Met 1971.39a, b, cylindrical pyxis, brass with silver inlay; Ayyubid Syria or northern Mesopotamia, c. 1225-1250
- Box shaped like a house, 14th century Spain
- Cl. 989, a small coffret in the form of a châsse, engraved copper, 14th century Germany
- Louvre OA6954, the grand coffret of Louis d'Anjou, iron; France, 14th century
- 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)
- Met 91.1.538, a box with a lid, Mamluk Syria, 15th century
- Iron coffer with Gothic letters, 15th century Flanders
- Iron coffret, 15th century
- Iron coffret, 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
- V&A 44&A-1905, a box and lid in turned, engraved, and damascened brass with a black lacquer infill; Cairo, 16th century
- A box with armorial decorations, 1519
- Casket, sheet-iron with gilding, 16th century
- 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 money-box, Nuremburg, 16th century
- Iron casket with etched hunt-scenes, Nuremburg, 16th century
- 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
- V&A M.27-1911, a coffer, wrought iron lined with velvet; Germany, second half of the 16th century
- KHM Kunstkammer, 1155, a silver writing-set, Nuremburg, c. 1560-1570
- Etched iron casket with allegorical figures and ornaments, Germany, 1573
- V&A M.665-1910, the Dudley Box, made of iron, damascened with gold and silver; England, 1579
- Jewelry-cabinet in iron with gilt bronze, Augsburg, c. 1586-1600
- Casket in etched iron, Nuremburg, c. 1591-1600
- Box made in southern Germany c. 1600 (also here)
- Met 1996.3a, b, a bidri box for holding pan, in metal alloy with silver and brass inlay, India, early to mid-17th century
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