Three Perfume Bottles in a Gold Basket Limoges Box
Three perfume bottles gather together in a gilded basket on this hand-painted Limoges box, a small still life from a lady's dressing table. Bottles and basket are all one porcelain piece, painted by hand in Limoges, France.
A Trio on the Vanity
The bottles are decorative porcelain rather than working flacons, so the charm is all in the arrangement: three shapes clustered in gold, the way favorite scents end up grouped on a mirrored tray. It reads instantly as a tribute to the ritual of getting ready for an evening out.
Bottled Up Beauty
- Hand-painted porcelain from Limoges, France
- A centerpiece for a perfume bottle or vanity collection
- Sits well beside compacts, hand mirrors and powder jars
From Snuff to Scent
Small porcelain boxes first became fashionable in eighteenth-century France, where they held snuff, pills and the tiny beauty patches worn on the face. A box shaped as a basket of perfume bottles carries that dressing table history forward in a playful way.
It suits a bride's attendant thank-you, a birthday for someone with a signature fragrance, or a quiet treat for your own dresser top.