A small, light green stone egg rests on a sterling silver collar atop the tiered African ebony Curiosity Box.
A round, restored antique African ebony Curiosity Box with a lidded top and a small, pale green stone knob.
A small, pale green stone resting inside the circular African ebony Curiosity Box.
Top-down view of the Curiosity Box, showing two round black objects: an African ebony box and a smaller piece with a protruding light-colored center.

antje weber

Curiosity Box

$688

Carved from dense African ebony in the 1950s or ’60s, this box was once given to Portuguese families living abroad, a dark, weighty reminder of home. Artist Antje Weber has since found and restored it, and set a small surprise on top: an egg of mossy green stone, perched on a sterling silver collar above a ribbed ebony column, like something just hatched from the wood. The body below is low and wide, polished to a deep, near-black sheen. One of a kind, with all the gravity of a museum piece and none of the glass case.

Dimensions: H: 3.5 in; D: 4in
Material: Box in Ebony with sterling silver application

Color
Material
Ebony Wood
Quantity

About the Brand

Antje Weber is a Lisbon-based artist and restorer known for giving storied objects new life. With a background in fine metalwork and a deep respect for provenance, repairs, refines, and reimagines domestic objects of historical meaning with sterling silver, stone, and subtle artistic interventions. Her work balances preservation with transformation, turning everyday heirlooms into small works of art.

Manufactured

Portugal

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