Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Le Scorpion (Scorpio) from le Zodiaque Travesti (The Farcical Zodiac) Service
date: label: Date
content: 1824
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, square format. Scene inside a house. Figure of a woman, left of center middleground, points out a jar holding a scorpion to a young boy to her right. Behind them, left background, partially draped with a striped fabric, are shelves holding canisters. A young girl with boy holding a hoop in his right hand, right foreground, discuss the scorpion. A large window/door, right background, shows a view of trees.
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: 1989-13-45
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, black wash, white gouache, pink, tan watercolor, white gouache, red crayon, graphite on cream laid paper mounted on cream laid paper, image bordered in pen and brown ink
label: Dimensions
content: 19.8 x 15.3 cm (7 13/16 x 6 1/16 in.)