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Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Les Greffes de Rosiers (Rose Bush Grafts) from the Service de la Culture des Fleurs (Flower Cultivation 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, black ink, brush and brown, black wash, white graphite, red crayon, graphite on tan paper mounted on blue-gray paper
Dimensions:
10.8 cm (4 1/4 in.), diameter
Type:
ceramics
Drawing
Object Name:
Drawing
Made in:
France
Date:
1821–24
Catalogue Status:
Research in Progress
Description:
Design for a painted porcelain plate, rondel. Scene in a rose garden in front of a half-timbered building. A figure of a gardener, center foreground, applying a substance to a cut on a stem of a rose bush. A woman beside him, at left, holds a container of this substance. Another gardener, right middleground, ties a rose graft to a vertical rose stem, assisted by a little boy, to the left, who points to a bucket of rose branches.
Credit Line:
Museum purchase through gift of James Amster
Accession Number:
1989-13-4
Restrictions & Rights:
Usage conditions apply
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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/kq46087051c-2a9e-460b-9a03-52af7c05a44c
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:chndm_1989-13-4