Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Les Lys (Lillies) from the Service de la Culture des Fleurs (Flower Cultivation Service)
date: label: Date
content: 1821–24
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: Scene in front of a church, possibly on Assumption Day (August). A procession of parishioners file out of the church, right background, led by acolytes holding banners with images of the Virgin. In the right middleground, a group of three female figures receive lily branches (a Virgin symbol) from a man, center middleground, who is distributing the flowers from a planted terrace. A young boy, behind the man, smells a lily; another boy, left middleground, observes the scene from the top of a brick wall that is decorated with the French coat of arms.
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: 1989-13-1
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 wash, white gouache, graphite on tan paper mounted on blue-gray paper
label: Dimensions
content: 10.7 cm (4 3/16 in.), diameter