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Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Confiture en Pot (Potted Jam) for the Service des Objets de Dessert (Dessert Service)

Design for a painted porcelain plate, rondel. Sketch showing a figure of a woman, center middleground, serving [?] jam to a child. A figure is seated, left middleground, in front of a palm [?] tree. A secondary sketch in left foreground shows four figures, one of whom is handing some jam [?] to a young child. The inscription "coudeuse" refers to some other boys at right attempting to get some jam.

Credit: Museum purchase through gift of James Amster

1819-20
Pen and brush and brown ink, graphite on cream laid paper
1989-13-21
Image and text © Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2020

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