Valentines Limoge Boxes And Its Origins

With the renaissance in art coming to the fore, the art of the Limoge box was an exceptional piece of functional art (art not just for looking or displaying, but had an actual physical use).

Made from the finest materials with inlays of gold and other precious metals and or gems.

The designs was not only intricate and delicate but in its way, a form of art that stood the tests of time as well as the market.

With the market widely opened to variables in styles and designs, and for any occasion it was inevitable that the Valentines Limoge Boxes would hit the demand on a high level.

The Valentine designs weren’t specifically designed for valentines but were already available as one of the original ideas and styles used for these boxes which were LOVE.

Many of these love themes contained very personalized yet unique styles and is always themed around the idea of love.

Given as gifts to show eternal love (or lust), many a Limoge Box was given to a mistress whereas the spouse would never get anything as beautiful or high ranking in tokenship.

As these boxes were personalized for each person, it was very rare that these boxes came back onto the market and were given and always ended up as part of an heirloom that gets handed down from generation to generation.

There have also been boxes that have been handed to mistresses of the royalty, that were kept secret but now came to the forefront of the art dealing world and have been sold at very high prices on auction.

With these prices came a sort of status of showing affection to a loved one which only increased the market for Valentines Limoge Boxes (VLBs) once this” special day” became just another capitalist money-making day.

Once this day became an annual “show of love” day, so did the demand for these VLBs become higher.

With old school designs and styles a much more appreciated look, the designers of these VLBs concentrated on making them more like the original love tokens which came once again in those fine and intricate designs, inlaid in gold, platinum, and silver with gems, mostly Rubies, because of the color red.

There are those VLBs that even have a lid made of inlaid pearl where the designer would create an image on and would stand out amongst others and caused a demand which even the designers could not keep up with, and which in turn caused the prices the jump even higher.