Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, La Balance (Libra) from 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. A large scale dominates the foreground in front of a two-story house, center background. Figure of a man stands on the left balance of a scale pointing to his wife who stands on the right balance and is pulled toward the ground by a crouching man, lower right corner. The German says, "My wife weighs more than I do." A young boy stands next to the central post of the scale while two figures, left middleground, look on.
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: 1989-13-44
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, pink, tan watercolor, red crayon, graphite on cream laid paper mounted on cream laid paper, image bordered in pen and brown ink
label: Dimensions
content: 19.8 × 15.1 cm (7 13/16 × 5 15/16 in.)