Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Les Biscuits (Cookies) for the Service des Objets de Dessert (Dessert Service)
date: label: Date
content: 1819–20
name: label: Designer
content: Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849
label: Company
content: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for a painted porcelain plate, rondel. Scene in a pastry shop. A figure of a woman (perhaps shop owner) holding a molded cake, stands to the right of a column with shelves, left middleground, displaying cakes and cookies of many varieties. A well-dressed female client viewed from behind, center foreground, gives a cookie to a child held by a servant while a boy, right foreground, is preparing to eat a cake resting on a counter. Another little boy, left foreground, steals a lady finger from a basket on a low table. The roof of a house and trees appear through the open door, right background. A graphite sketch of a woman or man holding a fancy cake in lower right margin.
place: label: made in
content: France
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Museum purchase through gift of James Amster
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1989-13-23
objectType: label: Type
content: ceramics
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, white gouache, graphite on cream laid paper, circular border in pen and brown ink
label: Dimensions
content: 18.6 x 16 cm (7 5/16 x 6 5/16 in.)