Toile Paper Plates French Pastoral

Toile de Jouy arrived in France in the 1760s from the workshops of Christophe-Philippe Oberkampf in the village of Jouy-en-Josas, just south of Versailles: finely engraved pastoral scenes printed in a single color on a plain ground, the images drawn from the idealized countryside of Boucher and Fragonard — shepherdesses, milkmaids, lovers under trees, harvesters in the distance. These Toile paper plates carry that tradition directly to the table, each design presenting a full pastoral composition in the characteristic single-color toile format.

Four designs in the collection, each available in multiple colorways: the classical blue-orange, the deep purple, and the forest green. The pastoral scenes are drawn with the same careful engraver’s line that characterized the original Jouy production — figures rendered with clarity against the open ground, each element in the composition placed with the confidence of a trained draughtsman who understood the tradition he was working in.

Available in 9″ dinner and 7″ salad or dessert sizes. Pair with the matching Toile placemats from the same collection for a fully coordinated pastoral table.