Mini Artist Paint Palette Porcelain Limoges Box

A painter's palette in miniature, dotted with color the way a real one looks halfway through a studio session, becomes a porcelain box here. It is a hand-painted Limoges box made in Limoges, France, and the lid lifts off just like a palette set down beside the easel.

Mixing Colors in Miniature

Every artist knows the look of a well-used palette: little pools of color crowding the edge, ready for the next brushstroke. This box captures that moment in porcelain, which makes it a fitting tribute to anyone who paints, sketches or teaches art.

Brushes, Easels and Company

• Hand-painted porcelain from Limoges, France
• A good fit for a fine art, painting or hobby themed collection
• Groups well with easel, paintbrush and framed painting boxes

For the Studio Shelf

Set it by the jar of brushes, on a drawing table, or on an office bookcase next to an exhibition catalog. It suits a student finishing an art degree, a retiring art teacher, a watercolor class friend or a gallery volunteer. Painters often enjoy seeing their own tools turned into fine porcelain.

Painted Twice Over

Limoges boxes are usually painted by hand after the white porcelain comes out of the kiln, so a palette box is in a sense a painting of a painter's tool. That quiet joke is part of its charm.