Drawing, Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Les Compotes et Marmelades (Compotes and Marmalades) for the Service des Objets de Dessert (Dessert Service)

This is a Drawing. It was designed by Jean Charles Develly and manufactured by 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, white gouache, graphite on cream laid paper, circular border in pen and brown ink. 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

14.7 x 20.7 cm (5 13/16 x 8 1/8 in. ), at widest point

It is inscribed

Inscribed in pen and brown ink, upper right: Les compotes et marmelades (The compotes and marmalades); left: Des cuisinieres sont / occupees a pelerer et a couper / des pommes et des poires, pour / compotes et marmelades, une / autre femme, les appritent [word crossed out] / pour etre servies; au fond on / les cuit-. petit garcon-demande / une poire qu'on lui refuse (The cooks are / busy peeling and cutting / apples and pears for / compotes and marmalades, an / other woman prepares them / for serving. In the rear / they are cooked--a little boy-asks / for a pear which he is refused); right: ne pas oublier / de place le / sucre quelque / part / elairé en / dessin (don't forget to place the sugar somewhere / made clear in the drawing)

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