Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Sucre de Canne (Sugar Cane) from 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. Scene in a sugar shop. Figure of a black man, center, points to a large picture on the right wall depicting people working in a sugar cane field. He is explaining the scene to a young boy and girl. He holds an axe in his right hand to cut a piece of sugar cane in a dish placed on a table in front of him. A young boy, left foreground, seated at the table is tasting a piece of sugar cane. Another boy seated opposite him is processing sugar [?]. A cupboard, left background, holds large pieces of sugar cane.
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: 1989-13-8
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: 10.3 cm (4 1/16 in.), diameter