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What is the difference between Limoges and Limoges – both made in France?
I have 2 objects in ancient china, cake stand (green flower clusters called Limoge, France, looks almost like Herend) Other oval plate cover that says Limoges, France.
If your articles old China were decorated by hand and signed, there may have been a misspelling by the authority which signed the cake itself as one city called Limoges, France, which was a center of manufacture of hard paste porcelain for centuries. Limoges has become the generic name for hard paste porcelain that was produced during the 18th, 19th and until the 20th century in one many factories in Limoges, a French town about 250 miles southwest of Paris in the valley of the Vienne. Limoges is considered the most fine hard paste porcelain in the world because of three very distinct characteristics. Firstly, the essential ingredients that constitute the content of the Limoges porcelain are all natural ingredients: feldspar, quartz and kaolin. Secondly, the intense process forms make a glaze that can be entered Limoges porcelain and makes an exquisite form of translucent pottery. (The glaze on a piece of antique Limoges over a hundred years does not show signs of cracking or crazing, and if it has not broken, a piece is as beautiful as the day it was produced.) Thirdly, the abundance of the most prestigious craftsmen and skilled in the world with the French style for design and art style set the standard for Europeans and Americans to emulate. The French craftsmen has created from scratch masterpieces of decorative art objects essential for everyday use. Not only were they manufacturers Many who had their own designers but also independent decorators who bought blanks from larger plants, decorated them and annealing them. A piece Limoges authentic may be identified by one of about four hundred different trademarks. It is not as simple as the mark indicating Limoges or France. In China, also called Limoges has also been built in America. American Limoges porcelain is hard paste Limoges the region of Limoges in France, but pottery reproduced in the United States of America during the same period. There were white also exported to America then decorated locally. You may be interested in reading this technical article: http://www.go-star.com/antiquing/limoges.htm Without being able to inspect the items closely, it is impossible to give you more information. Maybe you could send a photograph parts and their entries to a company renouned as Christie's or Sotherby if you do not have authentic antique specialist where you live.
A20 Autoroute, Limoges, France
