Rochard Jane Austen Book Stack Limoges Box

Picture a tidy pile of novels on a window seat, every volume bearing the name of the author who gave us Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy. Rochard has turned that reading-nook scene into a hand-painted porcelain Limoges box, made in Limoges, France.

Pride, Prejudice and Porcelain

The books here are not paper and ink but fired porcelain, shaped as a stack and finished with a brush. Spines and covers are worked as one sculpted form, so the whole pile reads at a glance as a shelf of Austen favorites. It is a quiet, bookish subject, and Rochard treats it with the same playful care the studio gives its animals and holiday pieces.

Fit for a Regency Reading Room

• A Rochard design, painted by hand in Limoges
• Belongs with library, literary and classic novel pieces
• Pairs nicely with teacup, quill and reading glasses boxes

A Book Club Favorite

Set it on a bookshelf right beside the paperbacks it honors, or on a nightstand where the current read waits. It suits a book club host, a retiring English teacher, a librarian, or the friend who rereads Persuasion every winter. Anyone who has argued over which Austen heroine is best will understand it immediately, and it gives a well-loved shelf a small porcelain companion that never needs dusting off a dust jacket.