Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Les Liqueurs (Liqueurs) for the Services des Objets des Dessert (Dessert Service)
Object Details
- Designer
- Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849
- Company
- Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Design for a painted porcelain plate, rondel. Scene in a liquor shop. Figures of people seated at a table, right middleground, being served by a waiter who holds a tray with decanters and glasses of liquor. On the wall, center middleground, a Flemish tavern [?] interior depicting a waitress with a drunk man on the floor. A case of liquor bottles is on the floor, left foreground. The distillation process takes place in a rear room, left background. In left margin center, a sketch of the waiter's arm holding the serving tray; lower left margin, a rough sketch of woman's head and right arm.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of James Amster
- 1819–20
- Accession Number
- 1989-13-25
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- ceramics
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on cream laid paper, circular border in pen and brown ink
- Dimensions
- 18.2 x 15.2 cm (7 3/16 x 6 in.)
- made in
- France
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1989-13-25
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq43f8228e0-4a44-477d-90d5-c3541b039a95
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