During the Victorian era the Limoges boxes lost popularity again until the 1970s when people began to carry their pills in the Limoges porcelain boxes. Snuff eventually went out of fashion around the time of the French Revolution but putting pills in Limoges boxes became popular. Additionally independent makers produced them with no signature or marking.

There were four big porcelain factories that made snuff boxes around this time, Chantilly porcelain (1725–1800), Saint-Cloud porcelain (1677–1766), Mennecy porcelain (1734–73), and the royal Vincennes porcelain (1740–56), which moved to become Sèvres porcelain (1756–present). These cannot be identified by back stamp marks, for none were put on them. There were faience snuffboxes that were produced sometime around 1730. Under Louis XIV these small boxes were used to hold a lock of lady's hair or small poem.Įxactly when and who made the first porcelain snuffbox is up for debate. The earliest were those that held thimbles and embroidery scissors and then round flat Limoges boxes were formed and used as powder boxes, and/or snuff boxes. From here, other shapes of limoges porcelain boxes evolved. The first Limoges trinket boxes were long narrow containers that were created for expensive needles. Limoges porcelain boxes were first created in the mid-18th century after Jacques Turgot, Finance Minister of King Louis XVI, gave a Royal edict to the city of Limoges, France the exclusive right to produce Royal Limoges porcelain for the Kingdom of France. They are made of hard-paste porcelain and collected worldwide.

The Limoges Box is type of small hinged porcelain trinket box produced by Limoges porcelain factories near the city of Limoges, France. ( August 2019) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. This article includes a list of references, related reading, or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations.

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