Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Le Taureau (Taurus) from the Le Zodiaque Travesti (The Farcical Zodiac) Service
Design for a painted porcelain plate, square format. Scene in front of a stone barn. Figure of a woman with raised hands, center foreground, shields two young girls from two bulls, left middleground, who appear to be tethered to the stone structure. A bucket and herding stick lies on the ground, center middleground.
Credit: Museum purchase through gift of James Amster
1824
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, pink, tan watercolor, white gouache, red crayon, graphite on cream laid paper mounted on cream laid paper, ruled border in pen and brown ink
1989-13-38
Image and text © Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2020
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