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Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, L'Écrevisse (Cancer) from the Le Zodiaque Travesti (The Farcical Zodiac) Service

Jean-Charles Develly1824

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

Design for a painted porcelain plate, square format. Scene at a seafood restaurant whose sign is posted in the doorway: " à l'ecrevisse / et sa fille." A couple, right foreground, stand at the restaurant entrance. The figure of a man smokes a pipe, the woman stands with her left hand on her hip and gestures to a young, well-dressed couple seated outside the restaurant at a table beneath an arbor. The young woman is taken by surprise when she sees her aunt and exclaims, "What are you doing here auntie--what are you coming to do?"

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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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