Spring and Garden Blooms Limoges Boxes
Flower Limoges boxes capture the first warm weeks of the year, when sunflowers, tulips and lily of the valley take over the beds. Orchids glow against dark blue, pansies turn up in purple and yellow, and a hibiscus opens beside two perfume bottles. Rochard brings a lily resting on a lily pad, a white water lily, potted sunflowers with a watering can and a bouquet of tulips. Monet's garden appears on an easel, a handbag and a box with a white swan. Bees hover over open blue and yellow flowers, and ladybugs climb a daisy, a sunflower and a pot of lily of the valley.
Two mice share a kiss under tall sunflowers, a tulip becomes a shoe, and a Dutch windmill rises over a row of tulips. Handbags in hydrangea, forget me not and lilac carry the theme into the wardrobe. Every piece is Hand-Painted porcelain from Limoges, France, many with a small charm inside. Set them on a windowsill where real blooms come and go. They suit a wife who tends the roses, a mother with a green thumb or a gardener waiting out February.
