Drawing, Designs for Painted Porcelain Plates, Les Ananas (Pineapples) from 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, graphite on white laid paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Museum purchase through gift of James Amster.

It is inscribed

Inscribed in pen and brown ink, upper edge center: Les ananas; in graphite: pour une....; in pen and brown ink, lower margin, left: interieure d'une serre chaude/ustenciles/un père fait gouter l'ananas a ses petites filles/tandis que le jardiniere expliques aux garçons le degré/de chaleur qui convient pour la maturité./une carte dans le fond indiquete pays originaire/de l'anans.—(le bresil) salon les Dictionaire de Mévous [?] (underlined from "Le bresil).— [Interior of a greenhouse. utensils. A father offers his little girls some pineapple while the gardener explains to the boy the degree of heat needed for ripening. A map in the backround indicates the country of origin of the pineapple (Brazil) according to the dictionary of Mévous [?]; in graphite upper margin, right: le groupe/sous des palmiers [a group under palm trees] in brown ink, lower margin right: arbres et habitation du /Mexique/un negre cueille des ananas cultivés/pour ses maïtres; (espagnols) - une dame espagnole/endistribue des grains ou des tranches a ses enfants/qui temoignent leur joie et l'excellent gout [word crossed out above which is written] du fruit par leurs gestes. [trees and a house in/ Mexico/; lower margin right: a negro gathers cultivated pineapple for his masters (Spanish) - a Spanish woman distributes pieces to her children/who express by their gestures, their joy and the excellent taste [word crossed out above which is written] of the fruit. On verso, in graphite along left edge: fruits...

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