Featured A Limoges Trinket Box

I know there's someone out there that can help with this!

This is oval, lidded, what I would call a trinket box. The finish is matte blue with a gold decorative border around the lid and frolicking putti in relief, and it appears to be signed "G Limoges." It's 8" U.S. long, 6" wide, and about 4" high.

The inside is glossy white. The bottom of the item has "Limoges/France" in blue, with " "Made in Limoges-France/for/The Antique Dome Inc./Miami Beach" stamped in gold.

I'm going to say that I believe that this is mid-20th Century because of the name of the vendor. "The Antique Dome" just doesn't sound Victorian, ha ha. Deco maybe? I cannot find any reference to this vendor. I know we don't do evaluations, but I'll say that this is in the $100-$150 range. Too low? Too high?

Let me know your thoughts!

 

https://www.facebook.com/mspringshi...10-lincoln-rd-in-miami-beach/730772149274136/



Debora

 

Well done you! So this could be Deco after all. I like it!

And better yet, the building is still there!

 

To my eye, the gold lettering points it to a much later date.

Debora

 

So mid-(20th) Century after all. I’m thinking 1950s. Perhaps this was part of the stock that was liquidated by Jordan Marsh in 1961.

 

Not finding a lot on internet but... Can find no reference to the Inc. before 1955.

Debora

 

The CT reminds me of, but is not quite the same as, the mark for Camille Tharaud, or not like the one I know, which kind of looks like a peach.

 

But perhaps so:

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1767497836/

 

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1796142366/



And others.

 

Suspect this is a different maker who acquired the Tharaud design, but made it to look more like Wedgwood jasper ware. The glossy deep blue of the examples I am finding was characteristic of Tharaud pieces:

https://www.pamono.com/large-box-wi...pknpZ1jv2oDZrZ5O2gyrSu0PBo4E9FfhVOp4Q4RSdWB8S

 

EBay item # 387693618615

https://www.leboncoin.fr/ad/decoration/3090907790

We chewed over Tharaud marks another time:

LIMOGES - THARAUD Camille (1878-1956)