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Design for a Painted Porcelain Serving Vessel, Les Glaces (Ice Cream) from 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 serving vessel, rondel. Scene in kitchen of an ice cream restaurant. Several shelves of molds and implements for making ice cream, upper right. A figure of a woman, center middleground, holds a cup of ice cream. A young girl, to her right, offers a spoon of ice cream to a boy; another boy raises his hands with obvious delight. A woman [?],right middleground, fills an ice cream cone while another woman, behind her, works with a mold. A waiter, left middleground, carries a tray of ice cream through an archway towards a table of customers, left background, seated under a structure covered with a striped awning.

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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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