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Design for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Les Prunes et Pruneaux (Plums and Prunes) for the Service des Objets de Dessert (Dessert Service)

Design for a painted porcelain plate, rondel. Under a roofed outdoor kitchen, three female figures prepare fruit for baking. One woman is placing a tray of plums in a large oven, right middleground. Another kneeling woman, center foreground, arranges trays for the oven. Two children, left middleground, carry a large basket of plums; behind them, a third woman balances a tray of fruit on her head. In the left background, a partial view of children collecting plums under a tree, and a house. In the lower left margin, a semi-circular sketch of an oven [?]; in lower right margin, a circle with four lines forming an approximate square in the middle.

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

1824
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, graphite on cream laid paper; circular border in pen and brown ink
1989-13-18
Image and text © Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2020

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