Limoges France Porcelain Dish Catchall Butterfly

Description

Large Limoges porcelain dist in a rectangular shape featuring a beautiful Butterfly design.
Made in France.
Amazing midcentury Limoges hand-painted … more Large Limoges porcelain dist in a rectangular shape featuring a beautiful Butterfly design.
Made in France.
Amazing midcentury Limoges hand-painted white porcelain dish catchall.
The hand painted decor is stunning and the blue colors are gorgeous and refreshing.
It is marked Benedictines Craon for Porcelaine de Limoges France.
It was hand painted by one of the Sister at the Benedictines of Craon.
Luxury and classical design fine porcelain cigar ashtray Made in France by Limoges.
This large porcelain cigar ashtray by Limoges can also serve as a small tray for keys, loose change, or as a "vide-poche" (catchall).
This piece showcases the fine design and enduring craftsmanship of Limoges.
It can be a perfect addition to your coffee table or side table, with the beautiful bird in the center serving as the focal point.
This vintage porcelain decorative dish, made in France, functions as both a cigar tray and a catchall.
A hand-painted porcelain tray from the late 20th century, it is a classic example of smoking accessories with its large size and decorative design.
Whether used to elevate your cigar collection or to hold your favorite vintage rings, this tray is a perfect accent piece for any room.
Measures: 8" x 6.5" x 1.5" H.
In good vintage condition, please see photos.
Made in France circa 1980s.

About Limoges Porcelain: Limoges porcelain designates hard-paste porcelain produced by factories near the city of Limoges, France beginning in the late 18th century, but does not refer to a particular manufacturer.Limoges had strong antecedents in the production of decorative objects. The city was the most famous European centre of vitreous enamel production in the 12th century, and Limoges enamel was known as Opus de Limogia or Labor Limogiae. Limoges had also been the site of a minor industry producing plain faience earthenware since the 1730s. The manufacturing of hard-paste porcelain at Limoges was established by Turgot in 1771 following the discovery of local supplies of kaolin and a material similar to petuntse in the economically distressed area at Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche, near Limoges. The materials, which were quarried beginning in 1768, were used to produce hard-paste porcelain similar to Chinese porcelain. A manufactory at Limoges was placed under the patronage of the comte d’Artois, brother of Louis XVI, and was later purchased by the King in 1784, apparently with the idea of producing hard-paste bodies for decoration at Sèvres, although this never happened. After the French Revolution a number of private factories were established at Limoges, including Bernardaud and Haviland & Co.
The monastery of the Benedictines of Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament of Craon is part of the large Benedictine family that goes back to St Benedict of Nursia and his Rule (Vth-VIth century). In the XVIIth century, Mother Mectilde de Bar (1614–1698) was the foundress of this new branch of the Order of St Benedict, which was founded to give importance to the Eucharist through perpetual adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. The community of Craon was established in 1829 when Mother St Louis de Gonzague (Délié de Cossé Brissac), Prioress of the Benedictines of Rouen at the time, was able to acquire a former Dominican convent (built at the end of the XVIIth century) with a view to making a foundation. less