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Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Le Capricorne (Capricorn) from le Zodiac 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 inside a barn. Figure of a man lying on the ground, center middleground, leaning on his left arm, while holding his head with his right hand. Two wine bottles are next to him, his hat, right foreground, is to his left. Behind him a goat in his stall nuzzles the back of the man's head. The man exclaims, "Who is tickling me there?" An amorous couple, left background, stand in the doorway.

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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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