Description
Spring in Jouy-en-Josas, and the linen drying on the line behind the house fluttered with blue toile scenes: shepherdesses, garden urns, a little bridge over a stream. Élise sat beneath it with a letter she had read nine times. It ended with two words, mon amour, and she pressed it to her heart as if it might fly away with the laundry.
This little heart carries that same romance in its blue and white toile pattern, a design that has graced French linens and wallpapers for centuries. It is small enough to cup in one hand and lovely enough to hold a ring, an earring or a lock of hair. Give it on Valentine’s Day, an anniversary or a wedding morning, or set it on a dressing table beside a crystal perfume bottle. For a bride who loves French country style, it is a perfect something blue.
The particulars
- A heart jewel box in a blue toile pattern
- Petite at roughly 1.5 x 1.25 x 1.25 inches
- Classic French toile design in soft blue
- Hand-decorated in Limoges, France, on fine porcelain
- From Rochard
Slip a handwritten note inside, folded small, and let it speak for you. Years from now, it may well be the piece she reaches for first when telling the story of how it all began. Few tokens of affection age quite so gracefully.
