We love hearing from our customers and fellow collectors! We hope you will contact us with any inquiry or special request. Do add us to your favorites or bookmark us and check back often! We're also happy to place special orders from the many vendors we represent, and can have current, in-stock pieces from their lines delivered very quickly. We love shopping for new Limoges boxes as much as you do, and we regularly add new styles to our collection. The gift of a Limoges box is a wonderful way to commemorate life's special occasions, celebrations, and milestones, and a most romantic way to present an engagement ring or other small piece of jewelry. Their almost limitless designs - from the elegant classical styles to the delightfully whimsical - have something to match everyone's taste, interests, and hobbies. Limoges porcelain boxes were first collected by French royalty and nobility over two hundred years ago, and that same fascination with their captivating beauty and charm continues among collectors to this day.Ĭaptivating to look at, delightful to hold, Limoges boxes make thoughtful and personal gifts. Most Limoges boxes have an imaginative and clever small painting inside that fits with the theme of the box. Often a small porcelain 'surprise' is placed inside to add to our delight when the box is opened. Many Limoges boxes are numbered, some in limited editions.

We offer an absolute guarantee that you will receive only authentic, first quality French LImoges boxes when you order from Bonnie's Limoges. We take great pride in offering our customers the very finest pieces, and we carry the finest names including Artoria, Chamart, and Rochard.

Crafted by select artisans in the Limoges region of France, each Rochard Limoges box is. Each Limoges box comes to you carefully packaged in a lovely gift box with certificate of authenticity.Įach beautiful Limoges box in our line was personally selected with a discerning eye for exceptional painting and detail. All Limoges boxes shown on this website are in stock and ready to ship. The French words ' peint main', ' peint à la main' or 'd ècor main' all indicate that our Limoges boxes are entirely hand painted, though occasionally some studios will use the English ' hand painted' for the American market of Limoges box collectors. Many importers, such as Rochard, also have their company stamp added. Each bears the prestigious Limoges France insignia. Each piece in our line has been lovingly hand painted and detailed on beautiful, world-renowned Limoges porcelain by exceptional porcelain artists in Limoges, France who follow the traditions of Limoges box painting handed down from centuries past.Īll of our Limoges boxes have been crafted and painted by hand in France. We invite you to enjoy our Rochard Limoges box collection.Bonnie's Limoges presents an exquisite collection of first quality, authentic Limoges boxes from France. The decorative pieces we collect today provide us with a clear and colorful link to the past – and creative possibilities of tomorrow. Today, Limoges boxes are used to mark life’s special occasions or collected as prizes of lasting beauty. Originally created to hold snuff, but also candies and other cherished objects, these miniature boxes became symbols of their times, reflecting, perhaps more than any other everyday object, the social mores, decorative skills, technological advances and even politics of the ancient regime. The art has been elevated to embrace wonderful whimsy in a variety of collections. Today’s Limoges boxes, however, serve a more decorative and collectable purpose. The process continues to be done by hand and in miniature. Looking back, it is amazing to discover that very little has changed in the manufacturing of Limoges boxes in the 300 years since their introduction. To understand the origins of today’s Limoges porcelain box, one has to consider both the history of porcelain, to discover how Limoges, France became a world leader in producing fine porcelain, and the snuff boxes of the late 17th and 18th centuries, when many of the designs that continue to inspire designers today were first crafted by French factories. Remarkably, they were once objects of scorn – Louis XIV abhorred snuff – and desire – one German count possessed more than 700 of them. When admiring these miniatures, it may be difficult, in this day and age, to imagine the colorful history behind these highly collectible objects d’art. A Rochard Limoges porcelain box, easily held in the palm of one’s hand, is the epitome of miniature beauty, of craftsmanship par excellence.

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