Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Les Meringues (Meringues) 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. Kitchen/pantry scene. Figure of a woman/man viewed from behind offers a meringue to a child seated at a table, right foreground. Two children, one of whom is seated on a step in the left middleground, the other stands to the right, are eating meringues and teasing each other. Another room, filled with figures, is visible through a door at the left, perhaps indicating a restaurant setting. A stairway to an upper floor is visible through a doorway at right of center.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of James Amster
- 1819–20
- Accession Number
- 1989-13-30
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- ceramics
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, graphite on cream laid paper, border in pen and brown ink
- Dimensions
- 16.4 × 16.7 cm (6 7/16 × 6 9/16 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_1989-13-30
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4e6d6be70-395f-4048-99f1-50caeccb0da3
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