Vintage Porcelain Ashtray Limoges Hand-Painted Dish France 1970s

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Limoges Porcelain Ashtray bridge poker, ace poker card games square cube design with gold top bowl.
Hand-Painted Dish France 1970s. … more Limoges Porcelain Ashtray bridge poker, ace poker card games square cube design with gold top bowl.
Hand-Painted Dish France 1970s.
Limoges porcelain Vintage Ashtray Dish with the ace poker card game.
Hand-Painted Limoges France Dish.
1960s Limoges France ace poker ashtray dish.
Vintage limoges France fine porcelain square ashtray white red black and gold in the style of Piero Fornasetti Milano Paperweight.
Use it as an ashtray or as a decorative accent or paper weight.
Limoges made in France stamped.
Made in France.
Size: 1.75" x 1.75" x 1.75".
The ashtray is free from chips and cracks, and is in great condition.
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. less