Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Les Müres (Mulberries) for the Service des Objets de Dessert (Dessert Service)
date: label: Date
content: 1819–20
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, rondel. Outdoor scene under a mulberry tree. A figure of a woman holding a baset of mulberries, center middleground, admonishes a young girl who has gotten stains on her dress. A seated woman, center foreground, carefully feeds mulberries to a kneeling child. A child has climbed the tree to pick mulberries, two other children play beneath the tree. In the right margin of sheet, a graphite sketch of a child holding her dirty apron. Verso: a graphite sketch of a standing woman, her basket of mulberries on a stone wall, scolding a child with a dirty apron.
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: 1989-13-13
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 on cream laid paper, circular border in pen and brown ink; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 11.6 x 22.5 cm (4 9/16 x 8 7/8 in.)