Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Le Lion (Leo) from the 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 at a masquerade party in a bar. Figure of a man dressed in a lion's costume, center forground, has his arms around a young woman dressed as Diana who he appears to be kissing. She wears a crescent crown and holds a bow. She tells him to "take his paws off of her." She has her right foot planted on a platform upon which is a table with two wine bottles and a stool, left middleground. Behind an arched opening, right background, there are two costumed figures who appear to be dancing.
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: 1989-13-41
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, black ink, brush and brown, black wash, pink, tan watercolor, white gouache, red crayon, graphite on cream laid paper mounted on cream laid paper, bordered in pen and brown ink
label: Dimensions
content: 19.7 x 15.3 (7 3/4 x 6 in.)