Porcelain Ashtray Limoges Paris Arc De Triomphe Hand-Painted Dish France 1960s

Details

Description

Limoges Porcelain Ashtray The Paris "Arc de Triomphe" Hand-Painted Dish France 1960s.
Limoges porcelain Vintage Ashtray Dish with The Paris … Read more Limoges Porcelain Ashtray The Paris "Arc de Triomphe" Hand-Painted Dish France 1960s.
Limoges porcelain Vintage Ashtray Dish with The Paris "Arc de Triomphe" Hand-Painted Limoges France Dish.
1960s Limoges France Eiffel tower souvenir ashtray trinket dish.
Vintage limoges France fine porcelain square ashtray pink and gold.
Elegant fine porcelain ashtray hand painted scene with the "Arc de Triomphe" Tower monument with rich gilding throughout.
Use it as an ashtray or as a decorative accent, dish, catchall.
Elegant precious ashtray Limoges porcelain to add to your French Hermes luxury Porcelain collection.
Hand painted fine decorated collectible french porcelain in the Sevres Chateau France style.
Limoges made in France stamped.
Hand painted precious ashtray, Made in France.
Size: 3.75" x 3.75" x 0.75".
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. See less