7" La Chinoiserie Lagoon Paper Party Plate (Pack of 8)

The La Chinoiserie paper plates set a single garden scene in the chinoiserie manner — a blossoming branch in flower, a pheasant paused among the leaves, a low garden fence, and blossoms scattered as though caught mid-fall — here drawn in deep navy against a bright aqua ground. It is the sort of pattern that reads as porcelain from across the room and as printed paper up close: an old European fascination with the gardens of the East, set on a table you can lay without ceremony. The scene belongs to the long tradition of chinoiserie, the 18th-century European taste for Chinese-inspired ornament that filled drawing rooms with pagodas, pheasants, and flowering branches. The drawing keeps that spirit — the easy asymmetry, the bird among the leaves, the branch that climbs and turns — while the navy-on-aqua palette gives the old motif a fresh reading. Navy blossoms and foliage read sharp against a clear aqua field, cool and summery.