Limoges BOX OF CRAYONS Peint Main Trinket Box Porcelain WITH 4 REMOVABLE CRAYONS

  
THIS COLORFUL LITTLE BOX OF CRAYONS WILL ADD A BIT OF NOSTALGIA TO YOUR VANITY OR TRINKET COLLECTION. COMES WITH FOUR REMOVABLE PORCELAIN CRAYONS. This adorable hand-painted Limoges Box in the shape of a colorful box of crayons is a must-have for anyone who has a bit of nostalgia for their younger school days. Made of porcelain and hand-painted by French artists, this sweet little momento has four removable crayons in the colors of Red, Blue, Yellow, and Green. The outside of the box indicates there are six crayons inside, but it only came with four.

The porcelain trinket box is approximately 2" high x 1 1/2" wide x 1/2 deep. Each crayon is almost 1 3/4 tall. This was a Christmas gift I received one year along with several other Limoges boxes and a display case.

I displayed it for a while and then wrapped it in bubble wrap and kept it in a box. It would make an excellent gift or a colorful addition to your trinket box collection.

The artwork on the front is sweet and whimsical, while the sides and back are all painted with different colors. Truly a unique little box.

Here is a little about Limoges boxes and the process it takes to make them (from Wikipedia). The Limoges Box is type of small hinged porcelain trinket box produced by Limoges porcelain factories near the city of Limoges, France. They are made of hard-paste porcelain and collected worldwide. Limoges porcelain boxes were first created in the mid-18th century after Jacques Turgot, Finance Minister of King Louis XVI, gave a Royal edict to the city of Limoges, France the exclusive right to produce Royal Limoges porcelain for the Kingdom of France. The first Limoges trinket boxes were long narrow containers that were created for expensive needles.

From here, other shapes of limoges porcelain boxes evolved. The earliest were those that held thimbles and embroidery scissors and then round flat Limoges boxes were formed and used as powder boxes, and/or snuff boxes. Under Louis XIV these small boxes were used to hold a lock of lady's hair or small poem.

The creation of the Limoges Porcelain box is an arduous and time intensive process of creating a master mold, detail painting by hand of color and design, performing multiple firings and glazing upon the porcelain mold, and a final touch of a metal hinge for opening and closing. The painting of the Limoges porcelain in the Limoges box industry are accomplished by small handed French artisans, as experts at the fine brush strokes required for such detailed work. After painting, there are multiple firings.

The final firing at a temperature of 1400C is unique to Limoges, giving them a very fine pure and strong white finish. The final touch to a Limoges box is the metal hinged mountings that are meticulously fitted to the finished box. The entire work process is made by hand, so small variations are the norm, thus making each piece really unique. Each model is often made in very limited numbers, & signed by the artists or the atelier.