11/10/2022 0 Comments Limoges rochard![]() ![]() With the guidance of French historical architects, our Limoges sculpture has created this Limoges with exquisite details of the Versailles Palace with partial mapping of the surrounding gardens. The Limoges Giverny Gardens Painting Picture on Easel Box, Limoges Giverny Gardens Painting Box with Easel, and Limoges Money Painting on Waterlily Box show the different perspectives of Claude Monet’s gardens and would add renowned masterpieces to your collection!Įven though it is difficult to capture the vast beauty of the gardens of Versailles, The Cottage Shop offers our exclusive limited edition Limoges Versailles Palace Le Chateau Box. This romantic piece will be the perfect anniversary gift! ![]() The Limoges Couple in the Garden by Fountain Box has a variety of garden elements that include a stone wall, tall grass, rose push and a flower patch. The Limoges Lavender Fields Box will take you to the area of Provence with the beautiful rows of lavender fields surrounding the Abbaye. A delicately painted porcelain flower seed card is also included with this item! The Limoges Gardener’s Bag with Tools Box has everything you need for the inspiring gardener! This item has miniature designed garden tools in extended pockets on the outside of this floral painted porcelain Limoges box. There is even a Grand Canal which is 200-foot-wide 1-mile long. There are 55 historic fountains that have been designed and crafted by the best sculptures in history. The gardens are adorned with ornamental basins, statues and bronze groups. One of the largest gardens in the world, the gardens of Versailles spread across 1,976 acres and are home to 210,000 flowers and 200,000 trees. The famous Japanese bridge is covered with wisterias and the water garden reflects an inverted world that Monet dedicated himself to. Limoges rochard full#Located in Giverny, Claude Monet’s two-part garden is full of perspectives, symmetries, and colors. Built in the early 1600s, the Jardin du Luxembourg in Paris is known for its 55-acre of lawns, flowerbeds, octagonal basin, tree-lined promenades and picturesque Medici Fountain. The famous lavender fields of Provence in France surround the Abbaye Notre-Dame de Senanque which was founded in 1148 by Cistercian monks. Styles and climates of different areas have inspired both the art and arranging of plants used in some of the most well-known gardens in history. For thousands of years, western gardening has spread from its origins in Egypt to other parts of the world. They carry a language of their own and are used to bring joy to all. Please contact us if you are looking for a specific type of flower and need guidance.Įvery emotion and sentiment are expressed in one form or another by flowers. Each are painted and designed to represent that beauty of nature. We invite you to enjoy our Rochard Limoges box collection.The Cottage Shop offers a variety of Limoges Garden and Flower Boxes. The decorative pieces we collect today provide us with a clear and colorful link to the past – and creative possibilities of tomorrow. Today, Limoges boxes are used to mark life’s special occasions or collected as prizes of lasting beauty. Originally created to hold snuff, but also candies and other cherished objects, these miniature boxes became symbols of their times, reflecting, perhaps more than any other everyday object, the social mores, decorative skills, technological advances and even politics of the ancient regime. The art has been elevated to embrace wonderful whimsy in a variety of collections. Today’s Limoges boxes, however, serve a more decorative and collectable purpose. The process continues to be done by hand and in miniature. Looking back, it is amazing to discover that very little has changed in the manufacturing of Limoges boxes in the 300 years since their introduction. To understand the origins of today’s Limoges porcelain box, one has to consider both the history of porcelain, to discover how Limoges, France became a world leader in producing fine porcelain, and the snuff boxes of the late 17th and 18th centuries, when many of the designs that continue to inspire designers today were first crafted by French factories. Remarkably, they were once objects of scorn – Louis XIV abhorred snuff – and desire – one German count possessed more than 700 of them. When admiring these miniatures, it may be difficult, in this day and age, to imagine the colorful history behind these highly collectible objects d’art. ![]() A Rochard Limoges porcelain box, easily held in the palm of one’s hand, is the epitome of miniature beauty, of craftsmanship par excellence. ![]()
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