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Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Le Sagitaire (Sagittarius) from 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 in a walled garden. Figure of a man, seated left foreground, is teaching a young child holding a bow, how to shoot. Two arrows appear in the wall, right middleground, above semi-circular cave in wall. Two women, right background, watch the archery lesson. The man tells the boy that he will shoot higher when he grows taller.

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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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