Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Les Compotes et Marmelades (Compotes and Marmalades) 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: Manufacturer
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 kitchen. A figure of a cook, right middleground, cuts fruit into a large bowl while a woman, seated at right, assists her. A young boy, center middleground, picks up a pear with his right hand. Another woman, left middleground, spoons some marmalade onto a plate held by a small boy, while a cook, right background, stirs the compote (jam) over a wood stove. A servant/waiter carrying a tray ascends the stairs in the left background.
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: 1989-13-19
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: 14.7 x 20.7 cm (5 13/16 x 8 1/8 in. ), at widest point