Drawing, Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Les Liqueurs (Liqueurs) for the Services des Objets des Dessert (Dessert Service)

This is a Drawing. It was designed by Jean Charles Develly and company: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory. It is dated 1819–20 and we acquired it in 1989. Its medium is pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on cream laid paper, circular border in pen and brown ink. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Museum purchase through gift of James Amster.

Its dimensions are

18.2 x 15.2 cm (7 3/16 x 6 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed in pen and brown ink, upper center: Les liqueurs; across upper fourth of sheet: Un gros amateur de liqueurs enverse a un petit / garçon; [words crossed out over which is written] sa petite soeur lui fait [unreadable] / que il en boit il deviendra comme le personnage d'un tableau / flamand, qu'elle lui montre. Sur le devant, caisse / de bouteiller de toutes les sortes / au fond laboratoire de distilation (A big connoisseur of liquors, he pours for a little / boy; the small sister makes him drink it and in so doing he will become like the image in the Flemish painting / that she shows him. In the foreground, a case / of bottles of all kinds. / In the rear the distillation laborabory); in graphite, center left margin: pour le punch (for punch); in pen and brown ink, verso lower left:..1820

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