Cream Puff Pastry Porcelain Limoges Box

A plump French cream puff, the airy choux pastry found in every Paris bakery window, is the model for this porcelain box. It is a hand-painted Limoges box made in Limoges, France, and it looks good enough to pick up off a dessert plate.

Fresh From the Patisserie

Cream puffs are one of the great classics of French baking, and they make a natural subject for a box made in France. This one carries no calories, which might be its best feature.

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• Painted by hand in Limoges, France
• Fits a dessert, bakery or French food collection
• Pairs with cake, macaron and teapot boxes

From Oven to Display Case

Set it beside a cake stand, in a glass-front kitchen cabinet, or on a tiered tray with real pastries for a party. It is a sweet thank-you for a pastry chef or the friend who bakes for every bake sale, and it suits a culinary school graduate starting a new career.

Clay From the Limousin Hills

Porcelain has been made in Limoges since the late 1700s, after fine white kaolin clay turned up near Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche in 1768. Boxes like this one still begin with that same kind of clay.