Porcelain Ashtray Limoges Hand-Painted Dish France 1960s

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Limoges Porcelain Ashtray Hand-Painted Dish France 1960s.
Vintage Ashtray dish with hand-painted design and writing French text:" Selon L'oiseau le … Read more Limoges Porcelain Ashtray Hand-Painted Dish France 1960s.
Vintage Ashtray dish with hand-painted design and writing French text:" Selon L'oiseau le nide, selon La femme le logis".
Which translate in english" according to the bird the nest, according to the woman the home".
1960s Limoges France ashtray trinket dish.
Vintage limoges France fine porcelain round ashtray white with design hand painted 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.
Hallmark underside" Limoges hand painted France".
Made in France.
Size: 4.5" Diameter x 0.75".
The ashtray is free from chips and cracks, and is in great condition just some light loss of paint.
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