Green Fruit Stand Limoges Box in French Market Style

A green fruit stand, piled as if for a morning market in a French village square, is the scene of this porcelain box. Painted by hand in Limoges, France, it is a Limoges box that carries the bustle of the marche onto a kitchen shelf.

Market Day in Provence

Every French town has its market day, when vendors set out crates of fruit under striped awnings. This green stand captures that ritual, a reminder of strolling between stalls with a basket on one arm and choosing the ripest pick of the season.

A Taste of France

• Hand-painted porcelain from Limoges, France
• Fits fruit, French market and kitchen groupings
• Pairs with baguette, wine bottle and cheese shapes

For Travelers and Cooks

It makes a fine keepsake for someone home from a trip to France, a present for a farmers market regular, or a thank-you for a host who cooks with whatever is fresh. Chefs and grocers will see their own trade in it as well.

Setting the Scene

Give it pride of place in a kitchen hutch, on an open shelf beside cookbooks or on a dining room sideboard. Grouped with single fruit shapes, it acts like a market stall that the rest of the collection seems to have come from.