Limoges: Not Just Porcelain

Limoges China has been popular for over 100 years, yet in that time span, many people are still unaware that Limoges is not a factory per se’ but many factories all situated in a region of France known as Limoges, for which the China is named.

Sought by collectors today and highly prized, the Limoges region produced Limoges Porcelain in several factories from the 1700’s through the mid 1930’s prior to the change in economic factors that also saw changes in Limoges from the very ornate china that we know as Limoges to a more basic and simple home type tableware that is produced today.

At one point in history, most notably the 1920’s as many as 45 companies situated in the Limoge region were making tableware that was marked Limoges, according to Mary Frank Gaston, an expert in the China field.
Some LImoges was sent out blank, to be used for china painting, which was a huge hobby earlier in the last century, and many pieces of plain white Limoges which are hand painted were not made so by the factory but rather, eager home makers or art students.

Haviland, one of the more popular companies to produce Limoges is often time the preferred one of collectors, who will sometimes completely ignore all of the other factories, which is a great mistake in that some of them are very rare and also very valuable.

To Learn more about Limoges and how it is made and collected,

pay a visit to the Limoges Antiques Site