Rochard Wooden Shoe Clog and Tulips Limoges Box

Spring in Holland means fields of tulips and the clatter of wooden shoes, and this piece brings both together. Rochard turned the scene into a porcelain Limoges box, finished by hand in Limoges, France.

Tiptoe Through the Tulips

The clog forms the box, and the tulips are sculpted right alongside it, all in porcelain rather than willow wood and fresh blooms. Wooden shoes and tulips are two of the best-known symbols of the Netherlands, and seeing them together calls up windmills, canals and the famous spring gardens of Keukenhof.

Dutch Heritage Shelf

• A Rochard design, painted by hand in Limoges
• Fits a Holland, tulip or shoe collection
• Pairs with windmill, Delft and bicycle pieces

Kilns and Kaolin

True Limoges porcelain dates to the late 1700s, after kaolin clay turned up near Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche. Pieces like this one are still painted by hand once the white porcelain has been fired. Give it to someone with Dutch roots, a gardener who plants tulip bulbs every fall, or a traveler home from Amsterdam. It brightens a kitchen windowsill or a spring mantel.