Drawing, Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Les Müres (Mulberries) for the Service des Objets de Dessert (Dessert Service)

This is a Drawing. It was designed by Jean Charles Develly and company: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory. It is dated 1819–20 and we acquired it in 1989. Its medium is pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on cream laid paper, circular border in pen and brown ink; verso: graphite. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Museum purchase through gift of James Amster.

Its dimensions are

11.6 x 22.5 cm (4 9/16 x 8 7/8 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed in pen and brown ink, upper center: Les müres etc.; upper right: Des enfants cueillent des mures, un pe [unreadable due to paper loss] / barbouillé effraye une petite fille qui le Sau[?] / auprès d'une femme, qui reproche a une autre p...[unreadable due to paper loss] / fille de s' être taché; sur le devant [words crossed out] / le[sic] fille de fais manger un autre enfant avec précaution / dans la crainte des tachée (The children pick mulberries, a dirty.... freightens a little girl who ...to a woman who scolds another child for having stained herself; in the foreground [word crossed out] a girl carefully feeds another child for fear of making stains)

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