Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Les Greffes (Grafts) 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: Design for a painted porcelain plate, rondel. Scene in garden behind a grand house, right middleground. The lady of the house, center foreground, discusses the grafting of bushes with the gardener. A small child plays, right foreground. Two figures of gardener's assistants in left middleground; one holds the sapling while the other fills dirt around its roots. An orangerie, left background, amidst trees and bushes, appears behind a low garden wall.
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: 1989-13-3
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, graphite on tan paper mounted on blue-gray paper
label: Dimensions
content: 11 cm (4 5/16 in.), diameter