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

Jean-Charles Develly1819–20

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

Design for a painted porcelain plate, rondel. Kitchen/pantry scene. Figure of a woman/man viewed from behind offers a meringue to a child seated at a table, right foreground. Two children, one of whom is seated on a step in the left middleground, the other stands to the right, are eating meringues and teasing each other. Another room, filled with figures, is visible through a door at the left, perhaps indicating a restaurant setting. A stairway to an upper floor is visible through a doorway at right of center.

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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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