Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, L'Écrevisse (Cancer) 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 seafood restaurant whose sign is posted in the doorway: " à l'ecrevisse / et sa fille." A couple, right foreground, stand at the restaurant entrance. The figure of a man smokes a pipe, the woman stands with her left hand on her hip and gestures to a young, well-dressed couple seated outside the restaurant at a table beneath an arbor. The young woman is taken by surprise when she sees her aunt and exclaims, "What are you doing here auntie--what are you coming to do?"
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: 1989-13-40
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, white gouache, red crayon, pink, tan watercolor, red crayon, graphite on cream laid paper mounted on cream laid paper, ruled border in pen and brown ink
label: Dimensions
content: 19.4 x 14.8 cm (7 5/8 x 5 13/16 in.)