Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, La Vierge (The Virgin) 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: 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, square format. Scene at entrance to a church. Figures of a bride and groom, left middleground, exit the church. A niche, right background, displays a sculpture of the Virgin and Child. Two ladies, right foreground. gossip to each other: "he's old enough for an affair...ha the poor husband-!..."
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: 1989-13-43
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, graphite on cream laid paper, mounted on cream laid paper, ruled border in pen and brown ink
label: Dimensions
content: 18.5 x 14.7 cm (7 1/4 x 6 in.)