Cupids and Love Notes Limoges Boxes
Cupids and love notes Limoges boxes say the thing that is hard to say out loud, and they say it in porcelain. Cherubs play the lyre, a Rochard envelope spills conversation hearts, and Je T'aime is painted across pink ovals, red hearts and a small floral trunk. The messages are the point here. There is a red telephone ringing with a love message, a love letter sealed with a heart, an XO XO box with a removable kiss and a double heart that reads like a note passed in class. A Valentine heart with a bow and candies and a box of love truffles cover the chocolate tradition without the calories.
Couples make up the rest of the collection. Love birds perch in a blue birdcage, two swans bow their necks toward each other, frogs and chicks steal a kiss, and a couple kisses on a park bench while a Rochard Eiffel Tower sets the scene in Paris. Each piece comes from Limoges, France, painted by hand, and many hide a porcelain chocolate, a jewel heart or a kiss beneath the hinged lid. For the husband buying on February thirteenth, any one of these says more than a card, and it will still be on her dresser next Valentine's Day.
