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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 (approx): 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 Number65.1910
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
DescriptionPart of set to which 65.1908, 65.1909, 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.
On plate 65.1910 is depicted the interior of an etching workshop. On the left, a seated man etches a plate at a drafting board surrounded
by his tools and enclosed by a large multipaneled screen over which is draped a green curtain. On the right a worker burnishes a copper
plate. In the far room seen through the doorway, four workmen are engaged in the various stages or preparing copper plates.
On plate 65.1910 is depicted the interior of an etching workshop. On the left, a seated man etches a plate at a drafting board surrounded
by his tools and enclosed by a large multipaneled screen over which is draped a green curtain. On the right a worker burnishes a copper
plate. In the far room seen through the doorway, four workmen are engaged in the various stages or preparing copper plates.
Signed
"Develly / 1827" on front
Marks
stamped interlaced Ls encloisng a fleur de lis, Sevres, 21 (?) in blue enamel; i M.S 21 E in green enamel; 2 ail D. elle B. in gold; incised ad, 18-12, other mark.
Inscriptions"Graveau a l'eau forte" in well
ProvenanceStoner and Evans, New York (dealers); February 23, 1044, 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)