Tricolour Faience Paper Party Plate

Not every statement requires spectacle. The finest surviving pieces of Revolutionary-period French tableware are often the quietest: a plain cream ground, a thin double stripe in red and blue at the rim, a small Republican cipher pressed into the border at intervals. The tricolor stripe plate takes that restrained vocabulary and works it into a design of genuine elegance — the cream ground holding the striped rim with the assurance of something that knows it doesn’t need to shout to be heard.

This is the understated companion to the bolder designs in the La Révolution collection: the plate for the table that wants to signal its occasion without overwhelming it, the design that looks equally correct at an intimate dinner and a large celebratory lunch. The Republican cipher device in the border is rendered at the scale that the period used — small enough to be a detail, precise enough to be unmistakable.

Available in 9″ dinner and 7″ salad or dessert sizes. Part of the La Révolution collection. Pairs with the cockade napkins and the Liberté-Égalité runner.