Swans with Sevres Style Roses Limoges Box

A pair of swans glides across this traditional Limoges box, framed by roses painted in the old Sevres manner. It is hard-paste porcelain, decorated by hand in Limoges, France, and meant to be studied up close.

Graceful Necks and Garden Roses

Swans are famous for pairing for life, which has tied them to marriage and devotion in art for generations. Setting them among Sevres style roses adds a formal, almost courtly feel, recalling the painted porcelain of the French royal factories.

A Lake of Their Own

• Traditional hand-painted porcelain from Limoges, France
• Fits a swan, waterbird or rose themed collection
• Sits nicely with other Sevres style and floral pieces

Moments Made for Two

Choose it to mark a wedding anniversary, a vow renewal or Valentine's Day. It also makes a quiet thank you for a parent who has been married for decades and still keeps the wedding album close.

Display it in a china cabinet beside a teacup collection, or on a bedroom vanity where the rose work catches morning light. It reads best at eye level, where the painted roses and the line of the swans can be enjoyed together, and it holds its own beside fine teacups and saucers.