Designer:

Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849  Search this

Company:

Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756  Search this

Medium:

Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, white gouache, graphite on cream laid paper, lined

Dimensions:

21 x 25.3 cm (81/4 x 9 15/16 in.)

Type:

ceramics

Drawing

Object Name:

Drawing

Made in:

France

Date:

1831–44

Catalogue Status:

Research in Progress

Description:

Design for a painted porcelain plate, probably for the Service Agronomique. Scene in a wine cellar. A man, right foreground, appears to be filling a barrel from a large vat of wine in the right middleground. He then passes the barrel along to workers who store the barrels in a connecting room viewed through a door in the right background.

Credit Line:

Gift of Joseph F. McCrindle

Accession Number:

1980-2-5

Restrictions & Rights:

CC0

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Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department

Data Source:

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4c50d643c-3c22-4200-afec-6164e83e7202

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:chndm_1980-2-5