Painted Scenes Limoges Boxes
Painted scenes Limoges boxes are where the brushwork does the talking. Instead of a novelty shape, the porcelain becomes a small canvas, carrying a landscape, a seascape or a moment from history across the lid and around the sides. Turn one in your hand and the picture keeps going.
Monet appears often, with his Japanese bridge, his water lilies, a white swan and the house at Giverny complete with a paint brush. A woman with a parasol stands in blue. Elsewhere an oval box shows a hunting party in relief, a round box crosses the Egyptian desert, and an oyster shell opens on an ocean view. A train runs through its tunnel, a mailbox carries a country landscape, and a watering can shows a working farm. Several pieces tell older stories. There are small and large Nativity scenes, the Last Supper, a church on a rectangle box and a dreidel painted with Jerusalem. Pink and blue toile covers a teapot and a heart, and a potter works at his wheel. Each is Hand-Painted porcelain from Limoges, France, with a hinged lid and clasp, and these reward a spot at eye level where the detail can be read.
