The Curiosity Box features a circular, tiered African ebony lid topped with a small, textured sea urchin shell finial.
A circular African ebony Curiosity Box with its sterling silver lid removed, displaying a small decorative knob on top.
A small sea urchin shell centered within stacked African ebony and dark wood discs, forming a handcrafted Curiosity Box keepsake.
Two circular African ebony boxes from the Curiosity Box: one open and empty, and one holding a black disc with a metallic center piece.

antje weber

Curiosity Box

$688

Turned by hand in the 1950s or ’60s from dense, richly grained African ebony, this box was once the kind of gift given to Portuguese families living abroad: a small, weighty piece of home to keep on a shelf. Decades later, artist Antje Weber found it, restored it, and gave it a second life, crowning the lid with sterling silver and stone. Stacked rings of dark wood rise to a gleaming finial, part heirloom, part sculpture. Heavy in the hand and impossible to replicate, it’s made for keepsakes, or simply for keeping.

Dimensions: H: 2.4 in; D: 3.7in
Material: Wooden box with Ebony element on the lid, sterling silver application and silver sea urchin with pearl

Color
Material
Ebony Wood
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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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