French Antique Style Love Seat Limoges Box

A small two seat settee in the antique French manner forms this porcelain piece, the kind of love seat that once filled a Paris salon. It is a hand-painted Limoges box made in Limoges, France, with the settee itself making up the box.

A Seat Built for Two

A love seat only makes sense with company, which gives this box a built-in story about partnership. That makes it a sweet anniversary or wedding token, a way to say you would still choose the same seat beside the same person. Its colors are painted by hand, so each one carries small differences.

Salon Style Pairings

• Hand-painted porcelain from Limoges, France
• Belongs with miniature furniture and French interior pieces
• Pairs with armoire, chair and side table boxes

Parlor Talk From Limoges

Small porcelain boxes first became fashionable in eighteenth century France, when they held snuff, pills and beauty patches in elegant salons much like the one this settee recalls. Today a piece like this looks right on a living room end table, a bedroom dresser or a shelf of miniature furniture. Give it for a wedding, a twenty-fifth anniversary or a housewarming in a new home.