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Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Le Taureau (Taurus) from the Le Zodiaque Travesti (The Farcical Zodiac) Service

Catalog Data

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, pink, tan watercolor, white gouache, red crayon, graphite on cream laid paper mounted on cream laid paper, ruled border in pen and brown ink
Dimensions:
19.2 x 15.1 cm (7 9/16 x 6 1/16 in.)
Type:
ceramics
Drawing
Object Name:
Drawing
Made in:
France
Date:
1824
Catalogue Status:
Research in Progress
Description:
Design for a painted porcelain plate, square format. Scene in front of a stone barn. Figure of a woman with raised hands, center foreground, shields two young girls from two bulls, left middleground, who appear to be tethered to the stone structure. A bucket and herding stick lies on the ground, center middleground.
Credit Line:
Museum purchase through gift of James Amster
Accession Number:
1989-13-38
Restrictions & Rights:
CC0
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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
Data Source:
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq441b5909b-5d3b-406e-b350-10bc32528897
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:chndm_1989-13-38