Containers

thumb|Shipment of bananas in wooden crates thumb|250px|Military shipping crate thumb|A crate used to transport ordnance A crate is a large shipping container, often made of wood, typically used to transport or store large, heavy items. Steel and aluminium crates are also used. Specialized crates were designed for specific products, and were often made to be reusable, such as the "bottle crates" for milk and soft drinks.

type of ancient Greek craftmanship, so often of pottery

right|frame|A range of Vacutainer tubes containing blood

thumb|A larger Edo period suzuri-bako depicting eight bridges and iris, lacquerware and mother-of-pearl, attributed to [[Ogata Kōrin (National Treasure)]] thumb|Open box with writing implements inside such as brushes, inkstone, water container, and knife

container for storing and dispensing gunpowder or priming powder

box that is used to collect coins for charitable purposes

small container for gunpowder

writing or art medium

conical closure that fits into a container's opening to seal it

Onggi () is earthenware extensively used as tableware and storage containers in Korea. The term includes both unglazed earthenware, fired near 600 to 700°C, and pottery with a dark brown glaze fired at over 1100 °C. Onggi have been used continuously from prehistoric Korean states to the modern day; however, they primarily see use as traditional storage and ornaments today.

rectangular receptacle with a shallow basin used for making dough

thumb|Cista Depicting a Dionysian Revel and Perseus with Medusa's Head The Walters Art Museum.

right|thumb|upright=1.35|Examples of several types of cartons for different products A carton is a box or container usually made of liquid packaging board (LPB), paperboard and sometimes of corrugated fiberboard. Many types of cartons are used in packaging. Sometimes a carton is also called a box.

thumb|Kashkul, or Beggar's Bowl, with Portrait of Dervishes and a Mounted Falconer, A.H. 1280Kashkul (, , pronounced: kashkool) also referred to as the beggar's bowl, is a container carried by wandering Dervishes (belonging to the Sūfī tradition of Islam) and used to collect money and other goods (sweets, gifts, etc.) usually after a street session of poetry recitation, religious eulogies, advice or entertainment. The container, usually a bowl shaped like a ship, is made out of material such as coco-de-mer shell, clay, metals (usually brass), wood or ceramics and is hung over the shoulder usin

small container made of aluminum, typically for drinks

bottle for holding snuff powder

thumb|Ionia|Ionic-black-figure lydion with stripe decoration, 2nd half, 6th century BC. Found at [[Gela, now Museo archeologico regionale di Palermo.]] The lydion (Greek λύδιον; plural lydia) was an ancient Greek vase shape. The shape may have been of Egyptian derivation.

thumb|English Victorian majolica jardinière Jardinière is a French word, from the feminine form of "gardener". In English it means a decorative flower box or "planter", a receptacle (usually a ceramic pot or urn) or a stand upon which, or into which, plants (often in pots) may be placed, usually indoors. The French themselves mostly refer to tabletop "planter" versions of such receptacles as cachepots ("hide-pots"). The French tend to use jardinière for larger outdoor containers for plants, and for raised beds in gardens in some sort of isolated frame, such as a stone wall, especially growing

way of collecting donations

bucket for conveying coal to a stove or fireplace

Extremely large wine barrel

thumb|Botanist Justin Paillot with a vasculum thumb|Vasculum A vasculum or a botanical box is a stiff container used by botanists to keep field samples viable for transportation. The main purpose of the vasculum is to transport plants without crushing them and by maintaining a cool, humid environment.

flask and cups to serve sake

thumb|A Rolodex file used in the 1970s A Rolodex is a rotating card file device used to store a contact list. In this usage, it has generally come to describe an effect or characteristic of the small-world network of a business's investors, board of directors, or the value of a CEO's contacts, or in organizational structure. Models have been exhibited in the Smithsonian Institution.

food packaging that uses exothermic reactions to heat its contents

container designed for safe transport and storage of ammunition

artificial bezoar

relic holder in the shape of a chest, casket, or small church-like structure

type of packaging

earthen clay pot

secure storage container for firearms

consumable component of a laser printer

cardboard box designed to transport bananas

small roman vessel

thumb|upright=1.35|Books and slipcases A slipcase is a five-sided box, usually made of high-quality cardboard, into which binders, books or book sets are slipped for protection, leaving the spine exposed. Special editions of books are often slipcased for a stylish appearance when placed on a bookshelf. A few publishers, such as the Folio Society, publish nearly all their books in slipcases.

4th-century ivory box

thumb|An individual ceramic aludel pot An aludel ( from Greek , 'smoky, sooty, burnt-colored') is a subliming pot used in alchemy. The term refers to a range of earthen tubes, or pots without bottoms, fitted one over another, and diminishing as they advance towards the top. The lowest is adapted to a pot, placed in a furnace, wherein the matter to be sublimed is placed. At the top is a head to retain the flowers, or condensation, which ascends. An aludel was used as a condenser in the sublimation process and thus came to signify the end-stages of transformation and the symbol of creation. Also

box containing cigars

' (), or simply ' (), is a large, heavy pot or cauldron commonly used in Korean cuisine.

thumb|A case for a pocket watch, 1870. The outer clamshell protects the watch. The inner layer contains a glass window. The ring is for the attachment of a chain.

right|thumb|Fangyi dated to the 12th century BCE (Shang dynasty) A fangyi (; 'square bronze') is a type of Chinese ritual bronze container typical of the Shang and early to middle Zhou periods of Bronze Age China (circa 1800-900 BCE). It takes the shape of a square or rectangular casket with a cover that resembles a hip roof, surmounted by a knob of a similar hipped appearance. The lower edge is typically indented with a semi-circular notch.

wicker basket used for carrying fish or blocks of peat

type of Chinese ritual bronze vessel used in the late Zhou dynasty and the Warring States period of ancient China

book-shaped container for manuscripts, prints, maps etc.

origin of the bamboo

box made of wood

devices

tinplate container

may refer to nested ornamental boxes

thumb|Tea caddy (chaire) in katatsuki (shouldered [[jar) form. Mino or Seto stoneware with iron glaze, ivory lid, Momoyama period c. 1590 and circa 1599]] thumb|Tea container (natsume) with phoenix (mythology)|phoenix, Nashiji ground with [[gold maki-e, 19th century]]

octagonal bulk box

barrel of gunpowder

carrying vessel from Indigenous Australia

carved ivory reliquary casket

Sidel is a manufacturing company providing equipment and services for packaging liquids such as water; carbonated and non-carbonated soft drinks; sensitive beverages such as milk, liquid dairy products, juices, tea, coffee, isotonics and beer; food and home and personal care.

Mobile vessel for transportating kvass

Chinese lidded vessel

gold cauldron found in Lake Chiemsee, Bavaria

decorative box from Constantinople

tool board with drawings showing where tools should hang