Inlaid Ormolu Box $165,500

British dealer Thomas Coulborn & Sons is presenting an important pietra dura– mounted ormolu casket at the Winter Antiques Show. Made by Samson Wertheimer sometime between 1856 and 1860, the box includes 16th- and 17th-century elements. The top, says Jonathan Coulborn, is inlaid with a 17th-century Florentine pietra dura panel illustrating a phoenix rising from the flames. The image bears a resemblance to the phoenix panel on the famed Barberini cabinet in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The objet de vertu is one of three pietra dura works being showcased by the gallery. winterantiquesshow.com; coulborn.com