Bottles, Rattles and Booties Limoges Boxes
Bottles, rattles and booties Limoges boxes keep the first year within reach. Baby bottles come in pink for a girl, blue for a boy and sunny yellow, and Rochard adds one for baby's first Christmas. Pacifiers in pink and blue, some with rabbits or stars, look nearly real enough to grab.
A big share of this group was made to hold a baby tooth. Small round boxes in pink and blue mark the first one, a large white tooth box from Rochard waits for the next, and a tooth fairy comes as a box and a figurine. Tiny toothpaste tubes in pink and blue finish the bathroom shelf. A pair of brown baby shoes, a pink bootie and first baby shoes set the stage for those first steps. Rochard's It's a Boy and It's a Girl boxes arrive with their own little shoes. Baby blocks are stacked or tied with a gold ribbon. Each box is porcelain from Limoges, France, painted by hand and closed with a clasp. Grandparents tend to buy these at the shower and the parents tend to keep them for good. A bottle box makes a fine welcome for a new son or daughter.
