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

Design for a painted porcelain plate, rondel. Scene in a liquor shop. Figures of people seated at a table, right middleground, being served by a waiter who holds a tray with decanters and glasses of liquor. On the wall, center middleground, a Flemish tavern [?] interior depicting a waitress with a drunk man on the floor. A case of liquor bottles is on the floor, left foreground. The distillation process takes place in a rear room, left background. In left margin center, a sketch of the waiter's arm holding the serving tray; lower left margin, a rough sketch of woman's head and right arm.

Credit: Museum purchase through gift of James Amster...

1819-20
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on cream laid paper, circular border in pen and brown ink
1989-13-25
Image and text © Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2020

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