Limoges France Porcelain Dish Ashtray Souvenir of Paris Cobalt Blue and 24k Gold

Hand-Painted Cobalt Blue and Gold Limoges France Porcelain Ashtray.
Vintage Limoges France porcelain round ashtray cobalt blue and 24 karat gold.
Elegant precious porcelain ashtray hand painted with a scene Souvenir of Paris, the monuments are The Tour Eiffel, the Arc de Triumphe, Le Sacre Coeur, The Notre Dame, L’opera.
Use it as an ashtray or for decorative accent dish.
Limoges made in France stamped, hand painted Porcelaine D’ Art.
Hand painted precious ashtray, Made in Limoges France with 24 karat gold.
Louis XVI style.
Size: 5″ Diameter x 0.75″
Elegant precious ashtray Limoges porcelain.
Hand painted precious ashtray.
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.