Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Cutting and Working in the Vineyard
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: In foreground are three male and one female figures of vineyard workers: two men at left are bent over cutting and clearing vines with hoes. A woman in a kneeling position, empties a basket of cuttings into a pile on the ground. A standing man, right forground, drinks from jug. Large tree in left foreground. In distance at right, a small town in a valley with a church steeple. Small sketches in margins, around central image: lower right: a man bending over seen from the rear; right center, [perhaps] kneeling man seen from the rear; lower left, sketches of two hoes; left center, two branches with leaves. Verso: rough sketch, in circular format, of tall trees with sheds beneath; in margin, lower left: circular sketch of landscape; lower right: two people loading or unloading objects from cart.
place: label: made in
content: France
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
label: See more items in
content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Joseph F. McCrindle
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1980-2-3
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 black, brown ink, brush and brown wash, white gouache, graphite on cream wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 16.4 x 20.9 cm (6 7/16 x 8 1/4 in.)