Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Le Poisson (Pisces) 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. Scene at a river bank. Figure of a man, center foreground, is seated at the river's edge holidng a fishing line in his left hand, while scratching his head with his right hand, apparently wondering why he is not catching any fish. A hat, bucket, and a plate of bait (worms) are on the ground to his left. A man and woman, center middleground, standing against a background of trees, admire a catch of three small fish. A fisherman in a small boat appears 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: 1989-13-36
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, pink, tan watercolor, white gouache, red crayon, graphite on cream laid paper mounted on cream laid paper, ruled border in pen and brown ink
label: Dimensions
content: 19.3 x 14.8 cm (7 1/2 x 5 13/16 in.)