Designs for Painted Porcelain Plates, Les Ananas (Pineapples) from 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: Sketches for two plate designs on the theme of pineapples. The sketch on the left is a preliminary drawing for 1989-13-14. In a greenhouse interior, a man in the right foreground offers a piece of pinapple to two young children. Another man in the left middleground points to a themometer hanging on a verticle roof support to indicate the ideal temperature for ripening pineapples. Potted pineapples rest on shelves to his left. A map of Brazil hangs on the rear wall, center. The sketch to the right shows in the right foreground the exterior of a Mexican house. A man in left middleground wearing a sombrero points to a man kneeling on the ground in front of the house picking pineapples. Mexican pottery appears on a low wall, center middleground, attached to the house. In the left foreground, a woman shaded by an umbrella points to the kneeling man while offering pineapple slices to two small children. On verso at upper left, (sideways), in graphite, is a circular sketch of figures of a woman and three children in an interior, and at right a sketch of a duck.
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: 1989-13-15
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, graphite on white laid paper