Mother Goose with Green Hat, Limoges Figurine Box

Here Mother Goose sports a cheerful green hat, painted by hand on porcelain in Limoges, France. The goose figure forms the box and opens like any traditional Limoges piece.

A Green Hat for Spring

The green hat gives this Mother Goose a fresh, springtime look, like she is ready for a stroll through the garden between rhymes. The feathers and hat are painted by hand, so each goose has its own character.

Matching the Storybook Set

• Hand-painted porcelain from Limoges, France
• Fits a fairy tale, nursery rhyme or bird collection
• Pairs with the brown hat version for a matched set

Brightening the Reading Corner

She brightens a nursery shelf, a reading corner or a bookcase full of storybooks. It makes a charming present for a baby shower, an Easter morning surprise for a grown-up collector, or a thank-you for a librarian or reading tutor. Fans of nursery rhymes enjoy setting the green hat and brown hat geese side by side, as if they had just met on the village green to trade stories.

Small porcelain boxes first became fashionable in 18th-century France, when they held snuff, pills and beauty patches. Today, storybook characters like Mother Goose show the playful side of the same tradition.