Long Blue Floral Porcelain Limoges Box

This porcelain box stretches long and slim, with blue flowers painted along its full length like a garden border. The hand-painted decoration was done in Limoges, France, the home of these well known porcelain boxes.

A Border of Blue Blooms

The elongated shape gives the flowers room to run, so the painting reads almost like a little garden path. It is a welcome change from the round and square boxes that fill most shelves.

Made for the Writing Desk

• Long shaped porcelain, hand-painted in Limoges
• Suits a blue floral or unusual shapes collection
• Neat on a desk beside pens or along a dresser top

Along the Mantel

Its length makes it a natural for a mantel row or the front edge of a deep shelf, where it can link taller pieces together. Give it to a graduate setting up a first office, a writer who loves blue, or a retiring colleague as a token for the home desk.

A Little Snuff Box History

Small porcelain boxes became fashionable in 18th-century France, when people of style carried them for snuff, pills and the tiny beauty patches worn on the face.