Our exclusive Limited Edition Limoges French porcelain Versailles Palace box is a first time ever creation of the Versailles Palace into a Limoges French handpainted porcelain box. The 500 pieces Limited Edition Limoges hand painted porcelain box is another exquisite and superb creation of the Limoges Marquise de Pompadour Collection R , recognized to bring you only the best Limoges boxes with meticulous detail in the choice of the highest quality white porcelain molds as well as the best and more qualified Limoges museum artists decorators of the world today.
The Limoges Versailles Palace box is the result of historical research and team work with a commissioned group of French sculptors and historical Versailles architects who sculpted and created an exclusive white porcelain mold - with the finest detail and proportions- taking into account the actual "Chateau" building after many revisions and meetings in order to make sure it would be true to reality.
Going through the historical steps, The Palace of Versailles started as a hunting lodge for King Louis XIII, got its important political time in 1682, during the reign of Louis XIV- The Sun King- who moved his court from Paris to Versailles. In those days, the Versailles Palace was the symbol of France itself and the center of Europe in terms of elegance and court luxuries together with its political power. Louis XIV created an artistic renaissance, a Greco- Roman Empire shown in the way he presented himself and his surroundings. Louis XV returned to Versailles as a very young King and continued the magnificent work of his predecessor. It was during his reign that The Marquise de Pompadour gave France a real sense of elegance and class in the arts and fashion. Versailles became the center of Europe, the place to be in those days. After the French Revolution, the palace went through hard times and it is thanks to the help of family donations, including the Rockefellers, that we can enjoy the Versailles Palace as we see it today when we visit Paris.
In the same way Versailles is a "must stop" during your visit to Paris, the Limoges Marquise de PompadourR Versailles Palace- Le Chateau- Limited Edition French porcelain box is a must in the Limoges box collection of the exquisite collector. Each piece is decorated with pink roses inside the box , is numbered and signed by the artist and comes with a certificate of authenticity in a lovely gift box. When you will have the Limoges Versailles Palace in your hands, you will revive your visit through the Hall of Mirrors and the wonderful rooms and Orangerie gardens of the Palace itself. We know Louis XIV and Louis XV would have been very happy with this creation of the Limoges Versailles Palace box !
Our Limoges box shows the detail of each one of the buildings that was built during the different stages. Louis XIV, who kept a personal diary about the everyday construction work at Versailles, knew that a great King will be remembered in history not only by his militar power but by the buildings and elegance he would leave to the generations to come. They will be the lasting measure of his grandeur and splendor of courtisan life by which the humanity will write the history and art books. Montesquieu wrote in his Persan Letters 1721: "The King of France has no gold mines like those of his cousin the king of Spain, but he is far richer given that he can draw upon the bottomless vanity of his subjects, a resource far more difficult to deplete than any mine".
Today, very few places have kept the historical magic of their full splendor alive . Unfortunately, most of the artistic palaces of the world have gone through families' or state's economical difficulties and their art collections are not on site for us to visit anymore. After the French Revolution, Versailles entered a stage of abandonment until the Versailles Museum was created in the name of France and dedicated to " All Glories of France". Historical times have been recuperated through art and today we can "see" Louis XIV and all his court at Versailles. He is the King Sun present not only in the magnificent colors of the sunbeans through the different seasons and times of the day decorating the statues, buildings and gardens but also in the "Sun" gold fittings and decorations all over the Palace. We also find the mythological Greco- Roman Gods, symbols of greatness, elegance and power for an emperor, the princes, the literary authors in the theather, the speakers and the Clergy of the time, the Chapel with its decorated ceiling, the stables with the royal carriages and most charming of all, we can see through the paintings how the favorite Ladies of the King were in the Gardens.
Versailles has kept its political power and is a well known place to sign international treaties. It is hard to believe that a land once very poor, a simple marsh with no beauty around it, like the usual setting of the castles outside of Paris, a humble site of shepherds with unstable sands, lack of woodlands and water, could become - with the work and sacrifice of many- the grandest monument on the face of the Earth, a real poem with "embroidered" gardens, a magical walk thru the greatest art treasure of all times, a poem of Sun, Water and Gardens with statues that make this garden and Palace the most beautiful work of the 17th Century. Versailles is beautifull inside the building and outside with its gardens, its perfection is so unique that it goes beyond the beauty perceived by the eyes and touches the soul and heart. Versailles is an artistic Epic through time.
The Limoges Marquise de PompadourR Versailles Limited Edition Box represents the Epic of Versailles itself. It is the symbol of the greatest and most luxurious historical palace on earth, a Limoges box which by nature is a manifestation of French art, very appropiate to honor one of the greatest art collections on earth today. With our Limoges French handpainted Versailles Palace- Chateau- porcelain box, you will bring home a piece of history and remember the magic of your last visit to Paris and Versailles.
From Limoges, France. 4 1/2"Long, 3 1/4"Deep, 1"High. Limited Edition 500, each numbered next to the prestigious Limoges Marquise de Pompadour mark on the base of the Limoges box.
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