Butterflies and Garden Critters Limoges Boxes
Butterfly and ladybug Limoges boxes gather the small residents of the flower bed in one place. Monarchs spread their wings, ladybugs crawl over hearts and sunflowers, bees work open blossoms, and snails take their time. Bees carry real history in French porcelain, since Napoleon took the bee as his emblem. Several boxes honor that, with a gold bee set in a laurel wreath on a hexagon, on a heart and on green leaves. Others are simply garden bees, visiting an orange flower, a big blue bloom or an apple.
The escargot snails, French in every sense, come in white and in painted shell, small and medium. A monarch opens on a double hinge, another perches on a brass flower, and a perfume egg with a butterfly hangs on its stand with a tassel. Ladybugs turn up in odd places too, reading a book, riding a potato and climbing an ear of corn. The whole little colony was modeled and brushed by hand in Limoges, France. A ladybug suits the gardener in the family, while a gold bee looks right on a desk in the study.
