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
• 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
• 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
• Jewellery casket with domed lid, made in 16th century France
• Jewellery casket with domed lid and five locks, made in 16th century France
• 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
• 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
• 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)