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Plate from the dessert service: Service des arts Industriels
French
about 1823–28
Medium/Technique
Hard-paste porcelain with colored enamel and gilded decoration
Dimensions
Overall (approximately): 3.1 x 23.4 cm (1 1/4 x 9 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Forsyth Wickes—The Forsyth Wickes Collection
Accession Number65.1909
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
DescriptionPart of Industrial Arts Service, to which 65.1908, 65.1910, and 65.1911 also belong. The form of the plate is circular with a gently sloping rim. Each is painted with the same gilt border decoration of a trellis pattern enclosing quatrefoils within borders of leaf bands and further bands of untooled gilding against a dark blue background.
Plate 65.1909 depicts the interiors of a glazing workshop and a gilding workshop at the Sèvres factory. In the middle ground, a man standing at a counter sifts powdered blue glaze; behind him two seated men apply ground colors with a brush to a plate (pink) and to a section of a large vase (blue). The shelves contain vases and wares which have received a ground color, and variously glazed test tiles hang above one counter. Four women burnishing gilding on pieces of porcelain are seen through a rounded archway. The preparatory drawing for this design is also in the MFA's collection, 1987.260.
Plate 65.1909 depicts the interiors of a glazing workshop and a gilding workshop at the Sèvres factory. In the middle ground, a man standing at a counter sifts powdered blue glaze; behind him two seated men apply ground colors with a brush to a plate (pink) and to a section of a large vase (blue). The shelves contain vases and wares which have received a ground color, and variously glazed test tiles hang above one counter. Four women burnishing gilding on pieces of porcelain are seen through a rounded archway. The preparatory drawing for this design is also in the MFA's collection, 1987.260.
Signed
"Develly / 1823" on front
Marks
stamped interlaced Ls enclosing a fleur de lis, Sevres, 23 in blue enamel; 17 j.n 19 in green enamel; other mark in gold: D.Y. in red enamel; incised 18-7, other mark.
Inscriptions"Porcelaine de Sevres Couleurs de fonds et brunissage d l'or" in tablet below well.
ProvenanceStoner and Evans, New York (dealers); 23 February 1944, purchased by Forsyth Wickes (b.1876-d.1964), New York and Newport, RI; 1965, bequest of Forsyth Wickes to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 24, 1965)