Large Tomato Hand-Painted Limoges Box
A plump, sun-ripened tomato, round and generous, sits ready on the windowsill in porcelain form. This larger hand-painted Limoges box was shaped and decorated in Limoges, France, and it brings the look of a late summer harvest indoors.
Picked at the Peak of August
Tomatoes are the pride of every backyard plot, and this one is sized like the best of the crop. Its rounded body forms the whole box, so the fruit itself is the subject from every angle. Because the color is brushed on by hand rather than printed, each tomato comes out of the studio with its own slight shading.
Kitchen Garden Company
- Hand-painted porcelain from Limoges, France
- Groups naturally with eggplant, lettuce, carrot and fennel boxes
- A bright red note in a vegetable or farmers market collection
From Vine to Windowsill
Place it on a kitchen shelf, a breakfast nook ledge or beside a stack of favorite cookbooks. It suits a home cook who grows their own sauce tomatoes, a friend who just planted a first raised bed, or the host of an end of summer dinner. Gardeners who trade seedlings every spring tend to recognize it at once, and it makes a cheerful thank-you for a neighbor who shares the extra harvest over the fence.
Next to a basket of real produce it looks right at home, though this one never needs picking.