Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, L'Écrevisse (Cancer) from the Le Zodiaque Travesti (The Farcical Zodiac) Service

Design for a painted porcelain plate, square format. Scene at a seafood restaurant whose sign is posted in the doorway: " à l'ecrevisse / et sa fille." A couple, right foreground, stand at the restaurant entrance. The figure of a man smokes a pipe, the woman stands with her left hand on her hip and gestures to a young, well-dressed couple seated outside the restaurant at a table beneath an arbor. The young woman is taken by surprise when she sees her aunt and exclaims, "What are you doing here auntie--what are you coming to do?"

Credit: Museum purchase through gift of James Amster