Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Le Verseau (Aquarius) from the 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. A night time scene under a moonlit sky. A figure of a young man, in the foreground, climbs a wall to reach a young girl who peers through a barred window. An other woman, possibly her mother, leans from an attic window and pours a pitcher of water on the young suiter.
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: 1989-13-35
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, pink, tan watercolor, white gouache, graphite on cream laid paper mounted on cream laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 20.2 × 15 cm (7 15/16 × 5 7/8 in.)