Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Les Marrons (Chestnuts) for the Service des Objets de 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. A figure of a woman holding a chestnut roaster stands before a large fireplance in a chestnut shop. Beside her to the right, a little girl protects a young boy from reaching into the fire. Another woman at left of center foreground is on her knees sorting chestnuts. To her left in middleground a man is leaving the shop with an armful of chestnut branches.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of James Amster
- 1819–20
- Accession Number
- 1989-13-17
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- ceramics
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Pen and brown, black ink, brush and brown, black wash, white gouache, red crayon, graphite on tan paper mounted on blue-gray paper
- Dimensions
- 10.5 cm (4 1/8 in.), diameter
- 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_1989-13-17
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq446453bcd-246c-497d-9dc9-24e099374805
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